St Andrew's Hall, Norwich. The nave of the early 15th Century Dominican Priory church which was bought by the City Corporation at the Dissolution. The chancel was converted to a protestant chapel, but the nave became a public hall and meeting place, which it remains today as a concert venue.

NEW: Cyberattacks on U.S. water supply now being reported in 12+ states and 100+ municipalities, though some may be unrelated to wave of suspected Iranian attempts. The nationwide threat follows years of ignored warnings and neglect to water systems. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...

Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect (Gift Article)

Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.

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🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw

No amateur sports program is worth sexually abusing children to prove their gender

Why has Patrick Vallance, former Counsellor at the Tony Blair Institute, been appointed to head the UK's new AI Taskforce? Inside the UK's quiet AI government overhaul 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/at-the-cen...

'Ben Johnson, co-director of...Science Works and a former government science adviser, told Research Professional News the government must understand how and where the sector is contracting or risk losing pockets of research capability.' That horse is already exiting the stable. 1/3

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 14h ago

Government ‘doesn’t know where research capability lies’. Contractions in the university sector need to be understood, former government science adviser says. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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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#OtD 5 Aug 1993 the Japanese govt admitted it forced women to work in military brothels from 1932-1945. 200k women and girls, mostly from Korea and China, but also Japan, the Philippines and Dutch Indonesia were abducted/tricked into these brothels stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1049...

I need some help with this Arabic (?) word in this RAF navigator's 1941 diary. He writes that he was told it was a universal Arabic greeting for "Good morning" or "Good day" but I'm struggling to find something similar online. Thank you so much if anyone can help

New York Exhibition: Listen to a Pool of Porcelain Bowls Sing in Manhattan

History at university level is under threat 👇

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 12h 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/

Today over 3500 GPs will have qualified to join the workforce There is a huge problem, there aren’t enough jobs, the DHSC & NHSE are failing to fix GP employment They have cut GP practice funding by 20% in 10yrs @andyburnham.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social your issue to fix now

Throughout the forest floor, fine threads called mycelium spread through the soil... forming relationships with plant roots, recycling nutrients, and helping to sustain the life above them. It’s a reminder that some of nature’s most important work happens completely out of sight.

A civilian medevac plane crashed into a New Mexico mountain after losing GPS during a U.S. military jamming exercise, killing all four onboard. WIRED reveals that during May's NAVFEST exercise at White Sands, the Air Force tested GPS disruption. The FAA warned signals could fail up to 400 miles away

1/2 Palantir paying a 1.4% global tax rate while taking millions in European public contracts shows state procurement is broken. Siphoning taxpayer funds while dodging local tax is untenable. Should tax avoidance ban tech firms from public tenders? 💻

Palantir’s EU tax tricks exposed as unions demand tougher rules on public contracts

Throught data, defence and AI, Palantir is worth €278bn. They owe the EU €12m in taxes, but member states keep indulge the multi-national's monopoly of public procurement contracts. That seems to be c...

euobserver.com

If you look at the world today 90%+ of the conflicts and war are fossil fuelled. The pollution of UK & European politics by the extreme right has been made possible by Russian & US oil money. This tosh from the Telegraph is part of that project. Shoring up the profit line while the 🌍 literally burns

Marc Owen Jones@marcowenjones.bsky.social · 13h ago

Here is a clear example of how corporate capitalist forces (and their media) try to undermine science & create their own counterfactuals (and enemies) - in this case using useful idiots. A clear example of false consciousness - where publics must be deceived to protect corporate capital accumulation

Polymarket has millions of dollars in wildfire-related bets & more than $1M in beds were placed on the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires! DESPICABLE! THE PREDICTION MARKET PROMOTES THE OBSTRUCTION FIREFIGHTERS OR FOLKS TO GO OUT AND COMMIT ARSON! It's absolutely nuts!

Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterday

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

Wherever neoliberalism is involved the system collapses Local-authority auditing was privatised by the Tories in 2014, and more than a decade later, the system of local authority audit has almost entirely collapsed as a consequence. nearly 1,000 audit opinions outstanding by 2023

This is quite horrific. A rare case in which the headline very much underplays the content of the article itself, as 'potentially harmful activity' is not what is described here. Would be good to know what the next steps are, beyond 'a broader conversation'. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber tests, UK watchdog says

AI Security Institute warns tools undertook ‘potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations’

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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?!

Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026. Result of profiteering and govt policies. Sufficient to increase frozen personal income tax allowance by nearly £2,000. Banks paid out £25bn in bonuses in the year to March, can easily pay more tax.

Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026

Burnham urged to resist lobbyists and tax banks to pay for his cost of living measures

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Private equity firms made up 50% of the largest US corporate bankruptcies with $1bn+ in liabilities Jobs, communities destroyed for short term profit PE has devoured UK high street; controls vets, supermarkets, care homes, pubs, housing, restaurants. Shadow banking wreaks havoc, govts do nothing.

Private equity continues disproportionate role in 2026 bankruptcies

Since 2024, PESP has tracked and analyzed corporate bankruptcies, identifying the disproportionate role that private equity-owned firms have played in bankruptcy filings. This trend continued in the…

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Donald Trump may have accidentally proved modern monetary theory right. The US can create the dollars to fund his war. What it can't create at will are missiles, factories, skilled workers and raw materials. Richard Murphy explains why that matters for far more than war. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Traditional economics is wrong: Donald Trump has proved it

Conventional economics says that governments can only do what they can pay for. Trump’s war proves its not true

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” @patrickgaley.bsky.social @fossiltreaty.bsky.social

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

theguardian.com

‘One highways manager told the High Court she had been placed on medication after becoming “fearful of being followed home, tracked and exposed on social media”. Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings to hide their identity, and do not travel alone’

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.

Some light relief just out watering and found some huge brown caterpillars on my fuschias. It's the elephant hawk moth caterpillar which is so beautiful l will forgive it munching my display. Image from UK moths Elephant Hawk-moth | Deilephila elpenor | UKmoths share.google/IdjRhe2no5wH...

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya refused to abandon his patients and was kidnapped by Israel and has been held for over 550 days without charge. His son and his lawyer, who have had minimal contact with him, state he has a brain injury and his health is rapidly deteriorating. Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

Remember he is also allowing roadbuilding in once protected 722,000 acres of Blue Mountains forests where it has largely been banned for two decades. Billions of Trees in Oregon and billions more ancient Trees in Alaska At a time when Trees are needed more than ever www.opb.org/article/2026...

Trump administration to propose tripling logging in Blue Mountains forests

The proposal could bring drastic changes to 5 million acres of forests and grasslands in northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · yesterday

Nature hater Trump is putting 2,840 acres of Ohio’s only national forest out to bid for fracking He will lay waste to one of Americas most precious forest Where is the uproar -where is the protest ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/30/f...

6000 year old baobab Tree in Tanzania. Africa