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Sur Eigg, s'épanouit une communauté qui, loin de l'agitation mondaine, a su tisser sa propre utopie, capteur solaire et éolienne en main. Un récit visuel de Charles Delcourt à découvrir. 

Ps : j'avais pu l'interviewer ici https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywqLYK5FALA

03.03.2026 09:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · 02/13/2026 · 36m

My New Yorker interview with David Remnick. Give it a listen.
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13.02.2026 22:37 👍 425 🔁 191 💬 22 📌 7

Happy birthday Ben from Bristol, England!

10.02.2026 21:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of a sandy beach on the Isle of Eigg, off the north-west coast of Scotland. There are gentle waves lapping on the sand stretching into the blue sea in the distance. There are green hills on the right  of the photo while further beyond there are mountains silhouetted against the blue sky.
Photo taken by Corinne Thompson.

A photo of a sandy beach on the Isle of Eigg, off the north-west coast of Scotland. There are gentle waves lapping on the sand stretching into the blue sea in the distance. There are green hills on the right of the photo while further beyond there are mountains silhouetted against the blue sky. Photo taken by Corinne Thompson.

A photo taken looking out to sea on Handa Island, off the north-west coast of Scotland. The photo is tinged orange by the setting sun which is sitting low in the sky and directly in the centre of the shot. In the foreground there is rocky patches of grass while beyond the sea stretches away to silhouetted mountains on the horizon. There are two people standing on the grass also silhouetted in the light.
Photo taken by Danni Thompson.

A photo taken looking out to sea on Handa Island, off the north-west coast of Scotland. The photo is tinged orange by the setting sun which is sitting low in the sky and directly in the centre of the shot. In the foreground there is rocky patches of grass while beyond the sea stretches away to silhouetted mountains on the horizon. There are two people standing on the grass also silhouetted in the light. Photo taken by Danni Thompson.

A photo taken from the cliffs on Handa Island off the north-west coast of Scotland. The photo is looking across to another rugged cliff face topped with scrubby green grass. The clif is stained white in multiple places indicating seabird nests. Below, the sea is deep blue with large areas of white water where the sea meets the rocky shore.
Photo taken by Dannin Thompson on the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Handa Island Wildlife Reserve.

A photo taken from the cliffs on Handa Island off the north-west coast of Scotland. The photo is looking across to another rugged cliff face topped with scrubby green grass. The clif is stained white in multiple places indicating seabird nests. Below, the sea is deep blue with large areas of white water where the sea meets the rocky shore. Photo taken by Dannin Thompson on the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Handa Island Wildlife Reserve.

A photo taken of Boulders Bay on Handa Island, off the north-west coast of Scotland. In the foreground, there is a rocky beach scattered with large boulders. Closer to the sea there are patches of seaweed clinging to the rocks. Beyond, the sea stretches round the rocky island coast, reaching silhouetted mountains on the mainland in the distance.
Photo taken by Camilla Blasi Foglietti.

A photo taken of Boulders Bay on Handa Island, off the north-west coast of Scotland. In the foreground, there is a rocky beach scattered with large boulders. Closer to the sea there are patches of seaweed clinging to the rocks. Beyond, the sea stretches round the rocky island coast, reaching silhouetted mountains on the mainland in the distance. Photo taken by Camilla Blasi Foglietti.

Looking for an island adventure? 👀

We're looking for:

📌Volunteer Rangers on the Isle of Eigg
📌Monthly volunteers on Handa Island
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Start exploring here. 👇
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17.01.2026 08:01 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Baroness Warsi and Selina Scott walks were excellent. It went downhill when walkers' feelings grew in prominence.

16.01.2026 19:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Morning all.

Photograph by Martin Parr, Isle of Rhum in the background, Isle of Eigg, Scotland, 1998.

09.10.2025 04:45 👍 232 🔁 32 💬 17 📌 1
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Matthew Rhys Is In Talks With Netflix Over Adaptation Of Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’ Matthew Rhys is in talks with the streamer over the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

Intrigued by the idea of Matthew Rhys starring in a Netflix limited series adaptation of THE POWER BROKER, but honestly you could do 6-8 hours just on the Cross Bronx Expressway or Robert Moses vs. Jane Jacobs.

02.12.2025 02:05 👍 76 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 2
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Where does our waste go? Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 19/11/2025 · 57m

‘A lot of the non-recyclable plastic that we in the global north produce ends up getting exported to other parts of the world where it becomes someone else's problem.’

On the pod: @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @moonjets.bsky.social on where our waste goes.

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22.11.2025 11:00 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Liam Shaw | Metabolic Magic Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in long...

‘During the Second World War, American and British scientists tried to solve the problem by making penicillin synthetically in a test tube. But they failed. The fungi were capable of far more advanced metabolic magic.‘

Liam Shaw on the challenges of antiobiotics.

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21.11.2025 13:30 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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PhD opportunity with @mark-glasgow.bsky.social, me and Mhairi Mackenzie looking at the Relational Determinants of Intersectional Health Inequalities.

Get in touch if you'd like to discuss.

tinyurl.com/RelateHealth

18.11.2025 20:33 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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More than tax or public services, Labour’s singular pitch - to the electorate, investors and allies - was the promise of a decade of stable technocratic leadership after the “Tory psychodrama”. A party incapable of delivering that is going to have to find better pretexts than “but my activists”

12.11.2025 08:50 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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Terrorism! Torture! Oppression! Liberation! Defeat! Victory! This week we're watching the movie that has it all: The Battle of Algiers. Is it a training film for rebels or counter-insurgents? How does it manage to be, in the words of Roger Ebert, "both passionate and neutral"?

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31.10.2025 08:13 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0

Less painful than 30. Happy birthday.

30.10.2025 10:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain? Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 10/29/2025 · 1h 6m

New @lrb.co.uk ON POLITICS: I speak with @danielagabor.bsky.social & Andy Haldane on bond markets, gilt vigilantes, and the role of Britain's central bank. Instructive and hugely illuminating conversation on finance, democracy, & how we get out of the doom loop.

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29.10.2025 16:26 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 4

Harry Wingfield, of the Ladybird books and others, is among the most underestimated illustrators of C20.

One of the best exhibitions I have been (I have been to 100s) was a retrospective of his original work in Walsall.

Follow @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social for regular servings of Ladybird goodness.

14.10.2025 19:34 👍 238 🔁 29 💬 7 📌 0
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This is the book that @mrjamesob.bsky.social just discussed with #RussellScott. In a sane country, the Tories would be finished for good

01.10.2025 12:03 👍 166 🔁 51 💬 8 📌 1

REMINDER: FT Schools provides free access to FT.com for 16-19 year olds and their teachers at schools around the world. More than 73,000 students in 132 countries are already reading us through the programme professional.ft.com/en-gb/servic...

01.10.2025 10:15 👍 29 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 1

I just enjoyed listening to your appearance on the New Books Network podcast. An interesting discussion. I am a member of the Liberal Democrats...

25.09.2025 15:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

HTV!

21.09.2025 16:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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HTT West

21.09.2025 16:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

🚨 1 DAY TO GO TIL FAWLTY TOWERS AT 50 🚨

Join John Cleese in conversation with ITV West Country Presenter Alex Lovell at
St George's Bristol tomorrow to celebrate the sitcom voted the Greatest of All Time turning 50 - link below for tickets 🎟️

26.08.2025 09:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Last Christmas and Barbie Girl were dreadful too. 'It's so bad, it's good' will never apply to bardcore.

15.08.2025 12:49 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Deep water swallowing a few volunteers for a moment.

Deep water swallowing a few volunteers for a moment.

Volunteers in ankle deep water slashing and pulling invasive Himalayan balsam.

Volunteers in ankle deep water slashing and pulling invasive Himalayan balsam.

Lots of Himalayan balsam laying on the ground, slashed and pulled from a river edge.

Lots of Himalayan balsam laying on the ground, slashed and pulled from a river edge.

Today an army of volunteers from Bristol River Avon Trust and @protect.earth joined forces to smash Himalayan Balsam on the Bristol Frome. The group of 40 volunteers cleared from Iron Acton to Frampton Cotterell, joining up with existing local groups work through Yate to the source at Doddington.

06.07.2025 18:33 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
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Will you be covering this counter-insurgency classic?

31.07.2025 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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17 July 1944 | Jane Haining, a Church of Scotland missionary in Budapest perished in the German Nazi Auschwitz camp.

Her last message to friends was a postcard asking for food. She ended her letter with the words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.”

17.07.2025 13:02 👍 421 🔁 112 💬 8 📌 7

They struggled with Kuntz too.

28.06.2025 09:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Austrian neighbour was appalled by my mispronunciation of this.

28.06.2025 09:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Wave closes suddenly as facility battles debt and administration Bookings have been cancelled but its majority owners say they have a refinancing package

The Wave has closed suddenly today, with bookings cancelled.
A Bristol Live investigation has revealed it went into administration two months ago & has been trying to refinance millions of pounds debt since then.

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26.06.2025 15:21 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

Carry on Jack?

24.05.2025 18:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great call. Hardy Kruger gave a great performance as von Werra.

11.05.2025 14:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0