Emma Waghorn

Emma Waghorn

@waggery.bsky.social

Folk choir leader (pielarks.bsky.social), amateur dancer (Morris, balfolk) and English concertina player; retired book editor, woke lefty vegan heathen, born @ 317 ppm, London, UK.

610 Followers 2,242 Following 64 Posts Joined Feb 2024
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Home - Not in our name Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

More than 86,000 women have now signed the Not In Our Name letter to say that trans exclusion is not what we want and should not be done on our behalf.

If you’re a woman who believes in dignity, fairness and standing alongside our trans+ siblings, add your name:

notinourname.org.uk

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Why The Internet Is Terrified of London YouTube video by Evan Edinger

“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

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Bruce Friedrich (@brucefriedrich.bsky.social) - author, Meat (top ten new release in science, Publishers Weekly), meatbook.org - founder + president, Good Food Institute (top 5 climate charity acc to Giving Green: tinyurl.com/3yaw9han)

Perhaps the author of the book, Bruce Friedrich (brucefriedrich.bsky.social), could clarify?

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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.

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Bruce Friedrich (@brucefriedrich.bsky.social) - author, Meat (top ten new release in science, Publishers Weekly), meatbook.org - founder + president, Good Food Institute (top 5 climate charity acc to Giving Green: tinyurl.com/3yaw9han)

Bruce Friedrich is here. Perhaps he could elucidate?
brucefriedrich.bsky.social

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1 month ago

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?

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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...

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2 months ago
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Unethical research YouTube video by Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN

“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...

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2 months ago

"If people are really worried about the flu season then we could start vaccinating more adults"

Spot on from @chrischirp.bsky.social

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3 months ago
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The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it | John Harris Thankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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...

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3 months ago

Nothing. 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?

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NORTH - Ullapool, Scotland
SOUTH - Somewhere in the Falkland Islands, south of Port Stanley

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3 months ago

Hello, Jess. Are you a journalism student at City University? If so, yes, of course you can!

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3 months ago
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The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision

“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...

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3 months ago

“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?”

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3 months ago

Ice-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!

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3 months ago
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!

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4 months ago

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.

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5 months ago
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Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

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.

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5 months ago
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Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

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...

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5 months ago
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The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

"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

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Exciting to see this ancient law, which baffled scholars for centuries, finally being used.

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6 months ago

"Rector, the Reverend Michael Smith, said it was "probably no coincidence" the graffiti appeared soon after an anti-racism meeting in the church hall"

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6 months ago
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Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

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/...

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6 months ago
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Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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...

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"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

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“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 ⤵️

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6 months ago

The irony is that the truly woke bread is wholemeal sourdough, which is impossible to find in an English supermarket.

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6 months ago

Russell Square? Or one of the many others designed by Leslie Green. Might be one that has since been demolished.

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“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.

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