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Paging #RachelReeves...

Bore da.
Across the Hills and Mountains.

Maidin mhaith!

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Debate coming, 8 Dec. Heading for 3 Million signatures.
Add your name.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

"Not yet.. ([sotto voce] but I'm planning on getting as far as Havana by the weekend...")

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim

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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump

A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim

By me. Enjoy.

emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

This also exposes the huge lie that is Brexit. If you remember everyone that already felt left behind in this country in 2016 voted for Brexit as they were promised change, remember more money for the NHS etc. the complete opposite has happened. Farage ,Tories and Labour all lied to us.

I didn't. So perhaps not all of us are fools...

Remembrance

Yes it's significantly better to be alive in 2025 than 1925, but we can feel it all being eroded again

Time Magazine cover with Franklin on as part of their retrospective 100 Women of the Year feature. Inevitably it's a younger Franklin than the one of DNA fame, although given she died aged just 37...

And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned.

Both by Watson AND his critics.

Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.

Odd this day Odd this day If it’s 28 February, it must be the anniversary of the day Francis Crick (allegedly) walked into the Eagle pub in Bene’t St, Cambridge, and announced We have found the secret of …

mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day...

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A very good read, but I muse how so many things could and would have been different in this story were it not for systemic sexism / patriarchy.

No.

Airbnb Gaeltacht expansionism: 88 percent listings increase To truly understand Airbnb expansionism in Ireland look to the Gaeltacht.

An 88 percent increase in the number of whole homes to rent in Gaeltacht areas on Airbnb – in just six years

'The history of the Gaeltachts as places of radical and forward thinking gets forgotten now when they've become a holiday destination,' say @CnaG

www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expan...

Unbeatable! Savings that gives you a 50% BOOST on what you put in! Can you get it?

Just one of scores of ways to boost your interest in the new episode of the Martin Lewis Podcast. Listen to it all on www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (+Apple, Spotify & all the usual pod players)

10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.

Pauline Collins...

In case no one told you today: • You are beautiful • You are loved • You deserve to have a vote that counts

We deserve better than governments that 2/3 of the public voted against, or MPs that 3/4 of their constituents didn't choose.

We deserve better than to be ignored over and over again, because of where we live or who we support.

We all deserve better than First Past the Post.

🚨Watch Dr Grace Brown explaining the ROSCO rip-off.

🤑Private rolling stock companies extracted at least £410 million in profits in 2023, and at least £360 million a year for the last decade.

The new Rail Bill means the ROSCO gravy train keeps rolling, extracting huge profits from passengers.

Durham Miners' Hall reopens after restoration work Redhills looks towards the future after a £14m renovation which took three years to complete.

Durham Miners' Hall, also known as Redhills, reopens as heritage and cultural centre after £14m restoration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech

Read Mamdani’s victory speech here:

Autumn is the mind’s true spring, and Hallowe’en its new year Our new year is an uneasy celebration tagged onto Christmas. Much better to return to its proper place, in autumn

Long before calendars and countdowns, writes Peter Thurlow, the year turned at Samhain – the night we now call Hallowe’en.

For the Celts, it marked the end of one year and the start of another. 🍂

...sup witches!

No need for rhetoric or hyperbole, the plain facts speak loudly enough.

Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge King’s brother will surrender lease and become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says

The Arsehole Formerly Known As Prince Andrew

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Grifter is as grifter does.

The chief executive officer of the USA is raising revenue through import duties without consulting the representatives of the people; exactly 250 years on from the start of the American Revolution.
Sing it, Alanis.