UK-Iranian dual national arrested over RAF Fairford incident, police say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dual UK-Iranian national arrested over RAF Fairford incident
The 27-year-old man was arrested in Westminster, London, the force said.
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Brendan Paddy
@bjpaddy.bsky.social
Looking to make the outdoors for everyone as director of Ramblers Scotland but these are personal views. Expect pics of walks, posts on politics/world news, risidual overseas aid and guest appearances by a small hairy murderer named Pixie.
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
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Policing board opens with “there is a strong sentiment that policing has been key on the peace process” ooofff
Paddling (canoeing) across Windermere today, into the teeth of a pretty stiff Force 3 wind - lumpy, and just this side of whitecaps - I came across a swimming squirrel, looking very stressed. Not a planned swim, I'm guessing. It was 300m to either shore, so I'm not sure s/he was going to be okay.
UK summer 2026: BBC postcode lookup shows how hot and dry it was www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK summer 2026: BBC postcode lookup shows how hot and dry it was
Most of us experienced drought and heatwaves - but temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere.
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🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
Why must it always be about planting trees, when they managed just fine for 100s of millions of years before people came along? Just let them seed out. Yes, planting does have a role, but so often the underlying subtext is continued human domination of nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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Survey of a large area of the Cairngorms with plane-based lasers & AI shows 40% of trees are young, illustrating the huge scale of natural regeneration that is possible when overgrazing is controlled www.countryfile.com/news/scotlan...
Scotland’s forests are making a remarkable comeback with millions of new trees – aerial maps reveal the secret that caused this | Countryfile.com
A major success for British rewilding is unforming in Scotland as we speak.
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@saveourwildcats.bsky.social celebrates landmark 50 Scottish wildcat releases www.savingwildcats.org.uk/news-events/...
Wild-born kittens are doing well 🧡 The littluns stay with their mum for four to six months before dispersing to find territories of their own. Unlike their parents, kittens cannot be fitted with GPS-radio collars, so the team rely on trail cameras and public sightings to keep track of them 🐾
Thanks to whoever recommended the 'What to carry, what to burn' podcast. The first episodes manage to turn most exploration/adventure stories on their head, simply having two women tell the true story of third, Ada Blackjack of the Iñupiat. www.whattocarrypod.com
"Its now becone OK to say Brexit has been an economic disaster. Better late than never" says ex-Cabinet minister Hilary Benn. It brought a lot of poison to politics & to the relationship, but a lot of that has "drained" & closer trade deal is of mutual interest, he says @policyatkings.bsky.social
Another appeal, which he's v unlikely to win, but the whole point is the generation of these headlines and the normalisation of the claim that homophobia is protected under the Equality Act. It is not, but these people have endless cash to spend to try to find a court that will set such a precedent.
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️@gemmaclark.bsky.social · 3d agoHomophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
One additional 'quick fact': if your name is John, the Nobel committee is twice as likely to award you the Prize for Physics, compared to scientists who are female - Number of physics prizes to a John: 10 - Number of female physics Nobel laureates: 5 Best wishes to all the John-hopefuls this yr 👩🔬⚛️
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 2d agoThe announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics is happening in one week – and we'll be breaking the news live at nobelprize.org. Quick facts: - Number of physics prizes: 119 - Individuals awarded the physics prize: 229 - Youngest laureate: 25 - Oldest laureate: 96 - Double physics laureates: 1
Burnham aiming for a change to the UK’s voting system.
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation
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“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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Ending the triple lock isn’t the same as cutting pensions. Thatcher linked the state pension to inflation rather than earnings growth with the result that the value of pensions fell relative to earnings. The triple lock was designed to reverse than trend. It’s done its job. Restore the earnings link
We welcome the Gov's announcement of new safe routes. But more is needed. Labour can talk about "fairness" when it scraps earned settlement plans and delivers safe routes for all instead of punishing thousands of people who have worked in this country for years. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings
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@hannahslaughter.bsky.social and I have just published our take on the ONS's new productivity estimates. They don't change the unavoidable reality of UK economic stagnation, but they do challenge the consensus on its causes. A short summary ⤵️
New post: Populist tendencies on the UK left, and the puzzle that never was mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/popu... The OBR provides a fiscal forecast, and nothing more. It help make evidence based decisions, rather than finding evidence to justify politically motivated decisions.
Populist tendencies on the UK left, and the puzzle that never was
Don’t shoot the messager The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has just published a report on the Office of Budget Responsibility, the ...
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I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So much for all the frothing racists leaping to try to link this to immigration before the facts were known www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
RAF Fairford suspects to be released on bail, head of counter-terror police says
Five UK nationals, all in their 20s and from London, were arrested near the base on Sunday morning.
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Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
Can't help admiring Brits' persistent attachment to the idea that supply and demand doesn't operate in the housing market and their concomitant refusal to admit that a place is only ever worth as much as anyone is prepared to pay for it.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d agoGood piece this. I winced at the two people in the piece, both hoping for prices that are miles and miles above what their flat is worth:
“Excessive noise including playing any form of audio at a volume that can be heard by other passengers and which may cause a disturbance” welcome to many but hard to see it being enforcable? www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2026/09/25/e...
Edinburgh bus users could be thrown off for loud music or speakerphone calls
BUS users in Edinburgh could be kicked off for playing loud music or making speakerphone calls after Lothian Buses changed its rules.
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I am alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Oleshky, a town in the temporarily occupied parts of the Kherson region of Ukraine. 1/4 #humanrights #Ukraine #Oleshky #Kherson #humanitarianlaw
