Extra edition: The populist assault on the BBC open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

The editor kindly sent me her proof for my Dad's 98th birthday today. Every week for the last couple of years he has asked when the book is coming out.

Wonderfully wet and wild. Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash. Rewilding is how we make that happen.

Nice! www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Nice misfitsarchitecture.com/2025/11/02/s...

How do we put a stop to this? It just feels so wrong. Bless all of those affected. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Sonme heavy, light relief from the Nerve www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

Gold, Greed and Cowardice www.americaamerica.news/p/gold-greed...

This conversation. Thank you, #BBCWest / #BBCBristol - it's good to see you can still do it.

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

"The shadow justice secretary has railed against the lack of integration in parts of Britain. But it’s the ‘flag-bothering patriots’ who don’t want to mix", writes @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social. Read their full piece now: https://bit.ly/4mWSYtp

Philosophy doesn’t get any more profound or poignant than this sign in The Sunflower pub Belfast.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Ashamed to say I have only just closed my Amazon Prime account.

The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

I can't get over how weird this photo is. I love that someone in England captioned it: "Darling, be a dear and DO click on the floor lamp."

Really looking forward to this.

Data isn’t vibes. If you need vibes, check out the hate filled comments the rightwing will leave on this post and all my posts.

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Jasmine AOC 2028

Made me smile www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Ashamed to say I had not noticed the term Blood Carbon before. www.survivalinternational.org/campaigns/Bl...

Hardly a hearty endorsement of the decision to ban Palestine Action from Sir Peter Fahy, an ex chief constable and former national policing lead for extremism

Light relief on serious topics by Marina Hyde, Vacay Vance!

Yesterday was the Cotton Owners & Enthusiasts Rally in Gloucester. I find it therapeutic building, riding and maintaining a machine where every component can be understood and, at a push, manufactured in a home workshop.

Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda

Twenty-four reasons why we are hooped open.substack.com/pub/reeswill... - even one might be too many.

Available to pre-order, The Good Building Book has been a labour of love for me and Jon but it would be nice if it sells! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/good-buil...

Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/w...

Interesting article www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have serious worries about AI but this is nicely done youtu.be/BZYhCC-XfTA?... The eyes!!

Down from second to 4th place at Harewood Gravity Games this year but we got to experiment and learnt something useful for next season. Last leg of last (untimed) run with ballast removed. Driven by ex rally driver and Passivhaus builder Dai Rees youtu.be/UyOZRr6Jfys

🙌Landmark Scottish Passivhaus school is outperforming targets! Monitoring data from the first year of Riverside Primary - the first Passivhaus certified school in Scotland - demonstrates it is more than delivering on energy and indoor comfort. projectscot.com/2025... @sarahlewis.bsky.social

First time I’d heard James Talarico (D-Tex) speak…

1. A characteristically brilliant explanation by @billmckibben.bsky.social of why Trump's attempt to force the EU to buy US fossil gas (please let's stop calling it "natural gas") will fail. Unfortunately, the UK is now locked into US gas dependence. 🧵 billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-the-gr...

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag

In defence of the doomer David Suzuki open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt... I put off reading this!

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

Dotard is the new Kim Nuke Un

Utrecht, Netherlands is about to build the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge nltimes.nl/2025/02/25/u...