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America's largest clean energy infrastructure project is kicking off construction.
It will be the largest onshore wind farm in the West.
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I have "uncancelled myself" - he tells the Spectator.
But elsewhere in the right-wing media...
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In a Spectator interview published today, historian David Starkey offers a novel take on the "do you have any black friends?" question 🥴
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I wrote earlier about how Brexit broke my brain.
This point always stands:
"Being perpetually outraged loosens our perspective on what’s important and what isn’t true. It makes us more easily dismiss facts that don’t fit the narrative"
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What's WORSE is that figures like Trump and Musk know this too.
If your aim is to be the centre of conversation (positive or negative, it doesn't matter) - get people to argue about you on social media.
Trump rode the wave of liberal anger to unite conservatives. He used us.
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It isn't just that people's hatred of Musk and Rowling breaks their brains and makes them interpret everything through that prism.
I think the broader problem is that *social media* as a whole does this. The same happened with Brexit and Trump. (1/n)
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Spot on as usual
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Stop letting Elon Musk break your brain.
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/stop-letting
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Why action on climate change and #netzero will be a key issue at the next General Election… this isn’t a one off poll either- but reflects a consistent and growing trend that voters are prioritising ‘green’ issues in the new political mainstream that is emerging
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Tory source: "Sunak can't blame these results on last year's chaos. He started that chaos by knifing the most successful Tory election winner in 50 years. Sunak's claim that stability has been restored is shot to bits." inews.co.uk/news/politics/ @theipaper2
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It's come to my attention again that few people have any idea what the government's "stop the boats" illegal migration bill does, so:
It ends the right to seek asylum in the UK.
No decsions. No applications will be processed. From Afghans to Albanians. Limbo forever for all.
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It has taken me a few months to gather my thoughts on all of this, including how bizarre it was to have my physical location tracked through an account for my cat, but here is my first hand experience of being surveilled on TikTok
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On climate change, we often assume people are either believers or deniers.
I don't like either label, because climate change is not a religion.
Instead, I prefer the 6 categories identified by for the US. climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects
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Not surprised to hear David Starkey say this.
Be interesting to see how conservatives react, given they've been defending Starkey vehemently in recent years. twitter.com/implausibleblo…
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With Sen. 's bill to ban caste discrimination in CA, the stakes surrounding caste are growing and growing. If you have no idea what's going on - or, want a deeper understanding - have a listen to this audio doc I reported for
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Not surprised to hear David Starkey say this.
Be interesting to see how conservatives react, given they've been defending Starkey vehemently in recent years.
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Sharkey, "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is not fully grounded in our culture."
Extraordinary conversation between Andrew Pierce, Bev Turner and David Starkey #Coronation
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1/3 I received this through the post in Leicester North Evington. It is clear that their seems to be a certain section of only one community that wants to sow division along communal and religious lines in politics. This is the same type of division being sown in India despite
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Just checking in on the rejected petitions to see how the people of the UK are doing
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I'll see your "Alien: The Musical" and raise you "Apocalypse Now but with teddy bears"
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Green Leader challenges to find examples of his party blocking local solar wind farms. She gives three in rapid succession.
Greens will only be a protest party until they get real on tradeoffs in building an economy that improves lives and environment.
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A typical political response to this is: "oh no, a backlash is brewing!"
But I think this is good for Britain, economically and culturally.
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In summary, as I say in the column, all the media focus is on illegal migration. But it's the perfectly legal kind that is already doing much more to reshape our country. Please give it a read thetimes.co.uk/article/britai
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Just realized some DLR trains in London are now covered in pictures of forests instead of advertising, giving them a much nicer inner look
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Nothing to see here, just Spain’s all-time April heat record being smashed by…4.8°C.
All perfectly normal.
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Finally, talked about how much England has changed over the past 30 years, noting that multicultural Britain developed because of acceptance and diversity in England - something definitely worth celebrating this #stgeorgesday
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Russian oil laundered through India
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India is on track to become Europe’s largest supplier of refined fuels this month while simultaneously buying record amounts of Russian crude, according to data from analytics firm Kpler trib.al/9y1LCsq
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All five episodes of my #bbcradio4 documentary on the so-called “race riots” of #Lozells #Birmingham in October 2005
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The Lozells riots: could they happen again in Britain’s diverse communities?
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'I can't believe how quickly this rumour gathered speed'.
18 years on from the riots in Lozells & Handsworth - Journalist returns to investigate the story he first covered.
Hear #TheBeautyQueenRiotsPodcast on the breakfast show all this week.
bbc.in/3UNRe9y
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🚨People who shop for clothing in "women's" sections!🚨 Do you know there's actually a reason why it's so fucking hard to find clothes that fit?? I wrote about the history of clothing sizes in America for The Audacity. Read the whole thing here: rb.gy/1b3xj
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“Twitter’s self-reported data shows that, under Musk, the company has complied with hundreds more government orders for censorship or surveillance — especially in countries such as Turkey and India.”
Surprise!
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Award-winning actor, screenwriter and novelist Meera Syal CBE will be presented with the BAFTA Fellowship at the upcoming BAFTA Television awards with @pandocruises 
Meera has over 140 credits including the hugely popular Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No.42
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Every viral tweet now has like 9 followups from the author like:
My husband got me flowers!
I wanted to clarify my husband and I do equal housework
I did not know tulip farms were so bad for the environment, sorry
I apologize that this was insensitive to people with allergies
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For this week's media newsletter, I wrote about how some of today's media trends look weirdly like the ones from 15-20 years ago.
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Bigger, heavier, more efficient: A deep-dive on cars in the United States
My latest Substack: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/cars-united-
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"We believe that monitoring and documenting human rights violations in Iran and preparing that evidence so it can stand up in court, is a powerful way to hold the regime to account."
"Those guilty should have evidence presented against them at international courts."
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The plan goes a bit like this:
"We aim to build a global group of experts to help document and analyse the human rights abuses in Iran, with a view to securing justice for the victims in international courts."
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We have all heard about the recent horrific human rights abuses in Iran.
But how do we turn that anger and frustration into useful action, and hold the regime to account?
has a bold plan:
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