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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-bbcā¦
#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 canāt find the full interview atm, but hereās a short extract in which Alaa appears at around 4 mins:
youtu.be/VShnSpsYcQE
#FreeAlaa
The National Allotment Society says there is no war on #allotments. The Telegraphās 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/2025/08ā¦
??? āIām toldā¦ā
xitter.cf/doctoriaindarcy/statusā¦
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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-1687ā¦?
Briefly back here to share this #economics channel (@garyseconomics) in ref to the old tweets below:
youtube.com/@garyseconomics?ā¦
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...
āArguing that Muskās āsole objective is to become a trillionaireā & calling him a proponent of ātechno-feudalism on a global scaleā, Bannon said, āI donāt support that & weāll fight it,ā adding: āHe wonāt fight. Heās got the maturity of a little boy.ā
theguardian.com/us-news/2025ā¦
āThe social media platformsā claims to support freedom of speech are specious. [ā¦] 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/2ā¦
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. š¤š¤š¤
And reward yourself by listening to this sure-to-be stellar reading of #1984 by @exitthelemming and other luminaries:
xitter.cf/exitthelemming/status/ā¦
To mark the 75th anniversary of George Orwellās 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/m00201vā¦
I'm feeling just incredibly tense watching this. It's a really strange feeling. #Defiance
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-Antā¦
