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Professor Ian Donald

@professoriandonald.bsky.social
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Twitter refugee (@iandonald_psych). Chartered Psychologist: Research and writing on environment, design, anti-microbial resistance, and behaviour. Emeritus Professor, University of Liverpool. All typos my own. tinyurl.com/Environmental-Psychology

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Professor Ian Donald @professoriandonald.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
@bpsenvpsych.bsky.social I’d like to add this to the #EnvironmentalPsychology resources on the section’s BPS pages. www.routledge.com/Environmenta...
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Environmental and Architectural Psychology: The Basics
Environmental and Architectural Psychology: The Basics is a jargon-free and accessible introduction to the relationship between people and their natural and built environment. Exploring everything fro...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This is farcical. Katie Lam didn't speak "imprecisely". She accurately stated the Conservative party's existing policy, which they tried to pass as a Bill in Parliament earlier this year, and which Badenoch's spokesman defended himself just last week.
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Professor Ian Donald @professoriandonald.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
American Resistance Network americanresistancenetwork.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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American Resistance Network | Substack
Decentralized Resistance Network Join Today. Click to read American Resistance Network, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
For years Nigel Farage has banged on about billionaire George Soros influencing the political climate in Britain and the rest of the world. Now - Farage's Reform is poised to take a rumoured £100 million from Elon Musk and the right wing media doesn't bat an eyelid.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption Won't happen in England, Govts protect companies Wessex is serial offender, dumps sewage in rivers, paid £78m dividend last yr, £3bn debt; 47 criminal convictions; but no investigation. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-w...
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Revealed: Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption
Malaysian anti-corruption investigators have launched probe into YTL Power subsidiary over £700m public contract
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Third of Yorkshire Water customer bill cash goes on debt & dividend Similar with other water companies. Money borrowed to pay dividends, investment neglected, sewage dumped, customers fleeced; aapproved by OFWAT. Must end the farce. Nationalise without compensation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Third of each Yorkshire Water bill goes on debt and dividend
The firm has amassed debts of £6.2bn and paid out dividends worth £522m since 2017-18, figures show.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The row over Kemi Badenoch’s dislike of what Keir Starmer’s spokesman cringingly described as “the Great British institution” of the sandwich is clearly absurd, but it also reveals a lot about why she is continuing to push the Conservative party towards ever greater irrelevance and an assisted death
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A Sandwich Short of a Picnic
The absurd row over Kemi Badenoch's lunch reveals why the Conservative party's electoral chances will only diminish as long as she remains leader
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 14/12/2024
Huge thanks to everyone who’s chipped in to make LBD interventions happen this year. We’re 100% funded by small donations & refuse big donors to protect us from becoming reliant on any individual source. Wanna help? Link in bio👆
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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This week, the Muslim Council of Britain's Centre for Media Monitoring produced a detailed report into anti-Muslim content on GB News, which raises serious questions both for the channel - and for #Ofcom over its repeated failure to uphold its own rules. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... /1
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The unhinged presentation of Muslims on GB News has been exposed. What will Ofcom do about it? | Miqdaad Versi
Our new report documents how conspiracy theories about a Muslim takeover of Britain have become primetime TV fare, says Miqdaad Versi, founder of the Centre for Media Monitoring
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I once got elected as my country's opposition leader and the only thing I was noticed for in my first six weeks in office was having a go at sandwiches
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/12/2024
Lord Frost: "You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. You have an economic policy that lifts everybody." Natalie Fleet MP: "That didn't work over 14 years. That's what we've seen: everybody get poorer." Lord Frost: "We didn't do it as well as we should have." ~AA #PoliticsLive
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back? Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
“How will an ambulance get through?” A question only asked of those trying to save our planet, not millionaire landowners trying to hoard wealth. Farmers received record support in the budget. Pay what is still less than your fair share, take your tractors and piss off.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Why Britain’s doctors are in revolt To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients at risk. A must read from @doctoroxford.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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Why Britain's doctors are in revolt
To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Hang on, Labour building affordable housing that we desperately need is being slated as a “controversial” by the media? Having already been slated for *checks notes* stopping race riots and paying nurses/ teachers properly? Those evil bastards. What will they do next? Give schoolkids breakfast?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
2024: Kemi Badenoch, "The Prime Minister Keir Starmer has consistently backed criminals over law abiding British people" 2014: Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May recommended Keir Starmer for a knighthood in recognition of his contributions as the Director of Public Prosecutions (2008-2013)
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Nigel Farage: Women-beating criminals are welcome to become Reform Party MPs. Reform UK leader defends James McMurdock, with Beth Rigby on Sky News.
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Nigel Farage vs Beth Rigby - Should James Murdock be an MP?
