Hello and welcome to all the first-timers. May it be the maiden voyage of many.

Food for thought 💭 ✅ Do you think it’s fair for authors and researches to PAY to have THEIR research or paper published by a journal ❓

Just noticed that the New Cross electricity substation looks like an actual circuit board when seen from above. google.com/maps/@51.48404…

Had a good weekend at Greenbelt Festival festival, as always. Whilst there I participated in a panel about sustainable transport, and everyone received a free mini-comic about cycle campaigning. The comic is now freely available - printable version here: davewalker.com/how-to-be-a-cy…

Once you have minimum corporate taxes it is inevitable that efforts to reduce financial profits increase- arguably to the detriment of financial accounting, as predicted by accounting academics like Hanlon and Blouin. This has only just started.

This is a fake Al Jazeera video that falsely claims the UAE has frozen the purchase of 80 fighter jets from France over the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. It's part of a huge pro-Kremlin disinformation operation that churns out fake videos in the name of mainstream outlets.

To paraphrase Thomas Sowell, the first law of economics is about trade-offs, whereas the first law of politics is to disregard the first law of economics 👇🏼

Israeli military & settlers killed more than 650 Palestinians in the West Bank (not Gaza) since October. In the shadow of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, this crisis flew under the radar, but the scale of the ongoing military operation brought it closer to the surface:

So the US finally sanctioned Hashomer Yosh. Good. This is why: 🧵👇🏽 axios.com/2024/08/28/us-…

The proportion of working class and blue collar MPs has declined in every election since the 1960s We want parliament to be a place everyone can join - to truly represent the public. Today we launch: BLUE COLLAR PARLIAMENT bluecollarparliament.co.uk Pls RT / 🧵

Surprise, surprise, fuel duty cuts not being passed on to consumers. The same would be true of many VAT exemptions being urged by campaign groups (and removal of exemptions won’t all be passed on either). bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The obvious question is: is Stamp a con man or delusional? The answer is "yes".

This was Hersh Goldberg Polin's room. ירושלים של כולם.ן القدس للجميع Jerusalem is everyone’s Rest in peace, Hersh. May his memory be a revolution.

Thanks BBC Songs of Praise for having me on for the first religious broadcast - a tale that’s never been on TV, radio or in print before. My podcast @bbcentury has 2eps about it: pod.fo/e/160bd7 pod.fo/e/20e29a Or if you'd like to watch the full restaging... 1/2

Luke 10:30-37. He does at least appear to have stayed on the same side of the road, though… Perhaps if Mayfair hedge-fund managers paid income tax on their carried interest there would be funds to deal with this?

Thread: A viral story claims Kamala Harris was involved in a 2011 hit-and-run that left a 13-year-old named Alicia Brown paralyzed. But the story is fake, and is most likely part of a pro-Kremlin disinformation operation run by an ex-Florida cop we've previously reported on.

1/ This couldn't be more important. It is a brazen violation of the Status Quo not only allowed but secured by the Status Quo. This has nothing to do w/ piety & & everything to do with messianic nationalistic triumphalism, inciting Palestinians & humiliating Muslims worldwide.

This is what Shimon Peres said in an interview with David Remnick in May 1998 (!) for The New Yorker. “To achieve peace and not follow through is bizarre”

What an amazing fundraiser! Jews, Muslims and Christians walking together to raise funds for St John’s Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. It’s a parable for our times. Please support this sightsaving work. Saving Sight in Gaza Humanitarian Walk - JustGiving justgiving.com/campaign/stjoh…

NEW Downing Street spokesperson said Lord Alli had been “involved in transition work” at this morning's lobby briefing. She did not deny that his work may have touched on public appointments, but referred further questions to political aides. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…