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The feature that I'm most excited to see is the "on this day" which gives 24-hour access to issues published on today's date. I think it said we get 150 free articles? Search every morning, using a place name for a #OnePlaceStudy, and voila, pretty soon I'll be up to my ears in articles.
Mayo have ended a wait of 75 years to become All-Ireland football champions, beating Kerry 1-20 to 1-17 at Croke Park www.rte.ie/sport/footba...
All-Ireland SFC final: Kerry v Mayo updates
Follow how the 2026 final unfolds as Kerry, chasing a 40th title, take on a Mayo side who again will seek to end the county's long drought for Sam Maguire.
rte.ie
WHAT A WIN!!!!!!! Bloody magnificent!! — with only ten men, in the heat, in the altitude, in the intense stadium of home fans… and they bloody did it!
Ten years ago today Britain voted by a narrow majority (51.9%) to leave the EU Most Brits living in other EU countries couldn’t vote. Commonwealth citizens in UK could The Leave campaign featured a pack of lies and promises that did not materialise Today, a growing majority want to rejoin the EU
Our country needs a bold change of direction. Starmer lost the confidence of the country because of his abject failure to challenge the power and wealth of an establishment which has taken for themselves while leaving the vast majority in a cost of living crisis. (1/5)
Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: "I will resign as Leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to his Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision." Britain is about to have its seventh PM in a decade.
Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.
Brexit has cost Britain up to £30bn every year, says David Miliband. Reversing it is clearly in the national interest. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Brexit ‘sabotage’ has cost Britain up to £30bn every year, says David Miliband
Exclusive: ‘We are suffering a punishing Brexit tax every day’ says former foreign secretary in withering assessment of decision to leave the bloc
independent.co.uk
Spain really is building the *best* social housing in the world right now. And here’s a great example. 24 apartments in Ibiza by 08014 Architects. A thread 🧵
The EU is making it easier than ever to ditch the car keys and hop on your bike. The upcoming World Bicycle Day on Wednesday is the perfect occasion to do so. With our European Declaration on Cycling, we are committed to boosting this experience for you:
JUST RELEASED: 14 million battery-electric cars sold globally in 2025 says @iea.org. China: 8.2m. Europe: 2.9m (28% of new cars). Norway: 97%. US flat at 1.2m. In 2015 the world sold 330,000 BEVs. Ten years later, 14 million. Long-read coming on Bright Spots 👇 janrosenow.substack.com
Congratulations to Arsenal - the first London club to win the league in almost a decade and 22 years in the making 👏🏽
Arsenal win first Premier League title in 22 years after Man City draw
Man City draw at Bournemouth to end Gunners’ long title drought
standard.co.uk
"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...
news.mongabay.com
Had a delightful chat with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social on Radio 4, all about how we mark, discuss and understand time. On the iplayer now.
Another Cinna@anothercinna.bsky.social · 4mo ago@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social just did his own version of a trip to the chemist's, but time, not the size of the universe, on #WordOfMouth. #Big, really big 80th birthday best to him. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
World Migratory Bird Day is a great reminder of being mindful of ground-nesting birds: keep dogs on lead, respect signage & report fires. Already this season, multiple fires wiped out habitat in protected environments, like national parks, with devastating consequences. #WMBD2026 #citizenscience
A barrister is being tried for simply accurately stating the law to a jury in a closing speech, possibly for the first time ever. It is chilling how quickly we are resorting to authoritarian measures, particularly in the context of the genocide in Palestine. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Barrister in Palestine Action trial facing contempt of court proceedings
Rajiv Menon KC accused of defying judge’s orders to not inform jury of right to acquit on basis of conscience
theguardian.com
A centuries-old element of Britain's parliament has come to an end as hereditary peers took their seats in the House of Lords for the final time.
Last hereditary peers exit House of Lords for last time
A centuries-old element of Britain's parliament has come to an end as hereditary peers took their seats in the House of Lords for the final time.
rte.ie
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/@did:plc:cod...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Every year, large areas of gorse in Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks are deliberately burnt. It’s an appalling act of vandalism, killing wildlife, preventing regeneration of crucial habitats, rel...
skywriter.blue
Amazing qualities of light, view and space… as a reminder, this is *social housing*
When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 4mo agoGPS satellites move at 1/100000 the speed of light, causing their clocks to tick slower by 7 microseconds per day, and orbit at a height that makes their clocks tick faster by 45 microseconds per day. Two relativistic effects, both at the 1 part in 10 billion level, both essential for GPS accuracy 🧪
the special relativity (SR) effect depends on the velocity of the satellite relative to the speed of light, while the general relativity (GR) effect depends on the height of the satellite relative to Earth. Since both effects are small, we can keep only first-order terms:
Remove Palantir from our NHS. Get Palantir out of our country. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible
The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artificial intelligence chipmakers
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible
scientificamerican.com
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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