Latest Reform star is this councillor who thought, “forget data protection I’ll use private information held by the council to promote my mates business” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Reform's Poll Lead Collapses Amid Row Over Nigel Farage's Finances www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...

Spain is setting new records for solar power today; the latest is 31.9 GW, meeting 71% of electricity demand

Geebeebies guy gets his arse handed to him in a sling when he tries to troll a green energy expert.

Reform councillor in Wigan under investigation over social media posts calling for politicians to be 'shot' www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Innovative thinking.

As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.

Our heatwaves will get hotter and hotter and hotter until we get to global net zero greenhouse gas emissions and so stabilise the climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Episode 85 - Afternoon meadow in late summer (31mins) A tractor mows a field with a view for miles. The birds settle back into their daily business. Insects buzz past. Overhead, planes lazily pass in the sky. > radiolento.podbean.com/e/afternoon-... < #NationalMeadowsDay

Kemi's inability to capitalise on Reform capping out should really alert the men in grey suits they've backed a loser.

Incredible mega dump of information on Nigel Farage & George Cottrell. New details that build on the Times story. Recommended reading. thestateofuk.bearblog.dev

Swan Upping at Cookham http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/spencer-swan-upping-at-cookham-t00525

El Niño conditions have developed in the tropical Pacific and are forecast to strengthen rapidly over the coming months, increasing the likelihood of heatwaves, droughts, heavy rainfall and other extreme weather events in many parts of the world. 🔗 bit.ly/4aW5kPt

78 today! 🎂 A good moment to say thank you to NHS staff in Northampton & across the country.

Reform mega-donor’s jet fuel business linked to refineries using Russian oil unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/07/01/c...

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937) Roses in a Glass Vase

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

#ViolenzaSulleDonne #Rispetto #NonEssereComplice

Times scoop: Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler funded his office in the run-up to the election. Murdoch is coming for him.

Lovely use of the Stirchley deflag technique in that video from Take Back Power, as demonstrated here - Antifa ASMR

Nigel Farage Faces Probes Over Crypto Gift and Wealth Declarations Parliamentary watchdogs are investigating Reform UK leader Nigel Farage for possibly breaching rules on declaring a £5 million personal gift from crypto investor Christopher Harborne, received in 2024 before Farage became an MP.

For the first time ever, from April 2025 to April 2026, solar energy outproduced ‘natural gas’ in Asia. First coal, now ‘natural gas’… the fossil fuel dominos are falling… and they said it cant be done…

Driving on 30 mph zone. In rear view mirror see blue light police car and hear sirens just behind BMW right behind me. I signal , slow down and pull over. BMW overtakes me and blocks police car as bollards in middle of carriageway mean police can’t get through. What a pillock.

British electricity mix at 3pm on 4th Jul 2026 🔥Gas 9.6% Biomass 6.0% 🍃Wind 41.3% Solar 30.3% Hydro 0.3% ⚛️Nuclear 9.7% ➡️Imports 2.9% Other 0.0% 🪫Storage 0.0% 🔌Generation 31GW 🌍Carbon intensity 81 gCO2e/kWh vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030

British electricity mix at 11am on 4th Jul 2026 🔥Gas 9.9% Biomass 5.2% 🍃Wind 42.0% Solar 24.6% Hydro 0.2% ⚛️Nuclear 10.6% ➡️Imports 7.6% Other 0.0% 🪫Storage 0.0% 🔌Generation 28GW 🌍Carbon intensity 84 gCO2e/kWh vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030

Three things are true: 1️⃣ The Trump administration is bribing companies to abandon huge clean energy projects; 2️⃣ These projects are massive job creators; 3️⃣ They’re using your hard-earned tax dollars to do it. Unbelievable. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/c...

Trump cancels renewables because he is bought and paid for by oil and gas. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Reform UK-led council fails to attract any sponsors for union flag scheme

Wrong flags eh metro.co.uk/2026/06/30/r...

Reform has lost more than 120 councillors since May. The mainstream media seems not to have noticed as usual! #NeverVoteReform

Spain leading the moral charge, again 👏

“Susan Hawley, the executive director of Spotlight on Corruption, said: “These revelations raise real questions about whether a major political party in the UK is being bankrolled by money made from selling fuel sourced from states that are hostile to our democracy.”

‘Reform UK’s biggest donor owns a company contracted to supply fuel to aircraft from refineries that make extensive use of Russian oil, The Times can reveal.’

I like to see joy but I do not like to see punts getting hurt #england #worldcup

Rising food prices are one of the clearest examples of the cost of living crisis, and it's something that shoppers have to contend with every week. In @thefabians.bsky.social new pamphlet, I set out what a new Labour government can do to to bring inflation down.

Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

Until now, if a woman was killed in her home by a partner or ex, her killer faced a max sentence of 15 years – 10 fewer than if she’d been murdered in the street or by a weapon brought to the scene. Labour has equalised it - thanks to huge strength from families. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

A Joint AP And PBS FRONTLINE Investigation Found That American Technology Infrastructure Is Being Directly Abused To Power Industrial Scale Fraud Compounds In Myanmar, Where Trafficked Workers Are Trained To Make Victims Fall In Love In Four Days, Before Stealing Their Life Savings 🤖💥

Raise the Colours figure accused of 3 counts of making indecent child images Category A, B + C Ben Cullen is due to appear before a jury at Reading Crown Court on July 1 Him in the mirrored glasses here, next to RTC's Billy Allison (since charged with murder) www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

Ahead of #NationalSeasideDay, here's one from the archive Episode 66 - Listening to the longshore drift (32mins) On the beach at Bexhill-on-Sea, with the distant sound of people milling around. Hear the swell of the waves and the movement of the shingle. 🌊 radiolento.podbean.com/e/listening-... 🌊

@Everton Season Ticket holder Frankie Joyce has ran an extra 1km every day this month (296 miles) to help raise funds to help @anthonynolan.bsky.social to fight blood cancer 💪🏽 He’s just £71 off his £1000 target. Let’s see if we can get him over the line tonight💙 www.justgiving.com/page/helpfra...

The optimistic view is that a country that spent decades short of power has, in the space of three or four years, built one of the most solarised electricity systems in the developing world, funded overwhelmingly by private money ✏️ @janrosenow.bsky.social

Worth remembering that "save our kids" is one of the central narratives that British far-right extremists are using to recruit people to their xenophobic crusade. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

'St Ives,' (1941) was painted by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at a time when St Ives in Cornwall was an unlikely hotbed of British modernism.