“The next time someone shares with you some anti-London b******t, be sure to send them this video"
Excellent explainer from @evanedinger.bsky.social, countering hate and lies about London www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDky...
#racism #hateforprofit #stopfundinghate
Perhaps the author of the book, Bruce Friedrich (brucefriedrich.bsky.social), could clarify?
03.02.2026 09:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
Bruce Friedrich is here. Perhaps he could elucidate?
brucefriedrich.bsky.social
Yes, of course there are people who can’t thrive, or survive, without meat. Is this not another reason for developing novel proteins and cultured meat? If you could have a food rich in heme iron that didn’t require the slaughter of animals, wouldn’t you jump at the chance?
02.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
“This actually might be the worst thing we’ve seen coming out of HHS this year, and that’s saying a lot, in an unimaginably damaging year for science and public health.” youtube.com/shorts/aSHjr...
20.12.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"If people are really worried about the flu season then we could start vaccinating more adults"
Spot on from @chrischirp.bsky.social
It's right to explore what's driving increased prevalence & what support people need. But as @johnharris1969.bsky.social says, in "a country in which questioning other people’s needs is almost becoming a national sport" the government risks stoking a toxic debate www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
08.12.2025 12:29 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Nothing. But what’s wrong with calling something a veggie burger, which is a term I’ve used for the 40+ years I’ve been vegan or vegetarian? And what would be the alternative to veggie sausage? Veggie spherocylinder? Veggie capsule?
03.12.2025 11:02 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NORTH - Ullapool, Scotland
SOUTH - Somewhere in the Falkland Islands, south of Port Stanley
Hello, Jess. Are you a journalism student at City University? If so, yes, of course you can!
24.11.2025 13:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“People in countries like the UK don’t understand how refugees make decisions because our experiences are so different from theirs.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“How can vulnerable nations be compensated for the “loss and damage” caused by climate breakdown if we haven’t the faintest idea how great that loss and damage might be?”
22.11.2025 09:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ice-skating or snow I could understand. It’s the water that’s so odd. Unless … it’s meant to represent the thaw following the Great Frost of 1683–4? I suppose that might be something to smile about!
18.11.2025 20:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Part of mural at riverside in Kingston upon Thames above Côte Brasserie, showing medievalish-looking people, mostly men, splashing through water with sticks and odd-looking dogs, all smiling with the same kind of unearthly smile.
Another part of same mural showing more men, splashing through water with sticks and mutant dogs, including a dog-on-a-stick, all with that strange smile, or is it a grimace?
I’ve just been to see it, and I’m even more puzzled. I can’t find anything that says what it is. What is it supposed to depict? Why is everyone looking so happy when there’s clearly just been a flood? The people of Kingston want to know!
18.11.2025 19:37 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
Kruger: “The whole DEI/woke agenda that has infected so much of Whitehall will be in contravention of the civil service code that we introduce. Socially controversial political positions will not be acceptable in the civil service.”
So anti-racism is socially controversial, but racism isn’t.
Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right…
What a grim betrayal of our democracy.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth"
on.ft.com/3IsyVVu
@timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonableness
Exciting to see this ancient law, which baffled scholars for centuries, finally being used.
17.09.2025 05:58 — 👍 447 🔁 83 💬 26 📌 4"Rector, the Reverend Michael Smith, said it was "probably no coincidence" the graffiti appeared soon after an anti-racism meeting in the church hall"
13.09.2025 08:45 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Astonishingly, I've discovered, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss's agenda are still operating at the heart of government. Remind me what we voted for again ...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress
10.09.2025 07:38 — 👍 1570 🔁 691 💬 53 📌 51
“Abortion is so much more normal and common than people think," says Kendall, an abortion nurse for @msichoicesuk.bsky.social
Kendall told us what it's like to be an abortion provider in England, and what's changed since anti-choice groups were blocked from harassing people outside clinics ⤵️
The irony is that the truly woke bread is wholemeal sourdough, which is impossible to find in an English supermarket.
31.08.2025 15:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Russell Square? Or one of the many others designed by Leslie Green. Might be one that has since been demolished.
31.08.2025 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“As temperatures in this corner of northern Europe once again scrape the mid-30s, what must it be like to work in warehouses and factories with precious little ventilation, let alone air conditioning? How do builders and bike couriers cope?” Excellent piece from John Harris.
18.08.2025 08:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Over 90% of blackcurrants grown commercially in the UK (around 10,000 tonnes) and nearly half grown around the world, are used for making Ribena. www.hutton.ac.uk/case_study/b...
11.08.2025 06:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
