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Robin Bedford

@bedcatalysis

Professor. Chemistry, dogs, allotment and homemade wine - what’s not to like? He/him.

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Managed to have my lunch today while waiting for a single @rsc.org article to load, which was nice

09.03.2026 12:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Today’s allotment haul

07.03.2026 16:30 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

I love doing searches for older @rsc.org journal articles - it reminds me of late 90’s search features and dialup speeds - all the nostalgic feels

04.03.2026 15:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
The Telegraph. 
How I became a Labour school-fee exile in Dubai Sick of Labour's private school tax raid, Isabel Oakeshott decided to swap the rolling hills of the Cotswolds for the desert of the UAE. 

Isabel Oakeshott
Published 25 January 2025

The Telegraph. How I became a Labour school-fee exile in Dubai Sick of Labour's private school tax raid, Isabel Oakeshott decided to swap the rolling hills of the Cotswolds for the desert of the UAE. Isabel Oakeshott Published 25 January 2025

I don’t want a single penny from British taxpayers to pay for wealthy tax-dodgers in Dubai to safely come home.

They thought they didn’t need us because they greedily refused to pay their fair share … let Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott come crawling back with their own money.

02.03.2026 13:30 👍 53 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 1

💯 also, later in the season they make excellent roasties and oven chips!

28.02.2026 22:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Spent a good two hours wandering round my house one evening trying to locate the intermittent weird whistling noise. Turned out it was my left nostril.

28.02.2026 11:20 👍 395 🔁 14 💬 9 📌 3

Picked up the seed spuds from the allotment trading shed today: 4 kg of Charlotte and three each of maris piper and Picasso - exciting times!

28.02.2026 19:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Disgusting illegal immigrant in a small boat successfully stopped by UK government.

23.02.2026 10:45 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

C2v - satisfying

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10.02.2026 18:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dry January was great, but the first G&T of 2026 is slipping down quite nicely!

01.02.2026 16:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Very glad I planted the garlic in raised ridges!

01.02.2026 13:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What a lovely story

31.01.2026 08:29 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’m old enough to have been in that story!

30.01.2026 18:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hopefully they won’t waste a single penny of tax payers money on that festering fish corpse

30.01.2026 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Researchfish — Information for Researchers Regarding Researchfish Sunsetting After careful consideration, Elsevier have made the difficult decision to sunset Researchfish on July 31st 2027, when the product will no longer be availab

Bye! 👋

help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...

30.01.2026 18:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Happy days!

30.01.2026 18:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If (when?) it fails I’ll give those a try next year! 😂

25.01.2026 16:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Had very little success with onion sets over the last few years, so trying from seed this year. 🤞🤞🤞

25.01.2026 15:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nice bokeh on the blue tit shot!

24.01.2026 12:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I've done My Week: Donald Trump (again) for tomorrow. My first draft genuinely had a joke about Trump thinking there were penguins in Greenland but I took it out because it seemed too stupid.

23.01.2026 23:17 👍 551 🔁 154 💬 35 📌 16
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Board of Peace - Season 1

24.01.2026 07:45 👍 11497 🔁 6474 💬 467 📌 801
White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag

White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag

The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole.

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24.01.2026 04:34 👍 520 🔁 137 💬 38 📌 31

Just a shame that in the UK we have to wait until October before we can get our hands on any!

21.01.2026 19:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. Support for UK and Mauritius Agreement on Chagos Archipelago  - United States Department of State Today, the United States welcomed the historic agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Mauritius on the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory—specifically, the Chagos Archipela...

Hey, Trump, this you?

www.state.gov/u-s-support-...

20.01.2026 07:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions.

Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

18.01.2026 10:51 👍 1945 🔁 754 💬 109 📌 45
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Sign the petition: Tell Keir Starmer: Don't back down over Trump's Greenland tariff threats. Trump is threatening the UK & 7 other supposed allies with more tariffs unless he gets his hands on Greenland. This can't be allowed to happen. Join me and sign the petition telling Keir Starmer not t...

38d.gs/h8gw

18.01.2026 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ordering squash and aubergine seeds - excited for the new season!

17.01.2026 14:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Arses!
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13.01.2026 17:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stop foreign interference in British politics British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...

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11.01.2026 13:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

was a corker of an episode!

09.01.2026 12:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0