Bob Dodd
@dodd-bob.bsky.social
11+failure with a M.Sc, C.Eng by profession, Enthusiast about cars, engines, aircraft, photos, industrial history, LFC. bit of a lefty. NB photo of my old place of work.
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The Conservatives' argument, spread across the front of most newspapers this morning, is that the economy is doing better than expected under Rachel Reeves' stewardship and therefore she should resign.
Am I getting this right?
Am I getting this right?
November 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The Conservatives' argument, spread across the front of most newspapers this morning, is that the economy is doing better than expected under Rachel Reeves' stewardship and therefore she should resign.
Am I getting this right?
Am I getting this right?
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
They should be told to get knotted
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
They should be told to get knotted
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Nothing says keep the BBC more strongly than Farage, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu saying it should go.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Nothing says keep the BBC more strongly than Farage, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu saying it should go.
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Well, that’s a wrap.
Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault
Sean Dunn's attorney acknowledged he threw the sandwich, but argued it was a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Well, that’s a wrap.
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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🔴The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won’t Tell You About
Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK’s transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues @donnachadhmc.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/22/t...
Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK’s transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues @donnachadhmc.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/22/t...
The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won't Tell You About
Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK's transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues Donnachadh McCarthy
bylinetimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🔴The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won’t Tell You About
Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK’s transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues @donnachadhmc.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/22/t...
Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK’s transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues @donnachadhmc.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/22/t...
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My takeaways from Virginia Guiffre’s new book on the sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell, & Prince Andrew (which he denies)
October 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My takeaways from Virginia Guiffre’s new book on the sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell, & Prince Andrew (which he denies)
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There’s a task that shouldn’t be left to @bylinetimes.bsky.social alone: The fourth estate has a job to do in defence of freedom and democracy. Are they too keen to report on the chaos of a Reform government (until that time when mass deportations and arrest of “dissidents” begins?) Too late then.
October 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There’s a task that shouldn’t be left to @bylinetimes.bsky.social alone: The fourth estate has a job to do in defence of freedom and democracy. Are they too keen to report on the chaos of a Reform government (until that time when mass deportations and arrest of “dissidents” begins?) Too late then.
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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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Just got a haircut, and my lovely barber, a Turkish guy who employs 6 people, and has a wife who's an IVF technician, is shutting up shop and moving to another country because his Indefinite Leave to Remain is under threat by these venal, stupid, posturing politicians, left and right.
October 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Just got a haircut, and my lovely barber, a Turkish guy who employs 6 people, and has a wife who's an IVF technician, is shutting up shop and moving to another country because his Indefinite Leave to Remain is under threat by these venal, stupid, posturing politicians, left and right.
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Meanwhile, if you see a clip of me saying the ID card contract has gone to Tony Blair’s son: it hasn’t. That was something I was given to ask about on HIGNFY last night, but turns out to be a false report from the internet. Which is bad news for the fact checkers but good news for social mobility.
October 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Meanwhile, if you see a clip of me saying the ID card contract has gone to Tony Blair’s son: it hasn’t. That was something I was given to ask about on HIGNFY last night, but turns out to be a false report from the internet. Which is bad news for the fact checkers but good news for social mobility.
Exactly, pity #BBC can’t
I’m old enough to remember when Farage told us only a clean break from Europe would solve this country’s problems and Brexit was the only answer.
10 years on and the impact of that vote is being felt from Lands End to John O’Groats and now that lying cvnt is trying to convince the same people
10 years on and the impact of that vote is being felt from Lands End to John O’Groats and now that lying cvnt is trying to convince the same people
October 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Exactly, pity #BBC can’t
Ouch
October 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ouch
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One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
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Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...
techxplore.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
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This. Musk's comments should herald the end of Twitter in the UK.
September 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This. Musk's comments should herald the end of Twitter in the UK.
Well!
"But he said it politely"...
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"Joe Biden is a bumbling, dementia-filled, Alzheimer's, corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America."
-Charlie Kirk (07/24/23)
-Charlie Kirk (07/24/23)
September 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Well!
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Never forget that on the 20th Jan 2025 , Musk, in front of billiions of people watching on TV , performed a salute that left no one in any doubt of his real beliefs.
September 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Never forget that on the 20th Jan 2025 , Musk, in front of billiions of people watching on TV , performed a salute that left no one in any doubt of his real beliefs.
Privatise and pay
The cost of a single place in a residential children’s care home in England has nearly doubled in five years to an average £318,000 a year, with private firms racking up huge profits as a result of market failure, according to the public spending watchdog.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Cost of place in children’s care homes in England hits almost £320,000 a year
Private firms’ profits soar, watchdog says, as prices nearly double in five years
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Privatise and pay
True, why don’t interviewers remember that?
