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Tony Meredith

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Oldish. British. Living in the Lake District. I'm only visiting here. Mainly on Mastodon. mastodon.me.uk/@Tony_Meredith

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham's speech marks perhaps the best opportunity to replace First Past the Post since 1918. I joined @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social & @lucyfisher.ft.com recently on "The Long View" to explore the history of electoral reform in Britain - & the lessons we might learn. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Long View, Electoral reform
Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of electoral reform.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 10h
Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat
Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.
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Cumbria CVS (Council for Voluntary Service) @cumbriacvs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Best Practice in Governance: Introduction to roles and responsibilities of Trustees. Tues 10th November, online. Join us for the first of 3 core learning sessions designed to build your knowledge, skills and confidence in supporting and leading a small charity or community group.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes, although much is still shrouded in secrecy. It is kind of too large a topic for 300 characters. But in brief: 1. the US has had official "pre-delegation" orders at times that allow the military to use nukes under certain circumstances. Whether those exist at all today is unclear.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quite a remarkable map, table, and diagram from a 1971 report on launch-on-warning, showing the implications of Soviet submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) on detection, reaction, deliberation, and response time. All numbers are in SECONDS, which is what I find the most wild about it.
Map of the USA labeled "Soviet SLBM [Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile] Time of Flight to SAC [Strategic Air Command] Targets." Shows both "nominal" and "depressed" trajectories. Absolute best (north central USA) is between 580 and 850 seconds (9.6 – 14 min). Absolute worst (everywhere else) is between 320 and 650 seconds (5.3 – 10.8 min). The variations are based on where they assume the subs are launching from. Table: "Early Warning System Performance." Shows four different systems (BMEWS, OTHF, SLBM Net, and a not-yet-operational in 1971 Boost-Phase Detection Satellite) that indicates the time of detection after launch (varies between 55 and 150 seconds; BMEWS cannot detect launches as it is only over-the-horizon radar), the time that the US command and control system would be alerted after launch (ranges from 85 seconds for the newest system to 900 seconds for BMEWs), the probably of detection of a single launch (BMEWS is 99%, SLBM Net is 50%, none of the others have probabilities), probably of detection for a mass launch (all around 100%), and their false alarm rate (BMEWS has 1 per 7 years, OTHF is 1 per 6 months, the others are unknown). Diagram: "National Command-Warning to Response Cycle." Shows the consequences of a launch detection all the way through the US nuclear infrastructure, with "delay times" in seconds. Will be discussed in the next post in this thread.
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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s the final selection of my photos for my 2027 Dartmoor calendar, I chose the December picture, frosty Tavistock not on Dartmoor, but I do live here ..£16 each inc postage available from me direct via PayPal or bank transfer or my Etsy shop. All profits to Tavistock food bank. only 50.
Back of calendar with photos Leat near Princetown coverMeavy page Frosty Tavistock
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 27/09/2026
In one of the modules, this horrible, heartbreaking fact: "At the peak of the famine in June 1933, 28,000 people were dying each day in Ukraine on average.".
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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The AfD and CDU in Heidenau want to place the town's Holocaust memorial at the cemetery. Many cities have BOTH, i.e., a memorial at the Jewish cemetery and Stolpersteine. By choosing only a memorial at a cemetery, it literally removes the memory of the Holocaust from the urban landscape.
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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Calling all London #creatives! Come and grab surplus #maps for FREE the week of 5 October from the Foyle Reading Room @rgs.org . All we ask is that you show us your creations later on! #art #geography #skystorians
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Will someone please put together a list of top 100 non-anglophone TV shows from the 21st century? That's the one I'm interested in.
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 20/09/2026
I will share one of my worst experiences reporting in Ukraine: it was talking to russian POWs saying to my face that Bucha and Izyum were staged. To witness their coldness, lack of remorse and empathy was as violent as witnessing exhumations proving their repeated war crimes.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather and at least one of my great grandfathers was a sailor. One of the things that Britain has lost in the last 80 years is its sense of itself as a seagoing island nation, which is why the very idea of attacking lifeboatmen has ceased to be a uniquely wicked notion.
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My take on what's at stake this Sunday in Germany for the @thenewworldmag.bsky.social 👇
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Never again? Think again. The far right’s resurgence in Germany should terrify all Europeans
The AfD is on the path to power. It doesn’t just want to take Germany in a different political direction – it wants to build a new country
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It looks like the old link is broken, so try this one instead! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II
War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We read Jonah on Yom Kippur. It's about a word that's come up lately: complicity.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Agree or disagree with the content, it is quite something to watch 🇨🇦 PM Carney articulate a 21st century strategic vision in clear terms. Worth a read of his latest big speech www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...
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Prime Minister Carney delivers an address to the European Parliament
Thank you for granting me the honour of addressing you all at the beginning of this decisive session.
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Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 16/09/2026
This week's letter from six parliamentary committee chairs "really underlines the strength of public interest in transparency" over the UK-US pharmaceuticals agreement, @sallygainsbury.bsky.social tells Politico's Caroline Hug. 🗞️ Get the story 👇
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On Labour planning to introduce tougher residency requirements in response to Reform's £72m donations, Lib Dem spokesperson Lisa Smart MP said it's "not good enough" and calls for an overall cap. "We can't keep playing whack-a-mole with each new attempt by Farage to sell out our democracy."
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Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From both personal experience and that of those still serving, I've written a short overview of the serious vulnerabilities faced by the British Army. It doesn't make for optimistic reading.
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The Severe Vulnerabilities of Today’s British Army
Not a pretty picture
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 13/09/2026
Spent today in Orvieto, where underneath the famous frescoes I saw the basement where they dump bits that have fallen off the cathedral. Thread:
Bits of stone and leafy decorative bits of columns in a heap
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...
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James Waters
I'm taking on Great North Run 2026 - please help me reach my fundraising goal of £1000!
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 12/09/2026
The press! She is here! Can’t test beyond mechanical inspection until the new rollers arrive (next week or week after?). But she is beautiful and we are going to have so much fun together!
Adana quarto in green metallic paint on a ratty old desks yes, I know I have it back to front, it came out of the box this way around.Same with the platen open to show the bed.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a great analysis of the many challenges facing the efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in DRC, from regional leaders coordinating the response. theconversation.com/drcs-ebola-o...
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DRC’s Ebola outbreak has the potential to become a global pandemic. How to make sure it doesn’t
Drawing lessons from Sierra Leone and having watched the mid-2026 outbreak in the DRC, I conclude that it risks become a global epidemic.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/09/2026
If you have the time, Ed Miliband's speech in the House of Commons is worth reading in full. It literally includes the words: "Holding British Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli Government is antisemitism, plain and simple." www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Foreign Secretary Oral Statement on Israel-Palestine
Foreign Secretary's oral statement to the House of Commons on Israel-Palestine as delivered.
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Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here’s my piece for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on the government’s new legal risk guidance www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/new-...
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New government, new legal risk guidance | Institute for Government
New guidance is an insight into the government’s attitude to the law and legal risk.
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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 08/09/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning Canadians that the country's pivot away from the United States will come at a cost, but that the alternative would be far worse. cheknews.ca/carney-warns-of-tough-t…
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Carney warns of tough times ahead in national address as retaliatory tariffs kick in
Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning Canadians that the country's pivot away from the United States will come at a cost, but that the alternative would be far worse. In a national video address set to be released Tuesday — hours after Canada's retaliatory tariffs kicked in — Carney reiterated Canada's plan to respond to the U.S. trade war by striking new trade deals with other countries to become less reliant on the U.S. "We have everything we need to pivot and prosper," Carney said. "That pivot will come at a cost.
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Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Given the “engagement metrics” on this platform, it’s difficult to know if anyone still reads these. Or if @anyaso.bsky.social and I are just whistling in the wind. Nevertheless, if you are interested in tales of crack librarians and semantic web warriors trying again / failing better ….
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nurdling draws our (individual/collective) attention to all the other crap dumped and washed up on the beach. One of the council nurdling staff collected all this yesterday.
A blue fish box full of rubbish (paper cups, bottles, plastic of all kinds and more)
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
100 nurdles (collected in about 20 mins) on North Shields Fish Quay beach just now. This beach was reasonably clear but still easy enough to collect these in a few minutes. I collected about 200 in all. It takes about 600 nurdles to make one single use small plastic water bottle.
100 nurdles in the palm of my handAbout 200 nurdles in a net Two nurdles on the beachDozens of nurdles in the rocks at the edge of the beach
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Two spaces left if you fancy joining us to remove non-native tree and restore wild woodland on Sunday 13th Sept. Share if you can. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @forestryengland.bsky.social www.trybooking.com/uk/GSZL
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Upper Duddon Landscape Recovery vol day: 13th Sept, 2026
Join us on a volunteer day to help maintain & remove tree tubes, remove non-native conifers, plant trees and wildflowers and allow the natural...
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 06/09/2026
The UK has a strategic interest, a legal obligation, and a moral duty to stop any trade with unlawful Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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Banning UK trade with illegal Israeli settlements is long overdue
It would be a natural extension of current UK positions, and parliament’s cross-party Foreign Affairs Committee has recommended a formal ban for over a year.
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Dominique Fils-Aimé @dominiquefilsaime.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you Audiofemme for this lovely interview about "My World is the Sun", the tour, and what it means to stay present and together right now 🌞 audiofemme.substack.com/p/dominique-...
