Fay Young
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Writer, blogger, editor. Love wild woodland gardens & city jungles, song & dance (also tweet poetry, food and politics) co-editor @sceptical_scot
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Joined August 2011
Gavin Newsom holds mirror to Maga by trolling Trump via @FT. “He’s the tip of the spear of the resistance for sure.”. [An unusually upbeat story from US politics for a change. Sweet dreams]
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California governor’s social media campaign peps up Democrats and positions him for 2028 White House bid
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“Scottish health is being underfunded vs the UK as a whole”. Why? . GERS and what it tells us about the de-prioritisation of health spending in Scotland - Sceptical Scot
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"At face value, this does seem like another area where the Scottish Government is not being adequately held to account for its decisions. Doing so might throw up some difficult questions but at least...
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The challenge is to spread the wealth - and contentment.
London's biggest problem: it's so successful everyone in the world wants to be here. Streets I used to meander down to look at quiet bookshops? I now can't fit on the pavement! Yes we need tighter law enforcement: ban the rickshaws, arrest the phone thieves, clean the air faster
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Why bad ideas are always with us via @FT. When the majority gets it wrong . “Remember, when Macron raised the retirement age, some of the most tenacious protesters were young: those working to pay for those pensions.”
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Tariffs, Nimbyism, high debt — the victims of these things don’t even know what they’re losing
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Actor Michael Sheen: ‘You have to make something happen’ via @FT. “The future can’t just be scary. It can’t just be ‘AI is going to take our jobs and fascism is on the rise’ — we have to offer a positive view of the future.”. A must read
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The ‘not-for-profit’ star on putting his own money into projects, creating a new national theatre for Wales — and what he learnt from Nye Bevan
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza occupation plan opens rift with IDF via @FT. But “there is time for the international community, with an emphasis on the US and the moderate Arab world, to influence — including to renew negotiations on a deal.”
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Rancorous week of leaks and mudslinging exposes divisions between political and military leadership
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It’s good to see many local councils leaving verges and public green spaces to grow - I’ve not seen so many happy insects for a long time. Beautiful bees, butterflies, hoverflies - wasps too.
Dear councils, 97% of meadows are gone. So please, value our wildflowers. If you are lucky enough to have them growing in verges and public spaces, don't poison or over-mow them. Let them grow as a lifeline for bees, butterflies and hoverflies 🐝
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RT @HubrisTheBook: #MakeItHappen Camping it up with poor music and even worse jokes, Iames Graham has thrown away a story which was a genui….
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Two Scottish financial journalists go to the Festival Theatre to review James Graham's Make it happen and emerge three hours later deeply unimpressed...
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RT @KuperSimon: Theworst thing that Trump has done is under-publicised: USAID cuts will kill 14 million people by 2030, predicts @TheLancet….
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The great crime paradox via @FT. “America and Britain are less dangerous than ever, but more disorderly than they have been in some time.”. John Burn-Murdoch on public perception ( manipulated by Trump and Farage) .
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Disorder is rising in public consciousness. Is it rising in reality?
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RT @MarkJCarney: Canada condemns the Israeli government’s failure to prevent the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Isra….
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Gaza: a war without end? via @FT.Ceaseless destruction and death. Netanyahu and his far right government are relentlessly laying waste to Gaza with devastating loss of Palestinian lives but they are also destroying the human soul of Israel.
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A growing number of Israeli critics say military objectives have long since been superseded by the far right’s political goals
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RT @herdyshepherd1: So much good environmental stuff happening in the uplands. The areas known to me are probably going through the most ra….
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‘Perhaps “learn to care” could replace “learn to code” as the go-to career advice for the next generation.’.
Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men. Will that last? via @FT.Healthcare demand explains steady employment of women graduates who tend to opt for jobs in that sector unlike young men - interesting results in John Burn Murdoch’s latest
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Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men. Will that last? via @FT.Healthcare demand explains steady employment of women graduates who tend to opt for jobs in that sector unlike young men - interesting results in John Burn Murdoch’s latest
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Unpicking the puzzle of increasing junior white-collar unemployment
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RT @sebastiansalek: When unaccompanied minors seek asylum, they enter the care system. Children in care go swimming. They go to the circus….
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More US students choosing UK universities after Trump attacks on higher education via @FT.
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Latest admissions data shows 14% rise in American applications for undergraduate courses
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“…neither the changing climate nor ageing populations will wait for politicians who would rather think about something else.” Stephen Bush.
Climate change. not going to go away just you want to ignore it. How magical thinking came for net zero critics via @FT.
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Climate change. not going to go away just you want to ignore it. How magical thinking came for net zero critics via @FT.
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Badenoch shows the temptation of just putting all this climate unpleasantness behind us
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RT @metoffice: The Met Office #StateOfUKClimate Report for 2024 demonstrates how weather records and temperature and rainfall extremes are….
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