Sean Robertson

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Beverage Brand Development UK & International Markets

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Victoria Derbyshire, "Keir Starmer telling Nigel Farage he has exploited the Henry Nowak case, is he right?"

Telegraphs' Annabel Denham, "Err, no, I don't think the PM is right"

Labour's Tom Hayes, "I'm just shocked by that, you've got a grieving family going through some of the worst experience anyone can ever know, and they've called on Nigel Farage not to exploit the death of their boy; and he literally did that in the House of Commons"

"Nigel Farage was given the opportunity to condemn the violence, which he himself incited, by calling for protests. He could have condemned the violence"

Annabel Denham, "Do you truly believe that the people in Southampton would have not taken to the streets in response to that sickening footage?"

Tom Hayes, "I spoke to the Southampton MP, the vast majority of people in their city protesting, came from outside Southampton"

"On top of that, Nigel Farage said this evening that there will be more to come"

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This lady tells 1 year of studying quantum physics in under 60 seconds:

Quantum physics isn't just science; it's logical spirituality.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🙌 👏 OMG watch Lord Spencer Livermore - Treasury Minister - the first serving minister to publicly face Brexit reality!

“Should we in due course re-enter the European Union? My personal view is that that is an inevitability. Of course the UK will re-enter the EU because it is absolutely in our national economic interest.”

He acknowledges Brexit has cost us 4–8% of GDP. Cutting a few tariffs is a drop in the ocean compared to that damage.

The reset is a start, but full rejoin is the logical destination.”

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨
MPs call for government to kick Palantir out of the NHS

https://t.co/wLjzZ7XEIX

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

In my opinion, this is the most important Ted Talk of the last years. At least for parents. https://t.co/1W5dIyi3xx

[Today In History @historigins]

The children of hop pickers on a farm in Kent, England, photographed on September 3, 1940, as they took shelter in a trench at the edge of a field and watched the aerial combat unfolding overhead during the Battle of Britain

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Hungary's PM Péter Magyar on EU:

We will not be sticks in the wheels. We know we are members of a club.

We know we will not agree on everything — but we will not veto just to veto.

Vetoing is a sovereign right — but it is only worth using when it is truly about a national interest and all negotiating methods have been exhausted.

I believe in negotiation. I worked nine years in Brussels as a diplomat and never once had to veto.

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Buy back Royal Mail, 76% want public ownership

It would cost around £3.6 billion

Put households on the board and raise the standards

This 500 year old institution worked well until it was privatised, it should not be owned by a Czech billionaire

https://t.co/c1zbbS73iM

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A Przewalski's horse released into the Steppe of Kazakhstan: Arguably the last breed of wild horses in the world, they went extinct in the wild by the 1960s. The Prague Zoo's conservation effort kept the species alive and in recent years, the animals are gradually returning to their natural habitat

[Prof Colin Talbot (rerum cognoscere causas) @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HODGES: Trump administration has failed miserably on Ukraine. They have so clearly been on Kremlin's side. All the pressure has been on Ukraine to make concessions. Fortunately, Ukraine no longer even pays much attention to that.

Biden administration missed an opportunity because they never said, "We want Ukraine to win." They had this nonsense, "We're with you for as long as it takes," which means exactly zero. But at least they were providing support.

Trump administration is worse and It does feel like they now realize that their approach was doomed from the beginning, because they didn't understand why the war started or how it started.

They didn't understand why Ukrainians were fighting the way they were and why the Russians were failing the way they were. So despite Trump administration, I think Ukraine has changed the trajectory of the war.

The last thing I'd say is that most European countries realize that the best way to prevent Russia from ever attacking a NATO country is to make sure that Ukraine defeats Russia.

I think most people realize that Russia has to be defeated. That Russia will never change until they are actually crushed.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics are timeless: their main strength is in demonstrating how to reason about physics.

You may not know that all the lectures are completely online:

Vol 1: https://t.co/yDpyRViG61
Vol 2: https://t.co/oEctaDhy2X
Vol 3: https://t.co/eXS03nu9fE

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is a visual stimulation that reduces anxiety attacks. You pick a person and trace him 1-2 times.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"She's been gagged, but we haven't!"

Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced into silence onstage in the UK this weekend - by her former employer.

Last year, she told us her story from 10 years inside Facebook....

[Andrew Moon @mrandrewmoon]

Listen to #Pompey Sporting Director Rich Hughes on the summer ahead...

🔵Keeping hold of John Mousinho
🔵Could Conor Chaplin return?
🔵How the market is looking?

Click the link or search "Portsmouth" in the BBC Sounds App to listen

https://t.co/UbUYyLHHdl

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Last week: @thenerve_news.

This week: the FT View.

We forensically tracked cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne’s donations against Nigel Farage’s crypto policy statements.

Yesterday the FT pulled out this same point in its main editorial & notes the similarity to Trump.
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[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

I know it is his job, but the fact Zelenskyy has been working every single day for the past 1,555 days should be highly commended.

The man is fucking relentless, a daily inspiration.

Thank you @ZelenskyyUa 🫡

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[Reuters @Reuters]

King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going

[Jordan Cross @pn_jordan_cross]

‘Let’s be clear': Why £100m North Stand isn’t Pompey's silver bullet amid financial changes.
https://t.co/5hMBGUGoIb

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A groundbreaking discovery has challenged one of biology’s fundamental assumptions: oxygen can be produced without sunlight or photosynthesis.

Researchers working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone — a vast, remote region of the Pacific Ocean floor between Hawaii and Mexico, lying about 3 miles (5 km) deep, have documented oxygen being generated in complete darkness. This area is far beyond the reach of sunlight, where photosynthesis was previously thought to be the only source of oxygen on Earth.

The oxygen appears to come from potato-sized polymetallic nodules scattered across the seafloor. These mineral formations, rich in cobalt, nickel, copper, and manganese, may function like natural “geo-batteries.” When the nodules touch each other or interact with seawater, they can generate small electrical voltages capable of splitting water molecules through a process similar to electrolysis, releasing oxygen as a byproduct.

This phenomenon, dubbed “dark oxygen,” was observed during benthic chamber experiments where oxygen levels rose significantly instead of declining as expected from biological respiration.

The finding is particularly significant because roughly half of Earth’s oxygen is produced by marine photosynthetic organisms. This new source suggests additional mechanisms may support life in the deep ocean.

The discovery also raises urgent environmental concerns. The same polymetallic nodules targeted for deep-sea mining to supply metals for batteries and green technologies may play a critical role in oxygen production and supporting fragile abyssal ecosystems. Removing them could have unknown consequences for biodiversity in one of Earth’s least explored environments.

[Sweetman, A.K., Smith, A.J., de Jonge, D.S.W. et al. (2024). Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor. Nature Geoscience. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01480-8]