Peter Dyke

Well said and thank you for all you do. Our government should be pointing this out too, instead of joining in the racist hateful narrative. And while everyone's looking down at the refugees in boats no one's looking up at the billionaires hoarding all the money in Yachts.

Hiroshima. 80 years ago today.

New podcast- the atomic strike. As it happened.

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This is why Starmer is playing with fire by billing the hallucinations of the far right over illegal immigration as “legitimate concerns.” Britain has hardly any irregular immigration, it’s easily managed, and most of it could be turned into regular legal migration with smart policy moves

As Farage's star continues to rise I can't help but detect exactly the same mistakes being made all over again. In so routinely prioritising Farage's rhetoric and personality over the substance of his policies, actions and record, the British press is once again failing to properly hold to account a man who the opinion polls now suggest has a serious chance of becoming Prime Minister in just a few years time. If that chance does become a reality then he will quickly prove, as Johnson did before him, how utterly unsuited he would be for such a position. Yet by that point much of the damage of a Farage premiership to our national public services, economy and global reputation will already have been done, with many of the same news organisations who helped to get him to that point, only belatedly bothering to point out why he had never been suitable for the job in the first place.

“Whatever happens, the damage that has already been done by the constant media indulgence of Farage and his divisive, inflammatory and outright racist views will take many years for this country to recover from.”

Yes. A disgraceful, unforgivable failure.

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The only migrants that politics and papers ever talk about are the tiny minority that arrive without visa or, as they say these days, on small boats. That focus alone creates the impression it's a huge & serious problem. At this stage, not just Murdoch media, but all parties are guilty of that.

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

"It's just fields and fields of gray ash."

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In the text there is veering around between ‘foreign nationals’ (which might or might not include dual nationals), migrants and foreign born as if these are all the same thing. @mattdathan.bsky.social I’m interested in what the editorial stance is on this - if I go to jail am I ‘foreign’?

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.

Nick Timothy here, still making inflammatory falsehoods about migration

Misdirection in headlines is important because many people never read past the headlines.

Saying 'not really' in the article text after shouting 'disaster we are doomed' in the headline is not ok.

And we should say that.

There are a lot of idiots enraged by this misleading Times headline.

The article itself - yes, the exact same one - points out that:

A) In any typical year, about 50 independent schools close

B) More independent schools opened than shut, so the overall number went up.

But that's far too nuanced.

To be clear, UK racists' "concerns" about migrants are not legitimate. They are the direct result of a constant stream of propaganda fabricated by the British media and political class.

The danger of flying rings to seals: a young campaigner’s advice A flying ring killed a seal I saw – now I’m campaigning to stop them being sold

Amaya Edwards is 11. She’s written a book, made a video, designed posters – and now she’s taking on councils and big toy shops.

Why? Because flying rings are killing seals.

This is how change begins. Her story ⤵️

‪Today in 1914 Britain was teetering on the edge of the abyss, Lloyd George wrote to his wife: 'I am moving through a nightmare world these days..I am horrified at the prospect of it... But I must bear my share of the ghastly burden though it scorches my flesh to do so.’

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£100 standard fine for littering

£1.3 million extra pay for discharging untreated sewage into waterways for 232,054 hours in 2022

Interesting that the 29% is roughly the same as the current polling figures for #Reform. But #FPTP could well hand Reform an overall parlianmentary majority on that 29%. Bizarre

Both are consequences of the "free market" which drives top pay up and up while suppressing average and lower wages still lower. The "market" hands ever further power to those who already have it. Allowing this to continue unchecked will irrevocably damage society in the end

I am finally reading Borderlines by @lewisbaston.bsky.social.

The France/Germany chapter is a great antidote to the pompous Brexiter claim that it was more likely NATO (and general economic recovery) that kept the peace after 1945, not the EU.

Trees are great - just getting on with sustainable growth year on year, while quietly making the world a better place

A cartoon of two panels. Title: Aliens search for signs of intelligent life Panel one: a UFO with an alien descending the ladder, arms outstretched. On the ground, three men in suits, also stretching out their arms. Panel 2: The alien has walked past them to hug a tree.

It's the final day of what has been a tremendous week at @threechoirs.bsky.social . Looking forward to a splendid Elijah tonight @philharmonialondon.bsky.social

This is a super article, with wise lessons about the importance of serious practice and how music can teach us patience and discipline for other areas of life @richardcoles.bsky.social

YouTube video by DW Planet A Copenhagen: How to flood-proof a city

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After past flooding, Copenhagen city has made spongy parks & constructed football fields as reservoirs, as well as tunnels as a storage & slow release system.

[Quotes & photo published with permission.]

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I had heard the phrase “history repeats itself” from a young age but somehow I always thought that would look like “80s fashion coming back” and not “hungry children with measles watch an autocrat drain their nation’s coffers to build a big tacky palace”

Nicely put

Screenshot of BBC Instagram film showing flooded streets and a drain from which water gushes as though it was a fountain. Showing this week's storm damage in New York City.

🧵 The denial of climate change is now so predominant that not only are we abandoning any attempt to curb it, we also fail to prepare ourselves & cities for it.

We're all familiar with pictures of overflowing drains & flooded streets. It doesn't have to be that way ...

Ouseley’s Jerusalem on High included in BBC Choral Evensong live on BBC Radio 3 from Hereford Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival yesterday. Ouseley became Precentor at Hereford in 1825, and 2025 marks the bicentenary of his birth. The service is available on the BBC website.