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Terry Macalister

@terrymacalister.bsky.social
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Creator of Bored Stiff punk fanzines (NEW May 2026) author of Crude Britannia and Polar Opposites (Guardian ebook) & journalist.

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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew
When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looking forward to hearing @friendsofthecam.bsky.social new Steering Group member present this. @polarrobs.bsky.social @terrymacalister.bsky.social @cambridgegreens.bsky.social @bonkersbusway.bsky.social
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The debate around military conscription in the UK is rising. Forcing young people into service deprives them of choices and would be a colossal waste of funds during a cost of living crisis. Add your name to tell the government to rule it out! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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Tell the government to rule out military conscription
The debate around bringing back military conscription in the UK is rising. Forcing young people into the armed forces deprives them of choices and would be a colossal waste of funds during a cost of l...
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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
LeftyMenSing performed again at @friendsofthecam.bsky.social River Rights Festival yesterday. River Cam gets dirtier despite designated bathing area. Public ownership of water now. @terrymacalister.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @feargalsharkey.bsky.social
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Fantastic Bored Stiff punk book launch with Gaye Black (ex-The Adverts) and others. If you want a copy get in touch £16 + £2.50 p&p…Super positive feedback so far!
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Thanks Cam Inde! www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/bored-s...
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Bored Stiff again: Punk fanzine back 50 years on
Special anniversary edition launched by original creator Terry Macalister.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Book launch: Come along: we’ll be talking punk and politics and…https://housmans.com/event/bored-stiff-the-punk-zine-and-scene-that-refused-to-die-an-evening-with-terry-macalister-gaye-advert-and-emilia-elfrida/
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‘Bored Stiff: the punk ‘zine and scene that refused to die’ an evening with Terry Macalister, Gaye Advert and Emilia Elfrida
FREE ENTRY BUT PLEASE RSVP USING THE FROM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE This event celebrates a Bored Stiff book half a century after a fanzine of that name burst into life at the height of the punk &#…
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Why does Trump want Greenland? I warned about imperial and corporate power in the Arctic in a (very) short book over a decade ago: www.amazon.co.uk/Polar-Opposi...
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Polar Opposites: Opportunities and threats in the Arctic (Guardian Shorts Book 20)
Polar Opposites: Opportunities and threats in the Arctic (Guardian Shorts Book 20) eBook : MacAlister, Terry, Guardian, The : Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Patrick Steel and myself are crowdfunding to complete our film about Lou Lancaster and other women climate prisoners: any donations hugely welcome www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/mother-ear...
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Mother Earth
To complete a short documentary about two mothers imprisoned for their climate activism and the impact on them and their families.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Are forest cities a load of old greenwash? Me for Byline Times: eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
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What about new forests, then?
Is “forest” the new “sustainability”? just another catchword, to sell mass commercial development to a sceptical local population?
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Gotta love this:
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Our message about who should own UK energy systems: part of an event for Estuary Festival this weekend. James Marriott and myself wrote an essay on this…small follow up to our Crude Britannia book www.plutobooks.com/978178680639...
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Very well summarised by Terry on sooooo many problems that comes with such rapid growth. Worth getting a video clip of it. At the same time, the Housing Minister should answer this. @terrymacalister.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Here’s the link for Rob Larter’s talk for @friendsofthecam.bsky.social Another reason why we shouldn’t be pushing growth in the Fens. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-changi...
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The changing West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its implications for East Anglia
Learn about how the melting West Antarctic Ice Sheet will impact East Anglia, a regional focus for unsustainable levels of growth.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Who paid the piper? Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@Anglianwater produced the largest increase of raw sewage discharge in 2024. 448938 hours of raw sewage dumped: 64% higher than in 2023. @friendsofthecam.bsky.social @terrymacalister.bsky.social @feargalsharkey.bsky.social Nearly 4m hours of raw sewage dumped in England’s waters last year
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Letter: Cambridge growth plan doesn’t endear locals" www.ft.com/content/3669... By @terrymacalister.bsky.social to the @financialtimes.com
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Letter: Cambridge growth plan doesn’t endear locals
From Terry Macalister, Co-founder, Friends of the Cam (river campaign group), Cambridge, UK
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Well that’s a headline I did not except to see. Ever.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Jon Davis on how the UK government is tackling the climate crisis
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Just imagine if China or Russia suddenly announced they would takeover Gaza and forcibly remove the Palestinians…
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Labour has completely lost the plot: PM faces growing internal backlash over potential approval of Rosebank oilfield
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
How astonishingly predictable…Rachel Reeves to soften changes to non-dom tax regime after hearing ‘concerns’
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The official definition of madness: Reeves says growth eclipses net zero as Heathrow runway decision looms
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/01/2025
⏰The Govt have under 2 weeks to block the bailout of Thames Water. 📑25,000 people have signed the petition to take Thames Water into public ownership. #Thames has failed and shouldn't be rewarded with a £3 billion bailout. Agree? Sign our petition tinyurl.com/yxht3p94
Activists outside the high court in London with banners. Text: Take Thames water into public ownership. Sign our petition
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
RAF bases are hotspots of ‘forever chemical’ groundwater pollution, MoD documents show..
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
What impact did Britain’s oil and gas production have on the country over the past half century - and where do we go now? Here’s my view 👇 www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&k...
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
UK energy prices are much higher than in mainland Europe even though most countries have no indigenous oil and gas: developing the UK North Sea will NOT bring lower costs.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Anyone wonder why Trump wants Greenland? Here some historic context from an ebook I wrote for The Guardian: www.amazon.co.uk/Polar-Opposi...
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Polar Opposites: Opportunities and threats in the Arctic (Guardian Shorts Book 20)
Polar Opposites: Opportunities and threats in the Arctic (Guardian Shorts Book 20) eBook : MacAlister, Terry, Guardian, The : Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
String of UK peers accepted free trips to authoritarian Azerbaijan…these kinds of oil politics are highlighted in our Crude Britannia book:
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Surely worth spelling out Mandelson (as probable US ambassador) comes with huge controversy attached to him? Sacked from ministerial positions for dodgy dealing, vicious attacks on own party leader (Corbyn), friendships with oligarchs (Deripaska) never mind Epstein
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
How I got sick river swimming - and ITN News explains why www.itv.com/news/2024-12...
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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In my home town, I see teenage boys being pulled towards Andrew Tate and the ‘manosphere’ | Taj Ali
With inequality and insecurity growing, young men are vulnerable, but in Luton the community is showing them a real alternative, says writer Taj Ali
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This propagandist "media" platform really is the pits: www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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GB News broadcasts half of all UK stories about Muslims, analysis shows
Exclusive: CfMM report over two-year period says channel’s ‘negative’ focus on Islam borders on an ‘obsession’
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
ITN at the Cam today to talk about new river pollution evidence. Should be aired next week..
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Any one else think groynes are things of beauty? These off Winchelsea, Sussex, today.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For a few seconds last night I was more transfixed by the pending fall of Thomas Cromwell than I was about the current decline of Keir Starmer.
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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 02/12/2024
A statement from Tortoise said: “We hope the NUJ will listen to the growing number of voices on The Observer looking to see it given a new lease of life”. We've been listening to all the voices on the Observer. We're going on strike ✊ www.heraldscotland.com/news/2476474...
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Why Guardian and Observer journalists are striking over a proposed sale
Journalists from the Guardian and the Observer will walk out on Wednesday and Thursday as they protest the proposed sale of the latter
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies" www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Student protestors disrupt today’s graduation ceremony at the Senate House in Cambridge.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
defendourjuries.org/16-political... A ray of hope that this disgrace will come to a quick end..my neighbour banged up for “talking” about a climate protest.
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16 POLITICAL PRISONERS SERVING COMBINED 41 YEARS GIVEN JOINT APPEAL HEARING - Defend Our Juries
Press release: 30 November 2024 16 POLITICAL PRISONERS SERVING COMBINED 41 YEARS GIVEN JOINT APPEAL HEARING For further info: Howard 07459055152; Tim 07795316164; Paddy 07958275270 Today it was announ...
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Gaza specialist Prof Norman Finkelstein tells audience in Cambridge that Israel has become a consumer society whose citizens don’t want to die bearing arms: instead the military has become a “remote control killing machine”.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Great atmosphere at the Palestine fundraiser at The Junction in Cambridge. Our LeftyMenSing choir sang Children of Palestine by Jim Boyes and other songs.
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Anglian Water, which is damaging over-abstracted Cambridgeshire chalk streams by dumping sewage in them, is selling off the public's water just north of here for bottling by private firms. 👇
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
ICC issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohamed Deif – Middle East live
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
RIP John Prescott: brought back a taxi ride in Brighton. We laughed all the way to the station. He had a terrific sense of humour..
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Terry Macalister @terrymacalister.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Well done my old colleagues at The Guardian voting to strike over the sale of the Observer to a tiny media organisation which could have trouble funding the Obs long term existence.
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