Mark Phillips

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business?

It is crazy how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action!

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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

So, thanks for confirming that the “industry” has no viable business model without stealing from others.

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Happy Earth Day.

That little tiny phone uses a lot of the earths resources to make it. (And creates lots of waste too).

Keep it longer, repair it and pass it on for reuse.

We can all help.

See www.unbroken.solutions

#earthday

Cover image of the book 'Borderlines' subtitle 'A history of Europe in 29 borders'. The image announces that it is 'Out Now in Paperback'

Exciting times! My book Borderlines is out in paperback - advance copies are in the bookshops already. It's a history of modern Europe told through the story of its national borders in all their humour, strangeness and tragedy.

It’s over. America has ceased to be leader of the free world Accidentally copying in a journalist to senior officials’ private thoughts about Europe was a gift of Providence

They lost the Telegraph…. !!https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/03/25/its-over-america-has-ceased-to-be-leader-of-the-free-world/

Millions of UK tyres meant for recycling sent to furnaces in India The illegal makeshift plants cause serious health problems and huge environmental damage.

Another example of the recycling myth. Too. often things sent for 'recycling' end up being exported or burned, or both.

We should have the capability to properly manage our own waste - reuse > repair > recycle (properly!)

Better regulatory enforcement needed.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Could it be that the UKs infamous human lettuce has infected all of the US government???

Of course. The world is always wiser after the event, if it wasn’t we’d learn nothing. And there are always reasons. I hope lessons are learned. But from what’s been published it appears the short term backups were inadequate.

True, although it may simply mean those emissions are on other days. People will still travel. With diversions, additional short haul flights etc it may even make it worse. I’d love to see an analysis ….

Heathrow Airport closed all day after nearby fire causes power outage - live updates Flights are cancelled and diverted mid-air as Europe's busiest airport closes until midnight over a

Is it really possible that infrastructure as critical as Heathrow has no credible dual power supply. I'd expect there to be a second major feed from a separate sub-station - but we appear to have nothing - the cost of back-up is trivial compared to the disruption.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It currently stands for everything you’d expect. Far from making it “great” it’s more likely to “grate” and plummet under the current cabal.

Council and Parliament agree to reduce food waste and set new rules on waste textile The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the targeted revision of the waste framework directive.

A new #EU law will require #textile producers and #fashion brands to pay a fee to help fund #waste collection and treatment, which will be dependent on how #circular and #sustainable the design of their product is.

#circulareconomy
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Three copies of the book, titled ‘Fronteiras’. The cover illustration is of a border post in the mist.

Borderlines! My book is now available in Portuguese. There isn’t a lot of content in it about Portugal or other Lusophone countries but I hope readers are interested, as Europeans and people interested in the history, folklore, psychology and contemporary reality of borders. 🇵🇹

The Great British Sewage Dump Widespread sewage spills contaminate Britain’s waterways and hit the broader economy.

As well as polluting our water, rivers, lakes and beaches, the water companies are damaging our economy and our health and our reputation.
Enough is enough.
Time to act.
Regulators should regulate properly or go.

Enshittifying the country is unacceptable.
www.reuters.com/investigates...

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’

Oh! Surely not? What happened to the "sunlit uplands".

Exports down = jobs down = poorer economy = you were lied to.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ah yes. Loophole 1- Transfers are not members?? Brave man; 17 pages of it ….

Oh.... so not Academic Armageddon then?

eee some people :-)

less than 20% of e-waste is recycled properly

At the Proud Gallery, London

Exhibition and book fair with photographers from the @photobookclubcollective at the Proud Gallery, John Adam Street, London, Private View Thu 6th 6-9pm and then Fri 7th March to Tue 1st April.

Talks on some Saturdays, dates and speakers to be announced.

Graph: the UK's net-zero costs are falling

The cost of reaching net zero in the UK by 2050 is now predicted to be just 0.2% of GDP (about £4 billion per year).

Spread this far and wide. It reveals Reform and the Conservatives' opposition to net zero for being 'too expensive' as just plain wrong.

New direct trains could soon link London with these European cities London St Pancras station would almost triple its capacity to deliver new train services to Europe by 2030.

Looking forward to this ....shame it's going to take so long to get it moving. Makes much more sense and is cheaper than a 3rd runway at LHR.

Is anyone in government watching?

www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...

Take care.

I think he just redefined “X-style “ management.

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

They have certainly done a lot of “dumping”. I guess the Americans have a new quaint name for it - an accomplishment. The cesspit is going to fill quite quickly.

Repaired plastic bucket

Repair your stuff. Repair the world.

Bring your broken stuff to our Repair Cafe on Friday. FREE to all. www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/events/view/...