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Zarino Zappia

@zarino.co.uk
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Designer, coder, bell ringer, lego geek 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈 🏴‍☠️ Product chap at @mysociety.org. Formerly of ScraperWiki, @oii.ox.ac.uk, and @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. ☠️ twitter.com/zarino 👔 linkedin.com/in/zarino 🌐 zarino.co.uk

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Its What3Words accounts filing day! They're doing so great. Nothing to worry about. I'm sure "the launch of our advertising revenue stream" will offset the "lost major Enterprise customer". Ads are really profitable now, right? find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0843...
WHAT3WORDS LIMITED
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025

Financial key performance indicators

The Group's total loss for the year was £12,234,738 (2024: loss £10,644,836)
The increase in reported loss compared with the prior year was driven primarily by the fair value adjustment
relating to convertible loan notes recognised in 2024, which reduced the overall reported loss in that year.
Operating loss for the year was £12,828,534 (compared with £14,133,347 in 2024). The underlying operating
performance of the business remained focused on revenue growth, product investment and disciplined cost
management.

The group has continued to maintain a dynamic operating model, balancing investment in growth initiatives
across key markets with careful control of operating expenditure and cash runway.

At 31 December 2025, the group had net assets of £10,925,686 (2024: £15,659,513). Assets were
predominantly comprised of cash and cash equivalents totaling £6,493,450 (2024: £11,705,453) and term
deposits of £2,649,047 (2024: £5,948,370).
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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives
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mySociety @mysociety.org · 28/07/2026
Alex, Alice, Gemma, Julia & Zarino present mySociety's 2025-6 impact report. If you're feeling down about the state of democracy, you'll be glad to know that there's a lot to be hopeful about!
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mySociety @mysociety.org · 27/07/2026
Ever wondered what effect our work has, who uses our services or how we connect with other organisations around the world? Sit back and enjoy a little dose of optimism and positivity with our annual impact report. www.mysociety.org/impact-repor...
A composite image showing the mySociety team, and activities from our TICTeC conference, in hexagons emerging from a copy of the impact report.
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Meet Enoki!
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Could we stop treating Farage like a PM-in-waiting? Latest from IPSOS:
Britons are slightly more likely to prefer an Andy Burnham led Labour party against Farage, compared to other Labour politicians
If you had to choose, which party would you prefer to win the next UK General Election and form the next government?
Lead
The Labour Party led by Andy Burnham
Reform UK led by Nigel Farage
46%
30%
Labour +16
The Labour Party led by Keir Starmer
Reform UK led by Nigel Farage
43%
32%
Labour +11
The Labour Party led by Wes Streeting
Reform UK led by Nigel Farage
40%
33%
Labour +7
The Labour Party led by Angela Rayner
Reform UK led by Nigel Farage
39%
33%
Labour +6
Base: 2,101 Crane British adults aged 18+, 8-12 May 2028
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mySociety @mysociety.org · 15/04/2026
@alexparsons.bsky.social has been thinking about the increased demand on public systems created by #AI - not just #FOI but for all areas where the public interface with government. Here's a suggestion for an approach that can work for the public benefit: www.mysociety.org/2026/04/14/r...
mysociety.org
Responding to AI-driven demand on public systems
How public services can avoid new forms of rationing and turn individual actions into collective benefits.
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Zarino Zappia @zarino.co.uk · 17/03/2026
Hey @alexlipp.github.io @jonnydawe.github.io I and my @mysociety.org colleagues noticed www.sewagemap.co.uk sends a steady feed of users to WriteToThem, and we’d love to learn more about the project. Is there an email address I can reach you on? (My DMs are open.) Thanks!
sewagemap.co.uk
Sewage Map
Real-Time Sewage Discharge Monitoring | Sewage Map - Stay Updated on Sewage Pollution
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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
So, working backwards: here's a set of @mysociety.org reports we've have published in the last year🧵
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Zarino Zappia @zarino.co.uk · 15/01/2026
Three incredibly touching tributes to the unmatchable Mark Longair here, from @mysociety.org, Steve Day, and @symroe.bsky.social – www.mysociety.org/2026/01/15/a.... Just seems so unfair that we get stuck with all these terrible people in positions of power, and lose the good guys like Mark. 😔❤️
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A tribute to Mark Longair
It was with immense sadness that the mySociety team learned of the death of our much loved ex-colleague Mark Longair. Mark first came to mySociety as a volunteer, contributing his time and coding kno...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/01/2026
More 'free speech' over at the Reform event. Farage jumps in - again - to answer a question on vaccines directed at Zahawi. Then Zahawi adds that "the question is stupid and does not deserve an answer". They all long to be mini-Trumps. ~AA
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Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Is generative AI the key to better public services? Find out at our FREE webinar where experts discuss strategies for reliable and trustworthy AI in government services. With @emercoleman.bsky.social @richardpope.org @elenasimperl.bsky.social & Andy Dudfield from Full Fact buff.ly/ciFXp7r
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 22/12/2025
GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read what all these folks had to say and subscribe to our newsletter: gfsc.community (10/10)
gfsc.community
Geeks for Social Change
We are a collective creating community technology in anticipation of a world without billionaires. Led by trans and disabled people. Join us today!
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Geeks for Social Change @gfsc.community · 22/12/2025
Geeks for Social What?! (1/10) All years are grievous and troublesome, but this one was fruitful. 23 people have volunteered their time with GFSC, working on everything from codebases and livestreams to volunteer coordination. 8 new voices contributed to our blog. Check 'em out!
gfsc.community
Geeks for Social Change
We are a collective creating community technology in anticipation of a world without billionaires. Led by trans and disabled people. Join us today!
