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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7h

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 8h

"doomed" is unnecessarily apocalyptic language, but let's say we had ambitions for a Middle East as peaceful as post-WWII Europe - it's hard to see how that'd happen without a two-state solution.

Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan says

In an exclusive interview with BBC Panorama, the king says a two-state solution is the only answer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Shetland News @shetnews.co.uk · 6h

Election candidate Hannah Mary Goodlad has secured support from the SNP for a motion to reserve cabin and vehicle space for Shetland residents on the Aberdeen-Lerwick ferry route.
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SNP backs motion to reserve cabin and vehicle space for islanders on ferries

ELECTION candidate Hannah Mary Goodlad has secured support from the SNP for a motion to reserve cabin and vehicle space for Shetland residents on the...

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Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 7h

Another one falls in Kent.

Reform has suspended county councillor Robert Ford after a complaint was made about him by 'several female members of staff.'

The party said that Cllr Ford refused to engage with the complaints process, so he has had the whip removed pending a disciplinary process.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 22h

🏔️ Glaciers lose their cooling edge

Scientists found that mountain glaciers will soon warm in step with the air around them, losing their brief cooling buffer and melting faster after midcentury.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Glaciers 🧪

Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century - Nature Climate Change

It has been argued that air temperatures over mountain glaciers are decoupled from surrounding warming, which could slow down melting. Here the authors show that this effect will weaken with future glacier retreat, leading to a recoupling of temperatures from the 2030s onwards.

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 7h

“The Pope from Chicago quoted Hannah Arendt on fascism, who herself long taught at University of Chicago‘s Committee on Social Thought,” is an amazing true sentence.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h

Big media outlets are rejecting the new Pentagon press restrictions imposed by TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

So far: The Guardian, WaPo, CNN, The Atlantic and NYT.

Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline — The Washington Post

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 7h

Keep it going. Get your family and friends to join
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

www.theguardian.com

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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 8h

“No one in the Middle East and likely beyond will ever forget the Israeli slaughter, nor the U.S. weaponry that facilitated it, nor the U.S. mercenaries of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" who murdered starving people seeking aid.”

FOREVER WARS @foreverwars.bsky.social · 8h

“If Israel wants to actually prevent the next October 7, in whatever form it will take, it must free Palestine,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social. “The rest is commentary. Or avoidance.”

‘The Barbarism of The Enemy’

Notes on the third ceasefire, and prayers that there won't have to be a fourth. Free Marwan Barghouti. Free Palestine

www.forever-wars.com

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 8h

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 11h

160 scientists, 23 countries, 1 report: The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, together with @exeter.ac.uk, highlights mounting risks across Earth’s systems, from melting glaciers & ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. Watch now👇
👉global-tipping-points.org

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 7h

When monsoon rains slammed into Pakistan, villages were submerged. The flooding forced people from their homes and cut off road access. In partnership with Rizq, here's how our #ChefsForPakistan teams are showing up for families that are still cut off and dealing with devastation.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 8h

Russia is intensifying its attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Putin aims to inflict maximum suffering on Ukrainians as winter approaches.

Europe is ready to support Ukraine further – new measures are in the works.

Extract of my press remarks with President Zelenskyy ↓

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 8h

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 20h

Platsen där mopederna ska massproducerats visar sig bestå av ett skjul utan tak, där fem isärskruvade fordon ligger. Bolaget uppger att 152 mopeder har producerats - bara 2 procent av nästa de 9000 som enligt plan ska åka runt och minska utsläpp åt Sverige (2/5)
special.aftonbladet.se/story/Gypoql

Deras mopeder ska rädda svenska klimatmål

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

When authoritarians tell you they like authoritarianism, over and over and over and over and over again, believe them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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Jacks. Yup! That Guy. 🪶🦬 🐺 🦅 🌎 @palehorse.bsky.social · 8h

#Environment

The exact moment when Earth reach’s its tipping points, moments at which human induced climate change will trigger irreversible planetary changes, has been a source of debate for scientists. But the world's coral reefs are dying, & will continue to globally.

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The World's First Climate Tipping Point Has Been Crossed — TIME

The world's coral reefs are dying—and will continue to unless global temperatures drop significantly.

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 8h

'Vanora's mound', the local name for Guinevere of Arthurian lore, is in that graveyard, along with a fairly compelling argument for why it is plausible that the Welsh chieftains could well have visited the area, which was an important destination in the Celtic world.

Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 8h

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 8h

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 9h

Kudos to ⁦‪@mehdirhasan‬⁩.

Not only did he invite me on his show in 2018 to talk about my investigation into Farage’s funders (no UK channel ever did).

But he also asked a former colleague of Nathan Gill’s in the EU parliament whether UKIP had ever taken Russian bribes 🔥

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 8h

The #ClimateEmergency is killing people, tearing communities apart.

Our leaders have to act.
We have to demand it.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15h

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 16h

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: Plaid Cymru’s deputy leader has said she wants to emulate the 'healthy debate' of the 2014 Scottish independence campaign in Wales as the nation stands on the verge of gaining a nationalist government for the first time

Plaid Cymru want to emulate 'healthy debate' of Scotland's Yes campaign in Wales

www.thenational.scot

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17h

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

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