#GreatBigGreenWeek is in full swing and there are lots of repair groups taking part around the UK 🌿⁠ ⁠ To find a repair event, or any number of other eco-friendly activities, near you visit: www.greatbiggreenweek.com ⁠ 📸 @markaphill.bsky.social

They've had a lot to say about our parliament event the other week in the press...UK policy makers, what's good? 🔧⁠ ⁠ We know that repair is popular but to see this response from the public and the media has really cemented it! Keep your eyes peeled for our next action 👀⁠ 📸 @markaphill.bsky.social

Building better rights to repair - Parliamentary Repair Cafe 2026 open.substack.com/pub/markaphi...

Building better rights to repair - Parliamentary Repair Cafe 2026

London, 26 March 2026

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Are you watching Dirty Business? It is crazy how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

End the sewage pollution scandal

We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

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🚨 We're hiring a Fixing Factory Workshop Manager!⁠ ⁠ If you’re a fixer with the skills and enthusiasm to manage a welcoming, safe, and impactful repair hub, we want to hear from you!⁠ For the full job description and details on how to apply go to: therestartproject.org/jobs

80 MPs have signed the #RepairReuseDeclaration 🎉⁠ Our latest endorsers are Seamus Logan, Greg Smith, @munirawilson.bsky.social, @dannybealesmp.bsky.social, @sarahgreenld.bsky.social and Tulip Siddiq, who support our mission to make repair and reuse the norm 🪛 📸 @markaphill.bsky.social

So, thanks for confirming that the “industry” has no viable business model without stealing from others. www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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We know that everyone is clamouring for a Fixing Factory near them but we need your help to make it happen.⁠ ⁠ Can you email your councillor and ask them to attend our briefing? Find the e-action at: action.wearepossible.org/page/172461/...

Happy Earth Day. That little tiny phone uses a lot of the earths resources to make it. (And creates lots of waste too). Keep it longer, repair it and pass it on for reuse. We can all help. See www.unbroken.solutions #earthday

Exciting times! My book Borderlines is out in paperback - advance copies are in the bookshops already. It's a history of modern Europe told through the story of its national borders in all their humour, strangeness and tragedy.

They lost the Telegraph…. !!https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/03/25/its-over-america-has-ceased-to-be-leader-of-the-free-world/

It’s over. America has ceased to be leader of the free world

Accidentally copying in a journalist to senior officials’ private thoughts about Europe was a gift of Providence

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Another example of the recycling myth. Too. often things sent for 'recycling' end up being exported or burned, or both. We should have the capability to properly manage our own waste - reuse > repair > recycle (properly!) Better regulatory enforcement needed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Millions of UK tyres meant for recycling sent to furnaces in India

The illegal makeshift plants cause serious health problems and huge environmental damage.

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Could it be that the UKs infamous human lettuce has infected all of the US government???

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“But her emails!” comparisons can be exhausting, but I’d like you to imagine for a minute what would have happened if Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had accidentally added Tucker Carlson to a group chat about classified war plans? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...

Is it really possible that infrastructure as critical as Heathrow has no credible dual power supply. I'd expect there to be a second major feed from a separate sub-station - but we appear to have nothing - the cost of back-up is trivial compared to the disruption. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Heathrow Airport closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage - live updates

Flights are cancelled and diverted mid-air as Europe's busiest airport closes until midnight over a

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A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot

Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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A new #EU law will require #textile producers and #fashion brands to pay a fee to help fund #waste collection and treatment, which will be dependent on how #circular and #sustainable the design of their product is. #circulareconomy www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Council and Parliament agree to reduce food waste and set new rules on waste textile

The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the targeted revision of the waste framework directive.

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Borderlines! My book is now available in Portuguese. There isn’t a lot of content in it about Portugal or other Lusophone countries but I hope readers are interested, as Europeans and people interested in the history, folklore, psychology and contemporary reality of borders. 🇵🇹

As well as polluting our water, rivers, lakes and beaches, the water companies are damaging our economy and our health and our reputation. Enough is enough. Time to act. Regulators should regulate properly or go. Enshittifying the country is unacceptable. www.reuters.com/investigates...

The Great British Sewage Dump

Widespread sewage spills contaminate Britain’s waterways and hit the broader economy.

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Oh! Surely not? What happened to the "sunlit uplands". Exports down = jobs down = poorer economy = you were lied to. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit

Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’

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Oh.... so not Academic Armageddon then?

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · last yr.

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy www.theguardian.com/education/20...

At the Proud Gallery, London Exhibition and book fair with photographers from the @photobookclubcollective at the Proud Gallery, John Adam Street, London, Private View Thu 6th 6-9pm and then Fri 7th March to Tue 1st April. Talks on some Saturdays, dates and speakers to be announced.

The cost of reaching net zero in the UK by 2050 is now predicted to be just 0.2% of GDP (about £4 billion per year). Spread this far and wide. It reveals Reform and the Conservatives' opposition to net zero for being 'too expensive' as just plain wrong.

Looking forward to this ....shame it's going to take so long to get it moving. Makes much more sense and is cheaper than a 3rd runway at LHR. Is anyone in government watching? www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...

New direct trains could soon link London with these European cities

London St Pancras station would almost triple its capacity to deliver new train services to Europe by 2030.

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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

Repair your stuff. Repair the world. Bring your broken stuff to our Repair Cafe on Friday. FREE to all. www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/events/view/...

A man who can barely spell science, let alone understand it.

The London Economic@thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · last yr.

He'll be saying there's no evidence the Earth is round next week.

He'll be saying there's no evidence the Earth is round next week.

It might be called a 'lifeline' but its just a failed company simply loading up on even more expensive debt. It's like a corporate junkie, hooked on debt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thames Water secures £3bn lifeline after court ruling

The UK's largest water and waste company was set to run out of money by the end of March.

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Another reason to avoid flying to or anywhere near the USA? www.theverge.com/news/614078/...

A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system

Staff shortages are about to get even worse.

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