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24 Nov 2024
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Breaking my Twitter fast (for all the good it will do) to share this @Demos report on how to strengthen the independence and accountability of the @BBC: demos.co.uk/research/our-bbc… #publicservicemedia #publicinterest #governance #deliberativedemocracy
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In 2008 I had the opportunity to spend a bit of time after the @globalvoices summit in Budapest with Wael Abbas and Alaa Abd El-Fattah - I can’t find the full interview atm, but here’s a short extract in which Alaa appears at around 4 mins: youtu.be/VShnSpsYcQE #FreeAlaa

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5 Aug 2025
The National Allotment Society says there is no war on #allotments. The Telegraph’s disingenuous & inflammatory reporting (so out of character!) was designed to politicise & polarise another arena of communal life, as the comments show:
Angela Rayner has given the green light for cash-strapped councils to sell off allotments to raise fundsā¤µļø telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08…
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6 Aug 2025
??? ā€œI’m toldā€¦ā€ x.com/doctoriaindarcy/status…

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11 Jun 2025
Another prominent scientist protests to the @royalsociety over its silence at the anti-#science actions of the owner of this site. ft.com/content/877853df-1687…?

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3 Apr 2025
Hmmm.
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23 Mar 2025
Briefly back here to share this #economics channel (@garyseconomics) in ref to the old tweets below: youtube.com/@garyseconomics?…
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Have been thinking recently that I need to take a course in economics, but this terrific thread, and listening to @KateRaworth on @ExponentialView, is making me wonder whether intro courses are really fit for purpose...
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13 Jan 2025
ā€œArguing that Musk’s ā€œsole objective is to become a trillionaireā€ & calling him a proponent of ā€œtechno-feudalism on a global scaleā€, Bannon said, ā€œI don’t support that & we’ll fight it,ā€ adding: ā€œHe won’t fight. He’s got the maturity of a little boy.ā€ theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
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13 Jan 2025
ā€œThe social media platforms’ claims to support freedom of speech are specious. […] When Maga influencers attacked [Musk] due to his support for a certain type of immigrant visa, X seems to have been suppressing their accounts.ā€ theguardian.com/technology/2…
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23 Sep 2024
Grateful to @TherealNihal for indulging my wider question, about the values @SpursOfficial wants to project as an institution (think #Corinthians, for example), & just *swoon* that #Ange took it on, & gave such a perfect, authentic #THFC answer. šŸ¤šŸ¤šŸ¤
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8 Jun 2024
And reward yourself by listening to this sure-to-be stellar reading of #1984 by @exitthelemming and other luminaries: x.com/exitthelemming/status/…

To mark the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, @BBCRadio4 is broadcasting a five-part reading today. Readers include Martin Freeman (9am), Juliet Stevenson (3.15pm), Adjoa Andoh (7pm), me (9pm) and Tom Hollander. Hope you can listen bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00201v…
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8 Apr 2024
I'm feeling just incredibly tense watching this. It's a really strange feeling. #Defiance
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8 Apr 2024
Extraordinary, genuinely. Thank you, @RajeshThind and colleagues - and the interviewees - in #Defiance. I hope this gets distributed widely internationally too. And seeing some of those demonstrations reminded me of this, on Rock Against Racism: amazon.co.uk/Never-Again-Ant…
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