Severin Carrell
@severincarrell.bsky.social
Scotland editor for the Guardian (currently on sabbatical). A personal account. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss) I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
UK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland
UK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland
A Guardian investigation finds irrigation canals polluted with microplastics in Turkey, a major destination for UK waste
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‘Immediately stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature - 42.5C #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature
Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day
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Exclusive: Some EU citizens in the UK have been contacted by the Home Office to say they were granted settlement status after Brexit "in error". If you know anyone this happened to contact me on lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
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Trevor Philips was born in Islington, educated at Imperial, was a member of the GLA and lived in Kentish Town before moving the NYC this year.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d agoDear me.
Whatever the good intentions Andy has for the kids he cares about many of us think this is precisely what will happen.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 5d agoNew post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Just saw The Odyssey. Casting Matt Damon as Leopold Bloom was brave, but it really worked. Tom Holland good as Stephen Dedalus too. Anne Hathaway brilliant as Molly, but wish they had not cut her soliloquy. Wasn’t familiar with which bits of Dublin they used, but that didn‘t seem to matter.
More EVs reaching the end of their life means more batteries to recycle. But waste management companies have yet to catch up to the new reality. www.wired.com/story/china-...
China’s EV Market Is Booming. There’s Just One Problem
More EVs reaching the end of their life means more batteries to recycle. But waste management companies have yet to catch up to the new reality.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but never in human history have those who burned books been the good guys.
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
Aleksander Čeferin has been elected Leader of the Avignon FIFA and taken the regnal name Clement VII.
Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
#Europe is burning! Impressive @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social CO Total column map of July 26 showing the CO plume generated by #wildfires in #France and #Spain . More than 325,000 people have been evacuated, while over 42,000 hectares have burned and #smoke plume crossed the Mediterranean.
The 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...
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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If only anyone had warned them
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2w agoReach is “moving away from volume” in its editorial output to focus on original content as results for the first half of 2026 showed traffic and revenue down Reach has set its “near-term focus” on digital subscriptions, “quality video” and AI licensing deals pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-m...
An image circulating online seems to show a Glasgow City Council poster warning of a "high risk of sexual assault" in the area. But it’s a fake. Glasgow City Council has confirmed it did not produce any such poster. fullfact.org/crime/glasgo...
Why the climate-denying right-wing politicians and press hate Ed Miliband so much 👇 Great piece by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
Reading the comments, I'm surprised how many people don't think that their favourite "inequality campaigner" being a fantasist matters. www.ft.com/content/5c48...
Gary Stevenson may have been Citi’s most profitable trader… in developed market foreign exchange
My testy exchange outside a London pub with a self-proclaimed currency trading legend
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"As far as the government is concerned, they’ve washed their hands of us. Would they do that to a white person?" For a @prospectmagazine.co.uk feature on Britain's citizenship-stripping boom, I spoke to families of people who have had citizenship revoked www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...
Britain’s citizens of nowhere
Hundreds of UK nationals have been made stateless, and left trapped in squalid refugee camps, without being convicted of any crime
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I found this story genuinely shocking to report. The legislation has expanded so much that now the grounds on which citizenship can be stripped are incredibly vague and there is hardly any recourse. Anyone who the government believes MIGHT have a claim on another nationality can be denationalised.
Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show reut.rs/3SXDz2G
Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show
The vast majority — more than 9,000 — were among people aged 65 and above.
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