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Ian Miles
@ianmiles.bsky.social
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Prof Emeritus, University of Manchester.
Research: foresight, innovation, services, soc change...
HE/HIM -don't mind, but dislike those who find pronouns offensive
No interest in sport
I love music, speculative fiction, play with words and colours.... .. more

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government.

Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’

I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.
Full text at https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/02/05/zack-polanski-writes-to-wes-streeting-urging-him-to-cancel-palantir-nhs-contract/

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d
🚨NEW Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government

The convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure, with the help of Peter Mandelson

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Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 6d
Sunlight through the gate of a country churchyard

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 9d
"MAGA says Alex Pretti was holding a weapon – but it was never the gun. It was always the phone.

"The phone that sheds light on truth is far more powerful right now than a gun in the holster."

Are the ICE killings a moment MAGA can't lie its way out of?

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/minn...
Minneapolis ICE killings: A moment MAGA can’t lie its way out of? | The News Agents
MAGA claims Alex Pretti was a danger to ICE agents who shot him dead on the street in Minneapolis – but social media footage tells a different story. Is this the moment disinformation from the Trump…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 10d
#skynews do we really need News at Ten turning into another chat show?

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 12d
Trump's Revolutionary Guards.
Or Revolting Ghouls.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 12d
Yesterday afternoon, Fell Foot Park, Lake District, UK

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12d
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 13d
The News Agents on ICE open.spotify.com/episode/0mAc...
Special Report: Surveillance and snatch squads in Trump's new America
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 14d
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 15d
Highly important, and if you're not in the UK, demand something similar in your own country. Driven out of the news by you-know-what, but should be lead story: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15d
The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
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Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again!
Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 16d
Trump is steering the world toward catastrophe.
This his goal, because that way everyone will listen to him,
and the cruellest will celebrate him.
Daddy problems.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 17d
www.instagram.com/reel/DTukOQ6.... The News Agents, going where TV news in the UK is shamefully silent.
thenewsagents on Instagram: "“It’s one of the most dystopian, the most chilling things, I think I’ve ever witnessed.”“The plane doesn’t have a name or number, i…"
“It’s one of the most dystopian, the most chilling things, I think I’ve ever witnessed.”“The plane doesn’t have a name or number, it’s a ‘dark plane’ - it doesn’t officially exist.” #news #politics #trump #usa #ice #minneapolis #minnesota
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18d
Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.”

What?
Stephen Miller • @StephenM X.com Only federal officers are upholding the law. Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender.

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Darth Empath @jhatman.bsky.social · 19d
Now more than ever, we're a two timing, back stabbing, and disloyal nation without integrity.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 20d
Arnside, Morecambe Bay, Cumbria, this evening

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 21d
Took videos of jackdaws prepating for murmuration; last 10 second or so is just my struggle to turn off recording.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 21d
Sunset yesterday (Jan 15 2026) over South Manchester, UK.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 21d
Guilty as charged, sometimes.

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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Dec 31
Encouraging news!

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MarkIraKaufman @markirakaufman.com · Dec 30
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice and restore memory
Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and restorin...
www.sciencedaily.com

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · Dec 27
You don't know what day it is.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Dec 26
President Trump announces details of his new Ukraine peace plan.

Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · Dec 20
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
new yorker cartoon by bernstein. watercolor of a middle aged white dad holding a cord up from the cord box in a heavenly light in triumph. title reads THE BEST DAY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE. caption reads “Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?"

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social · Dec 17
CSER is looking for an Assistant Professor in Global Risk and Resilience!

The role holder will lead research relevant to the study of global risk and resilience and contribute to teaching, assessment, and admissions for CSER's MPhil.

Deadline: 8 February 2026
Apply and learn more: bit.ly/4j3PZyT

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · Dec 16
America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k...
Pluralistic: America’s collapsing consumption is the world’s disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Dec 15
Stannage Edge last Saturday, great walk from Hathersage. Sunny morning, windy on the top. People, many with kids, drove there to enjoy views or go bouldering.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · Dec 14
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