James Piers Taylor

Elizabeth protected this nonce using the wealth, power and influence of the Crown

#abolishthemonarchy #NoKings

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12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us San Francisco’s AI startups are pushing workers to grind endlessly, hinting at pressures soon hitting other sectors

If AI is so great, why aren't the first problems it solves it's own dependence on $billions, GWh ⚡️, km³ 🚰 ?

& if its a job killer and makes everything easier, why is it so dependent on grind?

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Square promotional poster on a light grey background titled “The Wildlife of Maldon and the Dengie” in dark green text. Subheading reads: “Illustrated talk by John Buchanan, author of Wildlife of Maldon.” Date and time: “Thursday 26th February 2026, 7pm–9pm.” Venue: “Southminster United Reformed Church.” Below the heading is a large photograph of a barn owl in flight over green countryside, wings raised and legs extended downward. To the right of the photograph is a blue circular badge stating: “Donations for tea & coffee.” At the bottom, the address is listed: “Southminster United Reformed Church, North Street, Southminster, CM0 7DF.” In the lower right corner is the logo for the Dengie Climate Action Partnership with the tagline “Our home, our future.”

Is the Trans-Canada Trail inspiring @essex.gov.uk to implement a transformative plan for new walking, wheeling & cycling infrastructure in the county? Or is it just an intern's stock photo #fail? What does it mean for the Dengie?https://dengiebioregion.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/the-essex-wide-lcwip/

Thanks. I’ve now been in touch with the author.

The book was reviewed in Essex Journal (Autumn 2015) and the LAMAS newsletter

Does anyone have a copy or have any leads as to where a copy might be found? Thanks (2/2)

I’m trying to track down the book "Medieval Roads of Essex" (2014) by Helen Walker

I understand that it was only released as an e-book through Amazon’s Kindle store - but it doesn’t currently appear there & appears to be a victim of the digital dark ages (1/2)

#BiodiverseDengie #DengieBioregion #LocalNatureRecovery

#EssexLNRS #LNRS #Essex #NatureRecovery #RecoveryStrategy #BiodiversityCrisis #NatureLovers #NatureCrisis #Wildlife #EssexWildlife

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A poster. Background image is a photograph of seagulls in flight, against an overcast sky. The photograph taken from below and shows the underside of the birds. Overlaid are: the logo of the Dengie Climate Action Partnership with the slogan 'our home, our future' (top left corner), text in red reading 'Discovering Nature on the Dengie' (centre), smaller text in black reading "Do you want to learn more about the wildlife of the Dengie Peninsula" (below the red text)

Do you want to learn more about the wildlife of the Dengie Peninsula?

Dengie Climate Action Partnership wants to run a series of free, friendly, local talks about Dengie’s wildlife, habitats & ecology — from farmland & hedgerows to saltmarsh & coastline — & how climate change is affecting our area

Poop-Poop Barely a week goes by now without a collision on the Dengie roads. A couple of months ago this sadly included two fatalities. There’s clearly a problem with drunk and drug driving, but this a…

The rights-of-way for walkers and riders include the roads they have used since time immemorial

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Poop-Poop Barely a week goes by now without a collision on the Dengie roads. A couple of months ago this sadly included two fatalities. There’s clearly a problem with drunk and drug driving, but this a…

The automobile was the Johnny-come-lately joining road users which had enjoyed these paths for hundreds of years. Bridleways, byways & footpaths were additional to these — not substitutes for them, routes to be retired to when the motor-car demanded the road

Screen grab of text from linked article. Reads: Among your 10 specific demands to policymakers is one that calls for “debating a withdrawal from low-lying coastal regions of the North and Baltic Seas.” Until now, this has been taboo. KR: In the very long run, over many decades to a century or more, sea levels could rise sharply. That is why we must start discussing it now. If we act early, we will have the time for careful adjustments. FB: We won’t be able to defend some areas against the sea in the long term. We also need to consider where to retreat from the current coastline. For Hamburg, for instance, we need a plan to move the city 30 or 50 kilometers inland to the northeast by 2200. To be clear, no one is suggesting mass relocation tomorrow. But we can already ask whether it makes sense to build a new technology park or major production site right by the shore.

