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Environmental advocate. Check out my podcast >>> @ministryoffilmpod
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Zack Polanski
2 days ago
A member of the government comes clean. The idea Starmer has âkept Britain out of this illegal warâ has been a lie.
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Yuliya Komska
6 days ago
The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM
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Mark McIntyre
9 days ago
I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.
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Samuel Pepys
4 days ago
By water towards Woolwich, and in our way I bethought myself that we had left our poor little dog that followed us out of doors at the waterside, and God knows whether he be not lost, which did not only strike my wife into a great passion but I must confess myself also.
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Assuming this holds, Iran won the war
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Tom Nichols
4 days ago
I am, and it is, and no, they don't
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your #3 source for absurdist true crime đš
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Tom Ferrio
7 days ago
Save this article and look back in 6 months, a year, and five years and you will be nodding at how correct it is.
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Matthew Whitfield
7 days ago
an exhibition that will be everywhere across all media and largely define Londonâs cultural and tourist offer in the autumn: salary c.25% lower than median for London, and barely scraping above national average
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John Herreid
about 2 months ago
Probably should have mentioned the context that Allan Rohan Crite was a Black Episcopalian liturgical artist and iconographer, and his work weaved together all of these threads of culture
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Katrina Navickas
12 days ago
Yesterday I was in York, and popped into Minster Gate bookshop. Scanning the British History shelves, I slowly realised that there were many books on the same themes - radicalism, Chartism, trade unionism, 19th century economy and society, clearly part of a curated collection 1/n
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Natacha
8 days ago
The ban on trans women in snooker is important; it clearly reveals that all trans sports bans are political rather than based on science or âpreserving womenâs sportsâ. Even if you - wrongly - regard trans women as âmenâ trans women snooker players still have no competitive advantage over cis women.
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Simon Cox
8 days ago
Billions changed their behaviours of a lifetime. How they walk and stand in public! For their own and the collective good. We have concrete, recent experimental proof of what human society can do.
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Richard J
8 days ago
This is a rather great bit that captures the realisation in your early 30s your life has not quite gone where you envisaged but youre starting to accept the relative mediocrity
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T. Ryan Gregory đšđŠ
11 days ago
Now imagine what being surrounded by sycophantic humans for your entire life does to your brain.
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Jerad Walker
10 days ago
Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.
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Simon HB
10 days ago
There's two things about this piece - the first, obviously, is that is obviously discriminatory and whoever came up with the idea of spying on young disabled people and taking their independence away based on "infractions" should be ashamed
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Motability drivers 'horrified' by compulsory black boxes
The boxes will monitor driving habits, such as speed and braking, and will provide a weekly rating.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c203n6qx3ego
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BeijingPalmer
11 days ago
I think 'nothing to do' is the funniest of the responses. you are on the moon! the moon, in the sky! are you worried they don't have the bingo or a pool?!!
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The Guardian
16 days ago
Polio virus detected in London days before ministers cut global eradication funding
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Polio virus detected in London days before ministers cut global eradication funding
Campaigner criticises âshortsighted and self-defeatingâ decision and says it increases risk to the UK public The polio virus was detected in London sewage for the second time this year, days before ministers withdrew funding for global polio eradication efforts. Its detection reveals the spending cuts to be âshortsighted and self-defeatingâ, campaigners said. Polio is an extremely infectious viral disease, which typically affects young children under-five. It can cause paralysis by damaging nerves in the spine and base of the brain, and can be life-threatening if it affects muscles used for breathing. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/27/polio-virus-detected-in-london-days-before-ministers-cut-global-eradication-funding?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Claude Monet
11 days ago
Millstone, setting sun - 1909
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Daniel Trilling
3 months ago
Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word. IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it. Pre-orders:
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
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Moby Dick
11 days ago
Leap! leap up, and lick the sky!
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Josiah Mortimer
12 days ago
ICYMI. Interesting idea... "The Scottish Greens manifesto will commit to scrapping first class on ScotRail services and converting the space into standard class seating" on publicly-owned ScotRail
greens.scot/news/scottis...
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Scottish Greens will scrap first class rail fares
Scottish Greens will scrap first class rail fares - The Scottish Greens manifesto will commit to scrapping first class on ScotRail services and converting the space into standard class seating, as par...
https://greens.scot/news/scottish-greens-will-scrap-first-class-rail-fares
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Ian Dunt
12 days ago
Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination.
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Zack Polanski
13 days ago
Labour saying Starmer 'keeping Britain out of the war' will be part of their local elections campaign. But it's untrue. There are 27 US B52s at RAF Fairford, launching bombing raids. Starmer has made Britain part of Trump's war. He could have just said no, like Spain's PM.
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Carbon Brief
16 days ago
NEW â âVery alarmingâ winter sees Arctic sea ice hit record-low for second year running |
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Read here:
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Itâs underrated that small but highly useful skills can take minutes to learn but entire lifetimes to acquire.
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Sam Bright
13 days ago
đŽ NEW đŽ The BBCâs commercial content arm has been producing propaganda films for Saudi Arabia â the state behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. đ Our
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BBC accused of making âpropagandaâ films for Saudi sovereign wealth fund
Critics say films lauding countryâs attitude to women and green credentials could damage corporationâs reputation
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/30/bbc-accused-making-propaganda-films-saudi-arabia-sovereign-wealth-fund
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Public Universal Friend
14 days ago
The reason Lost Cause mythology focuses on the (bogus) idea of defending local traditions and community identity is not just because it makes fighting to defend slavery look vaguely respectable, but implicitly calls into doubt the sincerity of the north fighting for universal ideals of freedom.
