Andrew Curry

Land justice walking tour urges support as campaigners near end of route

Campaigners walking from Skye to Glasgow are urging people to join their efforts to highlight 'land justice'

I think they are trying to gouge their customers to pay for some of their AI costs, since the product itself isn’t worth paying for.

Shocking slug on this FT article—because this could also just as easily be “Civil rights in UK”. Or “Democracy in UK”. A sub-editor needs to take a long hard look at themselves.

Memo to @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social : a quarter of the Labour party base hates this kind of authoritarianism, which is why they now support Greens and LibDems. The trick when you are in a hole is to stop digging.

Police to get more anti-protest powers as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation’ Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact’ of repeated demonstrations to restrict protests

Your regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is feral and no longer fit for purpose:

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The new-look Salut! Folk - formerly Salut! Live - has risen from the ashes of Typepad and is revelling in its Wordpress home. Give it a try salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social

On the new Salut #Folk site—which looks a lot better than the old one!

Danny Thompson: the best of both worlds Andrew Curry writes: It’s hard to overstate how influential Danny Thompson was in the British folk scene, from his early days playing at Les Cousins with Alexis Korner, then Pentangle, to later pla…

Looking back at Danny Thompson’s career-a bass player who was at ease playing both folk and jazz—at the new look Salut! #Folk site on Wordpress.

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Altan: the pride of Donegal Colin Randall writes: 24 hours earlier, Altan were playing to a pleasantly rowdy crowd in Blacksod, a remote corner of Co Mayo. Hopping on a flight from Knock, they joined the bustling throng of Lo…

Salut! Folk editor Colin Randall reviews #Altan’s gig at the Irish Cultural Centre on Saturday at the re-launched and re-designed blog now at Wordpress.

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Song of the Day: Richard Thompson – Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne Steve Peck writes: Richard Thompson’s mind-boggling catalog of extraordinary songs makes it nearly impossible to know them all. Today’s Song of the Day is a latter-day classic that may have slipped…

Our Song of the Day at the renamed Salut! #Folk site—now migrated to Wordpress—is all about Richard Thompson.

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Salut! Folk Colin Randall and friends on folk, folk-rock, and roots music

The #folk site Salut Live — once at the now defunct Typepad — has now moved to Wordpress as Salut Folk. The first post is an obituary of the great bassist Danny Thompson.
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I was talking to a guy about this who had a lot of experience of climate protest, and he said, “of course, this is never going to get anywhere near a court.”

In which @dropbox.com seems to be telling me that they are limiting support for the current version of MacOS, given that my Mac is on version 15.7. It’s not surprising that the word “enshittification” was a word of the year last year.

There should be no forgiveness for Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, or anyone else who whitewashed Charlie Kirk's image in the wake of his death. They participated in a cleanup job that is facilitating Kirk's status as a "martyr." They have had a hand in the harm the administration will do in Kirk's name.

Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’ Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PM’s ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France

Your regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is not fit for purpose: Home Secretaries come and go, but the contempt for the law never changes.
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4. I think RLB will have Man U and their tactical inflexibility worked out.

I just had a look at the relevant Act. (www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/2...). Hard to see that any prosecution will stick (it needs to be “grossly offensive” —rather, say, than “factually accurate”.) So plod is probably doing something to be seen to be doing something.

Hundreds of prison officers may have to leave UK after Labour’s visa rule change Prison Officers’ Association says change in eligibility for skilled work visas is ‘disgraceful’ and ‘pandering to Reform’

The @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social if feral and not fit for purpose. (Yes, one more time).

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9 September 2025. Speed | Energy Why lower speed limits are good public policy // Mapping low carbon electricity [J2T #649]

Why lower speed limits are good public policy // Mapping low carbon electricity [J2T #649] #JustTwoThings from @nextwavef.bsky.social

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Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery drivers

The @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is feral and no longer fit for purpose.

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On a 10-point scale, about 15. I expected them to refresh the spine with 5 or 6 players at most.
And to think, I’m old enough to remember when fans complained that KLD was just like Donald and Methven because he wouldn’t spend £8m—the Jack Clarke money, basically—on 31 year old Kieffer Moore.

You could also read this piece as either companies gouging customers or trying to increase their profitability while median customers are getting poorer. All investors are trying to make 4% returns in a 2% world.

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

“Care4Calais… recently reported one asylum seeker trying unsuccessfully to pay a £1.70 library fine with an Aspen card, but the payment was blocked, while another was barred from paying for a haircut trying to use their Aspen card.”

Home Office bans asylum seekers from buying luxury goods and services Purchase of snowmobiles, timeshares and furs prohibited, despite asylum seekers receiving only £9.95 a week

A regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is feral and not fit for purpose.

#refugees

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Pretty amazing that Labour can’t find it in them to aggressively attack a barmy Reform proposal which is opposed by *a majority of Reform voters*

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Artist of the Month: Mary Black, not before time Colin Randall writes: for a variety of reasons, Salut! Live has been quiet of late. The Facebook group has been updated rather more conscientiously than the site but not enough. This, my first posting...

A lovely profile of the Irish singer Mary Black by Salut Live editor @salutsunderland.bsky.social. #folk #Ireland

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26 August 2025. Work | Cognition Why fewer people will be in work // The physical nature of problem solving // [J2T#648]

In my latest Just Two Things: how care crises are sucking people (mostly women) out of #work. And mathematicians, blackboards, #cognition and problem solving.

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A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent.

Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA