Ian Miles

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

Inside the Tony Blair Institute Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?

You need #Oracle ! Alarming story on #TBI #TonyBlairInstitute and its relations with, and for, big tech. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Prince Andrew 'met with 40 escorts on taxpayer-funded Thailand trip', biographer claims | The News Agents A new biography makes explosive allegations about Prince Andrew's conduct as trade envoy, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and claims of extreme sexual behaviour during a taxpayer-funded trip. A...

“He was paid for by the taxpayer!”

Prince Andrew allegedly had 40 escorts "brought to him" in four days during a taxpayer-funded official trip to Thailand, biographer Andrew Lownie says tells The News Agents.

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/prin...

Opinion | All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home

Spot on from Olga Rudenko: "Russia could end the war in Ukraine at any moment by stopping its attacks and withdrawing its forces. By simply going home. Mr. Putin could end it with a phone call."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

Language was invented to communicate orders and instructions.

enjoy the comments, too.

A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.

But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

Call to Action on AGI Governance: I've asked @DavidLammy #FCDO to press the #UN to convene a General Assembly on #AGI governance—before tech outstrips our collective wisdom.
#FutureOfAI www.linkedin.com/posts/ian-mi...

Australia’s Revolutionary Hydrogen Powder Is Easier and Cheaper to Use for Clean Energy A mere month of expected output at 2030 production targets would more than satisfy the entire global hydrogen energy demand.

Why hasnt this good #hydrogen news received more attention? Are there undisclosed problems (scaling up? use in remote or impoverished areas?) www.goodnewsnetwork.org/australias-r...

Sleepwalking into a corporate coup via deregulated Freeports & SEZs?
Read, sign and share the petition calling for full Freeport/SEZ transparency
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

London is Over, Finished, and Washed Up
By Professor Matt Goodwhinge

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

From #TheLancet: Despite Secretary #RFK Robert F Kennedy Jr's calls for “radical transparency”, unlogged #data manipulation - mainly substituting "sex" for "gender" is happening big time. Changes are not being made transparently www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Chipster

Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but Yvette Cooper is | George Monbiot The home secretary is apparently an admirer of the suffragettes. I have no doubt that if they were active today she would proscribe them, too, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but Yvette Cooper is | George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.

@wildjustice.bsky.social

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops o...

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Wonder what the current legal definition of "support" is. Is criticism of the banning of #PalestineAction support? [asking for a friend]

UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide Outrage after retired priest arrested for supporting Palestine Action amid UK crackdown on pro-Palestine activism

Funny. I would have expected the "Free Speech Union" and the other self-proclaimed defenders of free expression to be all over this. But 🦗🦗🦗

How strange.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arre...

Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group

Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

THIS IS ABSOLUTE INSANITY.
👇👇

YouTube video by Sky News Did ChatGPT lie to Sky News presenter about transcript for podcast?

youtu.be/7fej5XgfBYQ?... #fabricating a #Sky_News podcast, denying the lie till disproved. #chatGPT #generativeAI .

I’ve read The Invisible Doctrine by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and it was an eye opener. It’s helped me understand why politics transfer wealth.

Now it’s on film and you can view it, from a few places including Apple TV - but here’s the link to the YouTube offer

youtu.be/lc--mVz3n2A?...

Closed!

Witness the *proposed* devastation of NASA science. If this concerns you, consider exploring the tools provided to make your opinions known: www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

Would a human born and raised on a nearby planet count? How about a Belter or one of the kids from Jupiter's moons?
And don't get me started on posthuman time travellers or interdimensional hominids...

Last night Russia attacked a European capital with ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones. Today the story barely registers in international news headlines.
Western normalization and acceptance of Russian atrocities in Ukraine is what makes them possible.

Vote for @GaryLineker in the Best Presenter category of the National TV Awards, via this link:

www.nationaltvawards.com/vote/categor...

#ItWasAScam

@sfencyclopedia.bsky.social I took this photo while visiting her beautiful house in Wales: there was an exhibition of artworks round the theme of Space too!

It's great news that this profoundly selfish landowner has been beaten in court, and many congrats to the National Park and those supporting it. But wild camping is a fundamental right that we should be able to exercise in many parts of England, not just Dartmoor. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...