This is happening loads! Piles of your cash is being spent on research projects that are being derailed by redundancy or the threat of redundancy. There's no joined-up thinking or planning anywhere. Your money? Expendable mate, don't bother working and paying taxes.

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 10h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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“As Aydin jumps a scooter over ramps set up in the middle of the road, children around him are drawing with chalk, blowing bubbles and kicking a football in a spot where cars are usually driving through.” Good job Leeds. More children should have the chance to play in their neighbourhood like this.

Leeds: The city closing down streets so children can play

In Leeds, streets are being temporarily closed to traffic so kids have more space to safely play - an initiative proving beneficial to both children and adults.

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Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

Genetic surveillance in action www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

ICE Collected Almost 1 Million DNA Profiles in 2025 – Including Toddlers

ICE added nearly 1 million DNA profiles to the FBI's CODIS database in 2025, including hundreds of children as young as 4, per Georgetown Law.

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He is 71 now. Death row for 42 years and most likely innocent. And STILL they are holding him, putting him on trial and still going for the death penalty. Staggering. davisvanguard.org/2026/08/doug...

DNA Evidence Excludes Douglas Carter after 42 Years on Utah’s Death Row - Davis Vanguard

A Utah State Crime Lab report has excluded Douglas Carter, who spent 42 years on death row, as a match to DNA recovered from key evidence at a 1985 murder scene. This finding presents an additional ch...

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Between 2010 and 2024, only 500 more prison places were made available and 23 prisons were shut down. How dare the Tories and their media start with their bullshit faux outrage?!

Fortunately there's been a lot of attention in the press recently on the importance of thorough academic peer review and examination standards, so I'm sure the same newspapers doing that reporting will be calling for more funding for it 🙃

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 22h ago

As thousands of research academics are made redundant the whole system of free/cheap peer review will collapse.

As thousands of research academics are made redundant the whole system of free/cheap peer review will collapse.

I find it weirdly punitive when I nick stuff from Boots all the time but suddenly I get arrested

David Coveney@davidcoveney.com · yesterday

But one thing I know from bringing up kids and managing business is that if you expect a rule to be conformed to then it has to be enforced. Speeding is largely not enforced, then suddenly enforced very harshly, then not enforced. It's weirdly punitive to most people.

The United Kingdom regularly runs trains at 170% of their capacity. Now there's not going to be a proper HS2 this will get far worse. I felt sad reading about people hoping it might get better. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A rail nightmare: what it’s like on England’s busiest commuter-only train

This evening service from London to Crewe is hot, sweaty and heaving with people, many having to stand or sit in the gangways

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if any of you know anyone who still thinks that the flagshaggers are 'just proud of their country', i want you to sit down with them and read these court documents together

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

as we saw with Charlie Kirk it’s extremely notable that no fans of Rod Liddle include any of their favourite quotes from him in their tributes

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Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2d ago

Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’

One of the most shocking things when living in Australia (some time ago) was that people were OPENLY racist. It might not have been that there were MORE racists, but it felt like in the UK the racists weren't as brazen. Shameful to see the change. news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism

Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."

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Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

There are clouds in the sky - it's so exciting! I've forgotten what rain is like !

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡

Letter through door from my local MP. Forgot he's also my optician and time for my eye check... I can't ever think that MPs having second jobs is not just crazy. I can't do my ONE job!

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

Its quite hard to know what, exactly, will actually lose someone their licence if 59 points, driving while disqualified and no insurance doesn't. Its not juat dangerous - its clear contempt for the law. We should treat car crime like any other crime

Jon Owen@anotherjon.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm getting fed up with getting pulled by you guys, so this one will result in a complaint," says the driver with 59 points on his licence. 59 points, and still driving, and he didn't go to prison. The system is broken. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I'm getting fed up with getting pulled by you guys, so this one will result in a complaint," says the driver with 59 points on his licence. 59 points, and still driving, and he didn't go to prison. The system is broken. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Bad news for historians: dead people now off limits for criticism

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

"a ban would end her writing career." And yet she didn't learn a thing from getting 9 points.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Author Lynda La Plante banned from driving for six months

Yes, that's how tax works. You pay for stuff you may never use - schools if you're childless, roads you may never travel down and so forth - because it's the right thing to do. Is there somebody who looks after you who can explain this to you?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

We will- I have no doubt- look back at this as one of the greatest scandals of our time. It he killing of the golden goose for the UK. A destruction of one of the most profitable and successful sectors.Yet, for now all politicians have their head in the sand on this one… A critically important read.

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

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Feel like this should have got more attention "Rapid early assessment by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) estimates there were 2,877 heat-associated deaths during 2 notable periods of hot weather in May and June 2026, almost double the figure reported annually for 2025"

UKHSA report shows 2,877 excess deaths caused by May and June heatwaves

The 2,877 excess deaths represents a significant increase on the 1,504 excess deaths observed in summer 2025.

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"I said it's a bold move by Reform to use the Navy to return migrants. What did I say Roy?" "You said it's an unworkable load of bollocks designed to win back some racist numbskulls from Rupert Lowe and distract attention from Farage's £5m bung"