Altered State

SOUND WAVES - CHANGING THE SOUDTRACK TO THE OCEAN w/ Steve Simpson & Miranda Krestovnikoff

Our next talk is a collab w/ Futures fest & Bristol Uni

FOC tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discovery-...

#talks #bristoltalks #bristolevents #livetalks #environment #ocean #climate #climatechange

August 2025 | Books It never starts with concentration camps. Populist/nationalist Governments don’t come into power fully formed - they creep. Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran lists the early warning signs t...

Our Aug book of the month

HOW TO LOSE A COUNTRY - THE 7 STEPS FROM DEMOCRACY TO FACISM

By @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social pub by @canongate.co.uk

www.alteredstate.org.uk/book-of-the-...

#books #alteredstate #botm #democracy #farright #facism #politics #ecetemelkuran

The gambling industry is a licence to print money. Tax it properly – and turbocharge the fight against child poverty | Gordon Brown New thinking is urgent now. I have not seen such deep poverty since I grew up in a mining and textiles town blighted by unemployment, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

#tax #ukgovernment #gordonbrown #childpoverty

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

SOUND WAVES - CHANGING THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE OCEAN

Our next talk - Sep 11

Steve Simpson & Miranda Krestovikoff will show how we can use sound to reverse the ravages of climate change, overfishing & pollution

It is free entry, register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discovery-...

#bristoltalks #talks

Newletters | Altered State

THE ALTERED STATE MISSIVE

Our Aug newsletter

#bristol #politics #environment #lifestyles #protest #talks #bristoltalks #discussion #solutions #bristolevents #livetalks #whatsobristol #alteredstate #alteredstatenewsletter #thealteredstatemissive

www.alteredstate.org.uk/newsletters

Social media battles and barbs on both sides of Atlantic over UK Online Safety Act Farage accuses government of being ‘so below the belt’ as right wing doubles down on censorship claims

#onlinesafetyact #peterkyle #nigelfarage #ukgovernment #alteredstate

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage’s Trump tactics Pro-democracy campaigners suggest ‘pre-buttal’ is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods

#posttruth #socialmedia #reform #nigelfarage #ukpolitics

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What are the new UK online safety rules and how will age checks on adult content be enforced? From 25 July websites and apps will be required to protect children by filtering out harmful content and verifying ages

Online safety act in force today

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#ofcom #olinesafetyact #por #vawg #alteredstate

Africa to be hit hard as UK foreign aid cuts revealed A Foreign Office report shows the biggest cuts will come in Africa with less spent on women's health and water sanitation.

Foreign aid cut to pay for the first uptick in defence spending to 2.5% of GDP. Which is halfway to Trump's demand of 5%

#americafirst #ukdefence #nato #foreignaid #alteredstate

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

UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal Select committee chair says public need to be reassured about the use of their data after ‘major failures’ in the past Ministers are facing calls for greater transparency about public data that may be shared with the US tech company OpenAI after the government signed a wide-ranging agreement with the $300m (£222m) company that critics compared to letting a fox into a henhouse. Chi Onwurah, the chair of the House of Commons select committee on science, innovation and technology, warned that Monday’s sweeping memorandum of understanding between OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, and the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, was “very thin on detail” and called for guarantees that public data would remain in the UK and clarity about how much of it OpenAI would have access to. Continue reading...

UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal

Battle of Orgreave national inquiry confirmed by Yvette Cooper Police violently clashed with striking miners at Orgreave in South Yorkshire on 18 June 1984.

Orgreave inquiry announced by Yvette Cooper

#orgreave #southyorkspolice #alteredstate

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

Byline Podcast: Christopher Steele: Mistrusting Trump and the USA Adrian Goldberg talks for former UK intelligence officer Christopher Steele about his 2016 dossier which suggested that Donald Trump's had close links to Russia - and that the Kremlin had 'komproma...

"We had a well established network of sources in Russia and when we went in and tested the water, we found some pretty shocking results"

Ex MI6 officer @christophersteele.bsky.social on #Russian support for #Trump

@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Trump cannot dispel the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein | Sidney Blumenthal Trump’s grooming of his followers is impossible to undo. Now he is bedeviled by a conspiracy theory gap

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#conspiracytheories #qanon #donaldtrump #jeffreyepstein #conspiracism #gop #alteredstate

‘Outwitted’: have water companies managed to sidestep Labour’s bonus ban? Concerns loophole in 2025 act allows payouts at firms that repeatedly pollute England’s waterways with sewage

‘Outwitted’: have water companies managed to sidestep Labour’s bonus ban?

