Charlotte Helen Bailey
@charlottehelen.bsky.social
Writing about transnationalism and the political economy of true costs and real value. Literature, economics, power. Words in the Atlantic, Vogue, Time, the Guardian, Prospect etc.
https://www.charlottehelenbailey.co.uk
https://www.charlottehelenbailey.co.uk
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Asbestos: a public health catastrophe
In the UK, thousands of people are still dying every year from exposure to the asbestos fibres in our homes, schools and workplaces. My dad was one of...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
I really poured my heart and soul into this piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk . When my dad was diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, which killed him just a few months, I set out to learn about asbestos. What I found out chilled me to the core. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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A biodiverse world outside creates a healthy microbiome inside.
The same conditions that let wildlife thrive also keeps people healthy.
Fascinating article from @phoebeweston.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The same conditions that let wildlife thrive also keeps people healthy.
Fascinating article from @phoebeweston.bsky.social
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The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health
Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world
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October 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A biodiverse world outside creates a healthy microbiome inside.
The same conditions that let wildlife thrive also keeps people healthy.
Fascinating article from @phoebeweston.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The same conditions that let wildlife thrive also keeps people healthy.
Fascinating article from @phoebeweston.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
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If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place'
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The Britcard – progressive or concerning? | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The Government is considering Labour Together's proposal to introduce mandatory digital ID cards in an effort to tackle irregular migration. There are problems with that.
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September 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place'
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NEW
The government is considering plans to weaken a law protecting England’s national parks, in a move criticised as “outrageous” and “devastating”.
Story 👇
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The government is considering plans to weaken a law protecting England’s national parks, in a move criticised as “outrageous” and “devastating”.
Story 👇
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Plan to water down laws protecting national parks branded ‘outrageous’
Campaigners said that the change being considered by ministers, which would increase the number of developments and building projects, would be ‘devastating’
www.thetimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
NEW
The government is considering plans to weaken a law protecting England’s national parks, in a move criticised as “outrageous” and “devastating”.
Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...
The government is considering plans to weaken a law protecting England’s national parks, in a move criticised as “outrageous” and “devastating”.
Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...
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Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements
More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.
The US president is expected to arrive in the UK on Tuesday night. He will enjoy a huge amount of special treatment as ministers attempt to preserve the special relationship, including a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle for Trump and his wife, Melania. Continue reading...
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September 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
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For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.
September 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.
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EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
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750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
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Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
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September 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thank you for this beautiful piece @pollyrowena.bsky.social I remember hating this book and other nature cure narratives as my dad died prematurely from a terminal cancer. Nobody I knew had spent more time walking in the great outdoors than he had.
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
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August 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Thank you for this beautiful piece @pollyrowena.bsky.social I remember hating this book and other nature cure narratives as my dad died prematurely from a terminal cancer. Nobody I knew had spent more time walking in the great outdoors than he had.
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“Europe is risking its political soul. It has put itself in a situation in which leaders cannot say publicly what they are actually trying to do. That is a recipe for distrust and a poison for democracy”
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Europe is selling its soul to Trump
What masquerades as pragmatism is self-harming opportunism
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August 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“Europe is risking its political soul. It has put itself in a situation in which leaders cannot say publicly what they are actually trying to do. That is a recipe for distrust and a poison for democracy”
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My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
July 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
July 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.
July 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.
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An astonishing story
My friend was expecting the 17-year-daughter of her friend to arrive from France last Thursday. The plan was for her to practise her English, go to a few West End shows and soak up British culture. But at British border control at Lille she was asked what she planned to do in the UK... 1/3
July 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
An astonishing story
My friend was expecting the 17-year-daughter of her friend to arrive from France last Thursday. The plan was for her to practise her English, go to a few West End shows and soak up British culture. But at British border control at Lille she was asked what she planned to do in the UK... 1/3
July 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My friend was expecting the 17-year-daughter of her friend to arrive from France last Thursday. The plan was for her to practise her English, go to a few West End shows and soak up British culture. But at British border control at Lille she was asked what she planned to do in the UK... 1/3
This is bizarre... everyone I know who went into teaching via this route is still teaching 15 years later
Government accused of trying to scrap Teach First, which has recruited over 20,000 high flying graduates into schools - my piece for @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Teach First brand that helps top graduates into poorest s...
