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Jon Turney
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Writer & editor, past lives in science policy, sci-comm etc. Retirement pastimes include managing climate anxieties. New writing at UKjazznews.com and @theartsdesk.bsky.social jonturney.wordpress.com See also https://bristoljazzlive.co.uk
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 22h
Jazz calendar site - new blog post...
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Jazz Promotion Network Showcase – Bristol Jazz Live
Bristol Jazz Live:
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d
This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 3d
We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d
BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 3d
Time for Liz Truss to add PM of France (temp) to her CV, if she has a few days to spare?
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d
'Ribbons', a poem by Seamus Heaney, is published for the first time.

The poem appears in The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis. The definitive edition of Heaney's poetry is out on 9 October.

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Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time
The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken
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Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · 6d
I sat down with Prof. Cordelia Fine for an in-depth discussion about her wonderful new book “Patriarchy, Inc.”

She critiques two dominant stories of inequality — the “different but equal” view and the “business case for diversity” — and sets out a richer vision of what equality should mean today.
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Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 03/10/2025 · 53m
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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d
The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d
“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
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Nigel Farage Is a Racist The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda ADAM BIENKOV OCT 04, 2025 Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 5d
Not up to me :)
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 5d
I will, but will she?
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 5d
Argh. Granddaughter is rather keen on fairies…
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 5d
Am in the Literary Review this month: there’s posh (paywall)

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Jon Turney - Solar Power to the People
Jon Turney: Solar Power to the People - Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization by Bill McKibben
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 6d
New CD review

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Nick Malcolm and Out Front – ‘Buried Webs’ - UK Jazz News
It’s good to have a plan, but you have to follow through. Trumpeter Nick Malcolm and Out Front here give us a recording that benefits richly from both. The plan was to form a group to explore composit...
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 7d
The RS is (not completely) full of smart people, but institutionally it is as dumb as institutions tend to be...
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 7d
would recommend :)
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 7d
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 7d
Yup
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 7d
The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal.

This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.
“I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish. Today at a meeting of the Royal Society’s Council, I led a discussion regarding some of those threats. “Science thrives when individuals and institutions have the freedom to carry out research without fear of discrimination, censorship, or other restrictions that would hinder their work. In support of that, Council believes that it is not the role of the Royal Society to police the personal political opinions of individual Fellows and disciplinary procedures should not be initiated because of a Fellow’s social and political views. “However, the Society can and will criticise Fellows who act in a way that runs counter to the values of tolerance, courtesy and respect for others that allow science to flourish. Elon Musk’s contribution to the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is an example of a growing tendency towards the use of the language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation. This language and these narratives threaten the values that enable science to thrive and the Royal Society rejects them, from wherever they originate.”
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 7d
Never know what’s going to turn up in donations to Books for Amnesty - signed first edition of Shackleton’s expedition narrative sold at auction today for two grand :)
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 7d
Ed's right. Again.
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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 7d
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 7d
would recommend :)
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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 7d
My new business many-hats.org is LIVE.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 8d
On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!
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Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social · 8d
Excellent launch reading here from the amazing Bloodaxe books, whose poetry collections run into the thousands …

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Launch reading by Emilie Jelinek, Clare Pollard and Jessica Traynor
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 9d
Tony Harrison died on 26 September. The 𝘓𝘙𝘉 published nearly thirty of his poems over the years. He will be much missed.

The most famous of those poems was ‘v.’, first published in our pages forty years ago – a fearless, state-of-the-nation epic.

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Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 9d
I love how, when you ask ChatGPT a hard question and it says "thinking", there's a button you can press "skip this step". I guess that's how some human brains work too....
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