Funny…
I remember when they promised Brexit would do that.
I remember when they promised Brexit would do that.
September 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
True, why don’t interviewers remember that?
Interesting
Back in January, I emailed the Institute for Cancer Vaccines & Immunotherapy to ask whether they agreed with Angus Dalgleish's views, including the claim that Covid vaccines cause cancer.
Their response: "those views are Professor Dalgleish’s own and have no bearing on the charity’s work" 🤔
Their response: "those views are Professor Dalgleish’s own and have no bearing on the charity’s work" 🤔
![Does Angus Dalgleish currently hold a formal position at ICVI? If he does currently hold a position, please specify the nature of his role and responsibilities.
Professor Dalgleish is the principal of the charity (unpaid). His work with patients has historically informed the charity’s research interests and he is well placed to advise on areas of focus. He attends trustee meetings, updates the trustees on the various research teams’ work and occasionally meets with potential funders to explain the research.
Given that ICVI is a research institute focused on cancer immunotherapy and vaccines, what is your position on Dalgleish's publicly stated views on vaccines, including for example:
that the Covid booster jabs are a "cancer time bomb" (TCW)
that the World Health Organization is planning to "release the Disease X virus in order to take back control and destroy our lives all over again" (TCW)
that Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were contaminated and "this means that they are not vaccines at all but a kind of Genetically Modified Organism that should have been subject to totally different regulatory conditions and certainly not be classed as vaccines" (Daily Sceptic)
that "[a]ll mRNA vaccines must be halted and banned now" (Daily Sceptic)
that the scientists at Moderna and Pfizer are "pure, pure evil" and "must be held to account" (Substack, video interview)
Whilst the charity believes that Professor Dalgleish is entitled to his views, those views are Professor Dalgleish’s own and have no bearing on the charity’s work.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wk4ks4sjxkducttvaawps2wb/bafkreih4ijt5z3pvo3ap74kw3tamg4m3xoqykexm5ktlalqldwfapjgfai@jpeg)
![As a member of the AMRC, ICVI is required to have a written Conflicts of Interest policy. Please could you provide a copy of this document, and confirm whether ICVI believes that Dalgleish has adhered to it, particularly regarding his work giving speeches and writing newspaper columns expressing the view that mRNA vaccines cause cancer, and promoting treatments supported by ICVI such as Low Dose Naltrexone.
Our conflicts of interest policy is available to view on our website here: https://icvi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST-POLICY-ICVI.pdf As this policy relates only to the awarding of research funding Professor Dalgleish’s views have no relevance to it. Professor Dalgleish has no say in which projects we fund, everything is peer reviewed by an independent committee in accordance with AMRC guidelines.
The ICVI Trustee's Report March 2024 states that "[t]he key personnel risk is mitigated by retaining Professor Angus Dalgleish with the charity's activities being aligned with his field of work". Please confirm whether ICVI has had any involvement in Dalgleish's research on the origins of Covid, the safety of Covid vaccines, and the alleged link between Covid vaccines and cancer. I note that ICVI has republished many of Dalgleish's writings on these topics, including a comment on the Biovacc-19 paper, an anti-lockdown comment piece in the Telegraph, and a comment piece suggesting that IMM-101 could be the "missing ingredient" in a Covid vaccine.
As a cancer immunotherapy research charity we only fund research related to cancer immunotherapy in accordance with our charitable objects.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wk4ks4sjxkducttvaawps2wb/bafkreieoxnhdzldozz5wpblq5ecztmn26x3olagqgsd5dcfavecvr7t524@jpeg)
September 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Interesting
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NEW RESEARCH: Researchers from Imperial College London conclude: Safe CO₂ underground storage capacity is far lower than previous estimates due to leakage risks, seismicity, engineering limits, and geopolitics.
At best, CCS looks like a scarce resource, not an unlimited backstop.
At best, CCS looks like a scarce resource, not an unlimited backstop.
September 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
NEW RESEARCH: Researchers from Imperial College London conclude: Safe CO₂ underground storage capacity is far lower than previous estimates due to leakage risks, seismicity, engineering limits, and geopolitics.
At best, CCS looks like a scarce resource, not an unlimited backstop.
At best, CCS looks like a scarce resource, not an unlimited backstop.
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Last year we elected hundreds of new MPs from ALL parties. How many have you heard about & the work they’re doing on your behalf? Some are very impressive! Watch the committees & you’ll see! The broadcast media (all of them) are failing us. Sign &pass on. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
August 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Last year we elected hundreds of new MPs from ALL parties. How many have you heard about & the work they’re doing on your behalf? Some are very impressive! Watch the committees & you’ll see! The broadcast media (all of them) are failing us. Sign &pass on. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...