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Dominique Fils-Aimé brings her meditative jazz to Los Angeles’ Sun Rose
Her latest album ‘My World is the Sun’ begs the listener to live in the present moment and in community with others
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Foulshaw Ospreys @foulshaw2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
YW, Master of the Moss, has a staring contest with the internet. He wins. He's still here, resting after a hectic season, but will fly off soon. This is the last weekend we'll have people at the reserve so hope to see some of you for a fond farewell! #Birds #Nature #Cumbria
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Instead of a final paper, four @yalesph.bsky.social students course built Show Me the Evidence, a six-episode podcast on vaccine hesitancy. Awesome to see these innovative teaching methods for the modern public health landscape! ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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From Classroom to Conversation: YSPH students produce six-part series on vaccine hesitancy
Four YSPH students responded to an unconventional challenge from Assistant Professor Kristina Talbert-Slagle, PhD. Instead of a final paper, build something
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a fantastic paper that I think every scientist should read. I do a lot of science communication in multiple formats and without ever receiving any formal training. It can be daunting but more scientists need to engage with public facing communication. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Modern science outreach: A guide for scientists
Science communication offers immense value for fostering public trust and enhancing the quality of our modern information ecosystem. However, it remai…
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 02/09/2026
The universal view of experts, @becingber.bsky.social explains, is that the Trump administration's killings at sea are murder under domestic law, extrajudicial killings under international law, and given their systematic nature, may well be crimes against humanity.
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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just a heads up for those who use JSTOR...
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🇪🇺 @veertjephilips.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Many underestimate the Russian hybrid (& grey) warfare. news.usni.org/2026/08/19/r...
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Report to Congress on Russian Hybrid Warfare in Europe - USNI News
The following is the Aug. 11, 2026, Congressional Research Service report: Russian Hybrid Warfare Activities in Europe: Considerations for Congress. From the report Following Russia’s invasion of Ukra...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
First in my bloodline to utter the phrase “rabid baby goats at a mobile petting zoo” www.cnn.com/2026/08/29/u...
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Baby goats with rabies at North Carolina mobile petting zoo prompt calls across multiple counties to contact health officials | CNN
Several baby goats at a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina were infected with rabies, and authorities are asking anyone who had contact with the animals to reach out to health officials about potent...
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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To underscore why this is especially awful for those who may not know, the measles vaccine is usually given at 12 months. Newborns rely on community immunity to prevent exposure, which until recently we have had in the US. This quite literally could be anyone's newborn. None of this had to happen.
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Jane Mayl🍷n 🍇 @janetrad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Champagne Oenological Institute cites figures reaching 14°. Others have reported potential levels of 15°. But Champagne specifications set a maximum of 13% by volume after secondary fermentation, above which the wine cannot be sold under the Champagne appellation.
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[Vendanges 2026] En Champagne, des degrés problématiques ?
En Champagne, sur tous cépages et terroirs confondus la haute teneur en sucre des raisins interpelle à cause du degré potentiel trop élevé.
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
'the length of the [USS Abraham] Lincoln deployment is neither a one-off, nor is it a record. That dubious honour goes to USS Gerald R Ford which completed a 326-day deployment earlier this year.' write Dr Sidharth Kaushal and Professor Kevin Rowlands in the latest RUSI Commentary.
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The Overstretch Facing the US Navy
The US is exceeding its own plans for deployment of aircraft carriers, and the knock-on effects, and the strain, should be a cause for concern.
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some 🚨personal news🚨 After 11 brilliant years at IfG (time that on a personal level has included one cross-country move and the addition of one child) I've decided it's time for a new challenge! From 1 Sept I'm going freelance. If you'd like to work together, I'm on alice[at]aliceolilly[dot]com
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
When we were returning home to Scotland after living overseas for 10 years, we HAD to tick the box saying we were immigrants - even though we are Scottish. I phoned the Home Office helpline and was told we were, indeed, now classed as immigrants despite the fact we were coming home.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
100 days since the outbreak of Ebola was declared in the DRC. 5500 confirmed cases and counting, over 2600 deaths. 90 case daily average. The outbreak is still outpacing the response. Several trials are underway for antivirals and vaccines www.afro.who.int/countries/de...
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Over 5200 cases recorded as Democratic Republic of the Congo crosses 100 days since Ebola outbreak declaration
Kinshasa—One hundred days have passed since the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared the ongoing Ebola outbreak, which has now become the country's fastest growing. Transmission is outpacing cont...
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Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 23/08/2026
Burnham has framed England's social care debate around important questions that have long-needed exploring with the public. Our research shows that clearly agreed concepts of what's acceptable and fair is key to successful reform. @natashacurry.bsky.social for BMJ Opinion 👇 buff.ly/JR3SpEj
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Will it be 23rd time lucky for social care reform?
Since 1997, there remarkably have been 22 separate attempts at social care reform. If new Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to prove 23rd time lucky, Natasha Curry looks at what will need to be…
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...
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Microsoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants' names to U.S. government
Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers ...
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Here's a version of this thread on our blog: merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
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So we found a live bat in our galleries (again)
Seven years after we gave a bat a library card, another bat has visited The Museum of English Rural Life.
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