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Ian Miles

@ianmiles.bsky.social

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Prof Emeritus, University of Manchester. Research: foresight, innovation, services, soc change... HE/HIM -don't mind, but dislike those who find pronouns offensive No interest in sport I love music, speculative fiction, play with words and colours.... .. more

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16d

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 18d

You need #Oracle ! Alarming story on #TBI #TonyBlairInstitute and its relations with, and for, big tech. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Inside the Tony Blair Institute

Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?

www.newstatesman.com

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Aug 21

“He was paid for by the taxpayer!”

Prince Andrew allegedly had 40 escorts "brought to him" in four days during a taxpayer-funded official trip to Thailand, biographer Andrew Lownie says tells The News Agents.

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/prin...

Prince Andrew 'met with 40 escorts on taxpayer-funded Thailand trip', biographer claims | The News Agents

A new biography makes explosive allegations about Prince Andrew's conduct as trade envoy, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and claims of extreme sexual behaviour during a taxpayer-funded trip. A...

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Aug 18

Language was invented to communicate orders and instructions.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Aug 18

Spot on from Olga Rudenko: "Russia could end the war in Ukraine at any moment by stopping its attacks and withdrawing its forces. By simply going home. Mr. Putin could end it with a phone call."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

Opinion | All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home

www.nytimes.com

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Aug 14

enjoy the comments, too.

Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · Aug 13

This is the side of Mimas they don't want you to see (the side without Herschel, the massive crater that makes it look like the Death Star)

The "back side" of Mimas without the massive crater is, well, covered in much smaller craters that pockmark the surface. There's no additional geology to be observed, just endless craters.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · Aug 13

This is the side of Mimas they don't want you to see (the side without Herschel, the massive crater that makes it look like the Death Star)

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Aug 8

Call to Action on AGI Governance: I've asked @DavidLammy #FCDO to press the #UN to convene a General Assembly on #AGI governance—before tech outstrips our collective wisdom.
#FutureOfAI www.linkedin.com/posts/ian-mi...

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Aug 8

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.

But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Aug 4

Why hasnt this good #hydrogen news received more attention? Are there undisclosed problems (scaling up? use in remote or impoverished areas?) www.goodnewsnetwork.org/australias-r...

Australia’s Revolutionary Hydrogen Powder Is Easier and Cheaper to Use for Clean Energy

A mere month of expected output at 2030 production targets would more than satisfy the entire global hydrogen energy demand.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jul 31

Sleepwalking into a corporate coup via deregulated Freeports & SEZs?
Read, sign and share the petition calling for full Freeport/SEZ transparency
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Jan 29

Come and see us LIVE! 🎤

The News Agents Live On Stage with HSBC UK is coming to Birmingham Symphony Hall on 17th February! 🎟️

𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰: buff.ly/3ZgCiDt

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · Jan 31

#lLongCovid research at the super Cohen Centre!

Participants needed 🇺🇸

Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness @coresinai.bsky.social · Jan 31

Our upcoming trial will evaluate the feasibility of Microtesla Magnetic Therapy (MMT) for addressing cognitive challenges in individuals with #LongCOVID. We are studying those with moderate to severe cognitive impairment.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · Mar 16

If you really want to know why a former head of MI6 was sending unsolicited briefings on Covid to No.10... read some real reporting by @computerweekly.bsky.social and @bylinetimes.bsky.social

www.computerweekly.com/news/3665534...

Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group | Computer Weekly

One of the world’s most prestigious general science journals, was the target of a two-year long sustained and virulent secret attack by a conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists with high-lev...

www.computerweekly.com

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atlanta @atlantarey.bsky.social · May 20

We are having an online protest tomorrow on May 21st 12-4pm to support the MASS LOBBY against disability benefit cuts in Westminster.

If you want to participate, please post as much as you can about the benefit cuts and disability rights tomorrow between 12pm-4pm.

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · Jul 6

Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action

Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation

www.theguardian.com

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Jul 10

London is Over, Finished, and Washed Up
By Professor Matt Goodwhinge

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jul 9

From #TheLancet: Despite Secretary #RFK Robert F Kennedy Jr's calls for “radical transparency”, unlogged #data manipulation - mainly substituting "sex" for "gender" is happening big time. Changes are not being made transparently www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government

A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

www.thelancet.com

Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jul 7

Chipster

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · Jul 6

Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.

@wildjustice.bsky.social

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jul 6

Wonder what the current legal definition of "support" is. Is criticism of the banning of #PalestineAction support? [asking for a friend]

Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · Jul 6

Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action

Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 6

Funny. I would have expected the "Free Speech Union" and the other self-proclaimed defenders of free expression to be all over this. But 🦗🦗🦗

How strange.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arre...

UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide

Outrage after retired priest arrested for supporting Palestine Action amid UK crackdown on pro-Palestine activism

www.middleeasteye.net

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · Jul 6

Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened

Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · Jul 5

Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but Yvette Cooper is | George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but Yvette Cooper is | George Monbiot

The home secretary is apparently an admirer of the suffragettes. I have no doubt that if they were active today she would proscribe them, too, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · Jul 5

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops o...

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 19

THIS IS ABSOLUTE INSANITY.
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jun 9

youtu.be/7fej5XgfBYQ?... #fabricating a #Sky_News podcast, denying the lie till disproved. #chatGPT #generativeAI .

Did ChatGPT lie to Sky News presenter about transcript for podcast?

YouTube video by Sky News

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Christina Lattimer @christinalattimer.bsky.social · Jun 5

I’ve read The Invisible Doctrine by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and it was an eye opener. It’s helped me understand why politics transfer wealth.

Now it’s on film and you can view it, from a few places including Apple TV - but here’s the link to the YouTube offer

youtu.be/lc--mVz3n2A?...

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · May 31

Closed!