Margaret
@margmsec.bsky.social
Mediaeval, cake lover, oldish, leftish, bookish. Green.
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Thanks so much to the 5 of you that booked places over the holiday season for the Christmas Lecture... See you on Tuesday!
If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Thanks so much to the 5 of you that booked places over the holiday season for the Christmas Lecture... See you on Tuesday!
If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
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🤑Thames Water creditors are haggling with Ofwat.
💩They want permission to pollute our waters until 2040.
😡But we've had a year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO.
Take 2 minutes to email Ofwat and tell them to reject the outrageous deal. #OFWATsayNO
vist.ly/4jdfb
💩They want permission to pollute our waters until 2040.
😡But we've had a year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO.
Take 2 minutes to email Ofwat and tell them to reject the outrageous deal. #OFWATsayNO
vist.ly/4jdfb
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🤑Thames Water creditors are haggling with Ofwat.
💩They want permission to pollute our waters until 2040.
😡But we've had a year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO.
Take 2 minutes to email Ofwat and tell them to reject the outrageous deal. #OFWATsayNO
vist.ly/4jdfb
💩They want permission to pollute our waters until 2040.
😡But we've had a year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO.
Take 2 minutes to email Ofwat and tell them to reject the outrageous deal. #OFWATsayNO
vist.ly/4jdfb
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Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
For Christmas, a BBC/Channel 4 collaboration: The Coventry Carol
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
🚨Millions of homeowners are trapped by feudal ground rents, unfair fees for land they already own. The Government promised to cap them, but now the Treasury is pressuring ministers to back down. Sign & share: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/endgroun...
End the ground rent rip-off
🚨Millions of homeowners are trapped by feudal ground rents, unfair fees for land they already own. The Government promised to cap them, but now the Treasury is pressuring ministers to back down. Sign ...
act.38degrees.org.uk
December 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🚨Millions of homeowners are trapped by feudal ground rents, unfair fees for land they already own. The Government promised to cap them, but now the Treasury is pressuring ministers to back down. Sign & share: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/endgroun...
The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...
Protect Our Food From Toxic Pesticides
The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants, and a nightmare for the rest of us. A new proposal could let toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, stay on the market forever.Yes, forever approvals....
action.wemove.eu
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...
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The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
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There's a poll on this page. You know what to do. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
POLL: Is Britain right to rejoin the Erasmus EU education scheme?
Work on the UK joining Erasmus was announced as part of the Prime Minister's post-Brexit reset deal with Brussels in May. The UK left the scheme under Boris Johnson.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
There's a poll on this page. You know what to do. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Donald Trump is suing the BBC for defamation, accusing the broadcaster of splicing his January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary to make it look like he incited violence, writes Amelia Jenne.
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Trump sues BBC for $10bn - what happens next?
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for defamation, accusing the broadcaster of splicing his January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary to make it look like he incited violence. Amelia Jenne reports.
channel4news.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for defamation, accusing the broadcaster of splicing his January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary to make it look like he incited violence, writes Amelia Jenne.
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The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end.
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
British government backs the BBC as Trump sues it for billions
Stephen Kinnock said the public service broadcaster is “right to stick by their guns.”
www.politico.eu
December 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end.
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
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Careful what you read in the Sunday papers or whilst you are out for a festive pint. In the most recent Mythbusting blog, I took a look at how pseudo-history may be used to part you from your hard earned cash...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2025/09/07/m...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Careful what you read in the Sunday papers or whilst you are out for a festive pint. In the most recent Mythbusting blog, I took a look at how pseudo-history may be used to part you from your hard earned cash...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2025/09/07/m...
triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2025/09/07/m...
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The free tours at the National Portrait Gallery are *so* good
Went today on tour of women in the gallery, including this stunning portrait of Ada Lovelace (Charles Babbage on the right)
Went today on tour of women in the gallery, including this stunning portrait of Ada Lovelace (Charles Babbage on the right)
December 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The free tours at the National Portrait Gallery are *so* good
Went today on tour of women in the gallery, including this stunning portrait of Ada Lovelace (Charles Babbage on the right)
Went today on tour of women in the gallery, including this stunning portrait of Ada Lovelace (Charles Babbage on the right)
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NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
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I can’t think of a better symbol of Reform’s ambitions for Britain than a sideways flag hanging forlornly over a blocked drain.
From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’.
No thanks.
From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’.
No thanks.
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I can’t think of a better symbol of Reform’s ambitions for Britain than a sideways flag hanging forlornly over a blocked drain.
From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’.
No thanks.
From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’.
No thanks.
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🚨🚨This is worse than we could have imagined: Full version of #Trump's national #securitystrategy reportedly calls for “pulling Poland away from #EU”. 🧵 notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
Fuller version of Trump security strategy reportedly calls for "pulling Poland away from EU"
notesfrompoland.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🚨🚨This is worse than we could have imagined: Full version of #Trump's national #securitystrategy reportedly calls for “pulling Poland away from #EU”. 🧵 notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
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Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
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(Yes, invoke section 4 of the fifth amendment, America)
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
(Yes, invoke section 4 of the fifth amendment, America)
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Dear Labour -
You need to do far more for the poor, the left behind, the ordinary people in order to stop this nightmare.
If you don’t and Reform get it you will never be forgiven and I believe that Labour will never be in government again.
Dear Labour -
You need to do far more for the poor, the left behind, the ordinary people in order to stop this nightmare.
If you don’t and Reform get it you will never be forgiven and I believe that Labour will never be in government again.
Farage tells donors he expects Reform to do election deal with Tories – report
One donor tells FT that Reform leader described an agreement as ‘inevitable’, despite denials from both sides
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Dear Labour -
You need to do far more for the poor, the left behind, the ordinary people in order to stop this nightmare.
If you don’t and Reform get it you will never be forgiven and I believe that Labour will never be in government again.
Dear Labour -
You need to do far more for the poor, the left behind, the ordinary people in order to stop this nightmare.
If you don’t and Reform get it you will never be forgiven and I believe that Labour will never be in government again.
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Absolutely this
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What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
December 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Absolutely this
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The UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark.
Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches
Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated November 2025
westenglandbylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark.
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This article is really good. Both on how the planning system is near impossible for communities to navigate and regulation lacking – and on the strength of communities coming together to fight oil & gas projects.
Good luck to the Foxholes locals. We also have an Egdon application in Dorset.
Good luck to the Foxholes locals. We also have an Egdon application in Dorset.
✍️ Foxholes’ ‘line in the chalk’: locals come together to resist gas drilling proposal
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
By David Eddy
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
By David Eddy
Foxholes’ ‘line in the chalk’: locals come together to resist gas drilling proposal
What happens when a village community stands its ground against the potential environmental threat from a powerful developer
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This article is really good. Both on how the planning system is near impossible for communities to navigate and regulation lacking – and on the strength of communities coming together to fight oil & gas projects.
Good luck to the Foxholes locals. We also have an Egdon application in Dorset.
Good luck to the Foxholes locals. We also have an Egdon application in Dorset.
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People that make money, fund success - here in our country in our economy, they should pay tax here, put back into the system that enabled their success. Not run off like some thief in the night to a tax haven to save paying their fair share. I reckon that’s immoral.
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
People that make money, fund success - here in our country in our economy, they should pay tax here, put back into the system that enabled their success. Not run off like some thief in the night to a tax haven to save paying their fair share. I reckon that’s immoral.