Reposted by David Nicholls
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by David Nicholls
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
Reposted by David Nicholls
"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat"
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat"
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by David Nicholls
A coalition of governments from Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean will join forces to warn that countries most affected by climate change will be left behind in the green energy transition without new funding instruments.
World leaders to call for multibillion dollar green energy boost for developing countries
The countries most threatened by climate change need more cash for renewables, a statement seen by POLITICO warns.
ow.ly
September 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
A coalition of governments from Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean will join forces to warn that countries most affected by climate change will be left behind in the green energy transition without new funding instruments.
Reposted by David Nicholls
📅 Osnabrück | 2.10.
Busse statt Porsche und Panzer
Osnabrück als Friedensstadt und Vorreiter der Mobilitätswende 👇 #Konversion
www.rosalux.de/veran...
Busse statt Porsche und Panzer
Osnabrück als Friedensstadt und Vorreiter der Mobilitätswende 👇 #Konversion
www.rosalux.de/veran...
September 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
📅 Osnabrück | 2.10.
Busse statt Porsche und Panzer
Osnabrück als Friedensstadt und Vorreiter der Mobilitätswende 👇 #Konversion
www.rosalux.de/veran...
Busse statt Porsche und Panzer
Osnabrück als Friedensstadt und Vorreiter der Mobilitätswende 👇 #Konversion
www.rosalux.de/veran...
Hell is other people with nerdlenses
September 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Hell is other people with nerdlenses
Reposted by David Nicholls
A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.
September 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.
Reposted by David Nicholls
En ce jour de rentrée, et si on remerciait les profs qui font vivre l'école publique ?
Ils accomplissent une mission essentielle dans un contexte toujours plus dur, avec toujours moins de moyens et de considération des gouvernants.
Alors merci pour tout ce que vous faites 💚
Ils accomplissent une mission essentielle dans un contexte toujours plus dur, avec toujours moins de moyens et de considération des gouvernants.
Alors merci pour tout ce que vous faites 💚
🏫 Dans un contexte politique incertain et sous la menace de nouvelles coupes budgétaires, élèves et professeurs font leur rentrée.
Libé a choisi de donner la parole à celles et ceux qui font le choix du public, institution garante de laïcité et de mixité 👇
Libé a choisi de donner la parole à celles et ceux qui font le choix du public, institution garante de laïcité et de mixité 👇
«Elle ne choisit pas ses élèves, c’est sa force» : l’école publique, le haut du tableau
www.liberation.fr
September 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
En ce jour de rentrée, et si on remerciait les profs qui font vivre l'école publique ?
Ils accomplissent une mission essentielle dans un contexte toujours plus dur, avec toujours moins de moyens et de considération des gouvernants.
Alors merci pour tout ce que vous faites 💚
Ils accomplissent une mission essentielle dans un contexte toujours plus dur, avec toujours moins de moyens et de considération des gouvernants.
Alors merci pour tout ce que vous faites 💚
Reposted by David Nicholls
(I agree that the endless chastising of Twitter users can occasionally get grating but lol at the somehow many people going "oh I only use it to post links to my work now", like "oh I'm actively trying to profit from the fascism site" is meaningfully better than "I'm on the fascism site for fun")
September 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
(I agree that the endless chastising of Twitter users can occasionally get grating but lol at the somehow many people going "oh I only use it to post links to my work now", like "oh I'm actively trying to profit from the fascism site" is meaningfully better than "I'm on the fascism site for fun")
Reposted by David Nicholls
So the presence of nativist hate mobs outside asylum hotels ultimately contributed to keeping asylum seekers at the hotels.
A spectacular own goal.
A spectacular own goal.
August 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So the presence of nativist hate mobs outside asylum hotels ultimately contributed to keeping asylum seekers at the hotels.
A spectacular own goal.
A spectacular own goal.
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
That's humanism!
We've teamed up with our patron Stephen Fry, to explore humanist ideas about some of life’s big questions in four animated shorts.
humanists.uk
August 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Love this from Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life, featuring four animations narrated by Stephen Fry, and brand new posters all about humanism for schools. Have a look for yourself! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/
Reposted by David Nicholls
We're thrilled to announce Marina Lademacher as the Green Party candidate for the Queen's Park by-election.
Labour austerity has broken our city. Marina will fight to hold them to account.
🗳️ For a real alternative, vote Marina Lademacher on September 18th.
Labour austerity has broken our city. Marina will fight to hold them to account.
🗳️ For a real alternative, vote Marina Lademacher on September 18th.
August 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We're thrilled to announce Marina Lademacher as the Green Party candidate for the Queen's Park by-election.
Labour austerity has broken our city. Marina will fight to hold them to account.
🗳️ For a real alternative, vote Marina Lademacher on September 18th.
Labour austerity has broken our city. Marina will fight to hold them to account.
🗳️ For a real alternative, vote Marina Lademacher on September 18th.
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
July 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
🚨 No More First Past the Post Elections.
5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.
We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.
We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
📢 No More First Past the Post Elections!
The 2025 Local Election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken.
With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning elec...
actionnetwork.org
July 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🚨 No More First Past the Post Elections.
5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.
We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.
We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
I feel like I am doing things now that I wish I'd done 20, 30 or 40 years ago. Better late than never, and never too late to learn!
March 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I feel like I am doing things now that I wish I'd done 20, 30 or 40 years ago. Better late than never, and never too late to learn!
"... it is a battle over whether politics addresses the real world problems voters face, or whether it is instead preoccupied with a fantasy world. " Yes, and the postmodernism of "it's all just a narrative" has a lot to answer for
January 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"... it is a battle over whether politics addresses the real world problems voters face, or whether it is instead preoccupied with a fantasy world. " Yes, and the postmodernism of "it's all just a narrative" has a lot to answer for
Nothing new here but a good summary: mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...
The battle of our age
In my last post of 2024 I noted that the main political battles in many countries would be between on the one hand socially conservative ...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Nothing new here but a good summary: mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...
This makes good sense, I think (and chimes with my own, very limited, experience)
gomakethings.com/the-web-comm...
gomakethings.com/the-web-comm...
The web, community, and UX
When Elon Musk bought Twitter and a large number of users fled to other social networks.
For a while, it looked like Mastodon was going to be the de facto replacement. But at this point, I think Blues...
gomakethings.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:14 PM
This makes good sense, I think (and chimes with my own, very limited, experience)
gomakethings.com/the-web-comm...
gomakethings.com/the-web-comm...
I agree (and yes politics and technology do mix!) gomakethings.com/the-language...
The language of fascism
Yes, this is a political article in a newsletter and on a site about web development. If you follow me for tech, not politics, well… they’re inseparable, but please feel free to stop reading now.
Late...
gomakethings.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:01 PM
I agree (and yes politics and technology do mix!) gomakethings.com/the-language...
Reposted by David Nicholls
There seem to be two qualifications for high office under Trump:
Sexual assault allegations and climate science denial.
Sexual assault allegations and climate science denial.
November 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
There seem to be two qualifications for high office under Trump:
Sexual assault allegations and climate science denial.
Sexual assault allegations and climate science denial.