Diana Cook

East Anglia’s pylon battle: why the region deserves a fairer, greener energy network James Cartlidge MP says underground cables could deliver clean power across East Anglia without scarring the countryside

James Cartlidge MP says underground
cables could deliver clean power across East Anglia without scarring the countryside | East Anglia Bylines

Ah the challenges of a modern world and digital exclusion.

Age Concern is campaigning for a more accessible world & we have written about it...

The cartoon 👇 may be funny, the reality not.

Today, Lower Silesia celebrates 15 years as a voivodeship and, as they put it, 80 years of ‘postwar Lower Silesia.’ Whatever the occasion, just wanted to relaunch my posting with this photo from around 8 years ago. That’s exactly when my research started — and so did my layered love for the region.

Exhibitions Archive - The Wiener Holocaust Library We host a diverse array of exhibitions at the Library, online, and for hire.

Our travelling exhibitions cover subjects including Kristallnacht, the Kindertransport, and the fight against antisemitism from the 19th century to today

They're available to hire now so these remarkable stories from our archive can pop-up in your school, university, or workplace! 🔗

I guess that’s like under funded or under achieved? Easily fixed!

Am 16. Oktober 1943 verhafteten die deutschen Besatzer bei einer Razzia im historischen Ghetto Roms 1259 jüdische Römer:innen. Kurz darauf wurden 1007 von ihnen nach Auschwitz deportiert, nur 16 überlebten. Heute erinnern im Viertel Stolpersteine an die früheren Bewohner.

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

Sea defences meant to protect Norfolk’s coast are being dismantled – too dangerous, too costly, and too easily overwhelmed.

Owen Sennitt reports

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

Record 87 hours of 100% clean electricity in Great Britain this year – up 50× since 2021.

The race to a fully fossil-free grid by 2030 is on.

Dr Simon Evans reports

Trust asks residents to help shape new wildlife vision Norfolk Wildlife Trust is calling on South Norfolk residents to share ideas for a long-term wildlife recovery plan

Norfolk Wildlife Trust is building a 25-year plan to restore nature.

South Norfolk residents: your input in the survey matters.

Pecksniff: At last! ‘Rejoin the EU,’ says Burnham In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

* Burnham: “Rejoin the EU in my lifetime.” Labour HQ in meltdown.

* Starmer’s “deal” with Trump is no more binding than his earlier EU one.

* Greens descend on Bournemouth – can Zack Polanski connect with voters?

@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Not for the first time Netanyahu prefers the global far right to the Jewish diaspora

BANNON: They push this neo-Marxism of Herbert Marcuse. Which, you know, Andrew Breitbart was so brilliant in explaining to us the Frankfurt School — you've got critical theory, critical race theory, now queer theory. It’s destroying the substrate of our society and our culture. It's embedded in the schools. It's what these kids are taught from kindergarten on. I would actually argue that Weingarten and these people are almost domestic terrorists themselves and what they're doing in forming, and essentially they've turned these schools into a neo-Marxist madrasa.

Bannon says the Frankfurt School is on the curriculum from kindergarten. What a twat. Though I’ll admit, “neo-Marxist madrasa” has a nice ring to it.

Black Beauty, broken and rescued: 150 years of equine welfare The legacy of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty reminds us: cruelty to any creature is everyone’s concern

This is the last weekend to enjoy free Heritage Open Days 2025.

The birthplace of Anna Sewell, the author of Black Beauty is just one place to visit. Here you will discover how her novel changed attitudes & transformed equine welfare.

More details👇

Recovery and Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust In Britain, International Tracing Team outreach in Birmingham - The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library is home to the UK’s digital copy of the International Tracing Service archive, which holds millions of documents related to the Holocaust and Nazi era. This remarkable…

📣 Our International Tracing Service Archive team will be in Birmingham next week!

This free events programme includes the chance to view our pop-up exhibition, Fate Unknown, as well as the opportunity to learn more about the archive.

Find out more:

Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally  – HOPE not hate Today saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for the “Unite the Kingdom” rally. Organised by Stephen Lennon —...

🚨 Yesterday we saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for Tommy Robinson's “Unite the Kingdom” rally.

Read our analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was.

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Political violence is as American as apple pie. An armed society, a polarised society, a society with a broken political system and a dangerous clown on his tawdry golden throne, what could possibly go wrong?

Author Matt Haig posting on Bluesky ‘Fascism is rising and reading is declining. This is not a coincidence. This is why racists burn libraries and Donald Trump loves the poorly educated. Books save civilisation. Fight fascism. Read more.’

Adults need to lead this. We need to be readers and encourage the young to read too.

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s

We are in deep trouble. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine Aseem Malhotra claimed ‘eminent oncologist’ said jab was ‘significant factor in the cancer of members of royal family’

This is without any evidence or data to support it. Cancer existed before COVID vaccines. The rise in early onset cancers- going on for decades- is not linked to COVID vaccines. Follow scientists & medical researchers. Not ppl selling snake oil. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” – The Bear on why leaving the ECHR would be a really Bad Idea.

Here’s how we change the narrative on the small boats Populists thrive on fear and repetition. To counter the small boats saga, here's how we must reshape the story

What if the focus shifted from fear to facts?

A bold approach, writes Peter Thurlow, could reclaim the story from the right-wing.

“The Germans Are Coming!” The threat of an invasion of East Anglia, in actual and fictional form From Shingle Street to Victorian novels, East Anglia has long haunted imaginations with real and fictional invasions

Britain was long obsessed with invasion threats - leading to Palmerston Forts, Martello towers and more. Some were real, most were fiction – all fascinating. Read the history here:

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Tots, bots, measles and the surging distrust in vaccines How does the decline in take-up of the measles vaccination tell a tale of our times?

Worry again being expressed by public health officials about the number of unvaccinated children and the dreadful consequences that chicken pox and measles may bring...

Exclusive: Inside the Diss hotel – a refugee’s view of the anti-refugee crowd outside Families fleeing danger thought they'd found safety, until protesters gathered outside their hotel, chanting for their removal

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It’s very disturbing that they were not allowed to say this. It’s an expression of common humanity and future hope.

The speech Progressive rabbis weren’t allowed to finish at Downing St demo - Jewish News Co-heads of Progressive Judaism, rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy, were told to leave the stage after being drowned out by jeers. This is the speech they did not complete

Proud to be a member of Progressive Judaism: Rabbis Josh Levy and Charley Baginsky would have been allowed to say what they came to say. www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-speech-p...

BREAKING: They’re not *just* Hausschuhe — a map showing different regional German words for “slippers”.

Marvellous! I’m calling mine Schlappen from now on.

Go check out the History Flakes pod for the whole story! 🙌