NEW: Green leader Zack Polanski has criticised 'absurd' editorial decisions from the BBC – and said that the broadcaster gives Nigel Farage’s Reform much more coverage than his party www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Mick Bramham
@mickindorset.bsky.social
Lover of nature, philosophy, art (painting). Concerned for social justice/equality, planet earth. An ecological perspective on life. Existential psychotherapist Rtd Critical thinking ever more vital in a world being duped by rich dangerous deluded fools.
Trump govt offers grants of $500,000 to change UK politics. Foreign money for right wing groups. Disguised as “public education” it promotes MAGA propaganda on abortion, regulation, hate speech, climate change, diversity and more. Is UK the 51st state?
US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant for ‘public education’ courses
Documents published on US embassy’s website prompt claims of attempt to export Maga propaganda to UK
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I went to Paris to speak to Thomas Piketty - one of the world’s leading thinkers on inequality. We talk about why wealth keeps concentrating at the top, the case for public investment, and what it would take to build a fairer economy. A fascinating conversation. youtu.be/d_83pFubGvQ?...
How We Build An Economic Future For All | Thomas Piketty
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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The petition for a televised emergency briefing just passed 50,000. Thanks for your help. What if everyone who’s signed it asks one other friend or family member to do so…. 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp
Maybe vertical drinking is a crucial aspect of British life, and it's appropriate for Downing Street to intervene. In the meantime, however, Number 10's howling silence about the climate emergency - amidst drought, fire and crop failure - continues. #Priorities www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘It is British life’: No 10 vows to stop councils trying to limit standing in pubs
Westminster council has recommended banning ‘vertical drinking’ or ordering at the bar in new draft licensing policy
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"The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy". As long as the protest is not about Palestine, climate or any other issue that major lobbyists want to shut down. If you're protesting about asylum seekers, on the other hand, your concerns are legitimate, and we're making policy in response.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongLegs, any bird with long legs. While you wouldn't expect it from looking at them I think a great grey owl counts. Check out those legs! #owls #birds #greatgrey #mcoupephotography
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
Heat & drought records keep falling. Reform promote denial. The Tories want to ditch our targets. The new PM still hasn't said a word. Such a relief to hear a politician actually name it. Should be ordinary. End the #climate hushing! Thanks for your #ClimateLeadership @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 4d agoToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
New from us: Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis link.springer.com/article/10.1... Developed and completed in collaboration a diverse team including members from @headwaylondon.bsky.social
Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Journal of Neurology
Background Personality change is a debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet its prevalence, characteristics, and treatment remain poorly understood. Methods We completed a pre-reg...
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A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
Stick to spending limits, PM and chancellor tell ministers in joint memo. Cue for real cuts; continuation of potholed roads, housing crisis, NHS queues, unfit schools, privatisations? Real change not possible whilst neoliberalism remains the opium of the political class.
John Healey and Andy Burnham urge ministers to stick to spending limits in joint Budget memo
The Chancellor said the Budget on 28 October would “meet our fiscal rules” and give families "stability" to plan for the future.
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What a beautiful picture of such magnificent owls bsky.app/profile/frag...
Fraggs Photography 📸🦊🦉🦋🦔 🏴@fraggenstein.bsky.social · 6d agoToday's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfJuly set by @robcrank68.bsky.social - Time for you all to get fed up of more Owl's from me 😁 but spent most of July with this beautiful family - three of five juveniles 🪶🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #birdphotography #ECK #naturephotography #naturetherapy #owl
Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 6d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
I really need everyone to remember that the fossil fuel industry knew-knows exactly the climate hell we now inhabit, and are determined to make it FAR worse. That's because they have decided our lives are worth far less than their profits. We are not angry -or organised- enough.
Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com
Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵
Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
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The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
City gears up for a fight bank tax under Burnham. Can't recall bankers fighting bailouts, £895bn quantitative easing, hidden subsidies, branch closures, lousy return on savings, profiteering, gambling. It is one-way traffic in the self-interest train.
City gears up for a fight on bank tax under Burnham
The U.K.’s financial powerhouse is breathing a sigh of relief on key Treasury appointments — but fears a re-run of a fight about bank tax.
politico.eu
Alarm at NHS England as patient records put under control of US private equity firm TPG via a takeover. Business model is profiteering, not care for patients. Regulatory/Govt silence on expansion of private equity. Public money fuelling PE growth.
Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England
theguardian.com
Crying my god nature rules!!! 😭 🪶
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 2w agoGot up at 4am because the heat has made sleep BAD so figured I'd go down to the local celebrity barn owl family. Totally worth it. The kind of barn owl shots you rarely get in the US, tho #UKBirding seems to have no problem... 🪶
Damn this was so close to perfect, the SCENE was perfection, even if the video wasnt :)
"The history of anthropogenic fire offers a useful way of understanding the Anthropocene. It provides a continuous narrative, particularly for the transition into the burning of fossil biomass, and it proposes an analogue—the fire equivalent of an ice age—by which to imagine the future."
From Pleistocene to Pyrocene: Fire Replaces Ice
Terrestrial fire is a unique feature of Earth, and fire uses a unique marker of human activity A major inflection in human fire history occurred when people turned to burning fossil biomass rather ...
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Did you know a barrister is facing jail just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has kept trials fair since 1670. We can't let it be silenced now. Add your name to defend fair trials👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Sign to protect the right to a fair trial
Imagine being called for jury duty, but advised against using your own common sense. ❗A top barrister is now facing contempt of court proceedings, simply for reminding a jury of their rights. If judg...
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Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920. Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51). She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel. 🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM