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mySociety @mysociety.org · 05/12/2025
Have you added a question to our Reddit AMA yet? We'll be answering questions large and small about TheyWorkForYou - how we run it, why we run it, features we've added, maybe why we haven't added that particular feature you think would be great... pile in and ask away! www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...
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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 02/12/2025
And finally @democracyclub.org.uk who have been quietly getting on with creating and running a bunch of services that make getting information about when, where and who for uk elections both easy and possible. democracyclub.org.uk/donate/
democracyclub.org.uk
Democracy Club
We build digital tools to support everyone’s participation in UK democracy.
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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 02/12/2025
Next are @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social who we've done a load of work with and produce the Council Climate Scorecards so people know what their local council are doing about climate change. It's also a really lovely bit of crowdsourcing. bsky.app/profile/clim...
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Struan Donald @struan.exo.org.uk · 02/12/2025
It is, apparently, giving Tuesday so here in decreasing order of self serving are some suggestions. Firstly @mysociety.org, the people that pay me. While that's surely reason enough, we also make websites, data and reports that make it easier to be civic minded in the uk - www.mysociety.org/donate/
mysociety.org
Support mySociety
A small charity making a big difference. Donate today!
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Zarino Zappia @zarino.co.uk · 02/12/2025
Some really thoughtful questions starting to appear on the AMA thread that my colleagues @alexparsons.bsky.social and @juliacushion.bsky.social will be answering next Monday. If you’ve ever had questions about @mysociety.org’s parliamentary transparency work, now’s your chance to ask!
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
As always when I post about being trans, a reminder: if you support me because I'm "normal" or "reasonable" or whatever because I dress like an old man & go to church, but you don't support all my trans siblings, then you don't actually support me at all, & I encourage you to do some soul searching.
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The Meowth is out of the bag. I am currently researching and writing my next book, 'Space Invaders' a queer history of videogames. Just like 'Queer As Folklore' this is a subject very very close to my heart. It's very bloody exciting. What a lucky sod! Thanks @manchesterup.bsky.social!
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Julia Cushion @juliacushion.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Apparently there's another woman from Leeds with a brunette bob talking in a Parliament building about something or other today?? 😅 Anyway, I'm at the Senedd and excited to be appearing alongside @jessblair.bsky.social @lauramcallister30.bsky.social & Mark Drakeford!
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mcknut.bsky.social @mcknut.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Notice that the red bar is bigger than the green bar in this picture. We also suspect it has got worse already. We really need people coming to our fantastic coworking space, if you’re bored at home, come by and say hello!
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frank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
only a handful of these sets of festive recycled golden antler boi cards left 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/gold...
festive cards of golden stags with oak leaves
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it). "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
bbc.co.uk
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed. But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people. 1/8🧵
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mySociety @mysociety.org · 18/11/2025
Involved (or interested in) in procurement, contracts, and how public bodies spend money? On Nov 25, our own @zarino.co.uk will be bringing insights at this event from Government Outcomes Lab: golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/community/ev... #procurement #publicmoney #government #contracts #accountability
golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk
The Role(s) of Civil Society and the Public in Public Procurement and Government Contracting
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
A post by Zarah Sultana of 'Your Party', that uses a generated image with the words 'Your Party, County Durham Launch', surrounded by nine simple, flat images of images in silhouette with single colour backgrounds, presumably intended to represent Durham, four of which are a man with a weirdly long pick-axe, one is a building, two are gantries of some kind – for a coal mine? – and one is some kind of floating lamp. I will expand on this in the thread.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
Careful Consequences Check
Let's make technology work for 8 billion people not 8 billionaires
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Zarino Zappia @zarino.co.uk · 05/11/2025
Three big events coming up from @mysociety.org this month, for anyone delivering #techforgood projects. Free and online!
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Martin Wright @mynameismartin.co.uk · 04/11/2025
www.mynameismartin.co.uk/blog/year-one
mynameismartin.co.uk
One year of freelance — mynameismartin
Notes and lessons from my first year working for myself — money, rejection, overwork, and the ongoing experiment of doing what you love for a living.
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Zarino Zappia @zarino.co.uk · 03/11/2025
I pre-ordered this beautiful book from my multi-talented colleague @myfanwytristram.bsky.social a few weeks ago and May 2026 can’t come quick enough!
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Myfanwy Tristram @myfanwytristram.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Just gonna pin this to the top of my account - with a reminder that pre-orders really help (bookshops order stock in if they see pre-orders are high). Coming out in May ‘26. Thank you! www.waterstones.com/book/noisy-v... #graphicnovels #books #rhondda #protest
Noisy Valley tells stories of protest from the Rhondda. It is social history… it is a defence of the right to protest… it is a love letter to this feisty community.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Me, in this presentation: "This is Durham Cathedral. Now let me tell you why she's transgender."
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Proton @proton.me · 31/10/2025
Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]

