I’ve just coined a new term #BeeWashing. It’s when UK organisations state they are acting on the #BiodiversityEmergency by putting in honeybee hives. Please share far & wide!

One of the surviving ramparts of Burghead Fort - a Pictish promontory fort in Moray.

One of the surviving ramparts of Burghead Fort - a Pictish promontory fort in Moray. The fort was occupied between 6th and 10th centuries AD, and was a major centre of Pictish power. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday #Picts #Burghead

Social scientist @dannydorling.bsky.social discusses Britain’s economic divide, drawing on decades of research to challenge common misconceptions. How can we reverse the trends leaving all children worse off than their parents? 📉 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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‘A tree zoo’: endangered conifers a living legacy of Kent pinetum’s centenary Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly maligned

Bedgebury National Pinetum, started 1925 in Kent. Has about the most complete collection of pine tree species in the world.
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Latest post on measles vaccines and the fallacy of ‘one more study to settle things’: kucharski.substack.com/p/a-wild-vac...

Reaching for the tin foil for a moment, is there, in the ripping up of civic structures, social safety nets, and the acceleration of human immiseration, an element of elite prepping for the rationing of resources that's coming?

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

French lower house votes through left's wealth tax on ultra-rich Thanks to abstention by far-right MPs, the 'Zucman tax' was adopted by the Assemblée Nationale, on Thursday. It is unlikely to be approved by the Sénat. The Finance Ministry has been preparing a much ...

French lower house votes through wealth tax.

A 2% minimum tax rate on the wealth of individuals whose net worth exceeds €100m.

It is not yet law.

UK needs to do similar to reduce inequalities. Instead govts penalise low/middle income families and make poor pay more for crumbling infrastructure.

The Marmot report, and its 10 year update, laid this out with prescriptions for change, and remains ignored in favour of yet more NHS engineering. We have Milburn back ffs

Fuck this guy.

Fuck all the snivelling apologists for the far right. Toadying little creeps trying to ingratiate themselves to the big bully boys.

New 'global growth team' appointed by Trade Secretary A new ‘global growth team’ of UK Trade Envoys has today been appointed by the Trade Secretary to drive UK exports and investment.

The UK put full sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine.

On Israel's genocide in Gaza, the UK says Israel is a "target market" to "identifying trade and investment opportunities for businesses".

'Lord' Austin is the UK's trade envoy to Israel.

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The Italian Futurists would have so enjoyed all this gratuitous breakage.

The mature delinquency of a whole civilization

It's essential that this process uses the extended purpose and value of the 48 LNRSs via a UK focus on OECMs.

Boxer-Husky cross here littering the universe with downy clumps. I can no longer see or breathe in my own car.

The answer is in the question! Because it is routine. All I meant really was that, although jaw dropping in all that theatre , the inauguration messages are also weirdly familiar.

Economic ideology, as an end in itself, is being used as a political weapon every day and on every street, to immiserate and diminish hope. That's why this lunatic cabaret of horror barely registers with us beyond TV drama standards.

This is the fruiting body. The mycelium is far far worse.

I've just spent a fruitless half an hour tracking down the accounts, where they exist, of the leftish and progressive thinkers I try to learn from, at this moment of extraordinary schism. Nothing, zilch, dust and tumbleweed. The academy is terrified of life.