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Government's Industrial Strategy (+ lots of additional docs) is out www.gov.uk/search/polic... couple of quick thoughts on how 'place' features. 1/n

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Background reminder: there was an Iran nuclear deal but Trump withdrew from it because Obama bad.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

She deserves praise no matter what happens. She "has provided a vision of what politics can be. The world is full of doom and chaos. The very worst people behaving in the very worst way and being rewarded for it." She "demonstrates the precise opposite: someone of decency acting in a decent way"

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

submitted 10 days ago • 99 comments

UCL are going back to all in person exams. There is no other solution to this problem currently available.

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

Yeah so Sheffield is lush.

submitted 14 days ago • 42 comments

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 15 days ago • 396 comments

The donors don't want their workforce deported. But you'll be subject to deportation if you quit your job or join a union or try to bargain for better wages or complain about sexual harassment.

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

Working at the EHRC was one of the most challenging and unpleasant jobs I have held (except for some excellent colleagues). @iandunt.bsky.social's piece really highlights the wider implications of it's capture by the state and what it means to those it is meant to defend

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

😱 85% of primary energy still comes from fossil fuels! This graph is grim. But here's a short thread about why things are not as bad as they first seem 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Smallpox declined gradually, until the WHO coordinated the global effort to eradicate it

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

"What the last few frightening days in the US have demonstrated: once populism has its feet under the table, chaos wins. There’s no ability to impose order. All you can do is deny it room in the 1st place. In Britain, at least, it’s not too late for that." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"Octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic. We will intervene with force in episodes semantic."

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Blimey it really is getting like peak brilliant twitter round here.

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Oooo

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guy next to me in the café was quite dramatically sitting with his head in his hands so I glanced at his screen to see what he was working on, and it was a doc with "IDEAS:" written at the top and absolutely nothing else my brother I hear you, I feel you, we are as one

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

This is your health on MAGA.

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find any angle whatsoever to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

submitted 26 days ago • 30 comments

Lots of talk about how social democracy is in decline, but the collapse of mainstream centre-right parties is just as big a story, and plausibly the main source of the rise of the far right.

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back

submitted 33 days ago • 399 comments

On top of the list of sins @georgemonbiot.bsky.social lists here, someone I trust tells me Labour also seem to have no clue about the basics of workforce planning (or don't care and so aren't bothering to try). Given that's the foundation of their skills and industrial strategy among other things...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Jordan Peterson on lasagne

submitted 34 days ago • 105 comments

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

submitted 37 days ago • 65 comments

European farmers struggle through driest spring in a century: extreme weather costs the EU about €28.3bn per year. Farming is the human activity both most vulnerable to climate collapse, and (along with energy production) in need of deep reform to prevent it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

Slightly less awful then Starmer's recent migration speech. Good work Starmer.

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okay this has gone on long enough I am really going to need either the ECHR or the EHRC to change their fucking name

submitted 39 days ago • 30 comments

Good summary. Coming to a Reform-led UK soon maybe, if Labour don't sort their **** out.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I've said it before, and I'll repeat it: The expulsion of expertise from government and academia during Mao's Cultural Revolution devastated China for decades, particularly in science and technology. That profound harm led the country to take education as seriously as it does today. wapo.st/3YTivKW

submitted 41 days ago • 72 comments

Just out in Regional Studies + David Hearne & Alex de Ruyter: Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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REPORTER: Why are you creating an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners but not others? TRUMP: Because they're being killed. And we don't want to see people be killed ... it's a genocide that's taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.

submitted 48 days ago • 893 comments

everyone even mildly into polar exploration knows how badly vitamin A can fuck you up, and seeing the Health Secretary of the US recommend megadoses to measles patients made me so mad i wrote about it. im so angry at this malthusian ghoul buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 45 days ago • 38 comments

Excellent review of @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social's latest book: "The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters", by @theboysmithy.ft.com @financialtimes.com Only a new approach to measurement will enable the right kind of growth for the benefit of all. archive.ph/I8lbh#select...

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues. Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3

submitted 47 days ago • 46 comments

"Quality seeds." Uh huh.

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I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.

submitted 47 days ago • 113 comments

Reminder that #NetZero - the only game in town to avoid the collapse of our civilization - is not some UK only policy. Net Zero national laws are in place in the following countries, and if you include national pledges, cover 76% of emissions and 78% of global GDP. zerotracker.net

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.

submitted 47 days ago • 88 comments

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

submitted 48 days ago • 176 comments