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
100+ Guardian & Observer journalists have written to the Guardian to ask why the Scott Trust has refused to answer basic questions about the deal to give the Observer to a financially failing media start-up www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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Key questions about the sale of the Observer that remain unanswered | Letter
Letters: Observer and Guardian staff and writers respond to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
In the USA you don't spend money for healthcare, you spend money for the profits of Big Pharma (30%), the profits of Doctors and hospitals (10%), the totally unnecessary existence of Health Insurance and their profits (40%). Only 20% actually goes on healthcare.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Long piece in the Sunday Times about Clement Atlee's grandson potentially losing his seat in the House of Lords... and how unfair this is because his grandfather "gave Britain the NHS." Something something "expertise." Absolutely preposterous. Much like the House of Lords.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Meanwhile…
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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I have no idea why Prince William is sitting down with a rapist and convicted felon. I don’t give a single shit he’s a working Royal. When men sit down with rapists and smile for cameras you’re normalising rape.
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Olga7 @olgar7.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Peter FitzSimons @peterfitz1.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Burn 🔥🤣
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Lee Camp @leecamp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Even Amnesty knows it now.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"An agreement to sell The Observer to news start-up Tortoise Media prompted a row at an all-staff company meeting hours after the deal was struck. "Bosses were jeered & accused by staff of concocting an 'establishment stitch-up' & 'riding roughshod over our values'" www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
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Observer sold to Tortoise Media despite strike by Guardian staff
The Sunday title will go behind a paywall as the buyer pays ‘nominal amount’ and pledges to invest £25 million
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Vulture auction of Thames Water. Covalis offers £1bn to buy TW, flog assets to generate £4bn. Buyers counting on mega hike in customer bills, asset-stripping. Sewage dumping, cash extraction will continue. Only nationalisation can safeguard water services. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tham...
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Thames Water break up 'disastrous vulture auction'
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Open season on UK pensioners. Tories want to axe triple lock on pension, will kill thousands. Average state pension is less than 50% of the minimum wage. Last yr 111,000 pensioners died in fuel poverty. Billions available for foreign wars & corporate welfare news.sky.com/story/tory-g...
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Tory government could axe 'unsustainable' triple lock on pensions, shadow chancellor says
Labour has said Mel Stride's remarks are proof the Tories are "planning to betray pensioners" if they win the next election.
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Ana Ribeiro 💙 @anabl18.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
How awful things need to get for our government to bring true accountability to water companies, energy providers etc and re-empower regulators, HMRC and other bodies ?
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Professor Ian Donald @professoriandonald.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
You’d really have to do some contorted mental gymnastics to interpret Starmer’s comments as racist. He was taking the piss out of someone middle class thinking if you work in McDonalds for a couple of days it makes you working class. She’s trying to hide her foolishness news.sky.com/story/starme...
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Starmer's McDonald's joke would be called racist if made by a Tory, Kemi Badenoch claims
Sir Keir Starmer joked about the Tory leader saying she "became working class" through her job at McDonald's. Kemi Badenoch says a Conservative PM making the same joke would have been asked to resign.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Shannon Kyle, "This is what Gregg Wallace said to me in a restaurant" "If you won't let me sleep with you, would you lick my ars*hole" "At dinner I had eton mess for dessert, he asked me: what would you think if I put some of the eton mess on my willy"
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Scott Ellis @sje397.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My daughter (16) got her new 'locked down' laptop from her school today. It took her 20 mins to work out that she could get VPN software on it via airdrop. I don't think this social media ban is going to work.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
So much strike coverage today & no time to read it but thank you to @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social for this excellent piece for @npr.org. This isn't just a threat to UK journalism. It diminishes the Guardian globally at a time when journalism couldn't matter more www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...
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Nearly 500 journalists walk out at 'The Guardian' and its sister paper
Nearly 500 journalists have walked out of the Guardian and its sister paper, the Observer, to protest what they see as a betrayal of the paper's values: the planned sale of the Observer to a startup.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Amos Goldberg, Professor of Genocide Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem "Yes, it is genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained" Is there anyone more qualified and unbiased?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Left: Kemi Badenoch, "The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions" Right: Kemi Badenoch wants Donald Trump (guilty of 34 convictions) to address parliament
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Nigel Farage, who has repeatedly accused migrants of making women in the UK unsafe, is now refusing to act against a fellow Reform MP who was jailed for beating up his own girlfriend, and is now calling for a 'debate' on restricting women's reproductive rights bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...
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Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK
The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world
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Mackaracka @mackaracka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
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Yes, it's a genocide
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Professor Ian Donald @professoriandonald.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
With acknowledgment to whoever produced this originally.
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 03/12/2024
NEWS! Proud British patriots demand Elgin marbles be ‘sent back where they came from’ after learning they came here illegally on a small boat
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Proud British patriots demand Elgin marbles be ‘sent back where they came from’ after learning they came here illegally on a small boat
A group of self-proclaimed British patriots, long vocal about their anti-immigration stance, has demanded the Elgin Marbles be immediately ‘sent back to Greece’ after discovering that t…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Here’s a crazy idea. Let’s make sure the proposed new FBI Director can pass an FBI Background Check.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 03/12/2024
Immigrants aren't ruining our country. But this one wants to…..
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Stalking victims to get right to know abuser's identity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Stalking victims to be given right to know abuser's identity
Jess Phillips, who herself was stalked, says victims will get
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.
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