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Scapegoating migrants just lets billionaires off the hook.
Instead of pursuing ever-harsher stances on refugees and migration, we should tax the real culprits driving inequality and exploitation.
Instead of pursuing ever-harsher stances on refugees and migration, we should tax the real culprits driving inequality and exploitation.
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Scapegoating migrants just lets billionaires off the hook.
Instead of pursuing ever-harsher stances on refugees and migration, we should tax the real culprits driving inequality and exploitation.
Instead of pursuing ever-harsher stances on refugees and migration, we should tax the real culprits driving inequality and exploitation.
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how it started....
Microsoft describes Three Mile Island plant as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
“We made a mistake in shutting down this plant, but we're not here to dwell on that mistake,” Constellation President Joe Dominguez said.
penncapital-star.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
how it started....
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Exactly
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Exactly
PSA
Okay, time for a much-requested thing: a THREAD OF THREADS. I've now written dozens of these sciencey threads now, and it's increasingly easy to lose them in the scrum of new stuff on here, so - here's a roundup.
First: the mystery of the BONG BONG BONG: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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First: the mystery of the BONG BONG BONG: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
PSA
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NEW: Significant pushback from Davie this morning on criticisms of the BBC.
In an all staff meeting, he talks about its enemies trying to define it and "weaponisation" by opponents.
Quick story here, more to come:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
In an all staff meeting, he talks about its enemies trying to define it and "weaponisation" by opponents.
Quick story here, more to come:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie defends BBC against ‘weaponisation’ of criticism
Outgoing director general tells staff ‘we have to be very clear and stand up for our journalism’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
NEW: Significant pushback from Davie this morning on criticisms of the BBC.
In an all staff meeting, he talks about its enemies trying to define it and "weaponisation" by opponents.
Quick story here, more to come:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
In an all staff meeting, he talks about its enemies trying to define it and "weaponisation" by opponents.
Quick story here, more to come:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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New post: Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo...
As public perception and econometric estimates of the damage caused by Brexit rise, Labour's refusal to discuss rejoining the EU's customs union or single market means more self harm.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo...
As public perception and econometric estimates of the damage caused by Brexit rise, Labour's refusal to discuss rejoining the EU's customs union or single market means more self harm.
Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge
In my last post about the prospect of Labour breaking its tax pledge, I did something I don’t often do, which is indulge in some ‘I told y...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
New post: Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo...
As public perception and econometric estimates of the damage caused by Brexit rise, Labour's refusal to discuss rejoining the EU's customs union or single market means more self harm.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo...
As public perception and econometric estimates of the damage caused by Brexit rise, Labour's refusal to discuss rejoining the EU's customs union or single market means more self harm.
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Bold early pitch for next director general of the BBC here
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Bold early pitch for next director general of the BBC here
Low hanging fruit are out there if you can be bothered to look. The UKs energy landscape needs redrawing. Yesterday.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats have called on the UK Government to take “immediate and decisive action” in next week’s Budget to protect thousands of jobs in Wales’s steel industry
Welsh Liberal Democrats urge urgent Budget action to ‘save Welsh steel’
The Welsh Liberal Democrats have called on the UK Government to take “immediate and decisive action” in next week’s Budget to protect thousands of jobs in Wales’s steel industry. The party says that W...
nation.cymru
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Low hanging fruit are out there if you can be bothered to look. The UKs energy landscape needs redrawing. Yesterday.
Joint statement from the 11th UK and China Joint Commission Meeting
www.gov.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
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An entrepreneur from Port Talbot has revealed how his redundancy amid the area's steel crisis inspired him to create one of Wales' most exciting new clothing brands
San Portablo: Cult fashion brand brings hope and pride back to former Steel Town
Stephen Price An entrepreneur from Port Talbot has shared how his redundancy amid the area’s steel crisis inspired him to create one of Wales’ most exciting new clothing brands, and to bring hope and…
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
An entrepreneur from Port Talbot has revealed how his redundancy amid the area's steel crisis inspired him to create one of Wales' most exciting new clothing brands
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Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
Awesome.
Three people who’d be expected to be Your Party bigwigs have largely walked away from Corbyn’s project: former NE mayor Jamie Driscoll, former Labour MP Beth Winter, and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein.
I have some new intel on the fall-out, if you’re interested in that sort of thing… 🧵
I have some new intel on the fall-out, if you’re interested in that sort of thing… 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Awesome.
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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"Danish text" refers to a negotiation document worked out exclusively between rich countries at COP15 in Copenhagen that drew a lot of anger from developing countries. Effectively, it weakened finance responsibilities of rich countries and had poorer ones on the hook for sharp emission cuts
INTERESTING CLIMATE ARCHIVE
Todd Stern (USA) just after Copenhagen COP (#COP15):
"Thank you so much for all you have done for us".
While email is redacted, I'm almost certain Stern is writing to Bo Lidegaard (Special advisor to the Danish PM, closely associated with infamous "Danish text").
Todd Stern (USA) just after Copenhagen COP (#COP15):
"Thank you so much for all you have done for us".
While email is redacted, I'm almost certain Stern is writing to Bo Lidegaard (Special advisor to the Danish PM, closely associated with infamous "Danish text").
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Danish text" refers to a negotiation document worked out exclusively between rich countries at COP15 in Copenhagen that drew a lot of anger from developing countries. Effectively, it weakened finance responsibilities of rich countries and had poorer ones on the hook for sharp emission cuts
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‘If the BBC was able today to report what it thinks, it would say this: there has been a coup’
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
‘If the BBC was able today to report what it thinks, it would say this: there has been a coup’
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
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65% of all active satellites orbiting our planet are Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites.
He followed the fast fashion model for satellites: launch them fast and launch them frequently.
It’s going to be a space debris annihilation:
He followed the fast fashion model for satellites: launch them fast and launch them frequently.
It’s going to be a space debris annihilation:
What a nightmare! Chinese astronauts can’t come home because space debris hit their return craft.
The rapidly increasing amount of stuff we launch into space is something everyone should be aware of.
The rapidly increasing amount of stuff we launch into space is something everyone should be aware of.
China Delays Return of Astronauts After Debris May Have Hit Spacecraft
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
65% of all active satellites orbiting our planet are Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites.
He followed the fast fashion model for satellites: launch them fast and launch them frequently.
It’s going to be a space debris annihilation:
He followed the fast fashion model for satellites: launch them fast and launch them frequently.
It’s going to be a space debris annihilation:
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
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Archiving our experiences whilst they are ongoing is part of a new normal that sees us becoming detached from our own lives ✍️Ben Wildsmith buff.ly/WPLQ5m1
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Archiving our experiences whilst they are ongoing is part of a new normal that sees us becoming detached from our own lives ✍️Ben Wildsmith buff.ly/WPLQ5m1
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The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
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The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
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