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James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.

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The author of this article, trying to make out that we “misunderstood” the disgraceful lying words that came out of Trump’s mouth and “misinterpreted” his actions in excluding Ukraine from peace negotiation with his typical bullying stance, is Sam Bessant the US Treasury secretary

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I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

submitted 21 hours ago • 145 comments

Why is this not on every UK news channel this morning?

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

And this in Foreign Policy, on how Trump sold myth that US is in economic and geopolitical decline -- which isn't true.

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4,000 litres of diesel spilled into the River Wandle this week . Criminal . Please help South East Rivers Trust fund recovery efforts and guard against this type of pollution in the future . Please donate if you can www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-r... Video: Mirrhyn Stephen

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This headline is right. “Europeans are right to be angry with Trump, but they should also be furious with themselves The betrayal of Ukraine is a final warning to the UK and its continental allies to put a lot more energy and money into rebuilding their defences www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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My thoughts on the #Neanderthal - #Denisovan hybrid... (2018)

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Fewer than 10 per cent of physician associates are regulated www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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We’ve just heard the NHS is to hire physician associates from abroad despite training quality fears @anaesunited.bsky.social has stepped up to protect patient safety. But they can’t do it alone. They need our support to succeed youtu.be/yrwmT255MVY?...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., measles and an alarming disregard for science, evidence, public health, welfare and common sense edzardernst.com/2025/02/robe... via @edzardernst

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"Now or never" - @thecontinent.org. Thread: While Europe was getting scolded at its own Munich Security Conference, African leaders were in Ethiopia for the annual African Union summit. As @simonallison.bsky.social explained, it was a critical summit, with Africa facing a new Trump led world order.

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Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

“Of course we’re fine with GENUINE refugees” #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Tom Lehrer has lived to be proven right. Dammit.

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💙 Please can you do one small thing for me this Sunday. Please spare a minute to sign this ⬇️ petition. And then please try to find at least one more person to sign it - maybe a partner or friend? Together, we can get it to at least 10K signatures! ✍🏻 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Newcastle United's owner continues to have women jailed and disappeared for daring to call for basic human and civil rights. Meanwhile, English football pretends he's just a club owner like any other. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Thank you Peter your support is most welcome and appreciated @thebda.bsky.social

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Ukraine needs to see our solidarity more than ever now 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

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I had insomnia the night Russia invaded Ukraine and watched it unfold in real time. And tonight watching, here in London, that's what it feels like again. A dark, implacable malevolent takeover. That's accompanied by almost total silence amid so much noise. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Here's a thing! My new book is out with @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Sort of. Officially, Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders, will be released on 18 March. But if you have institutional access, it's already available on the Taylor & Francis website.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Just now, during the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill committee stage, MPs (led by the Government) voted down an amendment that would have prevented the bill from allowing new 100% faith-selective schools. Some of the MPs leading this charge have direct financial ties to faith school lobbies..

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“This is not just about Heathrow, banking regulations or benefit fraud crackdowns. It is about whether my party can offer a vision of growth that actually works for the people who need it most – or whether it will leave that space open for its populist opponents to fill.”

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

1/ I don’t want 1970s style top-down, centralised nationalisation of our water. I want public ownership. There are so many ways to do public ownership—and my Water Bill wants to consider all of them.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here! Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺 #ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

I'm hearing a lot from the media NGO sector about the impact of USAID cuts. A lot of small investigative media organisations across the globe are facing imminent closure as the funding they've budget for has vanished overnight, and the funder community has no capacity to absorb the shock.

submitted 18 days ago • 32 comments

The reason Musk is carrying this all out with a gaggle of sycophant students on average not old enough to buy a beer is because out of all the John Eastman types and Project 2025 guys and Chris Rufos and Fox News hosts, this was too much of an anti-constitutional obvious crime spree for them.

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

Our all-in-one feeding, bedding, nutrient cycling, health sustaining and muck handling system for great food production

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified… …once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’. Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

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People eep getting upset with Starmer's approach to Trump and the EU. I also find it infuriating, given that it's like watching someone equivocate between Darth Vadar and Princess Leia. But it must be perfectly obvious by now what his strategy is.

submitted 20 days ago • 73 comments

A reminder that the BBC can still do accurate, informative analysis when it wants to. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 438 comments

High housing rents are pulling people into poverty 📢 Our UK Poverty report found that private renters have a much higher than average poverty rate. The government can make a difference. Find out how in this video 1/2

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Who has this sort of money? What proportion of the over 65s? Tiny, surely? At KYN Hurlingham in Fulham there is space for 32 at one time. Rooms cost between £3,000 and £6,250 PER WEEK to rent — £182,000 and £325,000 PER YEAR www.ft.com/content/c3fe...

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

"And due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire US-Canada trade war was accidentally swallowed by a small Fentanyl Czar."

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

Almost 2 million people in the UK didn’t have the right ID to vote in 2024. "Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

Nearly there on our push for 1,984 new monthly supporters to help us resist the tech barons and the far right. Still need 368 more people. Want to sign up? See link in bio

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments