Iain rousham
@islandsdrifter.bsky.social
Solvitur ambulando - a Sea Walker - BBC/ITV Music
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If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
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What should the world do about Trump's attack on Venezuela, threats to other countries?
The UK hasn't condemned the attack; obeys Trump; won't call for sanctions imposed on other states for violating the UN charter.
The era of gangster states is with us.
Watch the Minister's reply
The UK hasn't condemned the attack; obeys Trump; won't call for sanctions imposed on other states for violating the UN charter.
The era of gangster states is with us.
Watch the Minister's reply
January 8, 2026 at 7:56 PM
What should the world do about Trump's attack on Venezuela, threats to other countries?
The UK hasn't condemned the attack; obeys Trump; won't call for sanctions imposed on other states for violating the UN charter.
The era of gangster states is with us.
Watch the Minister's reply
The UK hasn't condemned the attack; obeys Trump; won't call for sanctions imposed on other states for violating the UN charter.
The era of gangster states is with us.
Watch the Minister's reply
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January 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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One of the key moments of 2025: Our planet has hit its first climate tipping point open.substack.com/pub/weareoce...
Breaking News: Our planet has hit its first climate tipping point
Coral reefs are dying beyond recovery
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
One of the key moments of 2025: Our planet has hit its first climate tipping point open.substack.com/pub/weareoce...
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A Shopgirl at Christmas. New post on Substack & my blog & something a little different. The Shopping Mall of my youth is going to be housing. Here’s what working in Our Price & Debenhams in the Wonderbra era taught me… links in bio or here nicolachester.com/2025/12/30/a...
December 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A Shopgirl at Christmas. New post on Substack & my blog & something a little different. The Shopping Mall of my youth is going to be housing. Here’s what working in Our Price & Debenhams in the Wonderbra era taught me… links in bio or here nicolachester.com/2025/12/30/a...
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No
The 51st state.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
Chlorinated chicken row as US seeks leverage over stalled UK tech pact
Britain is facing renewed pressure from the White House to allow American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into UK supermarkets.
www.farminguk.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
No
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Make America Bankrupt Again: Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs - The Washington Post
December 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Make America Bankrupt Again: Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs - The Washington Post
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As China and the EU go green... "Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast. The Interior Department said the projects posed national security risks, without providing details. The decision imperils billions of dollars of investments."
This will hurt for decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
This will hurt for decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As China and the EU go green... "Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast. The Interior Department said the projects posed national security risks, without providing details. The decision imperils billions of dollars of investments."
This will hurt for decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
This will hurt for decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...
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"We have to have it", says Trump about Greenland.
The felon has attacked Syria and Iran; threatened Nigeria and South Africa; wants to annex Venezuela, Panama, Canada, Gaza; started tariff wars
Trump stupidity will erode US power, encourage more states to go nuclear & build alternative alliances.
The felon has attacked Syria and Iran; threatened Nigeria and South Africa; wants to annex Venezuela, Panama, Canada, Gaza; started tariff wars
Trump stupidity will erode US power, encourage more states to go nuclear & build alternative alliances.
Trump says US needs Greenland after naming special envoy
Denmark warns Washington to respect its sovereignty, while Greenland says it will decide its own future.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"We have to have it", says Trump about Greenland.
The felon has attacked Syria and Iran; threatened Nigeria and South Africa; wants to annex Venezuela, Panama, Canada, Gaza; started tariff wars
Trump stupidity will erode US power, encourage more states to go nuclear & build alternative alliances.
The felon has attacked Syria and Iran; threatened Nigeria and South Africa; wants to annex Venezuela, Panama, Canada, Gaza; started tariff wars
Trump stupidity will erode US power, encourage more states to go nuclear & build alternative alliances.
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⭐🎄We're open on Christmas Eve until 5pm. From 4pm you can join in the carols on Moss Parrock and drift in for your last minute presents. After that, we'll be back open again on Saturday 27th December at 10am!🎄⭐
December 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
⭐🎄We're open on Christmas Eve until 5pm. From 4pm you can join in the carols on Moss Parrock and drift in for your last minute presents. After that, we'll be back open again on Saturday 27th December at 10am!🎄⭐
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Chatting all things writing & #GhostsoftheFarm. An interview with the wonderful Penny Locke from @pennypostwb.bsky.social (whose weekly local news is always an extensive, positive, informative joy to read) www.mixcloud.com/4legsradio/n... @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
The Local Eco Show - 12th December 2025
Local nature writer and award-winning author Nicola Chester discusses her latest book Ghosts of the Farm, the role of women in agriculture and the relationship between farming, community and wildlife ...
www.mixcloud.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Chatting all things writing & #GhostsoftheFarm. An interview with the wonderful Penny Locke from @pennypostwb.bsky.social (whose weekly local news is always an extensive, positive, informative joy to read) www.mixcloud.com/4legsradio/n... @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
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This summer was the first time I'd seen the shocking phenomenon of fir forests in the Peloponnese scattered with brown and dying trees. Sudden changes to once resilient systems as a result of cumulative pressures triggered by a heating climate.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests
In the Peloponnese mountains, the usually hardy trees are turning brown even where fires haven’t reached. Experts are raising the alarm on a complex crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This summer was the first time I'd seen the shocking phenomenon of fir forests in the Peloponnese scattered with brown and dying trees. Sudden changes to once resilient systems as a result of cumulative pressures triggered by a heating climate.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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British icon, hilarious comic & bird-kind Bill Bailey thinks securing homes for birds reliant on cavity nesting habitat is an ace idea. The swift brick debate is tomorrow. Help the birds. Email SWIFT BRICKS to [email protected] & [email protected]
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
British icon, hilarious comic & bird-kind Bill Bailey thinks securing homes for birds reliant on cavity nesting habitat is an ace idea. The swift brick debate is tomorrow. Help the birds. Email SWIFT BRICKS to [email protected] & [email protected]
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If any of the big publishers disappeared the others would just swallow and churn, so no loss. But imagine what the world of books would be without independent publishers? Doesn’t bear thinking about. Congratulations Kevin and Hetha, so glad you dared.
Twenty years ago Heth & I remortgaged our house to start a publishing company that would find great new stories others thought too risky to publish.
Our books have been short listed and won awards and two have been adapted into TV series.
Today we paid that mortgage off
Magic!
Our books have been short listed and won awards and two have been adapted into TV series.
Today we paid that mortgage off
Magic!
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If any of the big publishers disappeared the others would just swallow and churn, so no loss. But imagine what the world of books would be without independent publishers? Doesn’t bear thinking about. Congratulations Kevin and Hetha, so glad you dared.
Anyone in the Cabinet listening?
Private equity decimated US hospitals, says Senate report; now targeting the NHS.
PE practice, Cut staff/wages, high debt/price, asset-stripping tax abuse, poor service.
PE makes millions in the UK from hip/knee/cataract surgery, GP surgeries, care homes, will run new NHS neighbourhood hubs.
PE practice, Cut staff/wages, high debt/price, asset-stripping tax abuse, poor service.
PE makes millions in the UK from hip/knee/cataract surgery, GP surgeries, care homes, will run new NHS neighbourhood hubs.
Private equity - "decimated" US hospitals according to report - now targeting the NHS - The Lowdown
In late August the release of a report by US senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn) on the destruction of hospitals in his home state of Connecticut, and across the US by private equity companies highlights on...
lowdownnhs.info
October 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Anyone in the Cabinet listening?
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This is excellent
Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised
Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised
Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are reshaping them.
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This is excellent
Welfare cuts, oh yes of course that is why we voted for them
Rachel Reeves should consider welfare cuts in budget, says right-wing IFS.
They want the govt to hurt the poor, old, sick, disabled; curtail redistribution which enables millions to survive.
Silence on corporate welfare, ending profiteering, tax abuse by corporations/rich.
It is class war.
They want the govt to hurt the poor, old, sick, disabled; curtail redistribution which enables millions to survive.
Silence on corporate welfare, ending profiteering, tax abuse by corporations/rich.
It is class war.
Rachel Reeves should consider welfare cuts in budget, IFS says
Thinktank urges chancellor to take ‘bold’ action on benefits and pensions to placate jittery financial markets
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Welfare cuts, oh yes of course that is why we voted for them
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I always come to Prague with joy. This time it was literally half a day. At the Forum, which Václav Havel founded, I talked about our PeopleFirst campaign. We are returning the human dimension to political processes.
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I always come to Prague with joy. This time it was literally half a day. At the Forum, which Václav Havel founded, I talked about our PeopleFirst campaign. We are returning the human dimension to political processes.
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Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: For those familiar with Heaney’s work, the new poems will keep them going well beyond Christmas. But soon, the core of the book will matter more – the 12 volumes Heaney published in his lifetime placed in sequence.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: ‘A process of finding echoes and associations’
This book contains Heaney’s unpublished poems plus all those from his single books of poetry published
www.irishtimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: For those familiar with Heaney’s work, the new poems will keep them going well beyond Christmas. But soon, the core of the book will matter more – the 12 volumes Heaney published in his lifetime placed in sequence.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.
Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled
Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.
Power grab by dividing society.
Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled
Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.
Power grab by dividing society.
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues
Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.
Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled
Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.
Power grab by dividing society.
Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled
Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.
Power grab by dividing society.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Something to grasp and treasure. In these uncertain times. Although I wonder about unpublished work being posthumously released. 🤔
Something to grasp and treasure. In these uncertain times. Although I wonder about unpublished work being posthumously released. 🤔
Seamus Heaney’s unpublished poems to be released — read one exclusively here
The Poems of Seamus Heaney, out on Thursday, will feature all 12 of the revered Irish author’s collections alongside uncollected works and 25 poems yet to be published
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Something to grasp and treasure. In these uncertain times. Although I wonder about unpublished work being posthumously released. 🤔
Something to grasp and treasure. In these uncertain times. Although I wonder about unpublished work being posthumously released. 🤔
continuing a tour of Norfolk churches.Following in the footsteps of an ancestor who wrote a book on all of them.Which sadly was not published and is now lost. Here St Margaret’s Antioch near Felbrigg Hall.Where the old village used to be ..here in autumn golden sunshine after a tiring day. Bliss.
October 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
continuing a tour of Norfolk churches.Following in the footsteps of an ancestor who wrote a book on all of them.Which sadly was not published and is now lost. Here St Margaret’s Antioch near Felbrigg Hall.Where the old village used to be ..here in autumn golden sunshine after a tiring day. Bliss.
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74 MPs have signed the EDM for swifts. WOOHOOO!!!!! If yours hasn’t, email [email protected] for a template you can send to them. It’s so easy & also vital. And they can represent your view in about 2 minutes.
September 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
74 MPs have signed the EDM for swifts. WOOHOOO!!!!! If yours hasn’t, email [email protected] for a template you can send to them. It’s so easy & also vital. And they can represent your view in about 2 minutes.