Sarah Collins 🇨🇦🇬🇧
@secollins.bsky.social
Canadian immigrant in the UK. Lover of food, science, music and geekery. I write about science and tech at @cam.ac.uk. She/her
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 2d agoSurprising this story isn't getting more coverage...
I remember the day the fishery was shut down very well, and I honestly didn't think this day would ever come. We can fix things!
UBC Oceans@ubcoceans.bsky.social · 2d agoFor the first time in over 30 years, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Northern cod stock has been deemed “healthy” by Ottawa. www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/09/05/i...
This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...
Sovereignty for sale
Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state
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Amy Borrett@amyborrett.ft.com · 3d agoBritain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
Dolly Parton is proof that you can be a superstar with grace, kindness and generosity, and people will love you for it. Truly she was the best of us.
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Petition to change the name of Lake Superior to Lake Gordon Lightfoot.
My column this week is the product of my frustration at a series of myths that I think have grown up at Westminster that provide comfort to the various parties (not all of which I had space to grumble about) to avoid confronting the real choices we actually have:
Austerity denial and the mystery of Britain’s shrunken state
There is a ready supply of explanations on offer at Westminster
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Dream ending: Canada joins the EU, and I have an EU passport again.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoMark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"
Girl, you know it's true: the Spectator desperately looking for new angles on the Arday story.
A shiny penny for anyone who can guess the answer arrived at
Lovely time eclipse watching with the in-laws and the good people of Downham Market.
Disposable BBQs are truly one of the dumbest things about the UK. I continue to be baffled by their existence.
Jacob Gifford Head@giffordhead.co.uk · 4w agoThe British government has never found a problem which it doesn't feel could be solved by just a few more bans...
"Paper of record", indeed.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
BBC found some cash down the back of the sofa to fly the guys to the States!
My husband is commenting on the game while I call out celebrities I spot. #FraEsp
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
"And that's why I've today decided to dress as the greatest warrior of them all: Liberace"
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 2mo agocan't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."
If Canada makes it farther than England, then that is objectively hilarious. Happy Canada Day!
The place we're staying at in the Dolomites not only doesn't have AC or a fan, but the kitchen vent is directly below our window, so we're having additional hot air blown into our hotbox of a room 🫠🫠🫠
The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.