Serious water pollution in England up 60%, government says Last year had the highest number of pollution events by water companies ever recorded.

Water pollution up 60% in a year

#WaterCompanies #Pollution #EnvironmentAgency #whyohwye #AlteredState

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

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

#thepriceofprotest #alteredstate #gaza #protest

#epsteinfiles #trump #DOJ #conspiracytheories #alteredstate

#labourparty #kierstarmer #rebellions #alteredstate

Will the Conspiracists Cultivated by Trump Turn on Him Over Epstein?

Our Sept 24 talk THE TRUTH ISN’T OUT THERE covered #conspiracytheories & their weaponisation by #newmedia & the political far-right

This model now threatens #donaldtrump as baying MAGA influencers demand clarity

nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...

#epstein #maga #conspiracism #alteredstate #doj #usa

Illustration of a squirrel carrying a pile of books, walking towards a tree hollow full of books.

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Liz Truss and hard-right group accused of scaremongering over Parthenon marbles Ex-PM reportedly among those saying they will take legal action over ‘covert’ plans to return sculptures to Greece

Liz Truss & the Great British Pac

US style funding for UK culture wars

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

#liztruss #greatbritishpac #culturewars #politicalfunding #alteredstate

Has the Trump-Putin bromance finally run its course? US president appears to have run out of patience with his Russian counterpart – but how that transmits into practical support for Kyiv remains to be seen

Update on,,,,

TRUMP & VANCE - W/ FRIENDS LIKE THESE, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?

Hold the digital front page...is the Trump/Putin bromance over?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#trump #americafirst #putin #maga #ukraine #nato #jdvance #alteredstate #bristoltalks #bristol #bristolevents #talks

Musk Is Struggling to Understand What's Happening Around Him, Says Former Tesla Exec Now that Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" has passed through Congress, Tesla's crisis could soon take a major turn for the worse

‘Milei gave me the chainsaw backstage & I ran with it, but in retrospect it lacked empathy’

Musk struggling to
understand whats happening around him says former #Tesla exec

futurism.com/musk-struggl...

#elonmusk #politicaldonations #alteredstate

Our July book of the month is Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS

Evisceration of western complicity in the Gaza genocide

Buy from our store uk.bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

#omarelakkad #cannogatebooks #gaza #palestine #genocide #thewest #alteredstate

Branding Palestine Action terrorists ‘completely ludicrous’, say supporters The co-founder of Palestine Action is asking the High Court to temporarily block the Government from proscribing the group as terrorists.

Our very first talk THE PRICE OF PROTEST looked at worrying state over-reaction & the disingenuous labelling of activists as 'terrorists'

Proscribing Palestine Action as such when they're clearly not should concern everyone

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

#palestineaction #ukgovernment #gaza

Newletters | Altered State

New talk announcements, podcast, blog & book of the month, plus some moaning about the Govt & Glastonbury alteredstate.org.uk/newsletters

#alteredstate #newsletter #talks #bristol #bristoltalks #thealteredstatemissive #livetalks

Police launch investigation into Bob Vylan and Kneecap’s Glastonbury performances Avon and Somerset police say incidents have been recorded as ‘public order incident at this time’

Somerset Police to investigate Bob Vylan & Kneecap for statements made from the stage at @glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

Walls closing in on artists expressing themselves?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

#glastonbury #bobvylan #kneecap #alteredstate

Rod Stewart tells people to ‘give Farage a chance’ British rocker claimed that the Reform UK leader is ‘coming across well’ when asked about the political future of the UK

Altogether now ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE FARAGE A CHANCE

Rod Stewart comes out for Nigel ahead of legends slot

Guessing this isn’t what @glastonburyfestivals.co.uk meant when saying people should go elsewhere if they didn’t like their politcs

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

#glastonbury

#geoploitics #nato #americafirst #alteredstate

#ukrainerussiawar #abduction #ukrainianchildren #alteredstate