We need more journalists like Jeremy Bowen. Deep hard earned knowledge and contacts and a profound understanding of his subject. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Legislation without enforcement = lots of pointless bureaucrats and wasted government time. Sadly it's the norm in so many areas. Thankfully we have people like @nicolacutcher.bsky.social and @friendsriverwye.bsky.social working hard to hold them all to account.

Friends of the River Wye@friendsriverwye.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Environment Agency inaction is a huge scandal. On the Wye and many other rivers agricultural pollution is the most significant factor in worsening water quality. When will the EA enforce the law and protect our rivers? @riveractionuk.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @savethewye.bsky.social

Brilliant article by Cory Doctorow in the amazing @thenerve.news (which everyone should subscribe to). www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto... Trump has sown terror, death, hardship & suffering around the world but inadvertently he has created many opportunities for the world to become a better place.

Cory Doctorow: Comrade Trump is the unwitting hero of a green revolution

In the first of a new monthly column for the Nerve, the author and cyber-activist argues that by dumping cheap solar panels on Asia and starting a catastrophic war in the Gulf, the president has start...

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Let battle commence. This government will allow the merging and monitoring of all our state held data to create a surveillance system Big Brother could only dream of.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

All hope is lost ..... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My son is about to take his 40th flight - we are extreme day trippers

Rhona Paton started a group sharing tips for extreme day travellers which now has over 30,000 members.

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There are those who confuse holding forth on social media with actual action. And then there are those who actually make a difference.

Olivia 💙 4thTransformer@olivia4t.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⭕ #TODAY Hundreds march through the streets of downtown #Chicago chanting, “U.S. out of the #MiddleEast!”

Had an internet connected home heating controller for a while. Ripped it out when the heating stopped every time the server or internet connection was down. It's all a bunch of data grabbing snakeoil.

Five years ago, the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project was born, and with it began a radical rewilding of our Sussex seabed 🪸🐚🐟 Read our blog on how this pioneering project came to be ⬇️ https://f.mtr.cool/wccrnckhis 📷Starfish on kelp © Paul Naylor

"This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal."

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Green Menaces - let’s go. 💚 Huge huge thanks to everyone who’s backed this campaign and shown it so much love. Now we leave nothing on the pitch. Let’s get this over the line. Vote Green. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.

I'm not against private involvement in public services, but we must choose our partners carefully. Choosing Palantir is catastrophic. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services!

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir

Zack Polanski is telling defence surveillance corporation Palantir to 'pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS'.

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@gurdeep.ca ... what would we do without him. He is magic.

Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon@gurdeep.ca · 7mo ago

Positivity Is Not Magic—Yet It Is Utterly Magical: I'm not advocating for superficial positivity that ignores difficult emotions. I'm championing emotional equilibrium where we honor both light and shadow, where sadness coexists with joy. Read more: gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/positivity...

This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal. Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

"there's a new serif in town"

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

BBC Verify has 62 staff and a payroll of £3.3 million, and this is what we get for it. Scrap the department and send the money to proper open source investigators like @bellingcat.com

Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with: The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...

We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...

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Reminder:

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

How should the government address the distortions of our political system? MPs in the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Elections have set out one approach, a National Commission on Electoral Reform

MPs suggest National Commission on Electoral Reform

In our increasingly fragmented and volatile political environment, the case for electoral reform becomes clearer every day. And as the political landscape changes, so too will the route

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📣 Scottish Govt has announced new rules for protecting its offshore marine protected areas. They are a big step forward, but don't go far enough. Our campaigns director Alyx Elliott has the story 👇 Stay with us in this fight. We will keep pushing until ALL MPAs are truly protected 🌊

Watch as an activist is arrested in Glasgow for displaying a sign reading 'genocide in Palestine, time to take action' 'We're not terrorists', he said as he was taken away by police

Wow! 😳 A first-past-the-post (#FPTP) moment. 🪑 21.7% wins the seat! 😅Just 0.6% of votes between 1st & 2nd place 5️⃣ 5 parties in double figures 🗳 Only 12.7% points between the 1st & the 6th placed party. ⏳Time to GET PR DONE! #getPRdone #ProportionalRepresentation

Britain Elects@britainelects.com · last yr.

✅ Conservative HOLD Prestatyn Central (Denbighshire) council by-election result: CON: 21.7% (-1.8) IND: 21.1% (+17.2) REF: 18.4% (+18.4) PC: 14.4% (+14.4) GRN: 13.6% (-35.4) LAB: 9.0% (-14.5) Defence was second placed winner of two-member ward. +/- 2022 andrewteale.me.uk/previews

The government says it wants to "rebuild trust in our democracy". This needs to start with giving everyone an equal vote. Thank you to @tomgordonld.bsky.social, Sarah Olney, Chris Law, @alexsobel.co.uk @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social and @shockatadam.bsky.social for raising this in Parliament.

Round-headed Rampion and the wonderfully named Bastard Toadflax, growing on Offham Down near Lewes, Sussex. This SSSI was partially ploughed up by a farmer in the 1990s, only to be ‘unploughed’ by local activists, leading to a strengthening of SSSI protections.

But if we had PR, and the percentages were the same* this is how many MPs each party would win: REF 26% 169 MPs LAB 23% 149.5 MPs CON 18% 117 MPs LD 15% 97.5 MPs GRN 11% 71.5 MPs SNP 3% 19.5 MPs PC 1% 6.5 MPs OTHER 2% 13 MPs *if we had PR, people would likely vote for policies, and less tactically

Mark Pack@markpackuk.bsky.social · last yr.

First YouGov MRP of this Parliament: yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

Reeves using the spending review to reannounce exactly what the government had already promised on migration: - Stop using hotels: Good. - Spend more on enforcement: Bad, useless, performative, Trumpian, stupid, harmful, a money pit that will never be filled or satisfied, dumb.

📢 MANCHESTER: Join the Rally for Real Democracy 📢 🕑Saturday 5th July, 1pm 🏦St Peter's Square Let's make some noise for a fair voting system. #PRnow Find us across from the statue of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. RSVP & SPREAD THE WORD actionnetwork.org/events/manch...