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RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165
I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].
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Seems only a matter of time when people will start digging #HeatShelters underground to sit out deadly #HeatWaves.
H/t @junesim63
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labours-landmark-rules-on-right-to-try-are-worthless-and-empty-dwps-own-guidance-shows/. "Government #documents prove that the 'right to try' #reforms at the centre of Labour’s 'landmark' plans to push more #sick & #Disabled people into #employment are 'worthless' & 'a disgrace', disabled #critics have concluded." Absolutely scandalous, @ChrisMayLA6, @HarriettMB, @junesim63.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/31/karl-turner-labour-whip-suspended. Whatever the denials, this is PRECISELY because of Karl Turner's opposition to David Lammy's plans to end #trial by #jury in many cases. Dissent of any kind is no longer tolerated in the modern #LabourParty, @ChrisMayLA6, @HarriettMB, @junesim63.
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A good news story. Green Party Councillor Yassin Mohamud was a refugee from Somalia Now he is Bristol's new Lord Mayor.
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A good news story. Green Party Councillor Yassin Mohamud was a refugee from Somalia Now he is Bristol's new Lord Mayor.
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A good news story. Green Party Councillor Yassin Mohamud was a refugee from Somalia Now he is Bristol's new Lord Mayor.
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A good news story. Green Party Councillor Yassin Mohamud was a refugee from Somalia Now he is Bristol's new Lord Mayor.
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"The SNP, Reform, Plaid Cymru, the Greens, and even to some extent the Liberal Democrats have won big because they aren’t seen as Westminster parties.
There are two potential responses to that. We can either turn up our noses at those people, moan about their lack of trust in the system and talk smugly about how to rebuild it, or we can accept they are correct"
Westminster’s two-party system in crisis as Reform and Greens surge
https://www.opendemocracy.net/election-crisis-westminster-reform-greens-labour-conservative-scotland-wales-two-party-system-finished/ -
Fascinating on the link between congenital cortical blindness and schizophrenia.
#Schizophrenia #Blindness
People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia – what this tells us about the psychiatric condition
https://theconversation.com/people-who-are-blind-from-birth-never-develop-schizophrenia-what-this-tells-us-about-the-psychiatric-condition-281369 -
Fascinating on the link between congenital cortical blindness and schizophrenia.
#Schizophrenia #Blindness
People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia – what this tells us about the psychiatric condition
https://theconversation.com/people-who-are-blind-from-birth-never-develop-schizophrenia-what-this-tells-us-about-the-psychiatric-condition-281369 -
Fascinating on the link between congenital cortical blindness and schizophrenia.
#Schizophrenia #Blindness
People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia – what this tells us about the psychiatric condition
https://theconversation.com/people-who-are-blind-from-birth-never-develop-schizophrenia-what-this-tells-us-about-the-psychiatric-condition-281369 -
Fascinating on the link between congenital cortical blindness and schizophrenia.
#Schizophrenia #Blindness
People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia – what this tells us about the psychiatric condition
https://theconversation.com/people-who-are-blind-from-birth-never-develop-schizophrenia-what-this-tells-us-about-the-psychiatric-condition-281369 -
Fascinating on the link between congenital cortical blindness and schizophrenia.
#Schizophrenia #Blindness
People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia – what this tells us about the psychiatric condition
https://theconversation.com/people-who-are-blind-from-birth-never-develop-schizophrenia-what-this-tells-us-about-the-psychiatric-condition-281369 -
"Amid another fossil-fuel price crisis, the record wind and solar output since the start of the Iran war avoided the need to import 41TWh of gas – roughly 34 tankers of liquified natural gas (LNG)"
#Wind #Solar #LNG #Renewables #IranWar
Analysis: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began - Carbon Brief
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wind-and-solar-have-saved-uk-from-gas-imports-worth-1-7bn-since-iran-war-began/ -
"While the effects of damp and mould on growing lungs have rightly gained salience, policymakers still turn a blind eye to how record-high rents threaten the life chances of our youngest and future generations"
#RentCaps #Renting #Housing #Landlords #Health #UKPolitics
UK's high rents are endangers children's health
https://www.opendemocracy.net/rent-housing-crisis-endanger-children-nhs-public-health-emergency/ -
"While the effects of damp and mould on growing lungs have rightly gained salience, policymakers still turn a blind eye to how record-high rents threaten the life chances of our youngest and future generations"
#RentCaps #Renting #Housing #Landlords #Health #UKPolitics
UK's high rents are endangers children's health
https://www.opendemocracy.net/rent-housing-crisis-endanger-children-nhs-public-health-emergency/ -
"While the effects of damp and mould on growing lungs have rightly gained salience, policymakers still turn a blind eye to how record-high rents threaten the life chances of our youngest and future generations"
#RentCaps #Renting #Housing #Landlords #Health #UKPolitics
UK's high rents are endangers children's health
https://www.opendemocracy.net/rent-housing-crisis-endanger-children-nhs-public-health-emergency/ -
"While the effects of damp and mould on growing lungs have rightly gained salience, policymakers still turn a blind eye to how record-high rents threaten the life chances of our youngest and future generations"
#RentCaps #Renting #Housing #Landlords #Health #UKPolitics
UK's high rents are endangers children's health
https://www.opendemocracy.net/rent-housing-crisis-endanger-children-nhs-public-health-emergency/ -
Senior executives, directors, and major investors from the world’s largest fertiliser and grain companies have sold shares worth more than $66 million (£49 million) during price hikes linked to the Iran war, DeSmog can reveal.
