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An employment tribunal dismisses Bristol University's attempt to overturn an earlier decision in favour of Professor David Miller By @skwawkbox.org
BREAKING: Tribunal confirms legally-protected status of anti-Zionism
An employment tribunal dismisses Bristol University's attempt to overturn an earlier decision in favour of Professor David Miller
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Our latest media alert is out now: ‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham's 'Pragmatism' medialens.substack.com/p/lets-just-...
‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham's 'Pragmatism'
‘Britain can’t stop climate change.
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This may be the most foolish comment from a national newspaper editor (Sunday Telegraph) we've ever seen.
This statement can be verified every day by listening to and watching BBC news and current affairs programmmes. #wato
Media Lens@medialens.org · last wk.Morning Star interview: Corporate journalism cannot tell the truth about corporate power Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corp...
Exactly right from the Irish Times: 'The political system should be on red alert and doing everything possible to defend us against this existential threat. Instead, governments are retreating from commitments entered into only 10 years ago...' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Eamon Ryan: Were this summer’s heatwaves caused by El Nino or something much more terrifying?
The scientist who first warned about climate change now says he was too optimistic - and this summer suggests he may be right
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf: ‘Well, I won’t give up hope that one day people will really wake up to the fact that this is only going to get worse until we have reached net zero emissions. And then it’s not going to get better. We can just prevent it from getting worse.’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nGU...
Wildfires in France - BBC World News
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
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Morning Star interview: Corporate journalism cannot tell the truth about corporate power Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corp...
Corporate journalism cannot tell the truth about corporate power
ESTABLISHED by David Cromwell and David Edwards in 2001, Media Lens monitors and challenges Britain’s mainstream media, drawing attention to what they describe as “the systemic failure of the corporat...
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Nearly a quarter of a million people in France and Spain evacuated from wildfires, an unprecedented event after weeks of unprecedented temperatures. Climate change has fully arrived in Europe. www.bbc.com/news/article...
More than 220,000 evacuated in France and Spain due to wildfires
French firefighters battle a blaze heading towards Bordeaux while officials in Madrid say they face the "worst fire in the history of the region".
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Keir Starmer authorised hundreds of spy flights for Israeli intelligence during its genocide. That is his legacy. Watch our film revealing those spy flights that the national media refused to cover, and helped Starmer get away with it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...
Britain's Gaza Spy Flights Scandal - A Declassified documentary
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Bowen: I know the new govt is discussing making a statement on the 2024 ICJ opinion Statement? Pathetic The ICJ ruled that Israel must cease the occupation, dismantle the settlements & withdraw their troops, & states like the UK are obliged to take actions to make it happen.
Wes Streeting has been made Defence Secretary. In his released correspondence with Peter Mandelson, he said: “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes.” Journalists should ask him: 1) Does he stand by that? 2) What legal obligations does the UK therefore have?
We're going to be hearing a lot about CADI, the Climate-Induced Agricultural Decline Index, over the next few years. www.euronews.com/2026/07/16/i...
The map predicting agricultural decline from climate change
A CSIC team in Barcelona has developed CADI, a platform that forecasts, on a 10‑kilometre grid, how much farmland will lose productivity to climate change by 2100; Spain’s interior fares worse than…
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Why does Britain have a large military? It “gives us the lead on defence in Europe, ensures US respect and guarantees our high standing in the world more widely”, Blair adviser John Sawers wrote in June 2001. Sawers would go on to become chief of MI6. www.declassifieduk.org/huge-cost-of...
‘Huge’ cost of aircraft carriers meant ‘less scope’ for funding health and education
“Vulnerable” aircraft carriers are about Britain “counting for something in the world” and being an “effective ally” of the US, declassified files show
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The latest issue of Watkins Books' magazine, 'Mind, Body, Spirit' features an article by David Edwards on 'A Short Book About Ego... And the Remedy of Meditation'. www.watkinsmagazine.com/product/86-s...
86, Summer 2026 – Watkins Mind Body Spirit - Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine
————————————————————————————————————— Watkins magazine truly is a quarterly masterpiece of spiritual art. Thank you for the latest blissful edition. As always it is an Akashic library in itself of pro...
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Media alert: '25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran' medialens.substack.com/p/25-years-o...
25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran
This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens.
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Exactly 25 years ago today, we sent our first media alert: 'US and UK Politicians Overlooked in Crimes Against Humanity' www.medialens.org/2001/us-and-... Thanks to everyone who has read us, sent us ideas and donated to the cause.
As Amnesty calls for investigations into Israeli massacres of civilians in Lebanon, a reminder that defence secretary Dan Jarvis maintains a military accord with Israel. Jarvis was listed as "friend of Israel" before Labour Friends of Israel removed its webpage of members.
One reason why is that the 'mainstream' media have so often acted as propagandists for the Israel lobby; and that includes the Guardian and the BBC. Must-read books: 'The Fraud' by Paul Holden and 'Complicit' by Peter Oborne. Our latest media alert: medialens.substack.com/p/whitewash-...
Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy
On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first.
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Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · last mo.Why are we standing by and watching this happen? “Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an independent UN inquiry has found…. about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
'The record-shattering warmth in Europe in recent days is the most severe heatwave ever recorded in the region and is unequivocally the result of climate change driven by the burning of fossil fuels.' www.rte.ie/news/europe/...
European heatwave is most severe ever recorded - study
Europe is experiencing the most severe heatwave ever recorded and is unequivocally the result of climate change, according to a study.
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“The Guardian’s ‘big hitter’ and resident Zionist Jonathan Freedland devoted around 2,000 words to the question, ‘the rise and fall of Starmer: where did it all go wrong?’. Notable features of his piece: Mentions of genocide? Zero. Mentions of Gaza? Zero. Mentions of Israel’s crimes? Zero.”
Media Lens@medialens.org · last mo.Our new media alert: 'Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy' When Starmer resigned on Monday, his complicity in the Gaza genocide was virtually whitewashed out of existence; notably by the BBC and the Guardian. medialens.substack.com/p/whitewash-...
Our new media alert: 'Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy' When Starmer resigned on Monday, his complicity in the Gaza genocide was virtually whitewashed out of existence; notably by the BBC and the Guardian. medialens.substack.com/p/whitewash-...
Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy
On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first.
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As much of Europe writhes under a titanic fossil fuel heatwave... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
Gatwick Airport expansion approval was lawful, court rules
Campaigners fought the plans which were approved by Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander in September 2025.
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Compared to the widespread red heat warning in July 22, the humidity this time will be higher, increasing risk to health. Looks very likely we will break an all time monthly UK maximum for the second month in a row. Please stay safe and follow advice, and a special plea to take care in cold water.
Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · last mo.An exceptional spell of hot and humid weather is expected across this region, with impacts to the general population highly likely
Trump talks of Iran becoming a 'normal country'. But will the press allow it? Apart from North Korea, no country is so consistently depicted as a brainwashed death cult. Below, the Guardian (left) and BBC yesterday.
'The ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the excess heat that human activity has trapped on Earth, quietly buffering those of us on land from the full force of warming...The heat we have poured into the ocean is beginning to surface as harm.' archive.ph/fabg7
Thanks to Giles P. Croft for the mention in this discussion: 'Do you feel unloved?' www.gilespcroft.com/do-you-feel-...
Do you feel unloved?
Why we may feel lonely and unloved, and what to do about it 🌷
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