Georgie Holmes-Skelton

Just to reiterate that bombing heritage sites is a war crime.

Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Gas prices jumped again this morning and are on track to double - a stark reminder of our exposure to fossil fuel volatility.

The real solution isn’t more drilling, but moving away from combustion: electrify, use renewable power, and boost energy efficiency.

Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections

The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party’s election defeats on “cheating” by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found.

First piece back at @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Genuine racism is a problem in British politics, but a lot of where we are is because of something else: UK politicians, journalists, poli-sci types have no mental map for the fact that the "electoral discontent around immigration" has no real connection to the level of immigration. 1/4

AI data centre surge would put UK’s climate change targets at risk MPs call for ‘national conversation’ on potential drawbacks of sharp rise in data centres, which would use more power than the UK uses at its peak

Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, has disclosed that 140 data centres want grid connections, requiring **50GW** of power capacity at peak

Britain’s peak demand on a recently was 45GW

Can this amount of energy be provided cleanly? Even if it can, is it worth it?

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Yikes. We could just not? That is an option available to us. As a civilisation.

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My childhood home in the 90s was without central heating until my mum had it installed. It was off the gas grid, so we had to get an oil system. I suspect quite a few homes in that village would have been in the same situation.

The plague of Bath Corgis.

I just found a useful public information booklet. Presumably made by the government in the 10 year olds room.

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

This report makes it crystal clear that every time a minister (wrongly) complains about newts or bats holding up development what they’re really doing is undermining our security. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/20/biodiversity-collapse-threatens-uk-security-intelligence-chiefs-war

The IUCN has been quietly behind many of the conservation success stories of the last 77 years — US withdrawal is a worrying sign both of that country’s increasing insularity, and its disregard of the natural world

What Trump and ICE Are Doing in Minneapolis Is Obvious. They Don’t Seem to Grasp What’s Happening Instead. ICE declared war on Minneapolis. The city had its own ideas.

Read this if you want to feel really good about the bravery and decency of regular Americans

slate.com/news-and-pol...

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This year has been brutal for the #climate movement.

Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven.

Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025.

Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

Though of course actual public benefit here from dodgy LLMs trained on stolen content and loosed into the public with few safety rails highly questionable in the first place.

They’re gonna do to Chat GPT what they did to google search and bury the content that seem useful to people (regardless of its actual accuracy) under ad content. The familiar cycle of “oh cool we built something that might have broad public benefit. Now let’s undermine it so we can monetise it”.

The fact that most sales seem to start sometime mid December now must play apart in this.

Ugh, imagine how excited an illustrator would’ve been to work on this (especially one with some kind of person connection to the topic), and it wouldn’t have been expensive, instead a BBC producer just typed prompts about an enslaved woman hiding in the woods, looking sad in a ship, etc

lol. I usually try and avoid commenting on all the nonsense but this is genuinely funny.

If there’s anything I can do to help do drop me a line. I’ve not been involved in civil service recruitment for a while but I do a fair bit of recruitment in the charity world and don’t mind looking over CVs/cover letters etc if you want a second opinion.

🫂 It’s really tough out there - I’m sure it’s not just you, but a case of really high competition with loads of people in similar boats. And totally feel you on how much work connects into confidence - it’s a massive part of our lives. It’s really hard to not be doing something that feels meaningful

Hey I’m sorry you’re having a rough time. We’ve not really spoken before but saw this post and just wanted to say that however you feel right now I am 100% certain the world is a better place with you in it, so I personally hope you stay around. Hang in there. ❤️

I assume WI and Girlguides are making these decisions because they fear legal action. It just makes me so deeply sad to see these outcomes for trans women who are only seeking belonging and community.

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Whammed by my builders before December even arrives 😔