Mark

London Blue Badge guide & City of London guide; Volunteer @EHKenwood; author 'The Blue Badge Guide's London Quiz Book'. Views are my own.

[Mark @MarKomms]

Discover more of Britain with https://t.co/yDA7ECowkj Here's why https://t.co/bmt5wxBVxP. Plus RT @VisitBritain @visitlondon @SandieDawe https://t.co/ETXXiYBBMU

[British Guild of Tourist Guides @BBGuides]

It's the start of #CityGivingDay today! And here's City of London Green Badge Guide (+ London Blue Badge Guide), Mark King, at this morning's photocall @LSEplc & Guildhall Yard with @citylordmayor , the Lady Mayoress, Alderman, Sheriffs & campaign supporters! 🧵

#CGD @LMAppeal

[British Guild of Tourist Guides @BBGuides]

... asylum & local supporters. The tour included people from Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, Kurdistan, Iran, Botswana and Mozambique.

#britainsbestguides supporting their local communities to 'Step into England's story' as @EnglishHeritage suggests!

#history #heritage #community

[Jennie King (jkingy.bsky.social) @jkingy]

An essential read from my colleague @elisethoma5 at @ISDglobal, showing the connective tissue between leaders like Orbán, Putin, De Santis and Meloni and a wider, terrifying ecosystem of Satanic Panic conspiracists and so-called “family values” movements.

https://t.co/jDrh2dy2Zj

[Tourism Alliance @tourismsvoice]

Number of EU school visits to UK tanks after list of travellers’ scrapping

https://t.co/sSOxx99umg

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

We should listen to this every single day to be aware exactly how precarious our position has become.

[Jennie King (jkingy.bsky.social) @jkingy]

Both my paternal grandparents travelled to the U.K. as kindertransport refugees, from Berlin and Vienna respectively. They never saw their parents or 99% of their extended family again. Articles like this are just ignorance about history dressed up in the veneer of moral fervour.

[Jennie King (jkingy.bsky.social) @jkingy]

For the first time, #IPCC has highlighted the threat that mis-/disinfo pose to climate action - something our coalition has analysed and reported on since 2020. In a press release circulated today w/ partners like @consciousadnet @foe_us @CCDHate and @ClimateSSN, @ISDglobal said:

[Mark @MarKomms]

@jaimekr @TSam9978 https://t.co/tmzu6TNzDv

[Rachel Schraer @rachelschraer]

📻 Listen to me and @KayleenDevlin explain the new tactics fossil fuel companies and supporters are using to make us doubt climate action https://t.co/oCuU0zURk7

[Jennie King (jkingy.bsky.social) @jkingy]

Check out this Radio 4 Pick of the Week to hear about @ISDglobal’s latest insight on climate disinfo and the crossover with Covid conspiracies.

[Institute for Strategic Dialogue @ISDglobal]

@shannonpareil @stopfundingheat @seanforachange ISD's @jkingy has been writing about the intersection between climate politics and the culture war for a year now, including in this @tortoise long read from May examining attempts to discredit COP26 that were already brewing: https://t.co/mKqYoXUbgq

[Jennie King (jkingy.bsky.social) @jkingy]

- Falsely publicises efforts as supportive of climate goals that in fact contribute to climate warming or contravene scientific consensus on mitigation/adaptation. #greenwashing

#COP26 is the moment to acknowledge this threat and, through global cooperation, begin tackling it.

[Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield @GDelbosCorfield]

4/ Read the full @stopfundingheat report here - https://t.co/DoLURYNWuz

And find out more about #COP26 climate disinformation, by signing up to @ISDglobal daily “COP, Look, Listen” intelligence briefings➡️
https://t.co/haIjFJYrJB

[Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield @GDelbosCorfield]

3/ Yet, we still have a long way to go. The #FacebookinDenial report shows that -

⚠️Platforms continue to receive money for showing climate misinformation adverts
⚠️Just 3.6% of identified climate misinformation on Facebook is fact-checked.

[Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield @GDelbosCorfield]

2/ At #Disinfo2021 I hosted a panel on disinformation & climate change, with panelists from @InfluenceMap, @ISDglobal & the Environmental Investigative Forum.

@jkingy emphasised that climate misinformation is not a bottom-up phenomenon, but one pushed by malicious actors.

[Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield @GDelbosCorfield]

1/ As world leaders gather for #COP26🌍, any progress risks being undermined by the widespread climate misinformation on the platforms.

@stopfundingheat's research estimates that climate misinformation is viewed up to 1.36m times a day on Facebook alone⤵️
https://t.co/Oelg9sRiuS

[lia walton @liadelaittre]

@jkingy @siobhankennedy4 This was fantastic thank you so much- Please say it will be posted !

[Matthew d'Ancona @MatthewdAncona]

Climate change is the new front in the culture wars - don’t miss this fascinating ⁦@tortoise⁩ #SlowView by ⁦@jkingy⁩ on the extremists’ new digital attack on the green agenda https://t.co/XwJUpiE0br

[Mark @MarKomms]

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[Mark @MarKomms]

My late mother-in-law was a big fan of #DickFrancis #FelixFrancis novels and built quite a collection. All/any of these are now looking for a good home, please. 1/3