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Prof Elden, on Latour’s Down to Earth:
There is “a conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with the rest of the world”
There is “a conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with the rest of the world”
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🔴The Good News in Rachel Reeves’ Budget
From lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, to taking on the media-backed gambling lobby, there was much to praise and far less to criticise in the Chancellor’s statement, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
From lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, to taking on the media-backed gambling lobby, there was much to praise and far less to criticise in the Chancellor’s statement, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
The Good News in Rachel Reeves' Budget
From lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, to taking on the media-backed gambling lobby, there was much to praise and far less to criticise in the Chancellor's annual statement, ar...
bylinetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🔴The Good News in Rachel Reeves’ Budget
From lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, to taking on the media-backed gambling lobby, there was much to praise and far less to criticise in the Chancellor’s statement, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
From lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, to taking on the media-backed gambling lobby, there was much to praise and far less to criticise in the Chancellor’s statement, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
“Donald Trump's net approval rating is now lower than at any other point in either of his terms, at -19%”
(The Economist)
57% disapprove
38% approve
4% are not sure
Supporters: more likely to be white males aged 45-64 qualified to HS or less (see chart below)
(The Economist)
57% disapprove
38% approve
4% are not sure
Supporters: more likely to be white males aged 45-64 qualified to HS or less (see chart below)
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“Donald Trump's net approval rating is now lower than at any other point in either of his terms, at -19%”
(The Economist)
57% disapprove
38% approve
4% are not sure
Supporters: more likely to be white males aged 45-64 qualified to HS or less (see chart below)
(The Economist)
57% disapprove
38% approve
4% are not sure
Supporters: more likely to be white males aged 45-64 qualified to HS or less (see chart below)
“Markets are giving their verdict: FTSE up; bond yields down;
£ stronger”
(FT reader comment on the budget)
hope Martin Wolf of the FT got what he wished for:
“Some sight of a workable and coherent long-term economic strategy”
£ stronger”
(FT reader comment on the budget)
hope Martin Wolf of the FT got what he wished for:
“Some sight of a workable and coherent long-term economic strategy”
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Markets are giving their verdict: FTSE up; bond yields down;
£ stronger”
(FT reader comment on the budget)
hope Martin Wolf of the FT got what he wished for:
“Some sight of a workable and coherent long-term economic strategy”
£ stronger”
(FT reader comment on the budget)
hope Martin Wolf of the FT got what he wished for:
“Some sight of a workable and coherent long-term economic strategy”
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Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"
Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
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NEW: Wales’s first minister @prifweinidog.gov.wales backs call for a full investigation into Russian interference.
Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.
Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
NEW: Wales’s first minister @prifweinidog.gov.wales backs call for a full investigation into Russian interference.
Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.
Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.
Farage forced to deny racism:
“I never directly racially abused anybody”
describes alleged racist abuse as having “misspoken”
(BBC interview)
If he succeeds in brushing this off, the far-right win and he’s our next Prime Minister (say bye to the NHS & hello to the death penalty)
“I never directly racially abused anybody”
describes alleged racist abuse as having “misspoken”
(BBC interview)
If he succeeds in brushing this off, the far-right win and he’s our next Prime Minister (say bye to the NHS & hello to the death penalty)
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Farage forced to deny racism:
“I never directly racially abused anybody”
describes alleged racist abuse as having “misspoken”
(BBC interview)
If he succeeds in brushing this off, the far-right win and he’s our next Prime Minister (say bye to the NHS & hello to the death penalty)
“I never directly racially abused anybody”
describes alleged racist abuse as having “misspoken”
(BBC interview)
If he succeeds in brushing this off, the far-right win and he’s our next Prime Minister (say bye to the NHS & hello to the death penalty)
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"He told the BBC he had been contacted by people "who were nine years old and Nigel Farage, when he was 18 years old, marched frequently into the playground where they were playing and they were told to 'go back to Africa."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Nigel Farage’s abuse was persistent, not banter, claims ex-schoolmate
Peter Ettedgui says he was targeted at Dulwich College. The Reform UK leader denies he racially abused anybody
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"He told the BBC he had been contacted by people "who were nine years old and Nigel Farage, when he was 18 years old, marched frequently into the playground where they were playing and they were told to 'go back to Africa."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
For Celia Monreal, a former Trump voter, one Senate vote can mean the difference between keeping health coverage or going uninsured.
“Considering the bills and everything else, we wouldn’t be able to afford a $1,500 a month increase for health insurance,” Monreal told journalist Chris Vazquez.
“Considering the bills and everything else, we wouldn’t be able to afford a $1,500 a month increase for health insurance,” Monreal told journalist Chris Vazquez.
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
seems like a good case study for the ongoing research into the impact of PFAS and nanoplastics upon cognition…
on the plus side they also cause endocrine disruption, and are theorised to be a causal factor in declining fertility rates within the west
#TwoSidesOfTheSameCoin
on the plus side they also cause endocrine disruption, and are theorised to be a causal factor in declining fertility rates within the west
#TwoSidesOfTheSameCoin
A Republican candidate calling for death of homosexuals*
*And slurring gay people as paedophiles
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*And slurring gay people as paedophiles
bsky.app/profile/iwil...
