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Iain Robinson 🌳
@iainrobinson.bsky.social
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Writer, lecturer, and accidental activist. Trees, woods, nature, landscape, environmental matters, guitars, and fictions of all sorts, though I’ll mostly just upload cat pics and undertake academic moaning. https://thispartysover.substack.com
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · Oct 29
Fancy subscribing to my Substack?

What is a Substack? It’s a subscriber based publication. You can subscribe to my Substack ‘This Party’s Over’ for free with your email. You can get writing like this:

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Gimme Shelter: Refuge, Writing, and Conservation
On the radical potential for recovery and growth offered by a song and the idea of refuge.
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · 2d
The crisis is only deepening and the recent announcement of means-tested grants funded by a tax on international students will likely choke a vital source of HE income. This is Labour fiddling around the edges rather than taking bold action @bengoldsborough.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12d
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · 7d
This government is proving to be a disastrous disappointment in so many ways.

This will be a dangerous move for the future of wildlife and biodiversity in the UK!

Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system | The Guardian

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Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system
Exclusive: Differences over changes to environmental and legal provisions to prompt economic growth hint at chaos at heart of government
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 10d
🚨 Landmark win 🚨 : Govt forced to review Industrial Strategy after Scrap Carbon Capture legal challenge #EnvironmentAct.

First time a policy was re-taken for failing the Environmental Principles duty. No more “light-touch” assessments.

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Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social · 11d
Very pleased to find the proof copy of Hinterland Issue 17 dropping through our letterbox this morning - it looks fab! Full print run due next week, so you’ve still got time to order a copy via our webstore: www.hinterlandnonfiction.com/shop/issue-17
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Wensum Woodlanders @wensumwoodlanders.bsky.social · 15d
“the Environment Agency and Natural England are not “red tape” factories, as some would like you to believe. These institutions are there to ensure our rivers remain fishable, our air breathable, our countryside hums with wildlife, and our land resilient to floods”

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Why environmental deregulation would devastate wildlife and our future
Cutting regulations puts nature and our economy at risk warns RSPB Chief Executive Beccy Speight.
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Wensum Woodlanders @wensumwoodlanders.bsky.social · 14d
The wood yesterday morning. Steve Reed and the Labour government would like to see the protections that saved it from road development undone.
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Wensum Woodlanders @wensumwoodlanders.bsky.social · 14d
A rare piece of positive climate news!

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Analysis: India’s power-sector CO2 falls for only second time in half a century - Carbon Brief
India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its power sector fell by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025 and by 2% over the past 12 months
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 15d
🚨 Legal win 🚨

UK Govt forced to review its Industrial Strategy

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice
Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · 15d
“Part of the problem is that the party is paralysed by institutional pressures and geopolitical alignments. Of course, balancing these forces is what makes for great governments and leaders. But Starmer has shown no such inclination.”

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Starmerism has almost destroyed the Labour party, but I still have hope for renewal | Clive Lewis
As our party conference gets under way this weekend in Liverpool, we must start to work out how we can inspire the country, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 18d
NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge

* Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better"
* Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30%
* Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · 18d
I’m delighted to have some new writing in this issue.
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Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social · 19d
The seventeenth (17!! How did we get to 17?) issue of Hinterland is up for preorder now, featuring headline acts from Davina Quinlivan and Andrew Cowan, and an interview with Tor Falcon. Cover art by Pippa Robyn.

www.hinterlandnonfiction.com/shop/issue-17
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 18d
The government’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill could give businesses the green light to trash habitats and threaten wildlife. Say no to attacks on nature!

If you agree – join me and add your name @friends_earth 👇 action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...
Stop the government’s plan threatening nature
Did you know big business could soon be allowed to wreck the environment and destroy nature? The new Planning and Infrastructure Bill could mean damaging projects get the green light so long as develo...
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · 24d
This is a really useful and nuanced brief on the carbon impacts of AI data centres. So much is uncertain, the solutions AI might bring to the climate crisis included. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-five-char...
AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context - Carbon Brief
Many have warned that the rapid expansion of data centres could slow down or even reverse the global shift towards net-zero.
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · 26d
For data centres like this to be operated in an environmentally sustainable manner we need to be tripling efforts towards renewables. | Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year | Google | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year
Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of Thurrock ‘hyperscale’ unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · 27d
Shame on @washingtonpost.com
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27d
Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · 28d
Where are @euflagmafia.bsky.social these days? It would be good to see some blue flags hanging from our bridges and flyovers again!
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Sep 10
"I’m trying to tell to hallucination Marcel Proust that I get that it, that it’s not a big deal, but I’m stuck in it, so fuck, what am I supposed to do here, big man? ..."

Tim MacGabhann talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social

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“I can’t write about [Dublin] because it’s been done to death. However, I can write about the nothing that came before and that is coming after”: An Interview with Tim MacGabhann—Cristina Politano
Tim MacGabhann is a Paris-based Irish writer whose recent memoir, The Black Pool, narrates his hallucination-littered descent into addiction and abjection, as well as his eventual redemption throug…
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · Sep 7
2026 will see a major expansion of Salt's list – including four new poetry collections, a new volume of short stories and, of course, the sixteenth edition of Best British Short Stories.
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · Sep 2
I'm calling him divisive because I feel divided by this, though I admit his speech was good. I don't think the party was great at getting the vote out to those members who were not following this election closely. 20K or so votes out of a membership of 60K+ feels to me like less of a groundswell.
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · Sep 2
I'm not sure what to make about the lurch towards an eco-populist leadership in the Green Party. It might pay off, but I dread seeing the sort of polarising tribalism that divided labour during the momentum years. Hard won in rural constituencies might be turned off by this.
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · Sep 2
🚗 550+ people in South Norfolk have already taken part in my Rural Road Survey.

It only takes a few minutes & will help me press for changes with the Norfolk County Council, Norfolk's PCC & Roads Minister.

Still time to add your voice: www.surveymonkey.com/r/SouthNorfo...
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · Sep 1
I feel myself flagging every time I see a Union Jack
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Chris Emery @chrisemery.me · Aug 31
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Last call — 20% off all Salt titles until midnight tonight.
📚 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS...
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Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social · Aug 31
This desperate posturing is dangerous because of the way it shifts public debate away from climate science and green economics towards ideological net zero bashing.

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Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea'
The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would
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