Not least supporting Putin's invasion of Ukraine?

😱 UK ownership of US-style pick-up trucks is up 92% , say @cleancitiescampaign.org 😡 What's the problem? Longer than a WWII tank, larger than the average parking space, incredibly heavy and so high that children cannot be seen by their drivers, they aren't nicknamed "battering rams" by chance.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 'It's like having PTSD' - villagers left without broadband since last year Methinks this is trivialising PTSD! Amazing what passes for news nowadays ...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Could've gone further but at least someone in the UK is making an effort to reduce road crime. Hopefully others follow. Cymru?

Three independent commissions have backed devolving policing to Wales. Scotland, Northern Ireland – even London and Manchester – have powers over policing. Asked if Wales should too, the Home Secretary says: “No I do not.” Labour has no respect for Wales.

Ireland will shortly also announce compulsory stab vests to counteract the danger from knife crime..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... AKA man kills himself.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... £20k! Nothing to Tesla. Up the fines! Hopefully the bad publicity will be more significant and make them change their ways.

Also accurate and appropriate ... WTAF America.

Trump - both ill and evil at the same time? Can't you chaps over the pond just get rid asap. Pretty please.

Slightly appalled to discover that I'm entitled to a 'senior discount' about 10yrs earlier than expected. On the plus side I get 20% of sh1t I don't really need. Yes, I still bought it. Happy days!

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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Matteus...

It’s time for Wales to proclaim its independence. Join YesCymru www.yes.cymru/join

In the Netherlands, people continue to cycle in huge numbers even on dark winter evenings, through rain and near-freezing temperatures. When safe, well designed cycle infrastructure is provided, people will cycle all year round.

📣 Parents. If cars make your walk or cycle to school feel unsafe, that's not okay. We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post. #streetsforkids #schoolrun

Simples. We could do this with commercial vehicles in the city. If we wanted to?

Denmark should offer to send peacekeeping forces.

Musk's X has turbo-charged the anti-science movement & amplified misinformation, racism, misogyny & hate. It permits the creation of digital child porn at one click. If these aren't grounds to eject him from the Royal Society, then what are? Shame on them. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

"Dear Diary, Nadhim Zahawi joined Reform UK today! 😊 His experience in government will be invaluable - he has promised to advise us on tax avoidance, fiddling expenses and breaking the Ministerial Code"

Morning from Cardiff ...UK Gov have signalled up to £45bn over the next 15 or so years for "rail in the north of England". Most welcome (and added to HS2 is over £100bn). In Wales UK gov have committed at most £500m!!! Yet we have good schemes?? swalesmetroprof.blog/2025/12/12/a...

BREAKING: Wes Streeting has asked Jonathan Haidt, a bestselling author and high-profile advocate of banning social media for under-16s, to speak to his officials in his push for the UK to consider following a landmark ban in Australia www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

So this is what Farage wants to do with his precious Brexit ‘sovereignty’: sell out our NHS to Trump’s America and grub for power in the misery of its collapse. Such a cynical, malignant politician. Happy to lie to our faces, weaken our rights and break what we value, if it enriches him. (iPaper)

Funding NHS facilities with private finance a breach of manifesto, Labour MPs say. Govt paid £6 for £1 PFI investment. Private equity profiteering from NHS contracts. Public money buys less. Govt reviving PFI, handing NHS to private equity. Govt can borrow, create money, do QE, tax the rich.

Utterly outrageous situation with South East Water Privatisation has failed It won't be fixed by more investigations or the boss resigning Government must withdraw their licence, they have failed to fulfil their statutory duties PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

X isn’t the platform it once was. The social media platform dismantled its own guardrails, and harm followed. The Bear argues it may be time for the UK to pull the plug – and explains why. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

Major powers always use force to grab assets of other countries. US has initiated 201 out of 248 armed conflicts since the end of WWII. Vast swathes of the world destabilised to lubricate the US economy and boost corporate profits. Resentment grows. There has to be a better way.

Ed Miliband continues to preside over the only bit of the govt doing good stuff, today with the excellent announcement that the latest CfD auction has secured *8.4GW* of new offshore wind! Ed: “This is the largest amount of offshore wind procured in any auction ever in Britain or indeed Europe” 🥳🏆

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now lasted longer than Nazi Germany’s war against the Soviet Union. united24media.com/latest-news/...

There is no other “asset” that you can ordinarily buy that loses >£1,000 in value every month. Insane people buying insane products

Any fool who wastes this much money on an such an inappropriate vehicle deserves all this misery and more.

Teenagers travelling together, dying together. Throws into perspective the weakness of the Road Safety Strategy this week. Another tragedy.

In which @arusbridger.bsky.social comments on the Liz Truss show. Most of us are way beyond caring about anything she says or does now. But it’s how someone as inadequate as her *ever* got their hands on power that matters. Because it could easily happen again. app.independent.co.uk/2026/01/09/2...

As explained here rdrf.org.uk/2026/01/09/o...

Mae corff menyw wedi cael ei ddarganfod yn llyn Parc y Rhath yng Nghaerdydd fore Sul. newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/32336

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well, we know what the stats say as to who was most likely to be driving illegally* but the powers that be do nothing about it. *(though there is also a significant probability both drivers were - again, nothing is being done about it) #VisionZero #KillerDriver

Let alone their future driving permissions… Why is road crime treated differently to other crime? IMO complacency and acceptance of road danger as inevitable have dulled accountability. Strategy isn’t enough — we need a fundamental root & branch cultural reset. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

It's ok. The new road safety strategy will fix all this. Oh no it won't because it's so weak.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... They released this *to defend* the murderer! America is so f*cked.

Is this the same Rupert Lowe who has made £44,996.77 from X since he became an MP? It's so weird that he'd be so upset at the thought of the platform closing down. Almost like it's a pretty decent revenue stream, right?

Still want a Tesla?

I just saw someone use the term "slopulism" and it's a very good word. My proposed definition: "Junk policy aimed at populism-inclined voters which will go nowhere and achieve nothing but which strategists believe will win support."

Just ban it. Stop this being socially acceptable FFS 🤬

LOL ...

Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government’s bonus ban

Monthly users on X May 2023: 24.3m May 2024: 22.1m (-2.1m) May 2025: 18.9m (-1.8m) On this trajectory, the monthly X users in the UK could easily dip below 18m now & so may fall behind surprisingly high monthly users of LinkedIn (18.4m in 2025) by May 2026!