Quentin Campbell

Australia's biggest electric truck depot planned for busy freight route Australia's road freight is set to become the nation's largest source of emissions by 2030, but a NSW trial aims to show electric heavy trucks can cut carbon.

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🔹 UNRWA is restoring health, education, and WASH services in Gaza City amid widespread explosive risks.
🔹 Settler violence during the 2025 olive harvest in the West Bank has reached record levels since 2013.

Our latest report on #Gaza and the #WestBank: www.unrwa.org/resources/re...

Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely ...

An inconvenient truth. @turnbulldugarte.com and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social puncture a pervasive myth. ‬ "Among young respondents aged 18-25, a very comfortable majority of women reject Reform UK (75%), and a similarly large majority of men in the same age group share the same view (71%)."

Rapid Support Forces have begun mass killings following their capture of El-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan.

Satellite/open-source data analysis corroborates reports of killings across civilian neighborhoods, multiple hospital sites & along the borders of the city of those attempting to flee

An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

Urgent: Mass atrocities in El Fasher as people remain in grave danger There is no time to waste in helping survivors.

The arrival numbers don’t add up, while accounts of large-scale atrocities are mounting.

"Where are all the missing people who have already survived months of famine and violence in El Fasher?" www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/urgen...

It's a great song and I am that old! I grew up listening in 'real time' to Buddy Holly, early Elvis, Eddie Cochran, not forgetting the Four Preps and "More Money for You and Me". A tragedy that Holly and Cochran had gone within a year of each other.

More information coming out now on this. Looks like a Cabinet Office scheme led by Georgia Gould… planned savings of £10m-£30m a year (back up lower Premier League full-back price) don’t really seem worth the candle if this the result IMO.

Took me a moment to recognise some of the faces then remember who they were as a group! Is that a sign of my forgetful old age or their irrelevance?

Give America Plagues Again

🔥 Excellent from Lisa Nandy!

"I've seen this before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell."

"What you're doing is trying to create fear and distrust and division, because that's the only way that you and your friends can thrive."

"...as a matter of law, the house is haunted"

This by a Canadian lawyer is the best thing on ghosts and the law: www.fasken.com/en/commonlaw...

Enjoy.

Interesting that this playful but informative read goes to some pains to reassure the reader that the cases cited are all real and not ghostly phantoms from a hallucinating AI system!

The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own.

Pathetic.

The Polymath President 🤡

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Rare wolf spider rediscovered on Isle of Wight after 40 years The team that found the tiny orange-legged arachnid have named it the white-knuckled wolf spider.

Great news for all of us who adore, appreciate, and always try to help spiders: "A critically endangered spider, not seen in the UK for 40 years, has been rediscovered in a remote nature reserve accessible only by boat." #spider #spiders #arachnology #nature #UK

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Recall when we had a president who was a decent human being? Seems so remote and novel now.

Removing honours - some thoughts.

Here we come to raw royal power.

Two preliminary things to note.

First, the Crown is the fount of honours - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fount_o...

Second, honours decisions cannot really be challenged by judicial review. It is not "justiciable".

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It's also a measure of the level of corruption among staff working in prisons. Availability of mobile phones in prisons is another.

Counterpoint: at this stage they're probably stuffed regardless, the moral imperative is to stop thinking about 2029 and just bloody well govern

D66 gives one of four important wins for liberals in the last few months together with Romania, Moldova and the surprising success of Neos in Austria.

Of course far right populism hasn’t been defeated - it’s not a flash in the pan that wl go away.

But it shows liberalism can win 🧵

Tweet by Taha Hadeed (@t-hadeed.bsky.social) on X listing cargo flights between UAE and Libya during October 2025

Part of the background to the fall of El Fasher and RSF atrocities there is the sustained airlift from the UAE to the RSF via Libya - sixty Il-76 flights during October alone.

For the past six months, Haftar-controlled eastern Libya has supplanted Chad as the RSF's most important supply route.

No half measures • Resolution Foundation The Government’s long-awaited Child Poverty Strategy is due next month, close to, or contemporaneous with, the Autumn Budget. There have been some welcome announcements already: the over-indexation of...

'In one fell swoop, the government could reduce the number of children growing up in poverty by 330,000 today and save a further 150,000 children from that fate by 2029-30'. Excellent, unambiguous analysis by @resfoundation.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Ironically, Katie Lam was named "Parliamentary Newcomer of the Year" last night by the Spectator.

It's an example of the "Boris Johnson" problem in British politics: that being loud, self-promoting and outrageous brings prizes and name-recognition.

Learning your stuff & being thoughtful does not.

This is indeed good to hear. Principles matter. This is an important one. Would be good now for media to ask other leading Tories whether they support such principles, and also whether Badenoch feels those who question such principles can remain Conservative frontbenchers.

Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

UNICEF and WHO to send delegations to North Korea in November: Sources | NK News UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) are preparing to send delegations to visit North Korea in November, multiple informed sources have told NK News, marking the first time international sta...

UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) are preparing to send delegations to visit North Korea in November, multiple informed sources have told NK News, marking the first time international staff from the two agencies will enter since the pandemic began.

www.nknews.org/2025/10/unic...