This is an excellent piece. Well worth 5 minutes of your time.

PayPal customer service is epically bad!

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, "Europe is against this war with Iran" "Because it is illegal. There is no reason behind it" "And it is causing a lot of damage: civillians, refugees, and economic consequences"

Saying that Angela Merkel is the most hated German leader in history tells you quite a bit about the AFD.

Essential reading. I goes a long way to explain Reform's current polling success. Josef Goebbels would be proud.

"High bills, impossible debts, filthy rivers, minimal investment and no resilience: that is the gift of privatisation...as we now discover in the case of Thames Water, it becomes our problem." Thames Water should be in public hands. If you agree, sign our petition: vist.ly/4vajx

If you haven't yet watched "Origin," a journey to the source of Windermere then it is 12 minutes well worth spent: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2NM... #savewindermere @savewindermere.bsky.social

🚨Incredible! Thames Water's creditors have cobbled together a new rescue proposal which contains a bribe, a 'Get out of jail' card against further illegal pollution, and a veiled threat: 1/3

@walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social I wrote to you recently via your website about the Lune Valley cycle path in Lancaster. You haven't bothered to reply.

This is awful. Another former sub postmaster has died, still waiting for compensation for being wrongly convicted in the Post Office scandal. Parmod Kalia had his conviction overturned in 2021, 20 years after being sentenced to six months in jail after being falsely accused of stealing £22,000

But heat pumps don’t work in cold climates… hmm.

"Labour and the Conservatives have pursued a net zero agenda that has only led to skyrocketing energy bills for working people." This is complete bullshit from Reform: oil price instability is the reason, and we all know it.

These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

🔴Daily Mail Forced to Correct Electric Car Price Claim After Misleading Readers Self-appointed press regulator IPSO initially refused to investigate the paper, until polling suggested that nearly two-thirds of readers had been misled bylinetimes.com/2026/03/16/d...

Warning a defensive alliance that it faces a “very bad future” if it doesn’t convert itself into an offensive alliance is not terribly compelling.

By far the best teacher conference I have ever been to is PracPed. It's a conference for teachers by teachers focusing heavily on classroom practice. It takes place in Toulouse on Oct 15/16 and early bird tickets are now on sale: www.pracped.net

After the Ourea Events shuttering, here’s an excellent blogpost on the true cost of putting on running events. iancorless.org/2026/03/14/r... #trailrunning #greenrunners

I'm running a full-day CPD session at Colchester Zoo on 21st April for @thesciencehub.bsky.social . We'll look at benefits of learning outside, and give practical ideas for outdoors teaching across the primary science curriculum. Sign up here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #eduskyprimary #edusky

An incoming Reform government would "focus on making change via executive orders rather than legislation, where possible" www.theguardian.com/politics/202... As predicted last August on The Empty City blog: emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...

Sad news: Ourea Events has ceased trading. Among many events, the most well known is the Cape Wrath Ultra. They had the best sustainability policy that I’ve read from any event organiser. #trailrunning #greenrunners

Matsuki wearing his invisibility cloak again at corners #SaintsFC

Obviously I know f all about football management! The team selection worked brilliantly. Tonda meisterklass #Saintsfc

Don’t like this lineup. Where’s the width? Seems defensive and without counter attack threat. #saintsfc

The EFL & FA doffing their cap to the mighty PL. The so called big clubs already whinging the PL is not helping their CL chances 🤷🏻‍♂️ talk about needing to look in the mirror!

A High Court judge this week accused Stormont’s own departments of being “unprincipled” and “gaslighting” the court. Not our characterisation - the judge’s. 1/10

So, Saints are playing Arsenal in the FA Cup on Saturday 4th April. Less than 48 hours later we have Wrexham away! We are being forced to throw the cup game ahead of what could be our most important game of the season. #SaintsFC

This is excellent! Essential reading for pasta lovers. Seems on the money because I completely agree with his ranking of the brands I cook with.

£0 debt £0 dividends Water companies before privatisation £60 billion debt £85 billion dividends Water companies after privatisation The British public has been robbed - and our waters polluted to an extreme - and STILL Labour are refusing to renationalise water, disgraceful

Slightly weird Carbon Literacy course yesterday. I was an in person course in Edinburgh. Among the learners were folk from India, Sri Lanka, New York, Worcestreshire and Cornwall. No-one born in Edinburgh!

One single major oil price spike costs UK business more than the entire cost of reaching Net Zero. Decoupling Britain's energy supply from the whim of the oil markets simply makes good business sense. www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

Online meeting to talk about the Battle of Cable Street. Please join us: www.tickettailor.com/events/moder...

FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

I’m wondering what the downside is of enabling outstanding scholars to study in Britain? I can’t think of one.

Incredibly powerful speech from Charlotte Nichols MP. I’m no legal expert, but 1000s of lawyers and barristers are opposing this reform as it lacks an evidence base.

First time in Edinburgh for about 40 years!

"Never once" except for last year? www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

🚨 Major new #COVID study finding: 20 months post-infection, in CVD pts, T lymphocytes remained 72.9% below baseline. Insane: persistent ~73% drop in immune fighting capacity, including vs cancer. 😢 #medsky #LongCOVID

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.

🚨 At the state level in NSW, the Australian Greens are polling at 36% among 18-34 year olds, a MASSIVE increase compared to October. The Greens have overtaken Labor. 📈

The Dirty Dozen Wash

What are the pundits taking? Coleman and Crouch both say the ball had stopped??? Utter nonsense #Saintsfc

Have petrol stations in Nottingham run out of petrol? Panic buying going on?

Whatever you think of the Green Party, you have to admit, this is a brilliant letter.

Monday - Receive Ofsted call Tuesday - Arrive at school at 5:45am, leave at 8pm Wednesday - Arrive at school at 6am, leave at 6pm (slacker) Thursday - go to school dressed as dalmation (World Book Day). parents' evening, leave at 7:30pm Friday ??? A crazy week for my wife as headteacher!

Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...