Found some fantastic #fungi in the woods today, as well as this rather amazing growth in the car park outside our flat. I'm completely ignorant about species identification ... I *think* the first may be inkcap, but I've no idea about the other two; can the 🦋 hive-mind help?

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This powerful book by Amal Chatterjee identifies clearly and unequivocally the mechanisms enabling colonial economic extraction long after colonialism is supposed to have ended. Highly recommended: hurstpublishers.com/book/prisone...

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Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered. I found no mention of the anniversary in today's Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia

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The release of four types of files will come in two stages, starting on November 4. On that day in 1956 Soviet tanks ⁠entered Budapest to ​crush a pro-democracy uprising that had begun on October 23. Maybe something of Dad's missing family will be found.

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