Graham Dutfield
@grahamdutfield.bsky.social
Once a geographer, avid practitioner of slow scholarship, Leeds Uni prof, philhellene, loves mountains & coasts, teaches intellectual property & justice, health, food, biodiversity. Time to take the money out of politics. Living in safe South London
Very good news from Kenya - the draconian statutory ban on sharing seeds found to be unconstitutional www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/pr...
HISTORIC VICTORY: Kenyan Court Rules “Sharing Seeds is Not a Crime” in Landmark Verdict for Food Sovereignty - Greenpeace Africa
This judgment establishes powerful legal precedent globally, affirming that the ancient right of farmers to save and share seeds supersedes commercial interests, reshaping the legal balance of power b...
www.greenpeace.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Very good news from Kenya - the draconian statutory ban on sharing seeds found to be unconstitutional www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/pr...
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Network for Monitoring the Impact of Globalization and TRIPS on Access to Medicines, Meeting Report, 19-21 February 2001 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand @who.int
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Network for Monitoring the Impact of Globalization and TRIPS on Access to Medicines, Meeting Report, 19-21 February 2001 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand @who.int
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When Trump pointed one finger at Mexico, the other four fingers were pointing back at us.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
When Trump pointed one finger at Mexico, the other four fingers were pointing back at us.
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Dr @anzapp.bsky.social and Prof @grahamdutfield.bsky.social tackle pressing issues of global food security in #Parliamentary inquiry.
Read more about their insights on 'Innovation and Global Food Security'👇
tinyurl.com/y8mbj4dx
@cblpleeds.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky #LawSky
Read more about their insights on 'Innovation and Global Food Security'👇
tinyurl.com/y8mbj4dx
@cblpleeds.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky #LawSky
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Dr @anzapp.bsky.social and Prof @grahamdutfield.bsky.social tackle pressing issues of global food security in #Parliamentary inquiry.
Read more about their insights on 'Innovation and Global Food Security'👇
tinyurl.com/y8mbj4dx
@cblpleeds.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky #LawSky
Read more about their insights on 'Innovation and Global Food Security'👇
tinyurl.com/y8mbj4dx
@cblpleeds.bsky.social #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky #LawSky
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How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital.
Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital.
Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).
Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
Cruel and desperate. How low can today’s neo-Xenophobes sink?
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Cruel and desperate. How low can today’s neo-Xenophobes sink?
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‘In the 25 years since the human genome was first sequenced, genetic studies have overturned many ideas about the ways in which genetic variation relates to human attributes, including that there are “genes for” things.’
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson · What’s in the junk? Genetic Effects
Over the last fifty years or so, geneticists have gone from asserting that there is no evidence for the heritability of...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
‘In the 25 years since the human genome was first sequenced, genetic studies have overturned many ideas about the ways in which genetic variation relates to human attributes, including that there are “genes for” things.’
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Today is the Day of Dignity and Freedom in Ukraine.
Two words russia doesn’t know.
Two words russia wants to take from us.
Dignity.
Freedom.
Two words russia doesn’t know.
Two words russia wants to take from us.
Dignity.
Freedom.
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Today is the Day of Dignity and Freedom in Ukraine.
Two words russia doesn’t know.
Two words russia wants to take from us.
Dignity.
Freedom.
Two words russia doesn’t know.
Two words russia wants to take from us.
Dignity.
Freedom.
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This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
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Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Boris Johnson's lack of leadership blamed for 23,000 Covid deaths
A scathing report by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett also criticises the Department of Health, led by the current Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald and the then minister Matt Hancock
inews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial
As existing drugs falter because of resistance, the world gets a backup—but hard choices loom on how to use it
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
Interesting take on one of my favourite paintings in the National Gallery in London www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
'A tipping point'?: Why this 1768 painting could be the real birth of modern art
While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Interesting take on one of my favourite paintings in the National Gallery in London www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
Great there are still people like this to give us all hope in these times www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The scientist who helped win the fight to protect a sacred piece of the Pacific
Respected ocean expert Katy Soapi continues to advocate to protect Tetepare, one of the last untouched places in Solomon Islands
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Great there are still people like this to give us all hope in these times www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
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The irony is that the Right used to cast the 1970s as the nadir of Britain's postwar decline, from which it had been "rescued" by Mrs Thatcher.
Labour was invariably said to want to "take us back to the 1970s".
But the 80s is less attractive to Reform's new voters, so the 70s are being repurposed.
Labour was invariably said to want to "take us back to the 1970s".
But the 80s is less attractive to Reform's new voters, so the 70s are being repurposed.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The irony is that the Right used to cast the 1970s as the nadir of Britain's postwar decline, from which it had been "rescued" by Mrs Thatcher.
Labour was invariably said to want to "take us back to the 1970s".
But the 80s is less attractive to Reform's new voters, so the 70s are being repurposed.
Labour was invariably said to want to "take us back to the 1970s".
But the 80s is less attractive to Reform's new voters, so the 70s are being repurposed.
I was very much around in 1975. It was not cleaner or safer then, only the music being better. Apart from that I struggle to think of anything.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I was very much around in 1975. It was not cleaner or safer then, only the music being better. Apart from that I struggle to think of anything.
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As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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The flying of St George's flags across the country are creating "no-go" zones for NHS staff, with some facing frequent abuse, health bosses have warned
news.sky.com/story/st-geo...
news.sky.com/story/st-geo...
St George's flags are creating 'no-go zones' for NHS staff, health bosses warn
A trust leader hails the "bravery" of black and Asian healthcare workers for continuing to treat patients in areas "designed to exclude them".
news.sky.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The flying of St George's flags across the country are creating "no-go" zones for NHS staff, with some facing frequent abuse, health bosses have warned
news.sky.com/story/st-geo...
news.sky.com/story/st-geo...
