@terryvi.bsky.social
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I’ve just coined a new term #BeeWashing. It’s when UK organisations state they are acting on the #BiodiversityEmergency by putting in honeybee hives. Please share far & wide!
April 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I’ve just coined a new term #BeeWashing. It’s when UK organisations state they are acting on the #BiodiversityEmergency by putting in honeybee hives. Please share far & wide!
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One of the surviving ramparts of Burghead Fort - a Pictish promontory fort in Moray. The fort was occupied between 6th and 10th centuries AD, and was a major centre of Pictish power. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Picts #Burghead
April 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
One of the surviving ramparts of Burghead Fort - a Pictish promontory fort in Moray. The fort was occupied between 6th and 10th centuries AD, and was a major centre of Pictish power. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Picts #Burghead
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Social scientist @dannydorling.bsky.social discusses Britain’s economic divide, drawing on decades of research to challenge common misconceptions. How can we reverse the trends leaving all children worse off than their parents? 📉 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
📅 April 13—3pm
🔗 Book: bit.ly/4j54hOu
📅 April 13—3pm
🔗 Book: bit.ly/4j54hOu
March 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Social scientist @dannydorling.bsky.social discusses Britain’s economic divide, drawing on decades of research to challenge common misconceptions. How can we reverse the trends leaving all children worse off than their parents? 📉 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
📅 April 13—3pm
🔗 Book: bit.ly/4j54hOu
📅 April 13—3pm
🔗 Book: bit.ly/4j54hOu
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Bedgebury National Pinetum, started 1925 in Kent. Has about the most complete collection of pine tree species in the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A tree zoo’: endangered conifers a living legacy of Kent pinetum’s centenary
Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly maligned
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Bedgebury National Pinetum, started 1925 in Kent. Has about the most complete collection of pine tree species in the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Latest post on measles vaccines and the fallacy of ‘one more study to settle things’: kucharski.substack.com/p/a-wild-vac...
March 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Latest post on measles vaccines and the fallacy of ‘one more study to settle things’: kucharski.substack.com/p/a-wild-vac...
Reaching for the tin foil for a moment, is there, in the ripping up of civic structures, social safety nets, and the acceleration of human immiseration, an element of elite prepping for the rationing of resources that's coming?
March 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reaching for the tin foil for a moment, is there, in the ripping up of civic structures, social safety nets, and the acceleration of human immiseration, an element of elite prepping for the rationing of resources that's coming?
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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
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French lower house votes through wealth tax.
A 2% minimum tax rate on the wealth of individuals whose net worth exceeds €100m.
It is not yet law.
UK needs to do similar to reduce inequalities. Instead govts penalise low/middle income families and make poor pay more for crumbling infrastructure.
A 2% minimum tax rate on the wealth of individuals whose net worth exceeds €100m.
It is not yet law.
UK needs to do similar to reduce inequalities. Instead govts penalise low/middle income families and make poor pay more for crumbling infrastructure.
French lower house votes through left's wealth tax on ultra-rich
Thanks to abstention by far-right MPs, the 'Zucman tax' was adopted by the Assemblée Nationale, on Thursday. It is unlikely to be approved by the Sénat. The Finance Ministry has been preparing a much ...
www.lemonde.fr
February 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
French lower house votes through wealth tax.
A 2% minimum tax rate on the wealth of individuals whose net worth exceeds €100m.
It is not yet law.
UK needs to do similar to reduce inequalities. Instead govts penalise low/middle income families and make poor pay more for crumbling infrastructure.
A 2% minimum tax rate on the wealth of individuals whose net worth exceeds €100m.
It is not yet law.
UK needs to do similar to reduce inequalities. Instead govts penalise low/middle income families and make poor pay more for crumbling infrastructure.
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Fuck this guy.
Fuck all the snivelling apologists for the far right. Toadying little creeps trying to ingratiate themselves to the big bully boys.
Fuck all the snivelling apologists for the far right. Toadying little creeps trying to ingratiate themselves to the big bully boys.
You can always rely on Wes Streeting to amplify far right talking points. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS diversity practices hindered by ‘misguided approaches’, says Streeting
Health secretary gives example of staff member promoting ‘anti-whiteness’, but stresses need for DEI policies
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Fuck this guy.
Fuck all the snivelling apologists for the far right. Toadying little creeps trying to ingratiate themselves to the big bully boys.
Fuck all the snivelling apologists for the far right. Toadying little creeps trying to ingratiate themselves to the big bully boys.
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The UK put full sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine.
On Israel's genocide in Gaza, the UK says Israel is a "target market" to "identifying trade and investment opportunities for businesses".
'Lord' Austin is the UK's trade envoy to Israel.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
On Israel's genocide in Gaza, the UK says Israel is a "target market" to "identifying trade and investment opportunities for businesses".
'Lord' Austin is the UK's trade envoy to Israel.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
New 'global growth team' appointed by Trade Secretary
A new ‘global growth team’ of UK Trade Envoys has today been appointed by the Trade Secretary to drive UK exports and investment.
www.gov.uk
February 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The UK put full sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine.
On Israel's genocide in Gaza, the UK says Israel is a "target market" to "identifying trade and investment opportunities for businesses".
'Lord' Austin is the UK's trade envoy to Israel.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
On Israel's genocide in Gaza, the UK says Israel is a "target market" to "identifying trade and investment opportunities for businesses".
'Lord' Austin is the UK's trade envoy to Israel.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
The Italian Futurists would have so enjoyed all this gratuitous breakage.
February 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The Italian Futurists would have so enjoyed all this gratuitous breakage.
I've just spent a fruitless half an hour tracking down the accounts, where they exist, of the leftish and progressive thinkers I try to learn from, at this moment of extraordinary schism. Nothing, zilch, dust and tumbleweed. The academy is terrified of life.
January 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I've just spent a fruitless half an hour tracking down the accounts, where they exist, of the leftish and progressive thinkers I try to learn from, at this moment of extraordinary schism. Nothing, zilch, dust and tumbleweed. The academy is terrified of life.