I have spent many years of my life arguing with people about politics. A very popular attack line against Politicians has always been 'They are only in it for themselves'. I have normally countered that with 'the Right do that but the Left don't'. Then along comes that shyster Mandelson.

"When you're in a hole, grab an excavator" seems to be the motto of the current Labour party.

That‘s the spirit.

Starmer - you had it all at your feet, the country was desperate for change and for ordinary people you delivered little in the way of tangible relief from 14 years of Tory misery. That is why you have failed.

Ooh! Awkward Nige

In 'I wonder why so many Labour MPs are absolute cunts?' news.

Why aren’t McSweeney and his assistant Keir Starmer resigning? They are at fault. They should walk.

We got the final 1150 trees in the ground with @derbyswildlife.bsky.social at Overdale nature reserve. Pics are 1) A proud me surveying the view, 2) a what3words screenshot showing the plots and 3) a self seeded holly on the site. The race is on now between regen and planted. Let's see who wins!

It's amazing to see a party that won over 400 seats at the last election basically destroy itself through a combination of being afraid of Andy Burnham and needing to keep the most obviously corrupt nonce associate in Britain quiet.

Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.

Labour only has emotional blackmail left. Green by-election candidate Hannah Spencer has a suggestion: "How about you actually just do something to make people vote for you?"

"Conspiracy theorists and climate deniers insist governments are exaggerating the threat. In reality... official assessments tend to lag behind scientific warnings... The situation is not better than we are told. It’s actually far worse."

I will just leave this here. Note the 2011 publication date.

To those saying, "but the Greens will split the vote": 1. Things have changed. 2. It's not the Green's fault that Starmer has the Merdas Touch (turns everything to shit) 3. When the Greens offer the only inspiring option, perhaps we should see the Labour candidate as splitting the vote.

Today's reminder: Nigel Farage is a traitor to our nation. He has accepted money from foreign governments and organisations that are enemies of our government and must face justice. #FarageOut

Wales is set to criminalize political lies during elections—should the world follow its lead? The Welsh Labour government is pushing forward with a groundbreaking bill hailed as "globally pioneering," aimed at rebuilding public confidence and improving the quality of democratic debate. If enacted...

Excellent news!

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rael Braverman, the husband of failed Tory Home Secretary and new Reform MP Suella Braverman, has joined Reform. Six months after he quit Reform.

Spain to regularize 500,000 undocumented immigrants: “It wasn't that hard”

As ever, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is bang on the money. I knew this had been delayed, I didn't realise that it took an FOI request to get it published. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unbelievable that Keir Starmer would rather throw away votes for years to come in the north of England than have Andy Burnham as an MP. Nothing annoys northerners more than southern politicians in London telling us what we should do.

Oh Dear. This will end in tears www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Canada’s PM Mark Carney's now legendary Davos speech. Worth listening to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=miM4... - (speech is 17 min long)

Board of Peace - Season 1

Pretty rich from a bloke who chickened out from serving his country because of 'Bone Spurs' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is the full Mark Carney speech from yesterday. The first minute or so are in French then he repeats in english. This feels like the most significant political speech that I have heard for perhaps 20 years. Grab a brew first! youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...

The £380,000 in extra-parliamentary earnings that Nigel Farage somehow forgot to declare is fifteen times the average salary in Claction

Mark Carney Just Announced that the West Lost the Second Cold War Entrepreneur and commentator @rnaudbertrand.bsky.social lays out why Carney's Davos speech may prove to be one of the most important speeches made by any global leader in the last three decades. zeteo.com/p/mark-carne...

Some great local news! www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

In better news I see that @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is now working (running?) at www.thenerve.news I have great admiration for her tenacity and bravery in exposing the dirty dealings with Facebook and Brexit (Via Cambridge analytica). I wish them well!

"Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair)." Analytical Confidence Rating (AnCR) HIGH This ain't no tinfoil hat wearing wacko saying this. Its HM goverment. www.gov.uk/government/p...

And it keeps them cooler into the summer too!

So true. “Had the world stood up to Netanyahu as he illegally annexed more and more of Palestine then we wouldn’t be talking about the U.S. colonising Canada and Greenland” Dr Daniel Goyle

It's a very good speech.

Love the picture!

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

The wealth of 3,000+ billionaires ≃ that of ½ of humanity: 4.1 billion "The superrich are increasingly controlling the means of communication, incl. both traditional & newer forms of media. Governments are making wrong choices to pander to the elite & defend wealth while repressing people’s rights…"

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Lauder. The architect of Trump's obscene bid to own Greenland and plunder riches from Ukraine www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s Starmer, isn’t it?

Matteus...

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

"Goldilocks Goebbels" is now streets ahead of "Bullshit Barbie" which was my previous favourite.

Good News in the Peak District part 2 The government have announced a new 3 year funding programme for Farming in a Protected Landscape (or FIPL) Some of my friends may get some job security, whilst doing good for nature too. Details of the past projects. www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/__data/asset...

Good news for the Peak District part 1. Moors for the Future just got £25,000,000 to do loads more good work restoring the blanket bogs in the Peak. Blocking drains and deep gullies in the eroded peat and planting loads of amazing sphagnum moss. More here www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/learning-abo...

Another planting day at with @derbyswildlife.bsky.social up on their Overdale Nature reserve near Hathersage. It was foggy but the snow and ice that kept us away last week had all gone. The local school came and helped us plant. Another 1100 trees went in. @josmithwild.bsky.social wasn't spotted.