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We need to stop talking about our #railways as if they are a business.
They aren't.
Guess what, highways don't make profit so why is it ok to funnel £billions into building new roads?!
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Transport Secretary @Mark_J_Harper says operating the railway is financially unsustainable due to lower revenue and rising costs and it isn't fair to continue asking taxpayers to foot the bill #GBA23
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While we take stock of big, new losses in Dartmoor, I want to take a moment to talk about the micro enclosures happening every day around the country. They’ll never make the headlines. But they completely shape the way we live our lives.
This is mine. 🧵
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Ukrainian soldiers near the Belarusian border say that the high number of beaver dams, which locals haven’t cleared because of the war, have helped flood the Volyn swamps- making the area much easier to defend
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Easy to understand why people want to preserve such beauty
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made a horrible website for my horrible sims houses, as a safekeeping measure polclarissou.com/housingcrisis/
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A design classic, but ever since its creation in 1965 the British Rail 'Double Arrow' has been prime for misuse, accidental or otherwise. Now it's been reworked fit the needs of our modern, digital world. Beautiful work by for Network Rail 👏
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Over the past few weeks, I've been thinking about whether protests like Just Stop Oil make sense in a democracy. This is where I came down - please give it a read:
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Female shipyard worker during WW2, Richmond, CA, USA, 1943 by photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
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Was DEFINITELY not expecting this to be the opening to The Wonder, Florence Pugh’s new period piece set in 1862.
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Stop buying things from Amazon
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"Do you not see there's a problem?"
"There's an algorithm here tracking a human worker."
Labour MP Darren Jones absolutely slates Amazon's European head of public policy over their dystopian surveillance of workers.
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Just finished writing this talk, and I'm very excited to give it. 1st time I've explained my research - a huge study involving 84 scientists - which was at the core of the predictions of sea level rise. This will be an insider view on how this BIG science works. 🌏💻📉📈
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Learn how climate scientist @flimsin has been using AI to predict the fate of our planet’s glaciers and ice sheets in our latest #TuringLecture, co-hosted by @Ri_Science.
Wednesday 16 November
The Royal Institution, London (and online)
Register now: ow.ly/IRrC50LulNV
Wednesday 16 November
The Royal Institution, London (and online)
Register now: ow.ly/IRrC50LulNV
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Remembrance day fun fact.
During the blitz over 450 conscientious objectors volunteered for bomb disposal duty.
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The thing that gets me about this is that this senior policeman thinks that the 'problem' is JSO getting their message out. But their message isn't a problem. The blocked M25 is the problem. Their message is actually a solution ...to a diferent, bigger problem.
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Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd now turns his fire on @LBC.
"Your editorial policy needs to reflect on whether or not we want to be part of the problem, which is how Just Stop Oil manage to get their message out there so very successfully."
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The arrest of journalists this week was not just about a few inexperienced officers getting carried away.
Remarks like this indicate a wider culture, that treats those who report on protest as accessories to crime.
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Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd now turns his fire on @LBC.
"Your editorial policy needs to reflect on whether or not we want to be part of the problem, which is how Just Stop Oil manage to get their message out there so very successfully."
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Another one.
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Yesterday I was arrested by @HertsPolice whilst covering a protest on the M25.
I showed my press card, and I was handcuffed almost immediately. My phone was snatched out of my hand. I was searched twice, held in a cell for 5 hours, and I wasn’t questioned whilst in custody.
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This is deeply sinister. A worrying thread:
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Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and @tomsdinner, a press photographer, got arrested by @HertsPolice whilst filming the @JustStopOil protest from a public footbridge over the #M25.
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This is great climate activism. Perfectly targeted, effective and really funny. Also, samba!
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Amsterdam airport police running after hundreds of climate activists blocking private jets while on bicycles is objectively funny nos.nl/l/2451147
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I'm excited to announce that Windosill will be coming to the Nintendo Switch next Friday, 11/11.
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Patience is a virtue.
#WorldBollardAssociation
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This clip is so revealing. You can become a Cabinet Minister and be very successful in British politics without thinking in an serious way about the biggest global and economic challenge we face. The blind spot is going to get us all killed.
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This is the Secretary of State for the Environment and despite being a ranty and no doubt often boring polemicist, I am actually lost for words.
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Pig vomit toxin key to Martian meteorite mystery bbc.in/3gIi6b3
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wait for it....
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"Vert issuant from the sinister base three piles wavy bendwise conjoined at the dexter chief point Argent."
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I know what you're thinking, and yes, Truss' tenure did last less than Alastair Cook's combined career minutes batting in FC cricket
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In tears listening to this.
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If there’s one thing you do today, we ask that you listen to this testimony from a crew member in the South East dealing with small boat crossings 
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How many of you know what Cruella Braverman's Public Order Bill contains?
It's frankly unbelievable: legislation you might expect in Russia, Iran or Egypt. Here's a summary from my column today:
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Wall to wall bivalve - lovely display of the variety of colour
#molluscs #museum #display #naturalhistory #GoulandrisNHM Pt. 13
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This painting is over 100 years old.
It's by Zinaida Serebriakova, a wonderful painter with a fascinating life whose story is worth knowing...
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Really interesting and well evidenced thread on whether the Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers scored an own goal.
Challenges lots of people’s preconceptions (including mine) - lots to think about here
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I find it a bit weird that otherwise very rational/reasonable people make totally unsubstantiated claims that go against existing empirical evidence when they see disruptive protest twitter.com/Liv_Boeree/sta…
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I'm seeing people asking, 'Why aren't protesting at oil companies instead of at the *National Gallery*?', which is a reasonable question, but:
a) they have been
b) they've been thrown in prison for it
c) if you hadn't heard about that, there's the answer to your Q.
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Gwen, risking an unlimited fine and a 2 year prison sentence for holding a placard on the grass verge outside the Kinsgbury terminal.
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The thing that bothers me most about the chancellor resigning is that atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are at their highest point in human history unleashing an era of ever worsening climatic and humanitarian crises.
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Friends who use . Do you know what these are and why do they keep appearing? They are driving me nuts.
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