"Summer book post: the perfect beach-on-fire read!" "A great recent book on the subject is 'The Fate of the World' from the outspoken Bill McGuire, who takes us through our geological past to put the present in context" Thank you so much Ben Carey - Creative Director, Utopia Bureau

As governments row back on green measures, there has never been a more important time to make a lot of noise True, many climate scientists are speaking out and taking action, but many more are still hiding in the undergrowth This is just not good enough www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder | Bill McGuire

Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire

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Want to join IHN? You can now sign up as a member for just £10 a year! You'll get our newsletter, access to free online events with experts, invites to our meet-ups and access to online resources. The more of us, the better! Do join up! membermojo.co.uk/independenth...

This would be devastating. Let's hope that it can quickly be reversed.

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · last wk.

Terrible news. Aside from learning more about the universe, we're not going to get much economic growth by cutting science funding. (If only we had a Prime Minister who was interested in supporting the north, and Manchester in particular, who could stop this.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is so grim and sad. I’m just on my way back from Berlin and was there at Pride briefly, maybe 30mins before the attack. It was such a joyful and inclusive and transgressive party at that point; it’s so upsetting that someone felt the need to spoil it

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

The car attack on the Berlin Pride event has been designated a mass casualty event.

NEXT WEEK: our only event in the coming weeks so join us to talk Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath & more with Keith Kahn-Harris & his new book THE BEAUTIFUL DEATH OF OZZY OSBOURNE - Thursday July 30th, Mothers Ruin, Walthamstow, 7pm - tickets: tinyurl.com/4rs9sdb2

I really enjoyed talking all things Ozzy and metal with The Spoken Metal Show Podcast. And I am thinking of getting a tattoo of the show's highly apposite logo. [The show is also on Spotify] soundcloud.com/user-7325494...

#227 Keith Kahn-Harris

Keith Kahn-Harris is a British sociologist and music critic. He is an honorary research fellow and senior lecturer at Birkbeck College. Keith graduated with MA and PhD degrees from Goldsmiths Univers

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On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...

‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law Project

The equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back

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The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

Roses are red So is Carnation

What if one of the twentieth century's greatest artists also happened to be its most unlikely detective? Come and join us for a conversation between Oscar de Muriel and SJ Bennett at Librería! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-end-of...

The most letter to the LRB letter to the LRB that I have ever read.

It's been a year since the Back To The Beginning concert. I found it profoundly moving and wrote this article for @thequietus.com. That led to @andrewfurlow.bsky.social inviting me to write a book about Ozzy. 'Life-changing' is an overused term but applies here. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park  | The Quietus

Black Sabbath began with a broken body – Tony Iommi's industrial accident – it is both fitting and inspirational they end in the same way.

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🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Can’t read this yet thanks to their paywall but very pleased to see The Irish Times review @keithkahnharris.bsky.social’s The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne today:

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last mo.

Now out in hardback, e-book and audiobook For chapter headings and to read an extract, subscribe free to my Substack #CoolEarth newsletter Please do share 👍😊

"Charismatic Stokes" ought to have been one of the names on The Mayflower in 1620.

At risk of sounding arrogant, the #FOTW contains urgent info about where our climate, our world, and our society are headed, which everyone needs to hear But it is getting very little traction 😞 Please help share and promote 🙂 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @jporritt.bsky.social @anthonyhorowitz.com

If you think the coming week is hot You ain't seen nuthin' yet We are rewinding the climate clock back millions of years Our world is in the throes of rapid prehistorification and it is not going to end well

"It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write."

Martin@concretebadger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why does it bother me when a manager or the CEO of my employer boasts about using Copilot to write their emails? This. This is why

was it Paddington?

The closer you look, the shadier he becomes.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

"We are trading the health of our world’s ecosystems for the right to upgrade our smartphone every year; the futures of our children and their children so we can wear clothes just once then throw them away; and a functioning climate so we can nip on a plane whenever we wish" #TheFateoftheWorld

I’ve been working on this, about the IRA bomb in my home city of Manchester almost 30 years ago, for @manchestermill.bsky.social recently - culminating in a return to South Armagh last weekend…

The Mill@manchestermill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Special Investigation: The Manchester Bomb. We can reveal the real story of the IRA attack that destroyed the city centre - and why nobody was ever brought to justice. manchestermill.co.uk/the-ira-men-...

This is outstanding from @manchestermill.bsky.social: The IRA men behind the Manchester bomb: Unravelling a 30-year mystery manchestermill.co.uk/the-ira-men-...

The IRA men behind the Manchester bomb: Unravelling a 30-year mystery

Special Investigation: we can reveal the real story of the IRA attack that destroyed the city centre - and why nobody was ever brought to justice

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'It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the Epstein files...' My investigation into the scientists bewitched by money and the dilettante superficiality of Jeffrey Epstein's need to be near clever men. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/a-t...

A twisted breed

Jeffrey Epstein attempted to gather the best minds of science around him. His interests were rooted in a perverse, eugenic fantasy

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This doc, opening at DCTV in Tribeca this weekend, is an absolute banger and a must-see: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/m...

‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’ Review: When the Neighborhood Won

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This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

New immigration stats are out. Firstly, we've seen a decline in net migration of 48%, 171,000, compared to 331,000 for the previous year. This has some fairly serious, mainly negative, implications, even before Labour's draconian anti-immigration policies kick in. 1/18 www.gov.uk/government/s...

Summary of latest statistics

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