Wayne Dickson
@waynedickson.bsky.social
Physicist at King's College London.
Research interests include nanophotonics, metamaterials, plasmonics and sustainable nanofabrication. Applications include sensing and photocatalysis, with an emphasis on environmental detection and remediation.
Research interests include nanophotonics, metamaterials, plasmonics and sustainable nanofabrication. Applications include sensing and photocatalysis, with an emphasis on environmental detection and remediation.
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Fun to see a senior Russian official accessing X through a VPN (because it’s banned in Russia) and the criticise the EU for interfering in a Twitter Poll (when the Kremlin fixes Russian elections and interferes in Moldova, Romania and Czechia just in the last few months)
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Fun to see a senior Russian official accessing X through a VPN (because it’s banned in Russia) and the criticise the EU for interfering in a Twitter Poll (when the Kremlin fixes Russian elections and interferes in Moldova, Romania and Czechia just in the last few months)
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"Ban foreign donations" seems like very low hanging fruit.
It’s really simple…
- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting
…that’ll do it.
- Cap all political donations
- Ban foreign donations
- Strict conflict‑of‑interest & anti‑corruption laws with penalties
- No titles, honours or peerages for donors
- No govt contracts for donors
- Publish every donation/lobby meeting
…that’ll do it.
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Ban foreign donations" seems like very low hanging fruit.
Many people have remarked that I am to physics what the NFL is to "football".
Probably.
Fittingly therefore, I'd be happy to accept this award from the NFL, and rather like Happy Gilmore, I like my accompanying cheques on the large side, literally and figuratively.
Probably.
Fittingly therefore, I'd be happy to accept this award from the NFL, and rather like Happy Gilmore, I like my accompanying cheques on the large side, literally and figuratively.
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Many people have remarked that I am to physics what the NFL is to "football".
Probably.
Fittingly therefore, I'd be happy to accept this award from the NFL, and rather like Happy Gilmore, I like my accompanying cheques on the large side, literally and figuratively.
Probably.
Fittingly therefore, I'd be happy to accept this award from the NFL, and rather like Happy Gilmore, I like my accompanying cheques on the large side, literally and figuratively.
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Jenrick is a Cambridge alumnus whose pre-political career involved corporate law for a high-salary firm in London and Moscow as well as a directorship at Christie's
Robert Jenrick: ‘I’m unashamedly provincial in my attitudes’ on.ft.com/3KGRk1W
Robert Jenrick: ‘I’m unashamedly provincial in my attitudes’
The UK shadow justice secretary on embracing populism, his political ambitions — and whether there will be an alliance with Reform
on.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Jenrick is a Cambridge alumnus whose pre-political career involved corporate law for a high-salary firm in London and Moscow as well as a directorship at Christie's
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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The accumulated waste of generations of mass consumption is decaying in landfill, + the chemicals those goods were drenched in - lead, mercury, cadmium, PFAS, PCBs - are seeping slowly back out into water, soil + air.
Our report with @investigate-europe.eu:
euobserver.com/eu-political...
Our report with @investigate-europe.eu:
euobserver.com/eu-political...
Europe’s landfill crisis exposed: new map reveals toxic cocktail of environmental risks
Thousands of landfills across Europe lie in flood-risk zones, areas which could endanger drinking water or sensitive conservation sites, Investigate Europe and Watershed Investigations can reveal in t...
euobserver.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The accumulated waste of generations of mass consumption is decaying in landfill, + the chemicals those goods were drenched in - lead, mercury, cadmium, PFAS, PCBs - are seeping slowly back out into water, soil + air.
Our report with @investigate-europe.eu:
euobserver.com/eu-political...
Our report with @investigate-europe.eu:
euobserver.com/eu-political...
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It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.
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Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
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A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
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Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
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This hasn't had much coverage, amidst all the debate about jury trials, but there is also a lot of concern about Lammy's plans to remove the automatic right to appeal
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice'
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This hasn't had much coverage, amidst all the debate about jury trials, but there is also a lot of concern about Lammy's plans to remove the automatic right to appeal
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
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Our report on pollution from landfill with @investigate-europe.eu was covered by Martin Stew on ITV News last night. If you fancy watching the whole piece, it's available here:
youtu.be/WY9poL0hhj4?...
youtu.be/WY9poL0hhj4?...
December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Our report on pollution from landfill with @investigate-europe.eu was covered by Martin Stew on ITV News last night. If you fancy watching the whole piece, it's available here:
youtu.be/WY9poL0hhj4?...
youtu.be/WY9poL0hhj4?...
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More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
- Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds
#pollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds
#pollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
- Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds
#pollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds
#pollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Manafort, Giuliani, Gill and now Witkoff all acted as enforcers for Putin’s protection racket.
But if the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com/p/bribery-di...
But if the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com/p/bribery-di...
Bribery Disguised as Peace: From the Mariupol Plan to the Witkoff Deal
Manafort, Giuliani, Gill and now Witkoff all acted as enforcers for Putin’s protection racket. If the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Manafort, Giuliani, Gill and now Witkoff all acted as enforcers for Putin’s protection racket.
But if the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com/p/bribery-di...
But if the West accepts bribery disguised as peace, it normalises conquest as a viable investment strategy
pdjukes.substack.com/p/bribery-di...
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tonight's Panorama highlighted carcinogenic 'forever chemical' pollution from the factory we exposed in 2023. The Environment Agency are now testing soil around there, thanks to our testing. Check watershedinvestigations.com @watershed-i.bsky.social for new pollution revelations & all our articles.
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Tonight's Panorama highlighted carcinogenic 'forever chemical' pollution from the factory we exposed in 2023. The Environment Agency are now testing soil around there, thanks to our testing. Check watershedinvestigations.com @watershed-i.bsky.social for new pollution revelations & all our articles.
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Labour MPs are being fobbed off with "jam tomorrow" vagueness about refugee sponsorship ideas that are allegedly in development while the Labour government destroys the UK's highly successful integration model.
Uk refugee protection through official schemes is down a quarter under Labour government, compared to their Cons predecessors. It would be down much more if there hadn't been an accidental data leak putting Afghsns at risk, so 4000 more people given sanctuary
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a year
Refugee Council says Home Office figures show safe and legal pathways are ‘disappearing when most needed’
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Labour MPs are being fobbed off with "jam tomorrow" vagueness about refugee sponsorship ideas that are allegedly in development while the Labour government destroys the UK's highly successful integration model.
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A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
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the only thing Rachel Reeves needs to do for more favourable coverage on BBC News is threaten to sue them for £1 billion
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
the only thing Rachel Reeves needs to do for more favourable coverage on BBC News is threaten to sue them for £1 billion
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Panorama is covering PFAS tonight! Lots of the revelations are based on our work and so I've put together a list of key investigations here so you can dive deeper, if you're interested! Go on, go on... watershedinvestigations.com/watershed-pf...
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Panorama is covering PFAS tonight! Lots of the revelations are based on our work and so I've put together a list of key investigations here so you can dive deeper, if you're interested! Go on, go on... watershedinvestigations.com/watershed-pf...