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"The House of Commons reconvenes on Tuesday to elect the speaker, after which MPs, old and new, will be officially sworn in, a process that can take several days."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jul/06/labour-starmer-rig...
"Each of these pre-eminent technologies shaped the societies that they enveloped. Print shaped the world for four and a half centuries, followed by broadcast, which ruled for 50 years or so. None of this would have surprised a biologist, who would see human culture as something that grows in an enveloping nutrient. Change the nutrient and you change the culture that grows in it."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/29/closing-th...
"To make things worse, we also invented a technology that enables every Tom, Dick and mad Harry to publish whatever they like on opaque global platforms, which are incentivised to propagate the wildest nonsense. And to this we have now added powerful tools (called AI) that automate the manufacture of misinformation on an epic scale. If you were a malign superpower that wanted to screw up the democratic world, you’d be hard put to do better than this."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y
"Starmer’s first session answering prime minister’s questions, probably with Rishi Sunak putting the questions as leader of the opposition, has been pencilled in for 24 July, the week after the state opening of parliament on 17 July."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/07/commons-334-roo...
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'Organic Frameworks'
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Never Count your Chickens...
"Just half a pound of the stuff may remove as much carbon dioxide as a tree can, according to early tests. Once the carbon is absorbed by the powder, it can be released into safe storage or be used in industrial processes, like carbonizing drinks."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/11/27/angela-rayner-meets-pope...
"Following his Budget, the head of McVitie’s has said that it has been harder to understand what the case for investment in the UK is."
Broomsticks.
"We define political consciousness as a way of seeing, caring about and acting in the world. It is guided by a commitment to human rights and justice and an understanding of power and inequity in social, political and economic systems, relations and values."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/san-francisco-navy-lab-h...
The Ironic.
"“Speak not of the wild animal, lest he should appear,” because you're simply too afraid of seeing one. The name bear is a euphemism; it's a good word substituted for a bad one. It's probably the oldest known euphemism in world ."
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/30/how-is-glitter-made...
Sleep Tight.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/29/covalent-organic-fra...
Hmmm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjbQEEdVcDI
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qdj80py3no
lol
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/29/houseplant-of-the-w...
Straight Face.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/24759156.nandos...
The Silence.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/understanding-plants/how-plants-breathe
"“There’s one thing for sure, whatever political position I hold, I will always fight for the coast and moors and the opportunities of the renewable sector.”"
Best not mention Harry Potter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52chF7DWJcY
""I always bring some different elements - improvisation, the piano, the flute, the jazz harmonisation - so that the music is going through another process of creolisation."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg7vwlg8rmo
'Green & Pleasant'
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"The Green Party's Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election, becoming the first Green candidate to win a Westminster by-election - as well as the party's first ever MP in northern England."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8rjk02r0jt
"Our struggles might not be the same... but we stick up for each other," she tells the people of Gorton and Denton. "Earning your trust starts now," she says, adding that she will "work hard" for those who didn't vote for her too. She calls out "politicians and divisive figures" who she says "scapegoat" others, saying people have "underestimated how similar we all actually are". To those who feel "left behind", she says: "I see you and I will fight for you". Spencer then apologises to any customers who have booked her in for plumbing jobs. "I'm heading to Parliament," she says."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/26/martin-clunes-planning-b...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWDNMmzvNB4&list=RDjWDNMmzvNB4&start_rad...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/26/new-image-milky-way-galaxy