Why I’m not planning to visit the USA, #1

Do both. And if solar parks are built near villages or towns, then offer the people who are potentially affected free electricity to offset their concerns. Solar panels are not nuclear power stations. They can be removed with little environmental impact and can actually benefit biodiversity.

Graceless, insensitive, unfounded. President Trump demonstrates, with this, exactly why Rob Reiner called him unfit for office.

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What a person does or says or thinks is infinitely more important than their ancestry. You’d have to be a lousy human being to disagree with that.

If you happen to be in Reading with a free evening this week, come and see me in the joyous bloodfest that is Titus Andronicus at Progress Theatre. Unspeakable violence and some banging tunes, just as Shakespeare intended. www.ticketsource.co.uk/progressthea...

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

Gary O'Donoghue: what a proper grown-up

Scottish cops wary of convicted felon.

“Irrational?” What’s irrational about this?

⚠️ Climate change is an increasing threat to world safety. The heatwave sweeping Europe is not just the new reality, but has been the lived reality for much of the developing world over the 2020's. The consequence of inaction is here. And here to stay.

Here’s a quick take on why we get so complacent about the climate crisis: “1 or 2 degré doesn’t sound too bad!”

The CCC report shows some movement towards trying to keep us all safe, but not nearly fast enough. It’s time to stop throwing money at the likes of Shell and BP. Govt subsidises the fossil fuel industry by £17.5BILLION/year – let's put that into lowering bills instead. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Caught up with Dr Who. I’m sorry that Ncuti has gone; he wasn’t the problem. That finale was a mawkish mess.

Global warming comes to Europe, so stop whinging about solar panels and turbines www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

The USA should consider replacing the current administration with rats

The dumbification of America.

Wordle 1,407 2/6 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Easy peasy

Most people want to take action on the climate emergency. It’s not just you and a few protesters. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More like a headline from The Onion than The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The First Amendment to the US Constitution prevents Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances

Dog on a beach

Zadie considers her options for getting down from these rocks

It's easy, in these troubled times, to focus on the wrong problems. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

So much about the reaction that it’s quite hard to find what the actual crime was. “Le Pen was accused, along with more than 20 other senior party figures, of hiring assistants who worked on her RN party affairs rather than for the European Parliament which paid them” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excellent performances in this beautifully presented tearjerker. runs at Progress Theatre, Reading until 29th March www.facebook.com/100064203515...

Welfare spending as a percentage of GDP. - France: 31% of GDP. - Finland: 29%. - Belgium: 28.9%. - Italy: 28%. - Germany: 26%. - Spain: 25%. - Denmark: 25%. - Sweden: 25%. - Norway: 25%. - Japan: 22%. - United Kingdom: 21%. This is before £5 Billion of Labour cuts!

Can't disagree with anything Theresa May says here. Shame about her dancing though.

Ms Badenoch makes stuff up. Where is the evidence that our net zero commitment is economically harmful?

“This is how democracies die”

Some simple science in here that confirms your suspicion that Elon Musk is a crazed fantasist. defector.com/neither-elon...

Don’t talk to me about Trump

Is the destruction of life on earth a deliberate policy of this US administration? Trump has only a few years left - if he can't have it, then he doesn't want us to have it either. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How dare this person turn up to the Oval Office not wearing a suit! It's disrespectful. Send him back to his own country and don't give him any more American taxpayer dollars.

A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.

“Juvenile” is the key word here

Trump and Vance showing the world what tiny minded little thugs they are. Rude, arrogant and infantile edition.cnn.com

We are delegates at the Kyoto COP 1997.

BP are screwing your planet to make more profit. Screw them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Donald Trump again mimics Putin and calls for an election in Ukraine - falsely claiming Zelensky’s approval rating was “at 4%” Recent polling in fact shows that Zelensky’s approval rating is better than Trumps Lets make sure everyone knows the truth youtu.be/QDagM0WWEP4?...

Spain, with a Socialist led government, has a growing economy, of which the renewable market is a healthy part. Also these figures are worthy of note - look how Cuba has managed,despite a 60yr embargo by USA⬇️ #socialism #capitalism #billionaires

Roses are not necesarily red. Violets are not blue.

It's a shame I can't bill the White House for all the time I spend checking the news every 2-3 hours to see what craziness they've come up with.

I don’t think Rachel Reeves should be sacked because she has some errors on her CV. She should be sacked because she’s a terrible Chancellor.

I see Apple Maps is still calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico, which I think is a great name for the Gulf of Mexico. Bigly.

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If you ignore the climate crisis, then it's you who's the nutter. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...