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Harry Finch
13 days ago
The older I get the more I become amenable to the Sun as the deity.
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We could have stopped climate change, but chose not to. We could still make it vastly less bad, but still choose not to!
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14 days ago
Ultimate- *ultimate* - Partridge final boss quote from Richard Keys in the Telegraph today.
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Robert Hutton
13 days ago
Fascinating read, with a political side-note: once again we see a regulator falling apart due to funding cuts in the 2010s, and the government not paying attention after 2016 because the focus is elsewhere.
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david c. porter (NTTN)
15 days ago
wrote 3000 words about why art doesn't work like it did in the 20th century anymore
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The Discovered Country
On why there are "no new music genres" anymore, and the situation of art today more generally.
https://gardenscenery.net/p/the-discovered-country
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
14 days ago
It strikes me that everything about oil discourse right now should make clear that oil and its attendant infrastructural form is as much (if not more) a specific form of governmental power as it is a form of energy.
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thepig993đŹđ§đșđŠđž
30 days ago
This but the good screen has the same image displayed as the bad screen
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Anna
17 days ago
Fantastic welcoming committee at St Anne's College Oxford
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Josiah Mortimer
15 days ago
"A monthâs worth of gas from 14 years of licensing by the last government shows the complete folly of pursuing this policy. Itâs barely enough gas to last from now until May Day.â
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Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have âso far produced only 36 days worth of gasâ
Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/28/north-sea-oil-gas-licences-conservatives?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Chris Dillow
27 days ago
New substack: wherein I compare prices now to those in 1939:
chrisdillow.substack.com/p/housing-co...
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Housing costs: now vs 1939
Houses used to be cheap - but still unattainable for many.
https://chrisdillow.substack.com/p/housing-costs-now-vs-1939
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Anthony Painter
16 days ago
New Substack out. It's all about how politics has modern work largely wrong. And what a contemporary politics of work might look like.
open.substack.com/pub/anthonyp...
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The workers that politics forgot
Modern politics has a picture of work that is half a century out of date. And it contributes to lack of political trust and a weaker economy and society.
https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter/p/the-workers-that-politics-forgot?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1qo0cv
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Dave
20 days ago
What does it tell you that the ONLY point of reference anyone can come up with for a UK Prime Minister publicly standing up to a US President is a minor subplot from a twenty year old romcom?
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Jordan
17 days ago
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
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Paul McAuley
17 days ago
Detailed but spoilerless review of Loss Protocol up on the Locus magazine website. TLDR: 'surely some of the best speculative nature writing â which is to say nature writing about an ecosystem that does not exist â yet published.'
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Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley: Review by Niall Harrison
Loss Protocol, Paul McAuley (Gollancz 978-1-39963-556-1, ÂŁ22.00, 384pp, hc) February 2026. If Wehmâs novel is about how to live when the sysÂtem changes, and Kirkbrideâs is about maintaining beliefâŠ
https://locusmag.com/review/loss-protocol-by-paul-mcauley-review-by-niall-harrison/
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Jonathan Calder
17 days ago
The man who, as prime minister between 1997 and 2002, had introduced the 35-hour working week, universal health cover and the civil partnership for couples, disappeared into political exile.
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Lionel Jospin obituary
Socialist prime minister of France whose defeat by the far right in the 2002 presidential elections caused a seismic shock
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/23/lionel-jospin-obituary
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Arthur Snell
17 days ago
Extraordinarily powerful report. A reminder that our âalliesâ the UAE have been the central element in support of a genocidal war in Sudan.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Heroism, horror and the âpits of hellâ: inside the last days of El Fasher
Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/25/heroism-horror-and-the-pits-of-hell-inside-the-last-days-of-el-fasher?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Marc Morris
21 days ago
Did King Harold Really Sail to the Battle of Hastings? I'm not convinced...
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Did King Harold Really Sail to the Battle of Hastings?
Headline news in all the papers this weekend: historians have got 1066 all wrong! Previously they had thought that King Harold, who was famo...
http://www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/did-king-harold-really-sail-to-battle.html
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Ina Hallström
19 days ago
Love the fact that Finland has income-based speeding tickets. The richest man in Ă land was just fined âŹ120,000 for going 58 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
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FĂ„r böta miljonbelopp för fortkörning â igen
Anders Wiklöf tvingas böta miljonbelopp igen. Ă landsmiljardĂ€ren har Ă€nnu en gĂ„ng stoppats för fortkörning â och den hĂ€r gĂ„ngen blev notan nĂ€stan 1,3 miljoner kronor, enligt Nya Ă land. â De sade att ja...
https://www.expressen.se/noje/anders-wiklof-far-bota-miljonbelopp-for-fortkorning-igen/
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Saul Staniforth
20 days ago
The UK govt didn't condemn the US's illegal & unprovoked attack, they haven't called on the US to stop, they're helping the US & they won't criticise the US targeting civilian infrastructure. Govt minister this morning: "its the Iranians that have escalated the conflict"
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Rob Palk
21 days ago
Convincing stuff
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Gavin Kelly
23 days ago
If you were born after the 1970s you really haven't spent much/any of your career working in an economy that delivers on the promise of democratic capitalism.
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