We won’t be able to defend some areas against the sea in the long term. We need to consider where to retreat from the current coastline. For Hamburg we need a plan to move the city 30 or 50 kilometers inland to the northeast by 2200 #ManagedRetreat

Aerial photograph of fields outside Southminster, Essex. tow-thirds of teh image is the cloudy sky above the fields. The image has been manipulated using AI to include a photo-realistic render of a terrestrial spaceport with a rocket ready to launch. The words 'SOUTHMINSTER SPACEPORT' are overlaid in the NSA typeface in a black colour. In addition: overlaid on the middle left of the image is a circular mission badge with the words 'Dengie Space Programme' and a graphical representation of a space shuttle launching against a background of stars and the full moon.

T-minus 89 hours until the launch of Witbrictesherna-IV at Southminster Spaceport.

Local residents are requested to secure animals until Mission Control confirms successful interstage separation.

#HereComesEverybody

The Power of Permaculture Principles, my new book available to pre order now at Permanent Publications

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Written over three years with 40 collaborators. Officially out March 1st 2026

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Screengrab of text: 'Governments with resources will be forced to engage in long, nightmarish episodes of triage: deciding what and who can be salvaged from engulfment by a disordered environment. The choice will need to be made primarily among the poorest, not just abroad but at home. We have already previewed the images, in the course of the organisational and spiritual unravelling that was Hurricane Katrina.At progressively more extreme levels, the decisions will be increasingly harsh: morally agonising to those who must make and execute them - but in the end, morally deadening' - Leon Furth in Gwynne Dyer's 'Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats' (2010)

An aerial photograph of the Brooklands area of Jaywick, Essex under water following the 1953 coastal flood

'Governments with resources will be forced to engage in long, nightmarish episodes of triage: deciding what and who can be salvaged from engulfment by a disordered environment. The choice will need to be made primarily among the poorest, not just abroad but at home' #ManagedRetreat

New mayoral elections to be delayed in four areas of England The new mayoralties in Greater Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, Hampshire and the Solent, and Sussex and Brighton will now be contested in 2028.

Fair chance these never happen now and we get the centralisation of LGR without the devolution of powers to the county #ShitShow

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Photograph of Kemi Badenoch looking down. A Tiny Nigel Farage is appearing from her neckline. White background. Text in grey in top right corner reads: 'Vote Green'

'Farage tells donors he expects Reform UK will do an election deal with Tories' #VoteGreen

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A photograph of 5 books on a rag showing their front covers: Thirty-two Words for Field by Manchán Magan; The Break-Down issue 1; My Techno- Optimism by Vitalik Buterin; The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson; and Radical Abundance by Kai Hero, Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell

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A photograph of Russian asset Nigel Farage with Red Square behind him and red sun rays. The word Reform in white is overlaid. It looks very liek theBBC fixup of Jeremy Corbyn

Grab from video of a fire at the COP30 summit. The cartoon dog from the'Thsi is Fine' meme is sat in the middle gropund

#COP30 is on fire

Unfollowed I’m concerned by groupthink and getting trapped in an intellectual bubble where my own opinions are reflected back to me. To counter that I read across the political spectrum, and on social media I…

But this isn’t a “common sense” travelator dropping you off at the departure gate, it’s a far-right escalator and you don’t want to see what’s at the top (2/2)

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Online and on the streets, some people are stepping on a platform marked ‘concern about irregular migration’ and flying the Union Jack or the Bratach na hÉireann. When the platform slowly moves to ‘against all migration’ and ‘pride in our national flags’ most are happy to go with it (1/2)

@danravenellison.bsky.social Hi Dan, the stat in this quote would be useful for local campaigning. Could you point me towards the DfT source? Is it in a report I can reference? Thanks

Great thank you!

Sgreengrab of a Facebook post. Identical text from this Bluesky post above a photograph of the quayside exterior of the White Harte Hotel in Burnham-on-Crouch. Above the text there is the logo of the Green Party of England and Wales accompanied by the words 'Maldon District Green party'

The next Maldon District Green Party social is this Saturday 22nd - meet Greens by the riverside

Saturday 22 Nov 2025 - 2-3pm
Ye Old White Hart
The Quay
Burnham on Crouch
CM0 8AS

Nearest bus stop/service: Burnham Clock Tower (esxjdgwm & esxawtmt) D7 31 331

@rgl25.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

Reeves in Zugzwang Incremental politics no longer works

Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.

Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.

It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.

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Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

“At some point, some hard decisions have to be made – that certain communities will have to be relocated. Protection becomes so expensive that it’s not worth it, so you have to move communities to safer, higher ground” #ManagedRetreat

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The statistics on deaths and injuries on rural roads would be useful for local campaigning. What is the source? Thanks!

Single figure polling after this surely