Edwyn Collins and Orange Juice were part of the soundtrack to my youth - cool yet passionate, hip but gauche. Edwyn is retiring and played his last gig in Edinburgh last night. This review from Newcastle captures the essence of it: regret and celebration. northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/musi...

Brian Harris took wonderful pictures for the Independent and others. I am sad to hear he is gone, and so happy I knew him and the other photographers of the Independent for a while. This is from Prague in 1989. I wasn’t there; Brian made me wish I had been and feel that maybe I was. lnkd.in/eqgeDpay

I can hear the Pet Shop Boys playing West End Girls anywhere, any time, and I am once again an excited but fearful young man graduating from college and seeing what might lie ahead of me in London in 1985.

“We should be talking about why the UN matters, and where it’s succeeding.” @ianbremmer.com with @barakravid.bsky.social at the @axios.com Live stage.

Art helps us understand the world differently

Some nations consume significantly more global resources than others. At the extremes, a person in Luxembourg 🇱🇺 consumes on average 56x more material each year than a person in Afghanistan 🇦🇫. Read more from #SystemsChangeLab: go.wri.org/circular-economy-bs

This is what we think will matter most at #ClimateWeekNYC. Electricity demand is surging to power AI and transport and to combat extreme heat. Next week in New York leaders must act: triple renewables, modernize grids, protect people. #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition

“Narrative is the essential human infrastructure,” says @kkwilkinson.bsky.social at the Narrative Change Summit. Time to start building. #ClimateWeek2025 NYC

@amarshall-cognito.bsky.social hello!

Some kind visitors from the UK brought treats.

@johnspringford.bsky.social Thank you!