Robin Bennett

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on why Palantir is such a good fit for the NHS (h/t @paulbernal.bsky.social)

strong play for 'worst panel ever' there

This new Harry Enfield character is really shit!

Reminiscent of this…

I’ve been commuting to central Oxford a bit via park & ride and it’s SO much quicker than when I last did it a few years back (apart from that day a canal boat got stuck on Folly bridge!)

well said Calum!

Thames Water discharging sewage into watercourse at South Morton for 940 hours … and counting.

No rain for ~4 days, and no storms or heavy rain for longer than that.

They should be prosecuted for this asap and the law applied (which can be imprisonment btw not just fines that end up on bills)

sewage in brook.

Abingdon Green Party candidate Aidan Reilly has called on Thames Water to clean up a sewage filled watercourse just south of the town. Thames Water data shows it has been dumping raw sewage into Oday Hill Ditch alongside Peep-O-Day Lane for hundreds of hours in February alone.

Just throwing it out there: telling people that they have legitimate grievances about immigration will never reduce the sense of grievance. This isn't how anything works and a government that paid even the merest attention to social science research would know their approach helps the far-right.

quite.

I usually get that written into the S106 agreement..

Meanwhile, Labour had to send actual UK government cabinet ministers out to desperately knock on doors…

We do have some of them too, but only the good ones like @samcaseyr.bsky.social

It’s actually a great political moment that Hannah Spencer apologised in her speech to clients whose pipes she now won’t be able to fix.

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Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out.

Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

I don't know what the opposite of nominative determinism is. But Matt Goodwin does.

Dirty Business Shocking real-life drama about the muck in our water and a corporate scandal

Please watch Channel 4's docudrama 'Dirty Business' on the pollution of our waters. There could not be a more shocking exposé of the human and environmental cost of privatisation, deregulation, corporate corruption and government complicity:
www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

Culham: A415 Abingdon Road - proposed Sparrow crossing & traffic calming We're asking for your views on the proposal to construct the following features on & adjacent to the A415 Abingdon Road, in Culham – which are being put forward to help improve active travel route...

Do you live in Abingdon, have kids at Europa, work in Culham, or know anyone who does? Please send them this consultation on improving the crossing nearby to the school if so.

letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/culham_a415_...

Over £1.5M in grant funding will be available for community organisations in South Oxfordshire over the next year!

This funding will come from a range of grant schemes supporting projects that help residents and the environment across the district.

https://orlo.uk/qjqzh

#YourMoneyYourServices

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

SODC Green group proposed amendments

After nearly 7 years as a councillor, it's my first council budget meeting tonight as part of the opposition group, so I'm proposing some budget amendments... we'll see what we can get through! @southandvalegreens.bsky.social

Weird how the minister talks about a ‘deal’ not a procurement process, as if negotiating with a foreign power… councils often have to get 3 quotes to spend a thousand pounds!

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding

Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted

*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it

Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

how many do you have?!

@zackpolanski.bsky.social highlights that this Epstein/Mandelson moment goes far beyond politics into the integrity of our institutions, as Arlene Foster nods in unlikely agreement! The whole of last night's #Newsnight is well worth 30 minutes of your time.

NB: It's not just Mandelson. The Tories' chief election strategist Isaac Levido was also a lobbyist for Palantir.

Under both the Tories & Labour, this predatory mass surveillance corporation has had its tentacles deep into the heart of government.

Great choice!

The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.

It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.

Here’s what I mean 🧵👇