The Home Office is accused of giving false hope to the people of Gaza after it emerged that a new safe route for Palestinian refugees will only be open to those who have already escaped to Lebanon or Jordan, for “a very small number of extremely urgent cases” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UK accused of giving people of Gaza false hope over new refugee safe route

Only ‘very small number’ of people already in Lebanon or Jordan will be referred, says organisation running scheme

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Good girl #sophiefromromania - she managed to keep calm and not bark or lunge at a small dog passing on the other side of the road

Este artículo, como el que publicamos en 2024 en @es.theconversation.com es también gracias a @loretahur.bsky.social @bayesana.bsky.social @tvaldessolis.bsky.social @raquel-villacam.bsky.social y por supuesto, Elena Sanz

Conchi Lillo@conchilillo.bsky.social · 4d ago

¿No hay mujeres que merezcan un premio Nobel en ciencias? ¿Te lo habías preguntado alguna vez, o simplemente habías dado por hecho que estos premios son para hombres? La reflexión que nos llevó a escribir este artículo en 2024 se repite este año: theconversation.com/siempre-los-...

Genuinely disturbing that violent racism has become so normalised that a leading politician can threaten to have refugees murdered in the water 1984-style and almost no-one in the media thinks it’s worthy of comment

Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · yesterday

In any sane country Jenrick would be out of a job after these grotesque remarks, but AFAICS almost no-one thinks they’re even worthy of comment

The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry's poetic antidote to despair, animated www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/12/w...

The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated

On where to seek refuge from the forethought of grief.

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HSBC will phase out fixed-pay allowances for its senior staff and instead hand out a greater proportion of its compensation in the form of bonuses

HSBC Moves to Wall Street Bonus Model, Cuts Fixed-Pay Deals

HSBC Holdings Plc will phase out fixed-pay allowances for its senior staff and instead hand out a greater proportion of its compensation in the form of bonuses, becoming the latest UK lender to switch to Wall Street-style remuneration to better align with performance.

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🔴 Incertidumbre en América Latina por la suspensión del voto a nacionalizados por la ‘ley de nietos’: “Es imposible subsanarlo”

Incertidumbre en América Latina por la suspensión del voto a nacionalizados por la ‘ley de nietos’: “Es imposible subsanarlo”

Una de las asociaciones de descendientes de españoles en Argentina, el epicentro del exilio, considera la decisión “un desprecio notorio” hacia los ciudadanos en el exterior

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Oh look: the Nobel Prize in economics went to some white American men. It's almost always them. (Esther & Abhijit are among rare aberrations.) Economics really really has a diversity problem. Heard today that U.Nairobi has had ZERO women getting econ PhDs in FIVE YEARS! 😳 www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Karen Scrase, contemporary Bristol, UK, based stained glass artist know for her hand painted work #Womensart

Old school Little Englander nonsense about regulations. The reason the UK didn't massively deregulate after Brexit was 1/ because regulations and standards are international norms, and 2/ the people and more importantly politicians even businesses of the UK want them.

Having woken me at 2:30 and 3:30 to go into the garden for a comfort break #sophiefromromania needed a snooze but as dawn broke I persuaded her out for a walk

UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute. UK infrastructure is owned by foreign investors/states - ports, airports, water, energy, microchips, auto, steel, computers, phones. Can't reduce UK vulnerability without abandoning neoliberalism.

UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute

George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field

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The totally stunning ceiling in the (equally stunning room) in Bishop West’s Chantry Chapel, Ely Cathedral 😍 The detail and surviving colours are amazing! West was chaplain to Henry VII and a diplomatic envoy to Henry VIII.

The Home Office is run by psychopaths from the top cabinet secretary to the manager who is making mundane decisions about passport applications. Performative cruelty is its motto. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...

Father was asked for DNA test to get a passport for his daughter

New post-Brexit rules mean that dual nationals cannot enter the UK unless they have a British passport

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For #stunday. Fall in northern Minnesota (2026). #Minnesota #nature #naturephotography #ironrange #landscape #fall #autumn #EastCoastKin #ECK #WCK #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography

Judith M. Daniels, artist who creates contemporary fiber art using felt and nuno felting #WomensArt #AutumnWeek 🍂

Mask by Ellen Neel (1916–1966), Kwakwakaʼwakw artist woodcarver who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles. #Womensart

A somewhat anxious #sophiefromromania had to be persuaded to complete our park walk this morning but we decided we all deserved a #bigbreakfast

Guillermina Uribe Bone 1948 1st woman to earn degree in civil engineering @ Nat Uni of #Colombia #Bogota. 1949 joined Nat Buildings @ Ministry of Works, worked on Cali Post Office & Santa Marta Olympic Stadium. 2024 building @ Uni named in honour. d. #OTD 11 Oct 2018 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiller...

I am not going to share that disgusting cartoon that was in the Daily Telegraph. Suffice to say that it was disgusting and deeply offensive. Here is Jewish and Muslim Greens' joint statement on the matter, and a call to the DT to withdraw it - jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/11/j... 1/10

🚨LAST DAY TO SIGN AGAINST EARNED SETTLEMENT🚨 🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Save 90,000 children from poverty 🌈 Protect our NHS and care workers 🏡 Make Burnham’s pledge to end rough sleeping actually possible ✍️ PLEASE SIGN ❤️https://act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnham-scrap-earned-settlement

To Andy Burnham: Scrap the earned settlement proposals

Sign the petition and call on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to scrap the earned settlement plans. They are unpopular. They are divisive. And they will devastate our already struggling NHS and our social...

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Morning Hike Headed back to the river with the pups this morning Baker was aggravated that he couldn't run wild but too many hunters around #Nature #Photography #Scape #Photo #WitchSky #Trees #Forest #ForestScape #Hiking #Camping #EastCoastKin #StunDay #SilentSunday

I love when birds perch on little things. An eastern bluebird. There were probably a dozen of them flitting around. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

On this day in 1884, Eleanor Roosevelt was born. As 1st Lady, she lobbied FDR to appoint more women & championed racial justice. In 1960, she chaired the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, which released a trailblazing study documenting the pervasiveness of sex discrimination. #WeTheMen

Most people think of Holly as being a bush, when if allowed to grow as we do, is actually a tree A European Holly (Ilex aquifolium) in the hamlet of Campoerbolo in Morbegno, Lombardy, Italy Photo: Fontanaelia on Monumental Trees

On a Bench, 1889 Berthe Morisot, French Impressionist painter #WomensArt

#sophiefromromania agrees with Shirley #strictly about that performance

The impressive and unusual Monk’s Door in Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire 🤩