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YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski How Grass Roots Can Turn Into Global Movements

I loved spending time with @mikaelaloach.bsky.social

We talked COP, Rosebank and the need for community organising at the grassroots - along with political education.

Catch up 👇🏼

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Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
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'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....

Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.

It's time for Proportional Representation.

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With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost!

Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members.

That's +26,000 members in the last week.

Hope is feeling normal again....

List of "ingredients" for doing science experiments using the book "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder": RFW Ingredients one or more seeds (pea or bean ones work particularly well) balloons Piece of stiff, scrap cardboard about 20 cm by 15 cm 2 wooden kebab skewers 2 thin drinking straws (kebab skewers must fit through) 1 wide-diameter, bendy straw Sticky tape 4 round plastic milk bottle lids or similar One or more plastic drinking straws for Oboe Elastic bands Tin Foil. Marker pen Compact Disk (CD) or DVD (one that looks silver, not blue) A wine glasses Pen / pencil 15 cm length of wire (for example, from an old power cable) A cylindrical battery (AA, AAA and C batteries are all fine) 1 or more disk-shaped neodymium magnets (about 5 mm thick and 2 cm wide is a good size) 1 screw with a flat head (ideally more than 2 cm long, and check that it sticks to the magnet) paper towels (kitchen roll) Plastic carrier bag or bin bag 
 thread 3 “Pringles” or similar cardboard tube with lid. 500ml fizzy drinks bottle 2 Fruit shoot bottle Tracing paper / greaseprrof paper Pritt stick Food colouring liquid Red cabbage Fizzy vitamin tablets
 Small yoghurts String or thread 
 A metal coat hanger (preferably a “fancy” one made of thick metal, but a wire one will do) or the metal rack from an oven. Marvellous Machines Rubber bands – at least 2 big ones and two small ones Milk bottle tops – at least 4 Drinks carton 2 litre drink bottle Balloons Pen lid Blu tac Fizzy Vitamin Tablets Marble

Box of the "ingredients" needed to do the science activities in "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" including two empty pringles tuns, 2 empty 500 ml fizzy drink bottles, a ball of string, some bicarbonate of soda, a glue stick

Parents! Carers! Anyone thinking of buying a child a "science kit" for Christmas. For the same / less cost, buy a copy of "Recipes for Wonder" and put together a box of household "ingredients" which will let them do actual science and be a much more personal gift alomshaha.com/portfolio/mr...

‘She put food on all our tables’: Yvonne Brewster, a giant of black theatre remembered The trailblazing director’s death earlier this month was largely ignored by the British media. Here the Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh and fellow actor Doña Croll, recall a mentor and “great encourager”...

‘She made us feel we could do whatever we want’: Yvonne Brewster, a giant of Black theatre, remembered by Nerve contributing editor @adjoa.andoh in conversation with Doña Croll

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Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and fairer

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

New project reimagines the folk songs of Gower and Swansea A pair of acclaimed Welsh musicians are set to breathe new life into the traditional folk songs of Swansea and the Gower with a bilingual performance that bridges past and present. Fiddle player and s...

A pair of acclaimed Welsh musicians are set to breathe new life into the traditional folk songs of Swansea and the Gower with a bilingual performance that bridges past and present

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Perhaps we have useless/unserious politicians because they are a generation brought up to believe business people are serious and modelling that behaviour.

But business people aren’t serious. They’re often shallow and foolish. What they do may have serious consequences for others not for them

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

Clockwise from top L corner: John Cooper, goldfish, Radio Nonsense logo, air-rate, maybe.

Radio Nonsense logo. Text: Why are goldfish called goldfish if they ate orange? With John Cooper

John Cooper takes a break from teaching his passive martial art, Air-ate, to help Tiernan answer a question about goldfish. Also: Chutney.  WE NEED YOUR QUESTIONS, JOKES AND NONSENSE TOO. SEND THEM IN TO: podcast@comedyclub4kids.co.uk GROWN UPS: IF YOU CAN BUY US A COFFEE PLEASE DO SO HERE: https://ko-fi.com/comedyclub4kids Website: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk Bluesky: comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Facebook: facebook.com/ComedyClub4Kids Hosted by Tiernan Douieb. Music by Paddy Gervers. Design by John Beck.

On this week’s @comedyclub4kids.bsky.social Radio Nonsense podcast, the creator or Air-rate John Cooper joins me to talk goldfish.

Get your kids to listen at: pod.fo/e/3394e9

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Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper analyses the changing geographies of ethnic diversity and segregation in England and Wales using Census data covering the last 30 years (1991–2021). Residential segregation of all ethnic g...

If you're interested in understanding segregation and integration better, here is a good paper by the UK's leading academics on the topic

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Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats arising from the climate & nature crisis to an invite-only audience. Westminster Central Hall, 27 November. Has your MP confirmed yet?

📢 Britain faces a climate & nature emergency.
On 27 Nov, top experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media.

An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions.
Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge.

Check if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org

Two ex-party leaders make major demand for universal free childcare Green Party MP Siân Berry and Mandu Reid, former leader of the Women’s Equality Party, have joined forces to call for universal free childcare to help struggling parents

🚨Let's treat childcare like infrastructure.

In a new report written with the brilliant Mandu Reid, I am calling for Universal Free Childcare to be moved forward as serious policy.

This is a big vision and I hope others will come to share it.
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In my 40+ years as a Brit, there is no topic more covered than immigration. Since before I was born, it’s been a national fixation. You cannot move for people yammering on about immigrants. And in the past five years, it’s turned even more racist and cruel. Stop the bullshit indeed

UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”

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Why Don't Things Fall Up?: Seven fundamental science questions explored and explained Why Don't Things Fall Up?: Seven fundamental science questions explored and explained eBook : Shaha, Alom: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Science Teachers & Communicators! “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?“ has been noted by many as being *exemplary* in its explanations of science, and is being recommended by teacher trainers around the country to new teachers. Don’t take my word for it, read the reviews! Only 99p on Kindle til Wednesday

Mainstream economics continues to rely on Newtonian mathematics — using calculus to optimise, subject to constraints, an approach not suited to understanding macroeconomics or human behavior.

Nice shoutout to Vela Velupillai, my former professor at The New School

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Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Identifying as a ‘STEM person’ makes you more likely to pursue a STEM job – and caregivers may unknowingly shape kids’ self-identity STEM jobs – ranging from software engineer to physicist, to plumber – tend to be well paid. And women tend to be underrepresented in these fields. New research suggests one reason starts in kids’…

Kids who see themselves as “STEM people” are far more likely to pursue STEM careers, and new research shows caregivers play a key role in shaping that identity (or not).

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YouTube video by Alastair Somerville Deserving design (with audio)

Deserving Design - an old talk on how embedded exclusion is in systems youtu.be/uGR6qWc75DE? How elites need to maintain a line of judgement of Deserving/Undeserving people.

The shock of the Black Death on English aristocrats.

Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters Children as young as three will have lessons on wildfires and flooding under 10-point emergency response plan

Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with #climatecrisis disasters

- Children as young as three will have lessons on wildfires and flooding

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Tiernan and Isabelle winning the Panel Prize

Edinburgh! It's our last #edfringe gig today, come join our PANEL PRIZE WINNING SELVES at #assemblyfest Piccolo to see @alexanderybennett.bsky.social, @mrsamsee.bsky.social and @bechillcomedian.bsky.social!

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