🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Biometric digital-IDs are being rolled out across Africa, but what are the risks and pitfalls?
New article in @africa.theconversation.com shares insights from the recent IDS and African Digital Rights Network report👇
@phatcontroller.bsky.social
https://theconversation.pulse.ly/fltyvltiua
Scotland becomes first UK country to legalise water cremations
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DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...
🚨🚨Iran emergency episode with Charlie Gammell🚨🚨
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
A climate change pressure group has targeted lawyers with a satirical children’s book intended to make them rethink their evil career choices
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There's a lot of buzz about Christian revival among young adults in the UK & US. Perceptions of revival are fueled by results from opt-in online surveys. However, these surveys may be misleading. Surveys from random samples of the population don't show any clear evidence of revival.
My new post:
“They said this wouldn’t have been a problem if the Panorama lawsuit hadn’t happened”
“The irony couldn’t have been greater - this speech was on the cowardice of the elites”
Rutger Bregman on the BBC “bending the knee” to Trump’s regime.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring ft.trib.al/10RpCLV
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"The headaches that come with significantly altering things just to cope with climate change reveal what reengineering really means. It’s not easy, it’s not without its own risks – but, in so many areas of life, it seems increasingly unavoidable."
www.thereengineer.pro/p/were-all-w...
Sardinia’s ancient masked rite of mamuthones and issohadores – in pictures
19.02.2026 07:34 — 👍 35 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
The U.S. has slashed Arctic climate science, despite taking a greater geopolitical interest in the region, Brett Simpson reports—a move that will limit how clearly the U.S. can understand a place that is key to the world’s future:
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At the Munich Security Conference, European powers are contemplating the end of America’s unrivaled power—and discussing their own nuclear deterrence, Isaac Stanley-Becker reports:
14.02.2026 23:15 — 👍 116 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 1This means that Trump is giving himself as the Head of the Board of Corruption, $10 billion to spend however he wants, with no oversight from the US government and without congressional approval. It’s outright thievery.
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‘I wouldn’t touch a Jewish woman’: Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...
19.02.2026 11:21 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
📲 NEW EPISODE 📲 The Russia military continues to commit atrocities in Ukraine, but it really as fearsome as we’re told? The Economist’s @shashj.bsky.social takes @gavinesler.bsky.social inside Putin’s military machine.
📲 Listen everywhere – linktr.ee/bunker_pod
📳 NEW EDITION 📳 Nobody wants a wider war in Europe, but we might get one anyway. How can we prepare our military and wider society to deter Putin – or maybe fight him?
📲 Ed Arnold of @rusi.bsky.social talks to @rostaylor.bsky.social & @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
📲 Listen: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
Peter Mandelson’s Wikipedia page was edited repeatedly by an anonymous user who was later banned for making paid edits
The edits to Mandelson’s page downplayed his support of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, says the TBIJ.
Their story here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
This is a blunt falsehood from Farage. 3.5m Epstein files were released on 30 Jan and on Jan 31, the FT carried a front-page story on Mandelson (see image).
People like Farage seem to dislike reporters aslking questions. If you do like reporters asking questions, pay for some (any!) journalism.
‘Reagan imagined Latin America as the place to showcase a restored progressive forward-looking capitalism, a capitalist universalism. For Trump, it’s just a place for target practice.’
Greg Grandin on the podcast. Listen wherever you get podcasts, or here:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
🎧: Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber are joined by Isabel Hilton to discuss Iran, Venezuela and how American foreign policy has evolved under the Trump administration.
17.01.2026 16:33 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New Long Read I voiced for @guardian out now.
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
‘Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI.’
#theguardian #guardianlongread
Something is shifting inside Iran, and the regime knows it. Check out this free episode of The Iran Reckoning with Afshon Ostovar, which breaks down what you need to know about the protest movement gripping the country right now.
Listen here: pod.link/682478916/e...
Of course. Why would you invest in soft power?
It just helps in the kind of warfare that:
a) Russia has shown it's actually good at;
b) Russia is waging on the West already;
c) The UK/NATO nuclear deterrent is useless in preventing;
d) Costs a fraction to fund compared to military hardware.
Probably my final point on BrewDog for today, but a lot of the coverage has their "rise" the wrong way round.
They 'broke out' because they won a NATIONAL distribution contract in a Tesco craft beer contest.
Tesco birthed BrewDog, not Watt's 'shock jock' marketing approach. That came AFTER.
I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.
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