JuneSim63

Retired researcher living in Nottinghamshire, England. Hull native.

Also at junesim63 (npub1zyj…ayxj)

#Socialist #Politics #Environment #Cats #Gardening #Wildlife #Opera #ClassicalMusic #Refugees #HumanRights
#AlcoholFree
#WearAMask
#ChildlessCatLady

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Avatar: Me, a white woman with short, greying brown hair. Wearing a large pair of red spectacles.

Header: Climate Stripes going from blue on the left to terrifying red on the right.

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Last Notes

2026-03-28 08:39:06 UTC

"Meet Matt Brittin: ex-Googler and, if reports are to be believed, the BBC’s next director general. An executive search yielded an apparent shortlist of four women – who between them had decades of experience in broadcasting, news, and public service journalism – and one man, who didn’t"
#BBC #Google #Journalism #Entertainment #UKPolitics #AI
Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
https://www.thenerve.news/p/matt-brittin-google-bbc-director-general-ai-death-journalism-guardian-anna-bateson

2026-03-03 09:16:11 UTC

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Well do something about that then!

2026-03-03 07:27:51 UTC

Good morning!
#JoinTheGreenParty #GreenParty #UKPolitics
Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll | Politics News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/greens-overtake-labour-in-sensational-poll-13514420

2026-01-28 14:04:07 UTC

High gas prices are responsible for two-thirds of the rise in household electricity bills since before the global energy crisis, says the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC).
The new analysis, from one of the UK’s foremost research bodies on energy, flatly contradicts widespread media and political narratives that misleadingly seek to blame climate policies for high bills.
#Gas #Electricity #UKPolitics #Climate
https://www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-gas-still-biggest-driver-of-high-uk-electricity-bills-says-ukerc/

2025-10-13 06:44:03 UTC

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"The Greens are the only real opposition left in British politics. Standing up for fair taxes, a livable planet and a future where compassion and courage matter more than corporate interests. People are understandably disillusioned, but we are here to make hope normal again.”
Zack Polanski
#JoinTheGreenParty

2025-06-23 07:26:01 UTC

"Senior officers in London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have accepted invitations to address an Israeli think tank linked to its government and intelligence service, Mossad..
A number of high-ranking MPS officers have also accepted gifts or hospitality from the Israeli embassy in London, despite MPS guidance stating that such offers be refused"
#Israel #MPS #MetPol #Palestine
Met Police linked to Israel as it gears up for pro-Palestine protests
https://www.declassifieduk.org/met-police-linked-to-israel-as-it-gears-up-for-pro-palestine-protests/

2025-04-17 07:26:12 UTC

EU standards on food health and safety will never be part of the negotiation ‘with the US or anyone else’, European Commission says"
Can Starmer and his flaccid government members take note in the UK?
#EUPolitics #UKPolitics #Trade #Trump
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/16/eu-dismisses-us-demands-on-food-standards-and-ties-to-china/

2025-03-16 09:39:25 UTC

Wes Streeting is all over the media pushing his health 'reforms' this weekend.
A reminder..
"Good Law Project research shows that more than 60% of the money invested in the new health secretary since he entered parliament in 2015 has come from companies and individuals with links to private health"
#WesStreeting #UKPolitics #PrivateHealthcare #Healthcare #NHS
How private health has invested in Wes Streeting | Good Law Project
https://goodlawproject.org/how-private-health-has-invested-in-wes-streeting/

2025-03-08 12:30:50 UTC

Catodils....
#Caturday #Daffodils
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2025-03-05 07:21:08 UTC

"We found that the number of birds on the mixed-habitat solar farms was typically twice that of the intensively managed sites, and three times higher than adjacent high-yielding cropland. The number of species on mixed-habitat solar farms was 2.5 times higher than both of the alternatives"
#SolarFarms #Wildlife #Birds #Environment #ClimateEmergency
Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields – new research
https://theconversation.com/solar-farms-can-host-up-to-three-times-as-many-birds-as-crop-fields-new-research-249551

2025-02-26 18:55:07 UTC

"Israel just went to war against Syria. This may be the first you’ve heard about this: unsurprising, given there’s almost no prominent coverage about it in the Western media.
Syria hasn’t attacked Israel. There were no threats from the Syrian government. In fact there was not even the flimsiest pretext for a straightforward war of aggression"
Owen Jones
#Israel #Syria
https://www.owenjones.news/p/israel-just-went-to-war-on-syria?publication_id=2894744&post_id=157951576&isFreemail=true&r=55ldjt&triedRedirect=true

2025-02-03 14:39:30 UTC

"The richest man on Earth is attempting to seize physical control of government payment systems & use them to shut down federal funding to any recipient he personally dislikes. Elon Musk is directly usurping Congress's most important authority, the power of the purse.
..many people have tried to envision what a constitutional crisis in the United States might look like. But this scenario is so extreme that no one could have possibly envisioned it"
#Musk #Trump #USPol
https://zeteo.com/p/elon-musk-has-plunged-america-constitutional-crisis

2025-02-02 22:06:00 UTC

"This weekend we have witnessed the beginning of a new phase of the political struggle between the billionaire class & the American people; a movement to de-democratise the monetary system of the US, and privatise it to serve the billionaire class"
Must read from Ann Pettifor
#Trump #ElonMusk #USTreasury #USPolitics
annpettifor.substack.com/publish/post...

