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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5h

It is not unfair for its critics to point out that much of the paper has been said before, writes Hamish Morrison ✍️

Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 5h

More on that blocked/delayed climate crisis intelligence report 👇🏾

Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 5h

This makes me want to go full gorilla mode www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 7h

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets.

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 2d

The goshawk is thriving in bustling capitals such as Berlin, Amsterdam and Prague and the apex predator could be heading to a city near you. Uplifting one by Ajit Niranjan www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities

Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

www.theguardian.com

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d

EXC from @annaisaac.bsky.social

The finances of one of Nigel Farage’s key confidants are being examined by the UK’s tax and revenue authorities amid questions over his income from wealth and business activities, the Guardian understands.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

www.theguardian.com

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ECIU @eciu.net · 3d

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time

More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy.

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time

More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4d

A very concrete sign of the growing irrelevance of the Conservative Party: someone I know decided to go at the last minute last week, and not only were there rooms still available at the hotel nearest the venue, they weren’t even all that expensive.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

Conservative conference starts in Manchester tomorrow, and ahead of it a series of Tories have told me that while high drama and regicide are unlikely - for now - they face more prosaic and possibly more damaging foes: apathy and irrelevance.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Like going to the in-laws’: Conservative conference to be steeped in apathy

As Kemi Badenoch faces a make-or-break gathering her biggest challenge will be to make herself appear relevant

www.theguardian.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Framing matters. This is a low salience issue. Opinions can shift. If defenders of ECHR don't have workable answers to issues that opponents claim it impedes (prisons, terrorism, asylum) they become more vulnerable than if they can appeal to

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks @pressgazette for this report on @thenerve.news first week.

We’ve blasted past through our targets. New newsletter out today so please do sign up www.thenerve.news & a huge thank you to everyone who’s supported us so far! 🙏🙏 🙏

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 5d

NEW: The Nerve @thenerve.news, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, has attracted more than 900 paying subscribers in its first week
pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-lau...

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 6d

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 6d

BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago; the Lost Forest is now no more 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇🌳 #Kinrara #Cairngormsnationalpark
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago

Latest disposal by ‘punk’ beer company follows £37m loss and closure of 10 pubs

www.theguardian.com

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 6d

BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago; the Lost Forest is now no more 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇🌳 #Kinrara #Cairngormsnationalpark
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago

Latest disposal by ‘punk’ beer company follows £37m loss and closure of 10 pubs

www.theguardian.com

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7d

Gries Glacier
1919 | 2025

Over last 12 months it has lost 6 meters in thickness at the bottom and even the top has melted! 🧊🔥

Between 2000 and 2023, the glacier lost 800 m in length, and is now 3.2 km shorter than in 1880! 📈

Average thickness, now only 57 m... 😱

Via @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

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Laurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social · 7d

“Thinking that commercial investors are going to fix things is foolhardy. We need fresh thinking.”

It was great to speak to @severincarrell.bsky.social about the folly of relying on private finance to fix the nature crisis for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NatureScot may raise ‘more than £100m’ in private investment for conservation

Investors in talks about supporting up to 15 government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland

www.theguardian.com

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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 7d

Ed Miliband: “pessimism never won a single fucking victory”

The Energy Secretary used Labour conference to argue for net zero’s future – and his own

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Ed Miliband: “pessimism never won a single fucking victory”

The Energy Secretary used Labour conference to argue for net zero’s future – and his own

www.newstatesman.com

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 7d

The deputy prime minister David Lammy made history today as he was sworn in as the first black lord chancellor.

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/lord-ch...

Lord chancellor's swearing-in a 'constitutional first'

The deputy prime minister David Lammy made history today as he was sworn in as the first black lord chancellor in court 4 of the Royal Courts of Justice. Lammy MP swore his oaths on the Bible as the l...

www.lawgazette.co.uk

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Katherine Hardy @kardyology.bsky.social · 8d

Don't forget to send in your meter readings tomorrow
if you are on a standard tariff without a smart meter. If you don't your bill will be based on next week’s price cap increase. The difference for a week’s energy at October rates compared with September is +£17

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

Energy bills: millions of Britons ‘at risk of overpaying if they fail to read meter’

Those on standard tariffs who do not have a smart meter should submit meter readings on or around 1 October, says Uswitch

www.theguardian.com

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 8d

@naturescot.bsky.social fends off @futureeconscot.bsky.social criticisms of its private financing for nature by predicting £100m of outside funding for up to 15 woodland and peat projects 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌳 #naturecrisis #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NatureScot may raise ‘more than £100m’ in private investment for conservation

Investors in talks about supporting up to 15 government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland

www.theguardian.com

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 8d

Glasgow University “failed” a student who killed himself on graduation day - Ethan Brown had been wrongly told he had not done well enough to earn his degree 👇@uofglasgow.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Glasgow University accused of failing student who killed himself on graduation day

Ethan Scott Brown was wrongly told he had not earned geography degree despite marks being enough for a 2:1

www.theguardian.com

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 8d

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 8d

and the last day of the season