Ally Tibbitt
@allytibbitt.me
Journalist | Audience @uk.theconversation.com | Trustee of @mysociety.bsky.social | Co-editor of @gairlochtimes.org.uk | Based in Scottish Highlands but often roaming. Contact via @Signal.org username: allytibbitt.92
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Energy firm makes ridiculous excuse to customer about why they can't fix their smart meter.
Performs sharp U-turn under scrutiny.
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Performs sharp U-turn under scrutiny.
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Octopus tells Gairloch customer: 'We're unable to send engineers north of Great Glen' in winter
The Energy firm has apologised after the Gairloch and District Times contacted them.
gairlochtimes.org.uk
December 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Energy firm makes ridiculous excuse to customer about why they can't fix their smart meter.
Performs sharp U-turn under scrutiny.
gairlochtimes.org.uk/octopus-tell...
Performs sharp U-turn under scrutiny.
gairlochtimes.org.uk/octopus-tell...
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🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
December 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
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It's the last Wester Ross Round-up of the year. You might think the news would slow down in the run up to Christmas. Nope.
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A Humpback in Loch Broom and Co-op opens
This is the last round-up of 2025. Read to the end to watch a lovely rendition of I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas.
gairlochtimes.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It's the last Wester Ross Round-up of the year. You might think the news would slow down in the run up to Christmas. Nope.
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Not going to do full pass this week but just to note some rare new entries in the gifts from non-uk sources category - boxing tickets for Chris Webb and ticket to an event at Mar-a-Lago for Nigel Farage. www.theyworkforyou.com/interests/ca...
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Not going to do full pass this week but just to note some rare new entries in the gifts from non-uk sources category - boxing tickets for Chris Webb and ticket to an event at Mar-a-Lago for Nigel Farage. www.theyworkforyou.com/interests/ca...
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this
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oh my GOD
"At Walmart, recalled products were found in stores across 21 states.
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
US FDA sends warning letters to Walmart, Target for selling recalled baby formula
The FDA said four major retailers continued to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial illness in infants even after the products were recalled.
www.reuters.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
oh my GOD
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🚨David McLennan is Reform UK's first elected councillor in Scotland. He won a by-election in Whitburn last week.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨David McLennan is Reform UK's first elected councillor in Scotland. He won a by-election in Whitburn last week.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
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“FixMyStreet is a classic for a reason.”
What lovely words to discover said about FixMyStreet by the 2024–25 Fellows of Newspeak House for their Political Technology Awards grant making exercise.
www.societyworks.org/2025/12/15/f...
What lovely words to discover said about FixMyStreet by the 2024–25 Fellows of Newspeak House for their Political Technology Awards grant making exercise.
www.societyworks.org/2025/12/15/f...
“FixMyStreet is a classic for a reason.” FixMyStreet celebrated in Newspeak House Political Technology Awards 2024–25
"It’s a clean, practical tool that opens a direct line between people and local government. But what struck me was the deeper shift it invites: it makes place-based maintenance visible, collective, an...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“FixMyStreet is a classic for a reason.”
What lovely words to discover said about FixMyStreet by the 2024–25 Fellows of Newspeak House for their Political Technology Awards grant making exercise.
www.societyworks.org/2025/12/15/f...
What lovely words to discover said about FixMyStreet by the 2024–25 Fellows of Newspeak House for their Political Technology Awards grant making exercise.
www.societyworks.org/2025/12/15/f...
The most frustrating part of this whole thing is that the Registers of Scotland could, if they were more public spirited, just publish these figures. It should not require people to pay extra to get basic info that is ordinarily disclosed.
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You can have this Information but it will Cost You £630 - Land Matters
Regular readers will recall my blog of 21 November 2025 where I expose the growing practice of entering “Implementation of Missives” as the consideration in deeds transferring ownership of land in Sco...
andywightman.scot
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The most frustrating part of this whole thing is that the Registers of Scotland could, if they were more public spirited, just publish these figures. It should not require people to pay extra to get basic info that is ordinarily disclosed.
andywightman.scot/2025/12/you-...
andywightman.scot/2025/12/you-...
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We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Free speech, baby
SCOOP: The Trump administration may revoke the visas of critics of Elon Musk's Twitter.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
zeteo.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Free speech, baby
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Depressing yet utterly unsurprising that it's taken two weeks for any media to report that the editor of The Times has been arrested and charged. Any newsroom trying to claim they had to wait for indictment doesn't seem to apply that logic to literally any other arrest/initial court appearance.
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Depressing yet utterly unsurprising that it's taken two weeks for any media to report that the editor of The Times has been arrested and charged. Any newsroom trying to claim they had to wait for indictment doesn't seem to apply that logic to literally any other arrest/initial court appearance.
I see the number one TV show on Amazon Prime in the UK is... All 15 seasons of Neighbours.
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I see the number one TV show on Amazon Prime in the UK is... All 15 seasons of Neighbours.
The same bug players take the cash from Google, and what happens to small, independent publishers?
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Google announces first AI deals with publishers
Cash payments come as search giant announces new features to improve referral clicks.
pressgazette.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The same bug players take the cash from Google, and what happens to small, independent publishers?
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...
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💡 It's windy and dark out there. Fear not! The Wester Ross Round-up is here to shine a little local news light: gairlochtimes.org.uk/screen-machi...
Screen Machine success and NC500 survey
Read to the end to watch a lovely animated film frrom the pupils of Bualnaluib Primary School.
gairlochtimes.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
💡 It's windy and dark out there. Fear not! The Wester Ross Round-up is here to shine a little local news light: gairlochtimes.org.uk/screen-machi...
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Morning! Here's something exciting we've been working on: WriteToThem Insights www.mysociety.org/2025/12/11/n...
New report: WriteToThem Insights
What people are writhing to their representatives about? Insights from a new survey.
www.mysociety.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Morning! Here's something exciting we've been working on: WriteToThem Insights www.mysociety.org/2025/12/11/n...
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🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
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Today we are launching the Scottish Public Spending Dashboard, a collaboration between the FAI and JRF. This is a new tool allowing detailed government spending figures to be accessed and analysed by a broader set of people.
Learn more below:
Learn more below:
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December 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today we are launching the Scottish Public Spending Dashboard, a collaboration between the FAI and JRF. This is a new tool allowing detailed government spending figures to be accessed and analysed by a broader set of people.
Learn more below:
Learn more below:
Former Chair of IPSO arguing for right of press to be unfair right now, in response to calls for better regulation.
"We don't want all our media to be like the Today program or The Guardian."
What a bizarre take.
"We don't want all our media to be like the Today program or The Guardian."
What a bizarre take.
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Former Chair of IPSO arguing for right of press to be unfair right now, in response to calls for better regulation.
"We don't want all our media to be like the Today program or The Guardian."
What a bizarre take.
"We don't want all our media to be like the Today program or The Guardian."
What a bizarre take.
Excellent work > "If discovery now shapes small-business survival, then competition, fairness, and urban regeneration can no longer ignore platform ranking systems."
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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
laurenleek.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Excellent work > "If discovery now shapes small-business survival, then competition, fairness, and urban regeneration can no longer ignore platform ranking systems."
laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google...
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...