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So good to see the TUC giving Farage and Reform a double dose of the F*ck Off Tablet as Farage posts that “Reform is now the Party of the workers”.. Much like a Fox is a good house guest in a Chicken Coup or Ebola would be welcome in an ICU Department 🤦🏼‍♂️

Hurrah! A music free Springwatch for the night. If only all BBC wildlife would do that

10 days ago on the 26th May we had the hottest May day on record in Bristol - 34.5° Today it’s 14.5°. Climate change is real, when are we going to stop fiddling around on the edges of useful action? Climate change deniers are putting everyone at risk.

There are powerful, well-connected, well-funded people in this country, today, who are deliberately, strategically, using the idea of a woman being made "uncomfortable" by the presence of a trans person to plot the removal of that woman's right to abortion, contraception, and divorce.

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

There should be more screaming about all the corruption. And a corruption-watch/tally/list updated daily. Plus projections on DC federal buildings and airplanes trailing banners. Also Trump in jail.

His two-decade criminal record, his racism, his funding, and the truth behind the victim act he sells to supporters. hopenothate.org.uk/who-is-tommy...

Bye bye Streeting you peanut headed slimeball. Let’s hope you don’t stand for leadership - that’s the last thing the Labour Party needs.

This is the result I am happiest to be wrong about.

Orban has lost. What a great day! (Unlike some sundowning clowns we know, he has admitted he lost, too.)

I’m sure the tech must exist now to be able to ‘turn off’ the music on wildlife documentaries so we don’t have to have the amazing docs ruined by irritating plinky plonky music #secretgarden

‘Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social keeping resistance alive www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-...

What Privatisation has done for you? Most expensive Energy in the world. Dirtest most expensive Water in Europe in England. Slowest most expensive Mail ever. Slowest most expensive Trains in Europe Least number of Hospital beds ever.* *Privatised Hospital building

Please please watch. What we all need today.

Typed ‘man’ into the search on my photos. This was the top result 🤔

🤦🏼‍♂️👇🏼🙄 This is like everyone telling you the pavement under is wet because someone spilled litres of petrol there but still going on to light your cigarette despite the stench of fumes Mahmood to press on with immigration reforms despite by-election defeat, is stupidity meeting inflexibility 🤷🏼‍♂️

Well, that’s a joyous sight through the window on the way home

My energy reading at 8.45 this morning. The gas central heating had been on for 45 mins heating the whole house. The electric is just from lights etc + the wacking great standing charge. The price of electricity makes us all make unsustainable energy choices however much renewable electric there is

Wednesday

Robert Jenrick announces Reform UK will keep the OBR and Bank of England independence, with an emphasis on fiscal discipline, signified by restoring the two child benefit cap. The speech is essentially the same as every Tory chancellor's conference speech in the last 10 years.

Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.

The sun is out! Whoop whoop

Gender pay gap won't close for another 30 years. Myth of equality used to hike women's state pension age. Women hold 69% of low-paid & insecure jobs. Women hit first by benefit cuts, wage freezes, two-child benefit cap. More likely to be unpaid carers. Why are govt policies loaded against women?

These people will be so, so dangerous if they are elected. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

British players have only scored 4 of Manchester United's 47 league goals this season.

As someone who naturalised two weeks ago, I can confidently say that the immigration process in the UK is already expensive, humiliating, dehumanising, and inequitable. These proposals seek to make the whole thing worse and crueller at every stage.

This #buyastrangerabook day offer from @jhelenparker.bsky.social is still unclaimed. ANY book by Brene Brown. If there's one you want, just ask and Helen will buy it for you. (UK only)

Vauxhall Bridge Bristol being fixed with the same urgency shown to Spark Evan’s Bridge - i.e. none. What is our key walking/cycling infrastructure shown so little regard?

Brilliant as ever. I remember using the original in one of my first ever history lessons.

Labour making a £6billion policy announcement and it’s hardly getting any coverage I know it’s quite niche, but this change will ensure the survival of numerous councils of all political persuasions Not many people will see it & even fewer will care, despite the scale of the financial commitment

"Interaction with police" holy hell www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Oh my giddy aunt. We’re watching 1978 TOTP. What an absolute bag of shite the charts were then. All the amazing music I listened to in 1978 and absolutely none of it is here.

My advice to Starmer. Fire McSweeney into the sun then stop chasing Reform voters and concentrate on implementing proper Labour policies.

À ‘mast’ year for British apples last year apparently, anyone with an apple tree had so many they couldn’t give them away. And yet almost none of the apples in Tesco today were British. Many were French. Why is there still no investment being made in British farming?

Israel accepts Gaza death toll compiled by health authorities is broadly accurate

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Carole Cadwalladr, "He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure" "He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right" "What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"

How bizarre it would be if the NRA becomes one of the anti-ICE organisations. Personal firearms carrying only works if the rule of law is being followed. ‘The NRA labelled a suggestion by a federal prosecutor that people who carry guns risk being lawfully shot by officers as "dangerous and wrong".

'ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs.' 'the courage and decency of millions of ordinary Americans...have been so dramatically on display in Minneapolis. We can only hope that this courage and decency get us through this nightmare...we must do all we can to make it happen.'

Today, Minneapolis sent a clear message: ICE is not welcome here, and we will protect our community! #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN

A country cannot be secure if its natural systems are collapsing.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. ‘With the regular routine winding down and less work for everyone to do, boredom inevitably set in.’

The spivs who run Great Northern Railways at the moment are trying to avoid a delay repay to me, despite being provided with all the necessary information + evidence. Thankfully they are coming into public ownership in May - hopefully I’ll get my payment from them before that

The ‘Board of Peace’ is a protection racket on an international scale that would impress Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn.

Worrying that Trump has misspelled "bored"