Martin Veart
@martinveart.bsky.social
Human Factors practitioner, former geophysical engineer and recovering political candidate. Still passionate about the state of the world, not so much about party politics. Seeker of consensus, starting with fascism is A Bad Thing.
Married.
Married.
The FIFA peace prize?
Oh those guys at FIFA know how to kiss Trump’s ring.
Oh those guys at FIFA know how to kiss Trump’s ring.
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The FIFA peace prize?
Oh those guys at FIFA know how to kiss Trump’s ring.
Oh those guys at FIFA know how to kiss Trump’s ring.
I stumbled on a Telegraph hatchet job of Reeves’ budget. Keen to show the effects of inflation on earnings, the writers do not apply the same thoroughness when making other calculations. Note the outrage of the text vs. the Bank of England inflation calculator value for £2300 today compared to 2005.
November 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I stumbled on a Telegraph hatchet job of Reeves’ budget. Keen to show the effects of inflation on earnings, the writers do not apply the same thoroughness when making other calculations. Note the outrage of the text vs. the Bank of England inflation calculator value for £2300 today compared to 2005.
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🚨BREAKING🚨New figures reveal the true cost of Brexit.
It's time for Labour to stop being so timid and fix the damage done by the Conservatives' botched Brexit deal.
That is the best way to boost growth, put money in people's pockets and properly fund our public services.
It's time for Labour to stop being so timid and fix the damage done by the Conservatives' botched Brexit deal.
That is the best way to boost growth, put money in people's pockets and properly fund our public services.
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨New figures reveal the true cost of Brexit.
It's time for Labour to stop being so timid and fix the damage done by the Conservatives' botched Brexit deal.
That is the best way to boost growth, put money in people's pockets and properly fund our public services.
It's time for Labour to stop being so timid and fix the damage done by the Conservatives' botched Brexit deal.
That is the best way to boost growth, put money in people's pockets and properly fund our public services.
What happens to the disappeared in Trump’s America. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What happens to the disappeared in Trump’s America. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Certainly also happening in Sciences - see e.g. Leicester and geology bsky.app/profile/thef...
My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Certainly also happening in Sciences - see e.g. Leicester and geology bsky.app/profile/thef...
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Aberystwyth did the same with my old geology department. It is too easy for departments to power grab and in doing so, lose focus on earth history.
Earth has its own history which is not written in books until someone takes a map, notebooks, lens and hammer out and finds it.
Aberystwyth did the same with my old geology department. It is too easy for departments to power grab and in doing so, lose focus on earth history.
Earth has its own history which is not written in books until someone takes a map, notebooks, lens and hammer out and finds it.
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
c.org/HfXSjwDMQV
Aberystwyth did the same with my old geology department. It is too easy for departments to power grab and in doing so, lose focus on earth history.
Earth has its own history which is not written in books until someone takes a map, notebooks, lens and hammer out and finds it.
Aberystwyth did the same with my old geology department. It is too easy for departments to power grab and in doing so, lose focus on earth history.
Earth has its own history which is not written in books until someone takes a map, notebooks, lens and hammer out and finds it.
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More MEPs investigated in Russian bribe probe’
There have been no other arrests or interviews under caution, but the Met’s counter terrorism commander Dominic Murphy said at a briefing last Thursday his team were investigating several former British MEPs.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
There have been no other arrests or interviews under caution, but the Met’s counter terrorism commander Dominic Murphy said at a briefing last Thursday his team were investigating several former British MEPs.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
More MEPs investigated in Russian bribe probe | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
More MEPs investigated in Russian bribe probe’
There have been no other arrests or interviews under caution, but the Met’s counter terrorism commander Dominic Murphy said at a briefing last Thursday his team were investigating several former British MEPs.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
There have been no other arrests or interviews under caution, but the Met’s counter terrorism commander Dominic Murphy said at a briefing last Thursday his team were investigating several former British MEPs.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
The USA is fishing for new bases in Western Africa. #Nigeria (or any other nation in the region) should say a big fat no.
The USA is fishing for new bases in Western Africa. #Nigeria (or any other nation in the region) should say a big fat no.
Nigerian officials in Washington after Trump’s threats of military action over violence against Christians | CNN Politics
Nigerian officials are meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau this week amid increasing focus from the Trump administration on Christians in Niger...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The USA is fishing for new bases in Western Africa. #Nigeria (or any other nation in the region) should say a big fat no.
The USA is fishing for new bases in Western Africa. #Nigeria (or any other nation in the region) should say a big fat no.
#Trump is the total, sincere and openly honest epitome of badness and human wickedness.
That’s his appeal. He doesn’t pretend. Others are accused of hypocrisy because they attempt to hide their faults. Trump doesn’t. He is openly corrupt and revels when people pander to him.
That’s his appeal. He doesn’t pretend. Others are accused of hypocrisy because they attempt to hide their faults. Trump doesn’t. He is openly corrupt and revels when people pander to him.
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
#Trump is the total, sincere and openly honest epitome of badness and human wickedness.
That’s his appeal. He doesn’t pretend. Others are accused of hypocrisy because they attempt to hide their faults. Trump doesn’t. He is openly corrupt and revels when people pander to him.
That’s his appeal. He doesn’t pretend. Others are accused of hypocrisy because they attempt to hide their faults. Trump doesn’t. He is openly corrupt and revels when people pander to him.
“Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister“
Sorry Shabana Mahmood, the idea of taking jewellery off people did not start with the Danes. The Germans did it previously on a vast scale.
Sorry Shabana Mahmood, the idea of taking jewellery off people did not start with the Danes. The Germans did it previously on a vast scale.
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister“
Sorry Shabana Mahmood, the idea of taking jewellery off people did not start with the Danes. The Germans did it previously on a vast scale.
