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And Ofcom do nothing

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

This is the point about Labour introducing retrospective changes to the immigration system. They set the precedent for any Govt. to say that they can go back on promises to migrants and people of colour as far back as they want.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doing what UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen not to do, criticise the US and Israel for their attack on Iran which breached international law

Christopher who? In May, a party founded eight years ago, with no record in national government and only eight MPs, will fight elections in Wales and Scotland, and for control of councils across England, with every chance of winning many of them. British politics is being reshaped by Reform UK. This is a result of Nigel Farage's personality and of Christopher Harborne's money - £9m, from a fortune amassed largely through cryptocurrency investments. The party would not be able to field candidates, run social media operations or door-to-door campaigns if it weren't for the Harborne war chest. There is a template for crypto-funded campaigning - in the US, where it is viewed as having led to securing crypto-friendly legislation and sweetheart deals to enrich crypto charlatans and undermine transparency and accountability in politics. Reform threatens to destroy the Conservatives as a party of government and divide communities, increasingly along ethnic lines and with overtly racist arguments. It also poses the most serious threat to Keir Starmer's government, Harborne lives in Thailand and owns a 12% stake in the Tether stablecoin. Little else is known about this intensely private man. Yet he can influence the course of politics, seemingly without either much of a business or life in the UK. It's a lot like overseas interference in British democracy. Didn't someone once say: "Take back control"?

From yesterday's Observer.

Shabana Mahmood to limit refugees to 30 months in UK Shorter asylum period can be renewed under hardline policy aimed at stopping rise of Reform UK

Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.

First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought www.bbc.com/news/article...

Both Trump & Bibi depend on a fair amount of chaos & prolonged war-powers to stay in power/out of jail - that's probably another factor worth weighing in the analysis of the "why now" question.

Which is entirely unsurprising since Labour decided in the most demonstrative way possible not to want to be a progressive party.

Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.

imagine being a Neolithic pagan worshiping the sun. spring would hit so hard you’d be feral with delight and also ideologically vindicated

Befriended a local ghost in Edinburgh, had a rainy adventure, committed to the bit... @lunapress.bsky.social 👀👻✨️🖤

The hard road back from overshoot - Nature Climate Change As global temperatures move beyond 1.5 °C, overshoot now defines the landscape ahead, sharpening legal claims, exposing economic risks and revealing how far politics still trail the pace of change.

The idea that we can “overshoot now, fix later” is simplistic.

Overshoot relies on massive CDR, but temporary warming can trigger tipping points and long-lived changes: ice sheet loss, permafrost thaw, ecosystem shifts.

Cooling later doesn’t guarantee reversal.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I exposed NJ's Jewish invasion Inside Canada's Indian invasion

watching a guy with 8.8M subscribers put out this propaganda: there's a transnational far-right power grab and you're not ready for it

I think it's worth celebrating the fact that the Green Party has gone from "gets invited onto Question Time a few times each decade" to "unhinged front page scaremongering in the Daily Mail" in the space of a year.

peterwalker99.bsky.social posted on Reform UK's press conference: We've had questions from three broadcasters so far, and they have all been about the practicalities and costs. None has asked about the legal/moral issue of retrospectively changing laws so huge numbers of people who have made their lives in the UK will be expelled. 11:54 23 Feb 2026

This. @peterwalker99.bsky.social here with an excellent point.

From Brexit to Rwanda, from Reform to Labour to UK media, the focus on financial aspects of policies that violate human rights & hurt the lives of innocent people seems cynical & callous & an already shift of our values.

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A pair of eye inlays displayed against a gray background. The eyes are crafted from white material (calcite) with black circular pupils (obsidian) and outlined in a thin bronze frame.

Eye inlays from an Egyptian coffin 👀
The frame is made of bronze, the eye of calcite and obsidian. Dating ca 1500-1200 BC.

On display at Staatliches Museum für Ägyptische Kunst.

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Just four months after the DfE cut multiple subject bursaries, the impact is already starting to show.

Subjects fear that it has not just led to lower recruitment but created a wider sense that subjects now have to compete to prove their worth.

www.tes.com/magazine/new...

An incredibly good book. Outdated, but the basic argument remains very influential for me.

As this guy popped up in what was, on a conservative estimate, the 250th Tony Blair documentary, i did wish someone would see fit to make one about how this charlatan's fundamental misunderstanding of economics had broken the British state.

I'm *guessing* (because totally unclear) that a Reform UK govt would mean, for unis in England:
*No more Student Loans access for Arts and Hums outside Oxbridge, UCL, Durham, Exeter, handful of others
*V limited Social Science undergrad loans
*No more Arts and Humanities Research Council (1/3)

Possibly the single best Anglophone political orator of my lifetime. Check out this astonishing speech he made in 1984 m.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6v...

Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next? How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it.
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

It's kind of alarming the number of conversations I've had with policymakers that treat the concept of a counterfactual as something arcane and suspect, rather than an essential element of understanding the impact of their actions

Huge falls in immigration and anti-immigrant rhetoric deliver no positive for the government whatsoever. They've been pursuing a morally bankrupt, economically insane and politically disastrous strategy for 18 months now. Total madness.

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Picasso coexisting with both Charles Darwin and Eminem is a particularly good one

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory