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Nick Sargeant
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#FBPE 💚 Greenpeace, and Green Party member who 💙 worked for the NHS, is committed to ♻️ recycling and EVs 🔋, loves electronics, music 🎸🔊, synths 🎹 and repairing vintage tech, 🇪🇺 Europhile and 🇺🇦 supporter
Dear Rachel,

Just a suggestion for Wednesday ..

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End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
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November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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BREAKING: The Israeli army has launched an incursion into the countryside of Quneitra in southern Syria with five vehicles entering Syrian territory.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ovn8p0
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Cued up ready for my bedtime podcast to listen to.
🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW

This week: Shakedowns, Coups and COP 30

The team discuss Donald Trump’s legal methods, the mayhem in the UK government (part 94) and what’s really going on at the Amazon climate summit.

Listen: pod.fo/e/355376
YouTube: youtu.be/t1QE_EZ4qj8
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”

Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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So, that’s a yes.
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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“If you want to know what a bubble looks like, it’s this”

Dotcom crash meet Enron

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Colour me shocked
People in glass houses? Michael Prescott, author of the infamous ‘Prescott Memo’, accuses the BBC of “splicing” Trump’s words in a way that caused viewers to be “materially misled”. But the Murdoch hack turned corporate lobbyist has been engaging in a bit of “splicing” of his own.
Not only that, Prescott misquoted Trump in his email, without indicating the changes he was making, to make the quote seem less threatening.
Why isn't THAT front page news in the Telegraph?
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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It this really isn’t it?
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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It makes me wonder whether Prescott actually consulted the original source himself & doctored it or simply took dictation from someone else. A person, for example, who had helped insert a right-wing lobbyist who hadn’t done journalism for over 20 years into such a potentially important position…
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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As you might imagine, this is very good. It is also very funny.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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On Donald Trump's attack on the BBC this PM, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.

"The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.

"The PM [and others] should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it."
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.
🔴 Breaking I Davie faced mounting criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump

➡️ Read more: trib.al/I0iw7aP
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I think UK Labour has started to worry more about Zack Polanski than Nigel Farage.
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Too young. OG Top Gear presenter, car journalist, and EV cheerleader Quentin Wilson dead at 68.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Quentin Willson: Former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter dies aged 68
The presenter and campaigner was described by his family as a "true national treasure" and "true consumer champion".
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Defo an upswing in instances of "releases in error" since 2023.

But why has the figure been above immeasurable at all? Is it so hard to keep people in prison, esp. where the prisoner had no intent of escaping.

data.justice.gov.uk/prisons/addi...
Releases in error - Justice Data
Providing at a glance data on services provided by the Ministry of Justice, using quality assured and published data.
data.justice.gov.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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This is one of those times when social media is important. I don't trust most major news organizations to do much with this photo, even though it speaks volumes about this moment in our nation's history. But the image going viral will get it seen, and might push news orgs to use and discuss it.
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Legacy news media deserves its reputational collapse
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Don’t believe everything you see: why Buddhist scepticism is vital in the age of generative AI | Bertin Huynh
Don’t believe everything you see: why Buddhist scepticism is vital in the age of generative AI | Bertin Huynh
Because our senses are so limited and the nature of all things so transient, what we know to be objective reality is a momentary snapshot of the whole picture * Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life The latest iteration of OpenAI’s video generator, Sora 2, spells troubling times for objective reality. Even before the introduction of generative AI, an increasingly polarised political atmosphere meant we could barely agree on the same set of facts. But for Buddhists, reality has always been something to be sceptical about. Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, while contemplating profoundly the Prajna Paramita, Realised that the Five Skandhas are empty, and thus he was able to overcome all suffering. Form, all the things our sensory organs can smell, taste, see, feel and hear. Feelings that arise when we perceive things. Perception is the lens through which we label things and assign value or worth like bananas are delicious or this article is boring. Mental forces, or volition, are the actions and reactions to things and the feelings and perceptions that come from them. Consciousness is the last because it its the aggregate or heap of the rest together. It is our memories and the human hard drive from which we draw from to inform how we will respond to new forms, feelings and sensations. Continue reading...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM