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It's obvious democracy is being usurped in Cambridge: the city council is in hock to the University on one side, to the developers on the other. Actual residents - voters - aren't part of the equation: any pretence of democracy has now been cast aside cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
Decision to greenlight Jackdaw raises issue of backsliding on environment among newly hopeful Labour Party supporters cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
Anglian Water will never be censured by the government cos it's been lined up as the fall guy for when the whole development ***show goes belly up for lack of water
"Anglian Water fined £1.6M for polluting River Brain in Essex."
Over the last 15 years Anglian Water has been found guilty of 79 different environmental offences and already paid almost £5 million in fines. Has any of it made any difference whatsoever? Of course not.
Perhaps later this morning the @CommonsEFRA would like to ask the polluters why.
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I don't get out enough is what I realised after seeing Nish Kumar at the Corn Exchange last night.... cambridgeindependent.co.uk/w…
What's surprising isn't that it looks like the system is greased by backhanders (we guessed). It's that the amount is so little. Our fields, the air we breathe, the water we drink, hundreds of ancient trees at Coton - for £46 grand. How grotesque is that. cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
You have to ask yourself how we got here - a continuous desire to window-dress unpalatable truths. The environment can't and won't cope with the growth agenda. Naked power grabs by governments using Cambridge as a vote-winner. A refusal to listen. Disdain. cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
The Labour Government lied about having a scheme to evacuate people from Gaza, in order to create the impression that the Burnham government has turned the page. It hasn't, and the genocide continues, and the right to protest it is still curtailed theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
Great to see Mark Skipper's reportage developing cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
Cambridge Greens tread carefully in response to national party's 'Zionism is racism' vote - without explicitly saying one way or the other whether they support the controversial motion on a one-state Palestine cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
Congrats to @sixinchessoil producers Colin Ramsey and Claire Mazkenzie for this @Independent 'Top 100' listing of environmentalists. Sir David Attenborough and Erin Brockovitch are in good company! cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
They finally realised the Bonkers Busway is ... bonkers cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
Hart Fest co-organiser is widely respected Cambridge musician Faradena Afifi cambridgeindependent.co.uk/w…
If the UK wants to ensure its tech doesn't seek US ratification (a la Arm), the City of London needs to raise its game cambridgeindependent.co.uk/b…
Cambridge Sustainable Food and Abbey People act to secure food security in region cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
So what they're saying is that to protect their fragile egos, this project has to bulldoze its way through priceless and irreplacable swathes of English countryside regardless of the fact that it's futile and benefits-free. They should all resign surely cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
Is agentic AI part of an agenda to defraud human beings of an authentically human experience? Cambridge Forum has some answers - and questions cambridgeindependent.co.uk/b…
This reenactment of a Viking raid was great fun. Humanity badly needs healthy ways to express the warrior spirit which is both essential to our survival and easily capable of killing us all if we don't watch out cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
The tragedy of Britain's inability to wake up to the consequences of being massively nature + water-depleted won't be brought to your attention any time soon because Andy Burnham's government is state-captured by vested interests just like all the others cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
Day by day, hour by hour, the University of Cambridge continues to shred its reputation while it keeps this man on board - particularly now, as far-right thugs threaten cities on the south coast, empowered by an ideology he helped develop independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
