Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

#labour #opposition #starmer #masks #brexit #covid #policy_vacuum #focus_groups #equivocation #lack_of_direction #politics #democracy #uk

Toot Redux (first published 21st February 2021)

#google #workers #underpayment #tech_giants #ethics #economics #global

Revealed: Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers across dozens of countries

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/10/google-underpaid-workers-illegal-pay-disparity-documents

#research #bias #metrics #gender #disciplines #experiences #flinders_university #bradshaw #australia #global

Banishing bias across disciplines, genders and experience—new tool for fairer research metrics

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-banishing-bias-disciplines-genders-experiencenew.html

#data #privacy #GDPR #ICO #DCMS #reforms #restructure #EU #UK #global #future

DCMS lifts the lid on UK GDPR reforms, including ICO restructure

https://www.itpro.co.uk/policy-legislation/data-protection/360844/dcms-reveals-uk-gdpr-reforms-including-ico-restructure

#news #politics #global #eu #uk #democracy

Can't see the wood for the trees?

Curated News

- Each and Every Week

https://www.phidoc.net/food_for_thought.html

#nitrous_oxide #psychoactive_substances #drugs #crime #home_office #priti_patel #tories #politics #uk #global

Is she having a laugh (at our expense)?

Once again Priti Patel exposes her complete unsuitability to be Home Secretary. The Home Office, perhaps more than any other UK ministerial department, is desperately crying out for serious reform.

Priti Patel orders review into effects of nitrous oxide

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/03/priti-patel-orders-review-into-effects-of-nitrous-oxide

#phidoc #books #literature #music #greece #symi

The Book of the Month for August is The Color Purple by Alice Walker and the Track of the Month is 'Tensions' by Charles Mingus.

https://www.phidoc.net/book_of_the_month.html

https://www.phidoc.net/track_of_the_month.html

#coronavirus #covid #pandemic #no_return_to_normal #homeworking #human_rights #economics #politics #democracy #global #future

Toot Redux (first published 29th August 2020)

#climate_change #wildfires #varoufakis #economics #politics #greece #global

Greece’s deadly wildfires were sparked by 30 years of political failure

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/29/greece-wildfires-political-failure-climate-emergency

#afghanistan #failure #NATO #UN #morality #ethics #humanitarianism #capitalism #primitivism #biden #johnson #us #uk #eu #politics #global #future

#hydrogen #renewable_energy #photoelectrosensitive_electrodes #environment #prague #czech_republic #global #future

Hydrogen as a sustainable source of renewable energy

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-hydrogen-sustainable-source-renewable-energy.html

#environment #ecology #climate_change
#postapocalypticism #better_science #global #australia #greece #dying #death

Toot Redux (first published 1st January 2020)

Another End of the World is Possible

https://www.phidoc.net/bm_december_2019.html

#dominic_raab #gavin_williamson #priti_patel #boris_johnson #tories #shame #wall #afghanistan #coronavirus #brexit #politics #uk #global

#climate #climate_change #aviation #motoring #planes #cars #lifestyle #hypocrisy #vanity #middle_east #labour #politics #uk #global #future

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, like the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, is simply another overblown vanity project by a man who not only 'Torified' the Labour Party, but brought turmoil and death to the Middle East in large measure.

Only small cuts in flying and driving needed to beat climate change, says Blair institute

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/only-small-cuts-in-flying-and-driving-needed-to-beat-climate-change-says-blair-institute-rbr87jhw8

#BIS #news #biodiversity #ecology #environment #brecon_beacons #brecon #radnorshire #cymru #wales #uk #global

BIS BULLETIN - August 2021

https://mailchi.mp/367f3b2d6620/biodiversity-information-service-news-events-information-13392098?e=d550a80ad5

#dyson #james_dyson #covid #work #home #office #employment #vacuum_cleaners #fans #economics #politics

In this world there are many ignorant, self-serving and self-promoting prats. Sir James Dyson is almost certainly in the top league of clueless people spouting utter nonsense.

Sir James Dyson: Britain will fall behind unless workers are told to go back to office

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/18/sir-james-dyson-britain-will-fall-behind-unless-workers-told/

#IT #surveillance #privacy #facial_recognition #politics #democracy #UK #global

UK government criticised for proposed facial-recognition guidance

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252505503/UK-government-criticised-for-proposed-facial-recognition-guidance

#switch #green #starmer #labour #purge #socialism #politics #uk #global

#loach #varoufakis #starmer #labour #purge #socialism #uk #global

Yanis Varoufakis:

“I just heard that Keir Starmer expelled Ken Loach from the Labour Party. I hope this is fake news.

“If not, all he managed is to expel Labour's soul, leaving behind an arid, soulless Labour Party - one that is even poorer than under Blair."

Me? Amen!

Toot Redux (first published 5th December 2020)

Time to cut up your membership cards and 'Go Green'?

#time #ecosystems #environment #biodiversity #habits #planet_earth #monbiot #global #future

The gift we should give to the living world? Time, and lots of it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/08/living-world-time-saplings-oak-slow-ecology-habitats