Oak tree on the banks of a stream, from a summer walk a couple of years ago. Explore more of my landscape prints, with links to prints here www.andrewbrooksartist.com/landscape-ph...

We had four days without water. We appear to be due no compensation as SE Water have blamed it on "storm damage" for a storm that barely registered in this part of the country. This is a get-out clause to cover for an appallingly-run company. Bring it back into public ownership.

This is the insanity of the current Labour approach. You are kneecapping the economy by slashing immigration to appease voters who hover between Tory and Reform, and yet they don’t even believe your numbers anyway…plus you’ve just alienated your actual supporters

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio… https://youtu.be/YdVMGKOFIwY?feature=shared

Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is. It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime. This is not patriotism. It's subservience.

Graffiti in ladies' toilet, London Waterloo station.

Wonderful thread.

I think about this tweet every day

I fear this happening in my constituency, where Lib Dems have traditionally been the local opposition to the Tories, but where I fear Reform will poll strongly. Both Lib Dems and Greens fielded strong candidates in 2024.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for

I've worked in this area of law/policy long enough to see most of what was announced yesterday tried before/reheated/varied. Defining Family Life? Done repeatedly, notably in 2012 by Theresa May. Appeal Reforms? How far back do you want to go! Temporary Status for refugees? We already do it.

Uh this is enormous

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Q: "What did Watson and Crick discover?" A: "Rosalind Franklin's notes."

…They should ask themselves why so many young (45 and under) people are so unhappy with the economy/politics and convinced that capitalism isn’t working for them. Because in the main- it isn’t.

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

DLMayfield: "Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror. The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."

🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

DOUBLED!!! Absolutely extraordinary. Thank you everyone. This is the movement. Join.greenparty.org.uk

People are starting to acknowledge that the (AI) emperor has no clothes.

Fascinating thread on building a protest movement:

If a condition of being a socially acceptable woman is to spend thousands and thousands of dollars and endure untold pain in order to cut yourself open and mutate your face and body into shapes that do not appear in nature then I think that might be a sign of gendered oppression, actually.

All these people choosing hope!

Retweet as this, in two crisp sentences, is the platonic ideal of a social media post:

The Kent Reform group have been surprised to find that their intuitions & messages about profligate and pointless spending which could be painlessly cut were an imaginary projection bsky.app/profile/jame...

You know how Trump (partly) blamed the 2020 election loss on the voting machines, and the company that made the machines took legal action to force them to retract the allegation? Is the same thing going to happen with Tylenol?

Linguistics.

The real way to help children with autism and neurodivergence is to FUND SCHOOLS. Fund the welfare state. Create opportunities for parents to have an education and well paying jobs. More EAs in school, more doctors. Our society is anti-child, and this is why so many children are in burnout.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Sigh.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

We all need to be having these conversations.

Elon Musk broadcast to Trafalgar Square today advocating for mass violence against the government and immigrants to the UK. They have arrested how many people for palestine action signs? If people think a billionaire encouraging a mob of fascists to violence isn't terrorism then I have nothing.

Language in the news...

The dehumanisation of Palestinian lives.

The postmortem reports after the next election will be too late for Labour to wonder where it went wrong- and all while they are headed by a former human rights lawyer. Despicable.

Protect and sustain yourself through positivity.

Worth reading The Times' editorial on Powell from 1968. Contrast it with last week, when it pointed out that Farage's deportation proposals would "undoubtedly find favour" and other parties "better come up with something radical." A truly contemptible descent for a once-great newspaper.

More of this in UK press please!

Just heard @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Radio 4's World At One, being interviewed as the second news item (first domestic item) and already pushing back on the Overton Window and signalling that politics doesn't mean everyone has to inevitably trudge to the right. Really happy with his win!

Absolutely.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Incredible search tool for community fridges in the UK, including opening times and volunteering opportunities 💚 communityfridgemap.org.uk

I have reached the same conclusion and it's sickening.

Yes. And our ruling party is supine. Why?