@barty12c.bsky.social
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Vale Betty 👏👏👏👏💙💙💙💙
“I don’t think I’ll be remembered as a park ranger. I want to be remembered as Betty.”
What a woman and what an accomplished life she lived — author, WWII veteran, Civil Rights activist, singer, etc.
She’s an ICON. ✨🕊️✨
“I don’t think I’ll be remembered as a park ranger. I want to be remembered as Betty.”
What a woman and what an accomplished life she lived — author, WWII veteran, Civil Rights activist, singer, etc.
She’s an ICON. ✨🕊️✨
December 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Vale Betty 👏👏👏👏💙💙💙💙
“I don’t think I’ll be remembered as a park ranger. I want to be remembered as Betty.”
What a woman and what an accomplished life she lived — author, WWII veteran, Civil Rights activist, singer, etc.
She’s an ICON. ✨🕊️✨
“I don’t think I’ll be remembered as a park ranger. I want to be remembered as Betty.”
What a woman and what an accomplished life she lived — author, WWII veteran, Civil Rights activist, singer, etc.
She’s an ICON. ✨🕊️✨
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‘Jesus was a refugee. As a child he had to go to Egypt for safety. So please: think what the message of Christmas really means’
The head of the Church of Scotland tells me Christmas is about welcoming the outsider as she speaks out against the hate growing in society
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
The head of the Church of Scotland tells me Christmas is about welcoming the outsider as she speaks out against the hate growing in society
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
The Nativity, Frew says, is about “a refugee child who had to go to Egypt for safety'
The Rt Rev Rosie Frew has composed a special Christmas reflection for Herald readers. She talks to our Writer at Large about the need to love those…
www.heraldscotland.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
‘Jesus was a refugee. As a child he had to go to Egypt for safety. So please: think what the message of Christmas really means’
The head of the Church of Scotland tells me Christmas is about welcoming the outsider as she speaks out against the hate growing in society
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
The head of the Church of Scotland tells me Christmas is about welcoming the outsider as she speaks out against the hate growing in society
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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You know what, Robinson? Jesus would have stood on a beach handing out hot tea and warm blankets to refugees
The far-right in Britain is trying to hijack Christianity as Christmas approaches. It should offend every person of faith. Jesus spread love, not hate
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
The far-right in Britain is trying to hijack Christianity as Christmas approaches. It should offend every person of faith. Jesus spread love, not hate
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
'Christ would be on a beach giving tea and blankets to refugees'
Extremists like Tommy Robinson are trying to pervert Christianity for their own political ends, disgracing the good that Jesus represented, argues…
www.heraldscotland.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
You know what, Robinson? Jesus would have stood on a beach handing out hot tea and warm blankets to refugees
The far-right in Britain is trying to hijack Christianity as Christmas approaches. It should offend every person of faith. Jesus spread love, not hate
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
The far-right in Britain is trying to hijack Christianity as Christmas approaches. It should offend every person of faith. Jesus spread love, not hate
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
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China has industrialised so quickly and relied on fossil fuels for so long that it has been one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. But now can China lead the way on battling climate change? Fascinating discussion with Barbara Finamore @bunkerpod.bsky.social
Can China save the world? Today on The Bunker, @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by Barbara Finamore, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and author of Will China Save the Planet to discuss China and their clean-energy model 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#China #cleanenergy
#China #cleanenergy
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
China has industrialised so quickly and relied on fossil fuels for so long that it has been one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. But now can China lead the way on battling climate change? Fascinating discussion with Barbara Finamore @bunkerpod.bsky.social
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"Leave fossil fuels in the ground. It's so simple.This is the most important predicament humanity has ever faced and by design as a result of the enormous oppressive power of the fossil fuel industry, we're flunking it." George Monbiot.
No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Leave fossil fuels in the ground. It's so simple.This is the most important predicament humanity has ever faced and by design as a result of the enormous oppressive power of the fossil fuel industry, we're flunking it." George Monbiot.
No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
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One of the founders of Bylines Network explaining the importance of the new Friends of Bylines Network scheme to sustain citizen journalism.
🔥 The “Friends of Bylines Network” scheme…
…and how citizen journalism can break the grip of mainstream media on the news mix we consume.
Community roots go deeper than broadcasters.
Check it out, share & get involved—> bylinesnetwork.co.uk/friends-of-b...
…and how citizen journalism can break the grip of mainstream media on the news mix we consume.
Community roots go deeper than broadcasters.
Check it out, share & get involved—> bylinesnetwork.co.uk/friends-of-b...
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
One of the founders of Bylines Network explaining the importance of the new Friends of Bylines Network scheme to sustain citizen journalism.
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Why Loving Moments With Strangers Carry Lasting Benefits greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
Why Loving Moments With Strangers Carry Lasting Benefits
New research finds that connecting with strangers not only boosts your mood—it helps build a kinder, more cooperative society.
greatergood.berkeley.edu
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Why Loving Moments With Strangers Carry Lasting Benefits greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
Maybe we should all start referring to ‘the top’ as ‘the bottom’, and the ‘bottom’ as the ‘top?’ Big shift in public perception perhaps? Because morally that is surely how it really is. Think about it?
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Maybe we should all start referring to ‘the top’ as ‘the bottom’, and the ‘bottom’ as the ‘top?’ Big shift in public perception perhaps? Because morally that is surely how it really is. Think about it?
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🔥 WE’RE changing the media.
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Friends of Bylines Network - Bylines Network
Stand with us – sign up. now to become a Friend of Bylines Network
bylinesnetwork.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🔥 WE’RE changing the media.
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Money is ‘God’.
Communities across Scotland are set to benefit from £1.8 million in funding in a bid to help deliver more renewable energy projects, it has been announced
£1.8 million in funding announced for Scottish community energy projects
www.thenational.scot
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Money is ‘God’.
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We've now raised over a quarter of a million!
Thank you!
If you can - please donate to help take the fight to Reform this May:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you!
If you can - please donate to help take the fight to Reform this May:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're upping our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We've now raised over a quarter of a million!
Thank you!
If you can - please donate to help take the fight to Reform this May:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you!
If you can - please donate to help take the fight to Reform this May:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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"Both the tone and substance of the National Security Strategy is not just a tilt away from America’s traditional commitment to Europe, it is in fact a calculated insult."
#UK
#Europe
#USA
#Defence
#UK
#Europe
#USA
#Defence
New US national security framework – is a huge win for Russia
As the US releases its National Security Strategy paper; an alignment with Russia and an abandonment from Europe becomes evident
bylines.scot
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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You can order the book here if you like. It certainly felt like many people were trying to shut me up and bully me out of the room when it was published
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Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it
The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. ‘The NHS is an institution. But it’s also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians fo...
harpercollins.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
You can order the book here if you like. It certainly felt like many people were trying to shut me up and bully me out of the room when it was published
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This is a quite wonderful piece. Associations are everything when bringing something to mind with love and tenderness for people and place: to be able to transmit the same to paper is remarkable. Transmute the same, because the effect is magical. The dreamy visit is quite something. ❤️
I'm not really starting a substack, I don't think. But 1 of the best things that happened to me this year was being shortlisted for the Anne Brown essay prize. The essay was on my great aunt, her house & her remarkable siblings. You can read it here, if you like. danigaravelli.substack.com/p/lepanto
Lepanto
LEPANTO
danigaravelli.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is a quite wonderful piece. Associations are everything when bringing something to mind with love and tenderness for people and place: to be able to transmit the same to paper is remarkable. Transmute the same, because the effect is magical. The dreamy visit is quite something. ❤️
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Big questions about energy infrastructure news. 1. Why are we shipping energy across UK fm Highlands to s of England when they have green resources too? 2. Do windfarm communities benefit? 3. Can any of them really object or is this a done deal? A film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXy...
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Big questions about energy infrastructure news. 1. Why are we shipping energy across UK fm Highlands to s of England when they have green resources too? 2. Do windfarm communities benefit? 3. Can any of them really object or is this a done deal? A film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXy...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
And #BBCthemoralmaze who ‘selects’ the jury?
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
And #BBCthemoralmaze who ‘selects’ the jury?
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Anyone who cares about Europe's future and loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe can take for its own defence and Ukraine's survival. America is lost. www.ft.com/content/3c23...
Brussels floats ‘emergency’ powers to raise €210bn from Russian assets
Contentious proposal to fund Ukraine would mark watershed moment for EU
www.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anyone who cares about Europe's future and loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe can take for its own defence and Ukraine's survival. America is lost. www.ft.com/content/3c23...
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Mark Kelly, "When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts"
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Mark Kelly, "When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts"
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“Don’t Be a Sucker,” a film made in 1943 by the U.S. Department of War, shows how fascists weaponize prejudice to divide and take over nations.
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
“Don’t Be a Sucker,” a film made in 1943 by the U.S. Department of War, shows how fascists weaponize prejudice to divide and take over nations.
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“Holocaust researcher, when you study Auschwitz & you study the SS & the German Nazis, what they did to Jewish people & you study it & then you see we have on our screens this is what they do to Palestinians to torture them...”
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“Holocaust researcher, when you study Auschwitz & you study the SS & the German Nazis, what they did to Jewish people & you study it & then you see we have on our screens this is what they do to Palestinians to torture them...”