Amazing bit of 2019 footage this. Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout. And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.

Last night’s aurora

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Quick trip to the nature reserve in Eardington. Took lots of pictures of the bottom of the pool, being too slow to catch anything else, a nice dragonfly sunning itself on a rock, and some not-quite-in-focus dragonfly hanky-panky. 😂 #Photography #Nature #Shropshire #Insects #Dragonfly

Whippy Oil and acrylic on canvas (90x90cm)

Why would anyone vote for Reform? Why, in particular, would anyone vote for Reform when Nigel Farage is promising big benefit cuts in this country? Why, in other words, would people want to vote to make life worse for millions of the worst off in this country? youtu.be/rkuJ05z4xBI?...

A 15 min quick sketch...

A few captures as Venus and the 5% waning gibbous Moon moved until the planet disappeared behind. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 2/2

Good morning and Happy Friday, Flying into the day with ‘Smokey’ one of the beautiful Great Grey #Owls at #SuffolkOwls U.K. I hope you have a wonderful day, catch up later… ☕️☀️👋 📷🦉🪶 May ‘25 #FeatheredFriday #Flyday #Birds #Nature #Photography #Breathe #Smile #EastCoastKin #MentalHealthAwareness

Reform's contempt for the rule of law is very obvious

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary . Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.

Don’t recall BBC News leading with any of the myriad marches for Palestine, #PeoplesVote or #Rejoin. How very odd. How very strange. How very expected.

Well said 👏

This is what happens when you play about with photo editing software and you inadvertently click the wrong thing! Apocalypse on Brown Clee Hill! It was supposed to be a lovely white cloud against a blue sky! #Shropshire #BrownClee #ShropshireHills #Photography #PhotoEdit #Oops #Apocalypse

Obviously a certain party doesn't believe that adults should get educated? www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

This is my flag.

Farage's racist fantasy We need to call out the human rights attack, but also how it simply won't work open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

Nigel Farage wants to spend more than £10 billion of your money every year deporting people. Why would Reform prefer to waste billions being cruel to people instead of taxing the super-rich properly and making life better for EVERYONE? (Spoiler: Farage is super-rich)

Urging you to read @davidallengreen.bsky.social on the powers of a potential illiberal government in the UK. Not someone prone to exaggeration. Really troubling and important piece. davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...

Digital sovereignty. Much like we’ve encouraged the EU to end its dependence on Russian energy, it shouldn’t put all its eggs in one US tech basket when it comes to IT, cloud services, and computer tech. open.substack.com/pub/ireneken...

Two Buzzards riding a thermal over the fields in Corvedale, South Shropshire UK #Photography #Nature #Birds #buzzard #shropshire #shropshirehills #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Today's small beauty is this square painting of a diving puffin, "Taking the Plunge".

⚠️ BREAKING NEWS: UK Terror Threat Level Raised! 👇🏻 Please watch and share this latest update from #BrokenNews. youtu.be/8vE1tvIwXaM?...

Perhaps this is why the Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB drive failed? #hardware #harddrive #seagate #headcrash #disk #diskdrive

Asking ChatGPT 5 to generate a map of UK counties and label each one is a sure way to show people never to accept anything done with AI without thoroughly checking it. Or better still, just don't do it. #Map #maps #AI #Gibberish #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #NIreland #AISlop #ChatGPT

Reform in power in Durham: does it matter? Reform UK’s local election surge reveals a deeper threat: post-truth politics reshaping councils and public debate northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

The looming threat of AI scraping: why you should worry about generative AI Despite the praise from AI enthusiasts, generative AI is hollowing creative industries from the inside out. | Maxine Brigue writes for @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk

Verify your age? Pah!

The algo obviously HATES us talking about this. So would you do us a favour and share? UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4

External and internal views of Portchester Castle near Portsmouth in the UK. Originally a Roman fort, later used by the Normans and throughout the medieval period. #History #Castle #England #Portsmouth #Solent #Roman #Norman #Heritage #Photography #Photograph

The rear of St Peter's Church in Ludlow. I always get Gothic Horror vibes every time I drive past it! Original phone pic and another converted in GIMP and FotoSketcher. #Photography #Ludlow #Shropshire #Church #Photograph #PhonePhotography

Some Borage field pictures from a year ago. Near Ludlow in Shropshire. #Shropshire #England #Landscape #Photography #Drone

Fantastic piece of writing Bear. In particular the paragraph starting "When a child with asthma.....not because they're profitable" Quite.

In June 2025, Germany produced a record 11.8 TWh from solar ☀️ If this had been produced by coal (as it was in the past), Germany would have had to burn an additional 6 million tonnes of coal! 🔥 That's ~3000 full trainloads... or enough to fill 50 Bundestag buildings with coal

Yay, great! 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the 9 years since the Brexit ref, Europe has learned that Brexit was simply the first salvo in a Putin-backed attack upon the EU, NATO and Western Democracy. A reveral of Brexit would therefore be seen as a defeat of fascism and a great victory for both the EU and the whole European idea. 🇬🇧🇪🇺🕊

📉 BREAKING: 16,500 millionaires are fleeing the UK! 📈 ALSO BREAKING: The data is from a concierge visa firm using LinkedIn profile updates and vibes. I dug into the numbers, the business model, and the media panic machine.

The government has walked away from cross-party talks on social care, kicking long-overdue reforms into the long grass while millions face soaring care costs. We must fix social care and fix it now.

This kind of article in this kind of paper is *exactly* why our politics is such a mess of distrust and sloganeering idiocy. These aren’t serious people. This is not serious journalism. They are piss-taking menaces who want power without scrutiny and who will slide our country into the bin.

Wishing the NHS a very happy 77th birthday. I genuinely wouldn't be here without you. ❤️

This morning I have been mostly trying to be David Attenbrough. 😀 A wasp flying off with a piece of bacon dropped on one of the outdoor tables at the Kinlet Kabin is Shropshire, UK #insect #video #wasp #nature #bacon #shropshire #UK

We went for breakfast at the Kabin at Kinlet, Shropshire this morning. After we'd finished, this small bee (maybe a wasp/other) decided it too liked their bacon and decided to wrestle this piece to the side of the plate before taking off with it! #insect #nature #bee #wasp #bacon #breakfast

We need a wealth tax not a “Britannia Card” Julia Davies - impact investor, entrepreneur, and member of Patriotic Millionaires UK – argues for a wealth tax, not billionaires’ patronage @westenglandbylines.co.uk westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/we-n...

An 'island' of mature trees in the middle of a Shropshire field. #drone #Photography #Landscape #Shropshire #UK #Countryside #Farming #Agriculture

Fridges don't need to do this. They just need to do heat exchange and keep things cold, consistently.

Lots of colour being provided by the Farm Shop in Ludlow this year again. White poppies and purple borage for the last 2 years, and looks like canola(?) this year. Yet to see anything else. #Shropshire #Farm #Farming #Crops #Ludlow #Photo #Landscape #ShropshireAONB

I was sitting on the platform at Shrewsbury Station this afternoon, wondering whether or not this train stopped at Ludlow... No destinations were displayed, but a lot of other stuff... FW revision? Display resolution? IP Address? MAC Address? #Train #Railways #Bug #Crash #Shrewsbury #Shropshire

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...