2024-11-23 11:16:51 UTC

Two senior staff at (friend of Jeffrey Epstein) Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm are behind the Future Governance Forum, an industry-funded think tank that's urging Labour ministers to adopt controversial private finance deals (PFI) to build new schools and hospitals.
#PeterMandelson #PFI #UKPolitics
Mandelson’s lobbying firm behind think tank pushing PFI 2.0
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/scoop-peter-mandelsons-lobbying-firm?r=4vze6&triedRedirect=true

2024-11-23 06:34:53 UTC

Good news story about a 12 year old Slovenian girl helping to reintroduce cicadas to the New Forest.
#Cicadas #Slovenia #NewForest #Wildlife #Biodiversity
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/23/slovenian-girl-12-saves-project-aiming-to-reintroduce-cicadas-to-new-forest?CMP=bsky_gu

2024-09-12 08:08:08 UTC

"We need to start thinking about public transport not as a zero sum game but as an enabler. Rather than a profit-making exercise, transport should be considered as important as healthcare or education. We cannot live full, healthy lives, or contribute to society, without it"
Good article from transport journalist Laura Laker on bus deregulation plans.
#Transport #Buses #PublicTransport #UKPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/11/britain-buses-services-labour-plan?CMP=GTUK_email

2024-09-10 07:14:20 UTC

Today is the day water bills will start servicing debt and paying shareholders rather than fixing leaks and ending the sewage scandal.
We Own It has shared analysis from the University of Greenwich that reveals roughly 31% of money collected from water bills goes towards shareholders and paying off debts.
This is the true cost of water privatisation.
#Water #Privatisation #UKPolitics #Sewage #Environment
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/10/remainder-of-years-water-bills-will-pay-dividends-and-service-debts-say-campaigners

2024-09-09 07:45:36 UTC

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So, small businesses are evading tax by some £4.4bn into the public coffers, and local government is facing a £4.3bn shortfall next year.
Goodness, where could Rachel Reeves possibly find the money to avoid the collapse of multiple local councils?

2024-09-07 06:39:56 UTC

"If you were horrified by October 7, but are not more horrified by what Israel has been doing to Palestinians for more than half a century in its prisons, then you are either in a state of deep ignorance... or in deep denial"
Jonathan Cook (who lived just down the road from Israel's notorious Megiddo prison) writes about generational Palestinian trauma.
#Israel #Palestine #Torture #Prisons
Israeli torture chambers aren't new. They are what provoked the violence of Oct 7
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/israeli-torture-chambers-arent-new?publication_id=476450&post_id=148584499&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true

2024-09-05 13:23:02 UTC

Jonathan Cook's latest article on the UK suspension of 8% of its arms sales to Israel, which makes this Labour government 8% less complicit than the previous Tory government in genocide.
#Israel #Gaza #ArmsSales #LabourGovernment #UKPolitics
Six takeaways from the UK's decision on arms sales to Israel the media are hiding
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/six-takeaways-from-the-uks-decision?publication_id=476450&post_id=148484864&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true

2024-09-05 07:31:34 UTC

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There is also the abdication of responsibility for regulation by government, which has ceded it to the building industry, which also has contempt for the poorest and most vulnerable.
This is nicely described by the Guardian's housing correspondent Peter Apps (always worth reading).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/04/grenfell-is-simply-explained-firms-chased-profits-ministers-sat-on-their-hands-innocents-paid-with-their-lives?CMP=firstedition_email

2024-09-01 07:20:12 UTC

The IDF used a slight 10 year old girl as a human shield in their latest raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp.
The platoon pushed her up to each of the doors in her aunt’s house, while they remained braced behind her ready to fire at whoever might be inside.
"There was no mercy, even on children. Why take a 13- or 14-year-old boy from his house and beat the shit out of him and break his phone?”
A local Baker referring to his son
#Israel #WestBank #WarCrimes #NurShams #IDF
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/31/trauma-in-the-west-bank-after-israeli-raids-palestinian-territory

2024-08-21 05:44:43 UTC

Sweden has issued licences to kill 20% of its brown bear population in the country’s annual bear hunt, which begins today.
"It is a pure trophy hunt. Wildlife management in Sweden is about killing animals instead of preserving them to the best of our ability.”
Magnus Orrebrant, Chair, Swedish Carnivore Association
Brown bears are a “strictly protected species” in Europe, so the high hunting quotas could be in breach of the EU habitat directive.
#Bears #Sweden #Hunting
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/sweden-to-kill-20-per-cent-of-its-brown-bears-in-annual-hunt-aoe?CMP=GTUK_email