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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 35m

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 10h

This also applies I think to environmental campaigning. People are always talking about the need to stop using 'challenged' words or phrases like rewilding, net zero, climate change - but ultimately it is the content of these things which threatens powerful interests, not the words.. ⬇️

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10h

“The changing of names in order to destigmatise these conditions has been done for a very long time... And in my opinion, it doesn't work... because history suggests that sanitising a name only works for as long as people don't know what that new name means.”

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 10h

Count Kerensky lived in New York until 1970.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 11h

We interrupt your mid morning tea break to invite you for a constitutional down an old street of York.

Today's saunter is down Stonegate, or the via praetoria to our Roman friends.

Come join us!

We are looking at an oil painting showing a street with buildings of different periods from late Tudor to Georgian and newer Victorian buildings. Shop fronts are brightly painted and people are stood in doorways or looking into windows. Some in the distance is climbing into a carriage.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 11h

How so? I suppose depends on alternative.

[I don't think anyone assumes all will be well, but for example its hard to see where the risk is (for wildlife) in allowing low quality farmland (for wildlife) to 'rewild'.]

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XRUK-Actions @xruk-actions.bsky.social · 13h

Almost 4000 people have signed up to the biggest ever UK environmental lawsuit! Major poultry producers and a water company are being taken to the High Court over "extensive and widespread pollution" in three rivers - the Wye, Lugg and Usk.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.com

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine wanting to be PM of a country but thinking that studying its languages in University was a waste of time.

Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 12h

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ALT: Partridge I Dont Know GIF

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 12h

It's astonishing really that someone who wants to be PM of a country would openly say that studying one of the languages of that country is a waste of time. Can't imagine that happening in Ireland or France for example.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 12h

I had to go on to a website there to find out what a drug mentioned in an article was (as I am square) and I always enjoy reading the made-up slang names for things. 'Super-pup', 'hillbilly-heroin'; etc.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 13h

In my teens I never had Heseltine down as a potential hero for my 40s.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 13h

I think with rewilding I am more sanguine, because I am not yet convinced we have sufficient scientific metrics to really satisfactorily get to the bottom of what it is trying to do (IMO).. obviously there are many that can guide the way but none that give whole picture... for region ag agree!.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 14h

For regenerative ag it depends on the purpose - if the main measure of success is to find examples that will ‘get people to stop talking about meat production as a problem’ it’s been pretty successful.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 14h

To a point. For rewilding I’d say jt depends in large extent what one thinks nature should be like and if it has a ‘correct’ state. And also how much one values non-empirical metrics such as the ‘wildness’ of a place or its ‘potential’.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno about anyone else but I don’t want to live in the UAE. No offence but it looks balls.

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🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪Tordenskjold🔔 @tordenskjoldcph.bsky.social · 1d

Europeans voting for extremes must understand this. They’ll start with ones you might not like: muslims, homosexuals etc.

But as Amen in the church even light destillations of fascism will continue with journalism, courts and eventually physically threaten any kind of opposition. Even you.

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Just sent out this post. Three and a half years after Bucha, after mass child abductions started, after nightly attacks on civilians, the political strength of parties sympathetic to Russia (which is doing these things) is growing not declining. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Does Europe Really Want to Save Itself?

We will know Sooner Than Many Understand.

open.substack.com

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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Electric vehicle registrations soar across Europe 🚗⚡️

🆕 EV share of car registrations is 28% in August 2025
🥈 Second highest month on record

Growth even more impressive in the UK reaching 38%.

Interactive dataset here 👉 european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/technology/e...

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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 1d

Profile in @theguardian.com today of our Director @sundersays.bsky.social – talking about immigration, race, prejudice, flags and patriotism – and why he's still optimistic about Britain
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously the country has its own issues but it’s being made so much worse as the US is working particularly hard to export its far right revolution to Britain.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and cutting costs

New analysis suggests day-ahead wholesale prices in 2024 could have been up to 33% higher if there had been no large-scale wind capacity.
eciu.net/analysis/re...

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and…

Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.

eciu.net

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 1d

I guess it's a party that is used to the idea it will always have an outsized portion of the press on its side. It may find that it is no longer the darling it was for some of them.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 1d

I shall look forward to my son reading it out to me line by line.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

Four parties within a 5 point swing of first place and five parties on 12% plus.

This would be pure chaos under first past the post.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 1d

They are so far off the mark with this stuff it is almost suicidal in its effect. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October

The prime minister says it is

www.bbc.co.uk

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