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I need to declutter my life. But I can’t even give my stuff away | Adrian Chiles I bought a book that might have helped – but I’ve already mislaid it. Am I a lost cause, asks Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles

My partner once stopped me from taking a bucket from the tip, pointing out it had a hole in it. 2 weeks later i neede something to hang a block of salt lick that kept the rain off. I had to buy a brand new bucket and drill a hole in the bottom. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

How Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Actually Works: The Mechanism Behind Bitcoin’s Self-Correcting Network Most miners judge a multi-year strategy through a daily calculator. Here’s why low difficulty and a depressed Bitcoin price create the accumulation window smart operators don’t ignore.

Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment is the most elegant feedback loop in any monetary system. Every 2,016 blocks, the network recalibrates — no committee, no vote. Read:

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Why have we forgotten Robert Vas? The Hungarian filmmaker, who settled in England, is long due a revival. There are signs that one may be on the way

“It beggars belief that the BBC, which commissioned his body of work, hasn’t digitised or made it more accessible.”

Sukhdev Sandhu on the near-forgotten genius of Robert Vas:

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

🚨Gorton & Denton by-election

Reform leader Nigel Farage has posted on X

“1 million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all. 4 million people living in this country barely speak passable English”

It’s racked up 2 million views AND IT’S COMPLETELY UNTRUE

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Join us tonight for our friends and family of MAGA support group.

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Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

There is a lot of convenient amnesia about Peter Mandelson’s New Labour days. Let’s jog some memories | George Monbiot Yes, he betrayed the national interest in his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein – but also in his sanctioned role as enabler of corporate power, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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This question of why Mandelson was appointed as US ambassador - isn’t it obvious? He was the only one available with something in common with Trump.

Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia vs. Musk, AI, and the Battle for Truth Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 05/01/2026 · 1h 10m

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Elon musk must be boiling knowing what Jimmy Wales has achieved with Wikipedia and what a thoroughly lovely man he is.

Here My Dear has been in my top ten albums since its release, yet few people known it.

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

“I think anything left to itself without some kind of intelligence behind it will devolve into chaos.” If applied to MAGA this sounds like good news.
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It's time to end the Badger blame game for good This week, Protect the Wild has formally written to Angela Eagle MP, the Minister of State at Defra, calling for an end to the final badger cull and an end to the wider badger blame game once and for ...

The Badger cull is continuing even though:

• TB levels in badgers in Cumbria (Area 73) are low

• There is no clear evidence that badgers pose a meaningful ongoing risk to cattle

• Rising cattle TB cases are linked to cattle movements, not wildlife
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EU’s Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit at cost of £570m Deal agreed to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledge

Excellent news
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He’ll probably ship in the audience from Mexico.

Sack Sir Robbie Gibb from the BBC board Robbie Gibb said if he doesn't get his way, he'll blow the BBC up. It's ridiculous that a man like that has a spot on the BBC's board. Our public broadcaster MUST be independent. Agree? Sign to get Gi...

Please sign this to get the right wing stooge that is Robbie Gibb removed from the BBC board. Ta x

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The Double-Headed Eagle: Russia, America and the Authoritarian Big Tech Alliance It’s all in plain sight: Bannon and Dugin preach a pro-Russian “Christian” civilisation, Musk and Medvedev call for the EU’s undoing, while Vance and Thiel’s network shields Kremlin-aligned Big Tech

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New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:

a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.

Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.

Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others As a doctor I stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but it won’t waive £100 transfer fee to rebook

We all know Ryanair are heartless, but this………….www.theguardian.com/money/2025/nov/24/ryanai...

You should look into that too. It’s not as simple as it seems. Plenty of evidence/projects that show a different reality.

2 - In the fiat world where money loses value, consumerism is encouraged. Which has a negative impact on climate, society, mental health etc etc.

1 - No, you’re missing the point. Bitcoin is designed to become more expensive/valuable over time. That would result in people choosing (being the operative word) to buy less as their btc becomes more valuable.

You’re thinking of imposed austerity, what he means is it discourages consumerism.

Could we get Charlotte Green out of retirement for this?

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …