Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

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The Book of the Month for August is The Bacchae by Euripides and the Track of the Month is La cathédrale engloutie by Claude Debussy

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

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

#energy #electricity #switch #crisis #poverty #hunger #hypothermia #disabled #elderly #children #politicians #incompetence #failure #uk #global #future

#nuclear_war #radiation #masks #militarism #war #capitalism #politics #global #future

#IT #priti_patel #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #end_to_end_encryption #child_protection #surveillance #politics #uk #global

Priti Patel urges Meta to give up on end-to-end encryption plans

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/priti-patel-urges-meta-to-give-up-on-end-to-end-encryption-plans

Priti Patel is one of the most authoritarian Home Secretaries in UK history. Successive UK governments (including sadly Labour) have a very poor record in this area.

I intensely dislike Meta. However, invoking child protection concerns (the vast majority of people rightly regard child abuse as disgusting and worthy of condemnation) to extend the UK State's intrusion in private online communications is wholly unacceptable and must be thoroughly resisted.

#greece #european #global #environment #ecology #technology #social #cultural #social #economics #politics #news

Food for Thought - August 2022

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

#truss #sunak #gove #tories #holidays #reality #westminster #politics #england #global

#politics #nation_states #borders #passports #politicians #anarchism #localism #sortion #AI #ubuntu #politics #global #future

#britannia #unhinged #unchained #kwarteng #patel #raab #skidmore
#truss #tories #johnson #sunak #politics #madness #uk #eu #global

#tories #leadership_election #truss #sunak #labour #starmer #brexit #cost_of_living #inflation #taxation #economics #politics #chaos #uk #eu #global

Toot Redux (first published 9th November 2019)

#overseas_aid #sunak #johnson #tories #economics #realpolitik #populism #pandering #poverty #uk #global

Toot Redux (first published 26th November 2020)

Why now again? Do the homework!

#BIS #environment #ecology #biodiversity #brecon_beacons #brecon #radnorshire #powys #cymru #wales #global

BIS BIODIVERSITY BULLETIN

August 2022 Events

https://mailchi.mp/6ef2d8f44f55/biodiversity-information-service-news-events-information-13669238?e=d550a80ad5

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The Book of the Month for July is Jacqueline du Pré: A Biography by by Carol Easton and the Track of the Month is 'Banks of the Nile' by Fotheringay (Sandy Denny).

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

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

#starmer #labour #sam_tarry #mick_lynch #RMT #organised_labour #trade_unions #refrigeration #fridge #politics #uk #global

#greece #european #global #environment #ecology #technology #social #cultural #social #economics #politics #news

Food for Thought - July 2022

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

#tories #labour #truss #sunak #johnson #starmer #growth #justice #distinctively_british #democracy #politics #uk #eu #global

#liz_truss #tories #keir_starmer #labour #environment #ecology #green #growth #taxation #social_justice #patrick_minford #herman_daly #voodoo_economics #economics #politics #democracy #uk #global

#summer_2022 #brexit #idyll #getaway #staycation #back_to_the_fifties #climate_change #irony #UK #global

#opposition #labour #starmer #asylum #rwanda #human_rights #error #democracy #politics #uk #eu #global #future

#STEM #mathematics #networks #community_dynamics
#Mayank_Kejriwa #Ke_Shen

From in-crowds to power couples, network science uncovers the hidden structure of community dynamics

https://theconversation.com/from-in-crowds-to-power-couples-network-science-uncovers-the-hidden-structure-of-community-dynamics-179064

#liz_truss #tories #leadership_election #liberal_democrats #westminster #democracy #politics #uk

Liz Truss

From Proto-Woke Student to Populist Reactionary in just 28 years!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLOEwXHP8HI