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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: 

Hello there 

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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].

DAD:

Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE:

Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!

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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:

Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!

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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:

Listen - that's their call 

[Calls emanating from the landscape]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:

They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.

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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are! 

[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].

[Little people noises]: 
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke

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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:

Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.

[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?

NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…

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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].

NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…

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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:

Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?

[ends]
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Probably worth saying that gambling firms prop up The Sun through millions £ in advertising and referral deals. For some reason they don't point that conflict of interest out on their front page story against gambling taxes today (save for a promo note that it "includes Sun Bingo and Sun Vegas")
"SAVE OUR BETS" Sun front page today against gambling taxes
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Chris T. @readyuser.one · 23/10/2025
My man 💪
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mySociety @mysociety.org · 23/10/2025
This free event is starting at 12 noon today - but there's still time to join us! Register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/theyworkfo... #parliament #westminster #politics #theyworkforyou #civictech
Text: updates on TheyWorkForYou - join us to find out what's new!
Background: a photo looking up towards Parliament's ornate and gilded ceiling.
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oli @olil.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
A picture of a foggy street
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Ben Proctor @benproctor.co.uk · 19/10/2025
Great project. Lovely that this article acknowledges the work in this space already done by @mapio.cymru and others
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/10/2025
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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You Have to See This Mamdani Ad
I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...
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TheyWorkForYou @theyworkforyou.com · 09/10/2025
A new House of Commons register of interests has been released and uploaded to TheyWorkForYou www.theyworkforyou.com/interests
theyworkforyou.com
Register of Interests
Making it easy to keep an eye on the UK’s parliaments. Discover who represents you, how they’ve voted and what they’ve said in debates.
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Climate Emergency UK @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
There's just under one week to go to sign up for Local Climate Academy! The sessions for campaigners starts on 13th October - this free six week course will help identify climate action that your council can take and help you influence your local authority. As one campaigner who did the course said:
Image of a chalkboard with 'Local Climate Academy' next to it. The rest of the text reads: Starts 13th October! Less than one week to go!Image with blue background and a photo of a smiling woman with her arms crossed. There is a quote that says " The course generated a lot of sharing of great ideas, practical suggestions, and inspirational stories. Greatly increased my motivation for climate action." Andrew Durling, Campaigner
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Julia Cushion @juliacushion.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We've been working on some cool stuff and we want to tell you about it!
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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 03/10/2025
Hey kids! Write to newspapers to let them know if they got their facts wrong. It sometimes works!
Dear Mr Eden

Thank you for contacting us and for that information. 

Unfortunately, I have been unable to speak to the reporter this evening. I have therefore, as a precaution, removed that article from publication.

Kind regards,
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Zarino Zappia @zarino.co.uk · 23/09/2025
And I trust trans people over Wes Streeting, so I guess it’s all swings and roundabouts isn’t it.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Now that it’s the time of year when the obscurely-funded right wing Restore Trust, a private company, try once again to take over the National Trust, my annual reminder of what they want to do with our history & heritage. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
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Culture Warriors’ Attacks on the National Trust
Charles Moore uses the Spectator of 3 June to rally support for a rebel National Trust group. Calling themselves Restore Trust, this group of disaffected members and former members bemoan the insti…
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Climate Emergency UK @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
One month to go until the Local Climate Academy starts! Are you a community based campaigner or a budding councillor? This FREE course is also made for you.
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