ianhunt.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Say it with me kids: YOU DON’T BEAT THE FAR RIGHT BY BECOMING FAR RIGHT. You beat them by tackling - un-fucking-ashamedly - the massive inequalities that let them thrive beyond their hardline base, and moving from catastrophic austerity into something that actually makes things better for people.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

open.substack.com/pub/markurba... @markurban.bsky.social tells it like it is.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The local authority that is responsible for caring for the highest number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children across England is now led by Reform.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Latest for Byline Times, after last night's elections. Going further and faster down the wrong road is the height of political wrong-headedness. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/05/02/l...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"For every property type, the percentage of properties with a wood burner increased for every subsequent certificate" -Calum Kennedy from @ucl.ac.uk on their latest analysis of wood burning in EPCs in English and Welsh homes. My latest [email protected] www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING🚨 WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO #DefendDemocracy The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

RIVET presents Poetry Jamboree! Sunday 25th May — with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Rashed Aqrabawi, Rosie Stockton, Robert Kiely, Casper Kelly, Caitlin Hall, and James Goodwin 🌞 🧊 Click the link and buy a ticket 🍉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rivet-pres...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

My paperback publication day was marked by a loud threat in my ear at New St station this morning. Journalists, you endanger researchers when you comply with bad faith actors who weaponise our work on the British Empire. Please remember that as you sit shielded behind your PC screens

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Slow news, news that is still news, #SlowViolence

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Government launches consultation on improving heat pump grant scheme: possibilities include payment in installments, extending scheme to encompass air-to-air heat pumps & heat batteries. Plans to roll out installation training to 18,000 workers. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Painting from about 1988. I stopped shortly afterwards. Framed, so I must have thought it was finished. I was living in a shared house cheaply and doing a part-time job in the National Portrait Gallery archive. Third of a series of subject pictures except I did not know what the subject was here.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The UK is in discussion with France and Saudi Arabia over the recognition of a Palestinian state at a June conference convened by the two countries on keeping alive the political path to a two-state solution in the Middle East, the UK foreign secretary has confirmed.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Pleased to hear at meeting of board that GEF is now here. Welcome! Well worth a follow!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

On Friday, 2 May 14:00 (London time), I will hold an information session about the new MA I start convening in September 2025. Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pgt-webina...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is my regular, inconsequential post that there are aspects of Victorian design I will never understand. Detail from the front of Union Chapel, by James Cubitt. #Islington #ArchitecturalHistory

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

🪏Gardening is not a chore, it’s a delight Gardening shouldn't be backbreaking or costly – ditch the digging, work with nature, and let joy (not weeds) take root By Chris Thody @nkdgardener.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

I wrote about Stephen Rodefer’s Four Lectures for @bookforum.bsky.social, just reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. I’ve been waiting 20 years for this book

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Yearning for insightful analysis? I recommend subscribing to this: feministkilljoys.substack.com?r=5ch4li&utm...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I go on recommending Kluge's Air-Raid (translated by my late friend Martin Chalmers) -- but have barely begun on his extensive other writings, like this one, translated by @wordkunst.bsky.social‬ for publication by Seagull books

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Workshop on Air. Robert Hampson, Agnieszka Studzinska, Drew Milne. IES, Senate House, 5-7pm, 29 April tomorrow. 'From ancient lyres to modern airs, from photosynthesis to digital synthesis, there is trouble ahead, but there may be music and moonlight and dancing.' ies.sas.ac.uk/events/works...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Unusual hawthorn, pink and white flowers. Presume it's a planted variant? One style, so Crataegus monogyna. By Tufnell Park playing fields, London. late for #WildflowerHour #FloweringTrees

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Calling river-lovers: your river needs you! The Big River Watch runs until 1 May. Spend 15 mins by your local river, record what you see in the free BRW app––& help create a clearer picture of UK river health. I'm taking part. More here. @theriverstrust.bsky.social theriverstrust.org/take-action/...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Shepherd's-needle (Scandix pecten-veneris). Long Melford, Suffolk. An impressive display - perhaps 120m long and up to 10m wide - of this Critically Endangered arable plant. #wildflowerhour

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Top meadow at community wildlife site, a small haven in the Herts/London golfbelt. Good quantities of Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis this year, and also lots of Bugle, Deadnettle family: close up this is the most wonderful plant, poor man's orchid! #WildflowerHour #CabbageFamily #DeadnettleFamily

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I get all my opinions from @teenvogue.com these days

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Gérard de Nerval wrote a poem that has haunted other poets — I tried to understand its ghostly power here someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/at-the-abo...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

As many of us have pointed out, the judgement gave no kind of clarity. This new EHRC guidance is horrible to read, with numerous practical inconsistencies and injustices for all our daily lives not just trans people. It’s the rights equivalent of an Escher drawing that should be immediately removed.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments