ListeredMichael
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Still surprised at how far to the right Labour has moved, and how racism is now a core part of its output. Keir Starmer has gone but their support for genocide now seems built in……
The dystopia of data centre colonialism The Indonesian island of Batam has 1.3 million residents who rely on freshwater collected in reservoirs As severe water shortages impact daily lives & livelihoods, Batam hosts 2 operational DCs, has 8 more approved & 6 under review for approval Insanely...
The island where locals say data centres are taking their water
"Not a single drop has come through our taps for the last three months," a local tells the BBC.
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A mid week piece from me, on the FT newspages. In an act of extraordinary generosity the owner of the building which houses Rules, London’s oldest restaurant, has donated it to the @nationaltrust.org.uk www.ft.com/content/1386...
Home of London’s oldest restaurant, Rules, given to National Trust
Building in Covent Garden bequeathed to heritage charity to ensure 228-year institution remains ‘part of the city’s cultural life’
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I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC
15 outlets published 249 articles about Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout regarding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove's ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from Oxford University after being charged with possessing indecent images of children. jamradio.uk/news/2026/10...
Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges | Jam Radio
Oxford academic Dr Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges. Her recently reported separation from Michael Gove is a separate matter.
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Margaret Thatcher called bin Laden a 'freedom fighter', Mandela a 'terrorist', Pinochet a 'good friend' and trade unions 'the enemy within'. And Jimmy Savile 'Sir'.
The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC Scotland
The documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change
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My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Another successful week ID'ng anonymous accounts on social media who post threats of violence, rape or death. A couple of police enquiries launched, a few suspensions from work and a few very public family fall-outs on Facebook :-) ...
Never shy of seeking out the most bizarre, extreme and unevidenced views in the interests of 'fake Brexit balance', the BBC have found a 'Russia had no influence' group with a serious rogue's gallery of 'advisors' to quote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit referendum
He says voters were not "sufficiently" informed about how foreign actors sought to disrupt UK democracy.
bbc.co.uk
Watching @davidolusoga.bsky.social’s excellent documentary on the slave trade. Turns out the @royalsociety.org aren’t just Musk-loving shits now, they were shits back in the time of Newton and Hooke and investors in the Royal African Company.
Muffle Putin and watch the far right universe disappear as if by magic….
Israeli🇮🇱military assault a Palestinian🇵🇸 women in the village of Al-Mughayyir, E of Ramallah, to prevent them from harvesting olives. #ZionismIsNotJudaism There’s no Hamas govt. No one from the West Bank was involved w/ 10/7. This is Israel continuing decades of #ethniccleansing @theguardian.com
In 2015 David Cameron privatised the National Fostering Agency, it's now being paid £160m a year straight to a New Jersey tax haven to manage the fostering of just 2,616 children A tax free profit of £61,000 per child, and they don't even provide any care, that's the fosters job
Hannah Spencer used PMQs to ask a pretty straightforward question. Should MPs be drinking alcohol before voting on laws affecting millions of people? The reaction from parts of the Commons was extraordinary, including shouts of “get a life”.
This👇👇is gratuitous, insensitive to a family and crass posting a man as he’s attacked by a Tiger and then killed It’s exactly the salacious, voyeuristic, gratuitous violence that turned X into a sewer That a/c professes to focus on UK politics, but one of the co-owners is a Reform councillor so…
Dear Media, political commentators, establishment stooges, warriors for the status quo, political know nothings and general all round shit for brains lemmings. Your Darling poster boy Farage lost SEVEN times before becoming an MP. Your commentaries on @zackpolanski.bsky.social are embarrassing.
Never forget these two delivered Brexit. They screwed the country, they crippled the economy, they made people poorer, they gave people funds to their mates and they are still free. They should be in prison.
In case you were wondering why Donald’s biggest fans suddenly went silent . . .
👇He was made to step back from presenting on BBC for 3 days due his criticism of Tory Govt’s immigration policy on Twitter He’s paid £275,000 a year by BBC👇for cheerleading Reform, amplifying anti migrant, racist rhetoric, not challenging them/their ”policies” and sniping at Labour, Greens etc