#IranWar #Fertiliser #Grain
Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/fertiliser-grain-bosses-bank-66-million-selling-shares-iran-war/ -
"The BBC investigation exposes a handful of cases, but there is no credible evidence that fraudulent claims in this category are widespread. When similar allegations were made by former home secretary Suella Braverman in 2023, the Home Office was unable to provide evidence of systemic abuse"
#AsylumSeekers #LGBTQ #HomeOffice #BBC #UKPolitics
There is something wrong with the asylum process for LGBTQ+ people – but it’s not fake claimants
https://theconversation.com/there-is-something-wrong-with-the-asylum-process-for-lgbtq-people-but-its-not-fake-claimants-280838 -
"Drax has claimed a total of about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite persistent claims from campaigners and scientists that the wood pellets burned at its power plant are not sourced sustainably and may be increasing carbon emissions"
Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says | Energy industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/16/drax-renewable-energy-subsidies-wood-pellets -
"Drax has claimed a total of about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite persistent claims from campaigners and scientists that the wood pellets burned at its power plant are not sourced sustainably and may be increasing carbon emissions"
Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says | Energy industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/16/drax-renewable-energy-subsidies-wood-pellets -
"Drax has claimed a total of about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite persistent claims from campaigners and scientists that the wood pellets burned at its power plant are not sourced sustainably and may be increasing carbon emissions"
Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says | Energy industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/16/drax-renewable-energy-subsidies-wood-pellets -
"Drax has claimed a total of about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite persistent claims from campaigners and scientists that the wood pellets burned at its power plant are not sourced sustainably and may be increasing carbon emissions"
Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says | Energy industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/16/drax-renewable-energy-subsidies-wood-pellets -
"Drax has claimed a total of about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite persistent claims from campaigners and scientists that the wood pellets burned at its power plant are not sourced sustainably and may be increasing carbon emissions"
Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says | Energy industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/16/drax-renewable-energy-subsidies-wood-pellets -
"When you outsource judgment about vulnerable children to a surveillance company, you are reaching into the very core of local democratic accountability. These are decisions that should be made by trained, experienced social workers embedded in their communities – not by an algorithm built by a firm whose first clients were spy agencies.”
Clive Lewis MP#Palantir #AI #Coventry
‘Safeguarding via algorithm’: Coventry doubles down on Palantir ties with new £750,000 contract
https://www.thenerve.news/p/coventry-council-palantir-renews-contract-children-social-services-zarah-sultana-campaign-kick-out -
Consumers should “completely avoid” buying UK-caught cod, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has said, as it warned that populations have reached a dangerous point of decline despite zero-catch recommendations.
#Cod #Fishing #MarineConservation #MCS
Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges | Fishing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/consumers-urged-to-completely-avoid-uk-caught-cod-as-population-plunges -
Consumers should “completely avoid” buying UK-caught cod, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has said, as it warned that populations have reached a dangerous point of decline despite zero-catch recommendations.
#Cod #Fishing #MarineConservation #MCS
Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges | Fishing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/consumers-urged-to-completely-avoid-uk-caught-cod-as-population-plunges -
Consumers should “completely avoid” buying UK-caught cod, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has said, as it warned that populations have reached a dangerous point of decline despite zero-catch recommendations.
#Cod #Fishing #MarineConservation #MCS
Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges | Fishing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/consumers-urged-to-completely-avoid-uk-caught-cod-as-population-plunges