Sorry Shabana Mahmood, the idea of taking jewellery off people did not start with the Danes. The Germans did it previously on a vast scale.
I don’t like Labour’s latest policy on refugees. Once again they are pandering to the worse side of the British character. Many politicians need to understand that their role is not just to get elected but to be leaders too, guiding people to be better versions of themselves.
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I don’t like Labour’s latest policy on refugees. Once again they are pandering to the worse side of the British character. Many politicians need to understand that their role is not just to get elected but to be leaders too, guiding people to be better versions of themselves.
Honestly I don’t think the BBC should mind Trump.
Why? His lawyers will have to prove in court that he suffered material damage to the sum claimed in open court. “Oh I’m such a loser that I continued to maintain political control and went on to win the next election. Boo hoo! Pay me $5billion.”
Why? His lawyers will have to prove in court that he suffered material damage to the sum claimed in open court. “Oh I’m such a loser that I continued to maintain political control and went on to win the next election. Boo hoo! Pay me $5billion.”
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Honestly I don’t think the BBC should mind Trump.
Why? His lawyers will have to prove in court that he suffered material damage to the sum claimed in open court. “Oh I’m such a loser that I continued to maintain political control and went on to win the next election. Boo hoo! Pay me $5billion.”
Why? His lawyers will have to prove in court that he suffered material damage to the sum claimed in open court. “Oh I’m such a loser that I continued to maintain political control and went on to win the next election. Boo hoo! Pay me $5billion.”
Weight limitation be introduced for offshore workers. 124kg / 19 and a half stone.
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Weight limitation be introduced for offshore workers. 124kg / 19 and a half stone.
Under his new pay deal, Musk is due to take home $238,000,000 a day for ten years.
He is the kind of dude who read Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy and really admired the business plan of the Magratheans. They were the custom planet builders who avarice lead to a galaxy-wide economic depression.
He is the kind of dude who read Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy and really admired the business plan of the Magratheans. They were the custom planet builders who avarice lead to a galaxy-wide economic depression.
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Under his new pay deal, Musk is due to take home $238,000,000 a day for ten years.
He is the kind of dude who read Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy and really admired the business plan of the Magratheans. They were the custom planet builders who avarice lead to a galaxy-wide economic depression.
He is the kind of dude who read Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy and really admired the business plan of the Magratheans. They were the custom planet builders who avarice lead to a galaxy-wide economic depression.
Labour is now looking towards the Danes for leadership on how to deal with immigrants and refugees.
Starmer has taken Labour and drained the hope, progressiveness and the compassion out of the party.
“What the fuck happened to you man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful.” (From Jackie Brown 1997)
Starmer has taken Labour and drained the hope, progressiveness and the compassion out of the party.
“What the fuck happened to you man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful.” (From Jackie Brown 1997)
November 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Labour is now looking towards the Danes for leadership on how to deal with immigrants and refugees.
Starmer has taken Labour and drained the hope, progressiveness and the compassion out of the party.
“What the fuck happened to you man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful.” (From Jackie Brown 1997)
Starmer has taken Labour and drained the hope, progressiveness and the compassion out of the party.
“What the fuck happened to you man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful.” (From Jackie Brown 1997)
One reads reports that Labour are going to charge EV drivers 3p a mile road tax from 2028.
I have just crunched some numbers. On my current commute, this would make the cost very similar to what I pay for diesel. Let’s hope Labour isn’t really going to pour a bucket of ice water over the EV market.
I have just crunched some numbers. On my current commute, this would make the cost very similar to what I pay for diesel. Let’s hope Labour isn’t really going to pour a bucket of ice water over the EV market.
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
One reads reports that Labour are going to charge EV drivers 3p a mile road tax from 2028.
I have just crunched some numbers. On my current commute, this would make the cost very similar to what I pay for diesel. Let’s hope Labour isn’t really going to pour a bucket of ice water over the EV market.
I have just crunched some numbers. On my current commute, this would make the cost very similar to what I pay for diesel. Let’s hope Labour isn’t really going to pour a bucket of ice water over the EV market.
#gbbo 🎼 I need a hero!
I need a hero flavour to impress Paul. It’s got to be strong, it’s got to be good and it’s got to be larger than life. Larger than life. Doo, do doooo! 🎶
1.2m or over to be exact….
I need a hero flavour to impress Paul. It’s got to be strong, it’s got to be good and it’s got to be larger than life. Larger than life. Doo, do doooo! 🎶
1.2m or over to be exact….
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
#gbbo 🎼 I need a hero!
I need a hero flavour to impress Paul. It’s got to be strong, it’s got to be good and it’s got to be larger than life. Larger than life. Doo, do doooo! 🎶
1.2m or over to be exact….
I need a hero flavour to impress Paul. It’s got to be strong, it’s got to be good and it’s got to be larger than life. Larger than life. Doo, do doooo! 🎶
1.2m or over to be exact….
My abiding memory of Cheney is “Not yet Dick”: the cartoon of the White House wargaming the Iraq invasion, with Cheney sneaking a Halliburton truck just behind the tanks.
He was a man of power, violence, ruthless business and a supporter of mass torture.
I will not be adding to the eulogies.
He was a man of power, violence, ruthless business and a supporter of mass torture.
I will not be adding to the eulogies.
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My abiding memory of Cheney is “Not yet Dick”: the cartoon of the White House wargaming the Iraq invasion, with Cheney sneaking a Halliburton truck just behind the tanks.
He was a man of power, violence, ruthless business and a supporter of mass torture.
I will not be adding to the eulogies.
He was a man of power, violence, ruthless business and a supporter of mass torture.
I will not be adding to the eulogies.
