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Alienated by the scent of Musk. Flaneur, haunter of Art Galleries, love watching paint dry in Arthouse films, countryside conservationist, Birkbeck History of Ideas MA, progressive, radical, European.
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Good article, well worth the read. Captures perfectly how much has changed ("Wombles for Europe") and yet how the UK is back to the same arguments as in the 60s and 70s about identity and sovereignty. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

It’s always struck me as insane that clean electricity is tied to the price of polluting gas and oil…not just tied to it but charged at nearly 4 times the rate of gas per kWh. Hardly surprising that people hesitate before going to the expense and disruption of heat pump installation

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

Playing with light and shadow

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If pensioners still don’t quite qualify for the winter fuel payment at least they’ll be able to ride on a tram all day to keep warm.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Brexit sovereignty means we can’t afford to spend v much on defence… or in fact anything… Here’s the new slogan for the side of that bus… “Rejoin the EU and spend the increased GDP on what we want” (Letter, Times) (Not sure about “unaffordable luxury”… More an “unaffordable idiocy”)

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Derek Jarman still a prophetic voice for our times.

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I would beg Ministers on my knees to do everything possible to preserve these sites. Once ecosystems are gone, they're gone forever. Do we really have to destroy the irreplaceable to solve the housing crisis?

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A relief to know it’s not a used one!

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The Government giving the finger to our Surrey heathland conservation volunteering efforts with @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

‘Referring to Frantz Fanon, he suggested that the purpose of the violence went beyond its direct physical effects, as a performative display of omnipotence.’

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s light so early. I woke up at 04.30 feeling empathy for Scandinavians in the land of the midnight sun. Been shattered for weeks. Tempted to take a hay fever pill as a knockout although the rain is keeping the pollen at bay.

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Love a bit of Brutalist church architecture. Fortress churches are not without precedent, simple Saxon towers, the Romanesque W Front of Lincoln Minster and Durham Cathedral all come to mind.

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When I was a boy in Dorking the occasional beast would make a bid for freedom from the town centre abattoir which served the local butchers that had saw dust on the floor. The site is now flats, probably haunted by the spirits of long dead livestock.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Does ‘war in the Atlantic’ refer to a possible conflict with Trump’s America, coming to the aid of Canada and Greenland?

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Christ… red lines are so expensive. (Private Eye)

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

"It's time for Proportional Representation - to bring a new politics to this country" 🌹 @andyburnham.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Why do some people keep pretending that the world hasn't moved on from WW2 or from the Cold War era? Just look at a map. There is an unfathomably vast difference between the distance an army would have had to cover to threaten the UK in WW2 (red), the Warsaw Pact days (orange), vs today (green).

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

A Heath Robinson solution to a problem created by pig headed political decisions and ongoing evasion of the Brexit disaster. It makes me very angry, not that I plan to take my car through Dover again.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It’s grown in Yorkshire!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The 5 stages of grieving, UK edition

submitted 8 days ago • 73 comments

The ‘pity of war’.

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Yes but then governments love spending money on killing people.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

While I think that it is a real problem when politics are a more and more risky career choice for anyone except the independently wealthy, I struggle to ignore the irony of Steve Baker, admirer of radical market forces, finding out that he is, in fact, not that marketable outside politics.

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

So it continues. Labour’s anti-environmentalist policies giving progressives another reason not to vote for the Party.

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submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Good visual showing the churn of UK voters since last year’s General Election.

submitted 11 days ago • 127 comments

The news is so depressing it’s best to stick to the Daily Star!

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