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Developer of business models and solutions across materials and information technologies and inveterate opponent of the slide into Fascism in the UK, the EU & the US.
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BBC Radio 4 #PM going British Barmy – or balmy if you prefer – in sending out reporters to Vox Pop on the heat. As some like it hot and more like it riven with innuendo, this is end of the programme, end of the pier, BBC British quirkiness at its best – or worst if you prefer – so sorry, so sorry…

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The passing of the Assisted Dying bill by the Commons is now part of our momentous history, but I am struck by how hard progress of history still proves. Pride tinged with sadness, and in part that’s those now lost in its shadows: Jo Cox and Desmond Wilcox who made caring documentary our great art.

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Wrong choice Guardian. Cookies are abuse of my personal data and you're under an obligation to allow me to decline. So I won't now be reviewing your article as a referenced source for this tweet and I won't accept your menace to share my data with data brokers. Find another way.

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On the passing of a Mac Hero: "I say this with no hyperbole: Bill Atkinson may well have been the best computer programmer who ever lived. Without question, he’s on the short list. What a man, what a mind, what gifts to the world he left us." Jon Gruber. Daring Fireball daringfireball.net

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A very useful thread giving chapter and verse to my long held contention that disappointment with the Tories for fourteen years of economic bungling and performative, dogmatic cruelty will be as nothing to our disappointment with Labour to whom we’ve inevitably looked to correct the ills done to us.

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Condemnation of Israel in Gaza, "We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response.” www.gov.uk/government/n...

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A suitable rebuff from the Albanian PM, Edi Rama, as Starmer tacks even further to the right with Rwanda 2.0. Whatever next? Has Starmer decided that 'batshit fascist' is the look of the moment and he's going to out do Trump or die in the attempt? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I’ve just tortured myself by listening to Evan Davies and Sarah Montague discussing the impact of Brexit on R4 #WATO. So arse about face. The arguments that there are any benefits is so divorced from the awful truth of the figures they present. In traded goods: significantly worse off, permanently.

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“Well, the Constitution is clear … the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,” Miller said. “So it’s an option we’re actively looking at. Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.” Stephen Miller taking the US to the Dark Ages.

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Unbearable having to listen to Evan Davis on R4 PM introduce Stephen Moore, visiting economist at the Heritage Foundation, as though he isn’t a far right commentator and the Foundation is anything but the extremist enabler of Trump’s blueprint for US Fascism, Project 2025. Call them what they are.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Critically Important Open Letter from Liz Cheyney to the Democrats and those prepared to fight fascism in the US. georgiatoday.ge/former-us-co...

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Clive Lewis speaking trenchantly about water industry failures on BBC R4. Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

It may be popular sentiment fuelling the outrage about felling of an important ancient tree, but it raises so many critical questions about how we defend nature in both quantity and quality. See this petition: chng.it/frqSPNCzSn

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments