This has really wound me up. Can you imagine two men who set up a business together being referred to as 'school run dads'?

Narrator: they have absolutely no idea what to do.

I mean, America. Cringe. Is anyone not embarrassed?

Well that will open up the Strait of Hormuz. "The White House’s main entrance — framed by graceful Ionic columns — has been a signature image of the seat of US power "A Trump-appointee is proposing to replace them with a more ornate style favored by Trump... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Well, who knows how a broad left coalition would actually govern, but it would be vastly preferable to a regime of crazed and inept fascist cranks who are billionaire’s sock puppets.

This is cool. The Government is set to allow plug-in solar, low cost solar panels that families can buy at supermarkets and put on their balconies or outdoor space. "In Germany over a million have been sold, helping households with energy costs and reducing dependence on fossil fuels."

Trade and economics have long pointed to the UK rejoining the EU, but what probably really scares the Brexiters now is that politics now clearly points the same way. The Trump regime is smashing both any pretence of a "special relationship" and global trade with tariff wars and actual wars.

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Reform attacking a free press, they aren't hiding who they are an autocratic right wing party that would muzzle our press to promote their hate, just like America. bsky.app/profile/byli...

Self-appointed war and geopolitics expert David Sacks is starting to wonder if the man he helped get elected, the rule of law he helped break, and the massive corruption he facilitates might have downsides.

Thanks to the fabulous group of geocachers that came out to Ford's Road today, joined by some of our regular volunteers. Despite not being able to wade due to the water level, and the area looking quite clean, we still gathered a massive haul, including a troublesome washing machine!

"DERANGED SCUMBAGS". As we used to say in the playground - takes one to know one.

This post really made me think. Labour needs to take on causes and enemies that will resonate with left bloc voters. Doing so is a vital values indicator. What's more they are there. Just this week: right to roam (cause) and Gulf tax exiles (enemy). Under Starmer, though, I can't see it happening.

Freedom of Movement is about more than travel. It’s the freedom to live, work, study and build a life across Europe without needing permission first. Andrew Hesselden explains why restoring it matters — and why the UK-EU debate can’t move forward until we confront what was lost. youtu.be/JYA3gVGxlnw

Now that he has nearly destroyed the Kennedy Center, doing damage to other DC institutions along the way - the National Symphony, the Washington Opera - Ric Grenell is leaving, perhaps to ruin something else www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/a...

So this is where we are .... A genocide enabler & a rapist is a "gracious and courteous host"

Journalist “When will the war be over” Trump “When I feel it…feel it in my bones“ (spurs) America now relying on a sick puppy’s “feelings” to decide if a war should end.

Calling dibs on the title: “From Journalism to `Story Units’: Billionaires and the Media in the Twenty-First Century.”

By not taking on GB News, Ofcom are allowing them to operate as a normal provider and that gets into your fragmented information architecture whether you like it or not. So now a small child heard racism (I couldn't get to the right remote quick enough!)

“Farage has said he wishes the party "hadn't bothered" to take minority control of Worcestershire County Council, because of its financial problems” V much summing up his approach to power. Grifting and gobshiting - yes please. Hard work and responsibility - god no. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a truly excellent piece on why low birth rates are simply not a problem, and why pronatalism is clearly being promoted for political, not scientific and not practical, reasons

The only sane response to Trump’s war is to build wind and solar power infrastructure.

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

"this is increasingly looking like a cluster fuck...reason is that step one of any plan is to establish a goal – targeting should be in pursuit of that goal. .., but we don’t have a clear goal, and that lies not on the Pentagon planners, but on Donald Trump.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

FFS!!! We don’t even have digital health records in Ireland, yet the health minister just released an AI health strategy?!!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ #HSE #DepartmentOfHealth #SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #HealthMinster #AIHealthStrategy #HealthNews #AI #NoAI #Ridiculous #Ireland www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...

They are now refusing to state the number of American casualties in the Iran war. When regimes do this, it is a HUGE RED FLAG.

On Elon Musk's firm being approved by Ofgem to supply energy to British homes, Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: "Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence. "Elon Musk is a threat to our national security...We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.”

There's a free screening of We Only Want the Earth, a new film about James Connolly, at Dublin's Light House on 20 April @ 6pm with a filmmaker Q&A. Link to tickets below. www.eventbrite.com/e/free-scree...

Nigel Farage wants to ban same sex marriage, and unban handguns. He thinks he lives in the USA.

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

Hegseth - a pumped up, deeply inadequate, violent, alcoholic, war criminal - believes the US has the absolute right to kill anyone at anytime in any place across the world. You, me, our families, anyone. It is shameful he holds the position he does. He should be in prison.

Clematis, Broughton Place, Edinburgh

This is excellent.

I once wrote to @ofcom.bsky.social asking that they watch the 9pm to 11pm programme on GB"News" for a week in order to get a feel for the true nature of the channel. I didn't get a reply and I don't believe they bothered to watch. I really have come to believe that this regulator has been bought.

It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.

Latest on Iran at WC: Trump on Truth Social - Iran would risk ‘life and safety’ by participating & it wouldn't be 'appropriate' Embarrassing for FIFA's Infantino - 48hrs ago on Insta he said that Trump told him country would be welcome Story @adamcrafton.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/711...

Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence. Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry. We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.

Dear @ofgem.gov.uk ….ffs

On Ofgem’s decision to grant Elon Musk’s Tesla Energy company a licence to supply electricity in Britain, Naomi Smith of Best for Britain: “We all know the British public rightly view Elon Musk as a profoundly dangerous and malign influence, who belongs nowhere near our critical infrastructure."

What does @ofcom.bsky.social do? It certainly never watches GB News

“GB News has become a home for the ‘white genocide’ conspiracy theory – a narrative that has inspired real-world violence. Ofcom’s repeated failure to act over this channel’s toxic output is more than just a regulatory failure – it’s a policy choice.” bylinetimes.com/2026/03/12/g...

can this be a solution?

7th @thinkuhi.bsky.social INS International St Magnus Conference at UHI Perth on 15th -17th April. Keynote Speakers: Scottish Poet Laureate, Professor Peter MacKay University of St Andrews and Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson Uppsala University addressing the conference. tinyurl.com/2vje3wzy

"the US government has been remade into a tool for the immediate satisfaction of his wants and desires no matter how absurd or nihilistic they may be." Dark realism from @davidrlurie.com www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-excu...

@darrenpjones.bsky.social I see Badenoch has praised and endorsed Mahmood. Tells you a lot about her, and 'Blue' Labour, no? Why doesn't Mahmood go the whole way, and join the party where her instincts clearly now lie?

🚨 @pimlicat.bsky.social: "After more than 18,000 of our supporters wrote to Ofgem highlighting real public concern over Musk’s powergrab, Best for Britain are calling on the energy secretary to step in and urgently reverse Ofgem’s misguided decision. It’s not too late to do the right thing.”

The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.