Leading brand that trains teachers for most deprived areas of the country will not be allowed to operate under its current name
observer.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is bizarre... everyone I know who went into teaching via this route is still teaching 15 years later
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- PFAS forever chemicals above proposed safety limits in nearly all English rivers, lakes & ponds, study finds
- levels of internationally banned PFOS in fish were 322 times above proposed safety limits on average
Our new article out now:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- levels of internationally banned PFOS in fish were 322 times above proposed safety limits on average
Our new article out now:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
- PFAS forever chemicals above proposed safety limits in nearly all English rivers, lakes & ponds, study finds
- levels of internationally banned PFOS in fish were 322 times above proposed safety limits on average
Our new article out now:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- levels of internationally banned PFOS in fish were 322 times above proposed safety limits on average
Our new article out now:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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But it is good he's U-turned on this @charlottehelen.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
But it is good he's U-turned on this @charlottehelen.bsky.social
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The morning "hire expensive consultants for ethnic cleansing planning" read: #Gaza #Israel #Palestine
Breaking news: Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of 'relocating' Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch a new aid scheme for the shattered enclave https://on.ft.com/3TrfEpn
July 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The morning "hire expensive consultants for ethnic cleansing planning" read: #Gaza #Israel #Palestine
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‘“because the models are not set up to solve problems, or to reason, but to predict the most plausible-sounding sentence based on the reams of data they have hoovered up, a better word for their factual hiccups is not “hallucinations” but “bullshit”.’
#AI
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#AI
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Policymakers who think AI can help rescue flagging UK economy should take heed | Heather Stewart
Healthy scepticism is needed because flaw is that large language models remain prone to casually making things up
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June 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
‘“because the models are not set up to solve problems, or to reason, but to predict the most plausible-sounding sentence based on the reams of data they have hoovered up, a better word for their factual hiccups is not “hallucinations” but “bullshit”.’
#AI
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#AI
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Missing my dad this Father’s Day. Still encouraging people to read this piece.
I really poured my heart and soul into this piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk . When my dad was diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, which killed him just a few months, I set out to learn about asbestos. What I found out chilled me to the core. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
Asbestos: a public health catastrophe
In the UK, thousands of people are still dying every year from exposure to the asbestos fibres in our homes, schools and workplaces. My dad was one of...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Missing my dad this Father’s Day. Still encouraging people to read this piece.
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Reform and the Conservatives have a joint campaign that London is a crime-ridden hellhole. (Yes, it’s code for their typical racism.)
So here’s the truth.
So here’s the truth.
June 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reform and the Conservatives have a joint campaign that London is a crime-ridden hellhole. (Yes, it’s code for their typical racism.)
So here’s the truth.
So here’s the truth.
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👏🏾 Over 150 medical professionals have sent a letter to leading European Commission officials, urging them to support a full phase out of PFAS #foreverchemicals, including in the healthcare sector 👉🏼 chemtrust.org/medical-prof...
Medical professionals urge the EU to phase-out PFAS, including in the healthcare sector
Over 150 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, people working in the healthcare sector, and experts on PFAS, have sent a letter to leading European Commission officials, urging them to pha...
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June 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
👏🏾 Over 150 medical professionals have sent a letter to leading European Commission officials, urging them to support a full phase out of PFAS #foreverchemicals, including in the healthcare sector 👉🏼 chemtrust.org/medical-prof...
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In a new paper, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand at Department of Environmental Science @stockholm-uni.bsky.social —defend the current definition of PFASs established by the OECD. #PFAS #Chemistry
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Scientists defend widely used definition of PFASs - Department of Environmental Science
In a new paper published today in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand from the Department of Environmen...
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June 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
In a new paper, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand at Department of Environmental Science @stockholm-uni.bsky.social —defend the current definition of PFASs established by the OECD. #PFAS #Chemistry
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This happened for decades with asbestos: industry lobbied to deem certain types safer than others, delaying a ban that would have saved countless lives
The chemical industry is deploying every weapon in its arsenal to fight efforts to regulate harmful forever chemicals, including calling into question the very definition of what PFAS are, writes Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
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Scientists warn against attempts to change definition of ‘forever chemicals’
Move to narrow classification of Pfas and weaken regulation is ‘politically and/or economically motivated’
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June 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This happened for decades with asbestos: industry lobbied to deem certain types safer than others, delaying a ban that would have saved countless lives
I loved this book by @drlornagibb.bsky.social . I came late to languages, which I like to blame on poor teaching, but it was likely my own poor attitude. But now I’m learning Korean and German and how much a language holds. This book is a kaleidoscope of knowledge about language, culture and life.
June 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I loved this book by @drlornagibb.bsky.social . I came late to languages, which I like to blame on poor teaching, but it was likely my own poor attitude. But now I’m learning Korean and German and how much a language holds. This book is a kaleidoscope of knowledge about language, culture and life.