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The Restart Project @therestartproject.org · 15d

80 MPs have signed the #RepairReuseDeclaration 🎉⁠

Our latest endorsers are Seamus Logan, Greg Smith, @munirawilson.bsky.social, @dannybealesmp.bsky.social, @sarahgreenld.bsky.social and Tulip Siddiq, who support our mission to make repair and reuse the norm 🪛

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · 27d

So, thanks for confirming that the “industry” has no viable business model without stealing from others.

www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

www.theverge.com

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The Restart Project @therestartproject.org · Jun 17

We know that everyone is clamouring for a Fixing Factory near them but we need your help to make it happen.⁠
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Can you email your councillor and ask them to attend our briefing? Find the e-action at: action.wearepossible.org/page/172461/...

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Apr 22

Happy Earth Day.

That little tiny phone uses a lot of the earths resources to make it. (And creates lots of waste too).

Keep it longer, repair it and pass it on for reuse.

We can all help.

See www.unbroken.solutions

#earthday

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · Mar 31

Exciting times! My book Borderlines is out in paperback - advance copies are in the bookshops already. It's a history of modern Europe told through the story of its national borders in all their humour, strangeness and tragedy.

Cover image of the book 'Borderlines' subtitle 'A history of Europe in 29 borders'. The image announces that it is 'Out Now in Paperback'

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 26

They lost the Telegraph…. !!https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/03/25/its-over-america-has-ceased-to-be-leader-of-the-free-world/

It’s over. America has ceased to be leader of the free world

Accidentally copying in a journalist to senior officials’ private thoughts about Europe was a gift of Providence

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 25

Another example of the recycling myth. Too. often things sent for 'recycling' end up being exported or burned, or both.

We should have the capability to properly manage our own waste - reuse > repair > recycle (properly!)

Better regulatory enforcement needed.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Millions of UK tyres meant for recycling sent to furnaces in India

The illegal makeshift plants cause serious health problems and huge environmental damage.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 24

Could it be that the UKs infamous human lettuce has infected all of the US government???

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Mar 24

“But her emails!” comparisons can be exhausting, but I’d like you to imagine for a minute what would have happened if Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had accidentally added Tucker Carlson to a group chat about classified war plans? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...

Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time

Trump's "Team of Amateurs" Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 22

Of course. The world is always wiser after the event, if it wasn’t we’d learn nothing. And there are always reasons. I hope lessons are learned. But from what’s been published it appears the short term backups were inadequate.

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 21

True, although it may simply mean those emissions are on other days. People will still travel. With diversions, additional short haul flights etc it may even make it worse. I’d love to see an analysis ….

Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 21

Is it really possible that infrastructure as critical as Heathrow has no credible dual power supply. I'd expect there to be a second major feed from a separate sub-station - but we appear to have nothing - the cost of back-up is trivial compared to the disruption.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Heathrow Airport closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage - live updates

Flights are cancelled and diverted mid-air as Europe's busiest airport closes until midnight over a

www.bbc.co.uk

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Mar 21

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot

Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 20

It currently stands for everything you’d expect. Far from making it “great” it’s more likely to “grate” and plummet under the current cabal.

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Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Mar 20

A new #EU law will require #textile producers and #fashion brands to pay a fee to help fund #waste collection and treatment, which will be dependent on how #circular and #sustainable the design of their product is.

#circulareconomy
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Council and Parliament agree to reduce food waste and set new rules on waste textile

The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the targeted revision of the waste framework directive.

www.consilium.europa.eu

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · Mar 17

Borderlines! My book is now available in Portuguese. There isn’t a lot of content in it about Portugal or other Lusophone countries but I hope readers are interested, as Europeans and people interested in the history, folklore, psychology and contemporary reality of borders. 🇵🇹

Three copies of the book, titled ‘Fronteiras’. The cover illustration is of a border post in the mist.

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 17

As well as polluting our water, rivers, lakes and beaches, the water companies are damaging our economy and our health and our reputation.
Enough is enough.
Time to act.
Regulators should regulate properly or go.

Enshittifying the country is unacceptable.
www.reuters.com/investigates...

The Great British Sewage Dump

Widespread sewage spills contaminate Britain’s waterways and hit the broader economy.

www.reuters.com

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 14

Oh! Surely not? What happened to the "sunlit uplands".

Exports down = jobs down = poorer economy = you were lied to.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit

Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’

www.theguardian.com

Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 11

Ah yes. Loophole 1- Transfers are not members?? Brave man; 17 pages of it ….

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 10

Oh.... so not Academic Armageddon then?

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Mar 10

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils

Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils

Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy

www.theguardian.com

Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 4

eee some people :-)

Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Mar 3

At the Proud Gallery, London

Exhibition and book fair with photographers from the @photobookclubcollective at the Proud Gallery, John Adam Street, London, Private View Thu 6th 6-9pm and then Fri 7th March to Tue 1st April.

Talks on some Saturdays, dates and speakers to be announced.

less than 20% of e-waste is recycled properly

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Feb 27

The cost of reaching net zero in the UK by 2050 is now predicted to be just 0.2% of GDP (about £4 billion per year).

Spread this far and wide. It reveals Reform and the Conservatives' opposition to net zero for being 'too expensive' as just plain wrong.

Graph: the UK's net-zero costs are falling

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Feb 26

Looking forward to this ....shame it's going to take so long to get it moving. Makes much more sense and is cheaper than a 3rd runway at LHR.

Is anyone in government watching?

www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...

New direct trains could soon link London with these European cities

London St Pancras station would almost triple its capacity to deliver new train services to Europe by 2030.

www.euronews.com

Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Feb 24

Take care.

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Mark Phillips @markaphill.bsky.social · Feb 23

I think he just redefined “X-style “ management.