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
seems like a good case study for the ongoing research into the impact of PFAS and nanoplastics upon cognition…
on the plus side they also cause endocrine disruption, and are theorised to be a causal factor in declining fertility rates within the west
#TwoSidesOfTheSameCoin
on the plus side they also cause endocrine disruption, and are theorised to be a causal factor in declining fertility rates within the west
#TwoSidesOfTheSameCoin
Dear Lindsay,
What are the consequences for deliberately misleading a select committee? (Please see below),
Is this one for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport?
Yours,
A curious public 🇬🇧
@commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
What are the consequences for deliberately misleading a select committee? (Please see below),
Is this one for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport?
Yours,
A curious public 🇬🇧
@commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
Gibb said he never interfered editorially in the Jewish Chronicle
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Dear Lindsay,
What are the consequences for deliberately misleading a select committee? (Please see below),
Is this one for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport?
Yours,
A curious public 🇬🇧
@commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
What are the consequences for deliberately misleading a select committee? (Please see below),
Is this one for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport?
Yours,
A curious public 🇬🇧
@commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
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Gibb said he never interfered editorially in the Jewish Chronicle
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Gibb said he never interfered editorially in the Jewish Chronicle
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
Hmm - seems like accuracy is not one of his strong points
And isn’t there some kind of sanction for misleading parliament?
Not up is the right direction
YouGov tend to record lower Reform scores than other pollsters, but this represents Reform's lowest polling in any poll since 25th April.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (+2)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 23-24 Nov.
Changes w/ 16-17 Nov.
RFM: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (+2)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 23-24 Nov.
Changes w/ 16-17 Nov.
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Not up is the right direction
“Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician”
(Martin Wolf, Financial Times)
(Martin Wolf, Financial Times)
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician”
(Martin Wolf, Financial Times)
(Martin Wolf, Financial Times)
hypothetical scenario 🧵 1/4:
Canada engages in some joint military training exercises with the EU in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean
UK is estranged from the EU & Canada, so it invades and seizes control of Nova Scotia - akin to 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea
Canada engages in some joint military training exercises with the EU in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean
UK is estranged from the EU & Canada, so it invades and seizes control of Nova Scotia - akin to 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea
ICYMI: On Sky’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Zia Yusuf refused five times to back away from Nigel Farage’s position that NATO and the West were the causes of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (1/x)
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
hypothetical scenario 🧵 1/4:
Canada engages in some joint military training exercises with the EU in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean
UK is estranged from the EU & Canada, so it invades and seizes control of Nova Scotia - akin to 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea
Canada engages in some joint military training exercises with the EU in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean
UK is estranged from the EU & Canada, so it invades and seizes control of Nova Scotia - akin to 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea
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The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
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If this is a moment when you feel like helping courageous Ukrainians to stay alive, here is one way to do so.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...
www.help99.co
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If this is a moment when you feel like helping courageous Ukrainians to stay alive, here is one way to do so.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
👇 Example of why democracies don’t work unless they
GET BIG MONEY
OUT OF POLITICS
#ItsNeverTooLateForThat
GET BIG MONEY
OUT OF POLITICS
#ItsNeverTooLateForThat
"before the letter showed up on the President’s desk, [Christine Todd Whitman] had caught Cheney printing out the letter on the White House printer." - @ghostpanther.bsky.social with a crazy story of about how Dick Cheney derailed climate action in the W. Bush Administration.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
👇 Example of why democracies don’t work unless they
GET BIG MONEY
OUT OF POLITICS
#ItsNeverTooLateForThat
GET BIG MONEY
OUT OF POLITICS
#ItsNeverTooLateForThat
“One implication of the increased growth rate of GHG forcing in the last 15 years is that the goal to keep global warming under 2°C is now implausible”
(James Hansen et al)
(James Hansen et al)
www.columbia.edu
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“One implication of the increased growth rate of GHG forcing in the last 15 years is that the goal to keep global warming under 2°C is now implausible”
(James Hansen et al)
(James Hansen et al)
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Still think we’re not there yet?
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Still think we’re not there yet?
US lawmakers reminding the military and intelligence services not to kill US citizens (and that they swore an oath not to)
want Trump’s America here in the UK? then #voteReformUK
#FaragesBritain
#IllegalOrders
want Trump’s America here in the UK? then #voteReformUK
#FaragesBritain
#IllegalOrders
don’t give up the ship
YouTube video by Tiedrich
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
US lawmakers reminding the military and intelligence services not to kill US citizens (and that they swore an oath not to)
want Trump’s America here in the UK? then #voteReformUK
#FaragesBritain
#IllegalOrders
want Trump’s America here in the UK? then #voteReformUK
#FaragesBritain
#IllegalOrders
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Recent updates as of 20.11 👇
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Recent updates as of 20.11 👇
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Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence tend to center around the technology’s economic and large-scale impacts. Yet it’s at the individual level where we’re seeing AI’s most potent effects, and they may not be what you think.
In this episode, Nate is joined by @norabateson.bsky.social and Zak Stein to explore the multifaceted ways that AI is designed to exploit our deepest social vulnerabilities, and the risks this poses to human relationships, cognition, and society.
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/real...
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/real...
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence tend to center around the technology’s economic and large-scale impacts. Yet it’s at the individual level where we’re seeing AI’s most potent effects, and they may not be what you think.