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This is no longer about saving the corner building. It's lost. All the SFRS can do is try to prevent what would be a catastrophic spread to Glasgow Central Station.

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The Top 10 Reasons Data Centers Must be Stopped While AI data centers enrich the Big Tech elite, our water, climate, and communities pay the price. Our leaders must act.

While #AI #datacenters enrich the Big #Tech elite, our water, climate, and communities pay the price. Read the top 10 reasons data centers must be stopped.

Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.

Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.

The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past | Editorial Editorial: Megawatt fast EV charging reflects a coordinated grid strategy the UK once used. Privatisation and fragmentation now make that infrastructure far harder to build

The “privatisation premium” sees almost a quarter of the average household energy bill – roughly £450 – flow today into corporate profits. Other services are hit. Nearly 30% of a water bill in the privatised system goes to shareholder returns and paying debt. 😠
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🦇 Only 1 space left for our Landscaping for Nature and People course at RHS Wisley on 25 March!

Learn to apply nature based landscaping design principles to master planning to achieve real wins for nature and people!!

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"Stan" is an exceptionally moving and affectionate play by the multi-talented Neil Brand, someone who's very much attuned to the personal relationship between Laurel and Hardy. Looking forward to hearing it again!

Quaker Meeting House suffers second Met Police raid For the second time in less than a year, Metropolitan Police officers have raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House, arresting young activists.

“Met Police may want to intimidate us into contributing to gov’s closing off of the right to protest”

“But Quakers have been accustomed to oppression by the state for over 350y. We will continue to hire space to explicitly nonviolent groups, with appropriate checks in place, just as we always have”

Seems excessive.

Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022 Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts

As we witness the horror of attacks on desalination plants, we need to be aware, on a warming planet, conflict over water, using water as a weapon of war, & targeting people seeking water is on the rise

- in the past 4 years, it's nearly doubled:

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Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse? The closing of a cluster of leading creative venues has led to dismay and intensified fears the hubs that fostered Glasgow’s celebrated arts scene are disappearing

'with hindsight, some have suggested that Glasgow’s capacity to punch above its weight on the international arts stage resulted in a perception that all was well when development funding and coherent strategy were desperately needed.'

As it’s #IWD26 seems appropriate this message should be heard loud and clear

International Women’s Day 2026: strong women leading the Bylines Network For International Women’s Day, the Bylines Network invites you to celebrate the women who make the network what it is

'They would deny us autonomy over our bodies, remove reproductive rights and disenfranchise us. It’s alarming to witness how fast things are moving. We must fight hard not to lose the gains we have made to determine our own lives.' @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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A voluntary scheme designed to breed healthier dogs somehow became a story about banning your pets.

And then immediately morphed into a conspiracy about Muslims...

And yes, John Cleese fell for it 🙄

And that says far more about the Right and Far-Right media ecosystem than it does about dogs

‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

Glad people are finally talkinga bout white Christian nationalism more...

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Geneva Convention 1977 Protocols:
“It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as... drinking #water installations & supplies and irrigation works... for any other motive.”

New #BMJInvestigation into the growing threat of domestic wood burning stoves—and industry’s legal attempts to shut down clean air campaigns
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How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Who voted for this?

Water companies dump sewage in rivers. Execs get bonuses for destructive practices. Shareholders got £85.2bn in dividends.

6.17m people in England await 7.29m hospital appointments. 300,000 a year die prematurely.

Policies made to appease corporations and super rich.

The Future of the BBC... my personal views In December the government published its Green Paper on the future of the BBC and invited responses. These are my views as a licence fee payer but of course I have worked with, on and for the BBC for ...

This is excellent on the BBC and the DCMS Green Paper consultation from Bill Thompson, one of our wisest and deepest thinkers about the future of media. There's much here to reflect on (and steal from) in your own response before end-of-day Tuesday.

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So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

International Women’s Day – women who have changed the world On International Women's Day, we celebrate women who have brought about important changes in society's attitudes and their role in the world

On International Women's Day, we celebrate women who have brought about important changes in society's attitudes and their role in the world | Gemma Gould

Could free access to 59 of Ancestry UK’s record sets from 8 to 18 March help your #FamilyHistory or #OnePlaceStudy research? WDYTYA Magazine’s article has details of some of the key records available.

Yeah but guess what; those refugees aren’t going to end up in the US or Israel. A surge of refugees into western Europe is only going to boost support for the kind of political parties that the US National Security Strategy says it is now a US foreign policy objective to support.

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

This is what we are dealing with as reference archivists. A complete fabrication of the archive.

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International Women's Day 2026: Three generations of women tell us why they're campaigning for PR - Make Votes Matter It’s been over 100 years since some women got the vote. In recognition of International Women’s Day 2026, Make Votes Matter hears from activists representing

Happy International Women's Day! ✊💃

Studies consistently show that countries with proportional voting systems tend to have more women's representation in their parliaments.

We spoke to three brilliant campaigners, representing three generations of women, about why they support PR 👇

Celebrate International Women’s Day March 8, 2026

The best way to celebrate International Women’s Day would be to ensure that all women and girls have permanent and full equality in rights and liberties every day, everywhere.

#InternationalWomen’sDay #IWD2026

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.

So, who stands to win?

Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

The Gulf states & Israel depend on water desalination to live. If Israel & US break the taboo of bombing vulnerable desal infrastructure, they risk catastrophic harm.

Percent of drinking water from desal:
Israel: 80%
Kuwait: 90%
Saudi Arabia: 70%
Oman: 86%
UAW: 42%

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Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water.

Now, even the rain is contaminated.

Picture of Kathy Burke with a quote from her Bluesky account: "Dirty Business on C4 was absolutely brilliant and f*****g terrifying. It's imperative we re-nationalise our water companies otherwise the greedy b*****s will kill us all."

English National Treasure says what!

If you agree with Kathy Burke, sign our petition. Bring Thames Water into public ownership. Then we can work on the rest.

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