Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

He looks how I feel at the minute 😂

So a former 𝗨𝗞𝗜𝗣 and 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 party MEP, named in a series of WhatsApp messages between an alleged "pawn" of the main security agency in Vladimir Putin's Russia and disgraced former MEP Nathan Gill, now appears to be living in a 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗮𝘂 in 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲. Hmm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share. Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Data centers are important for many reasons BUT consumers should NOT have to pay higher bills to facilitate the huge amounts of electricity they eat up. The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.

What a great venue The Regal in Tenbury Wells is! Managed to see Lindisfarne there, TWICE this year! Still sounding wonderful after all those years. Kudos to the staff and volunteers who provide some quality entertainment throughout the year. #Music #Tenbury #Worcestershire #LiveMusic

I'll also send one of these and a print entirely for free to one person who reposts this. I know people love this book and I will not let it be lost. I will not let my ex-publishers, who ran off with £20,000+ of my combined earnings from it and six other books, win. Many thanks for any shares.

Let's just leave this here. 😀

Numbers. Today's number is 32768. Given by the BBC as the total number of 'artefacts' from 'treasure finds' in 2023. 32768 is also the standard frequency of the 'tuning fork' crystal used in things like digital watches. It can be divided by 2, 15 times, to give a frequency of 1Hz #treasure #numbers

This type of abusive behaviour winds me up. These people are breaking the law but because the police do nothing they threaten the home owners with theft reports if they take the flag down. We need to start mass reporting these criminals to the police until they uphold the law.

One of the demands being put forward here is a compensation to the geriatric orange felon. Are we now seriously in a position where the national broadcaster is being shaken down by the president of the United States? What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart? Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC. (A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)

Instagram used to be annoying because of the narcissism. Now it's annoying because it reduces the past to bite-size clips and regurgitates them for likes. It's like an attention-hungry dog endlessly eating another dog's puke and puking it up again while being bafflingly praised by halfwit onlookers.

Close up of a Little Owl at Telford Exotic Zoo in Shropshire. #Photograph #Owl #Zoo #Telford #Shropshire #UK #Wildlife

On Nigel Farage’s speech today, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said: “The cat is well and truly out of the bag - Reform is the party of austerity...Farage wants to finish what the Tories started. “After 14 years of cuts that gutted our schools, hospitals and councils, he’d slash even deeper."

NEW: ‘Nigel Farage is not my friend…he’s just a handsome & stylish English gentleman’ The wife of the Russian agent who Nathan Gill has admitted to accepting bribes from says Nigel Farage is not her ‘good friend’ after saying that he was her ‘good friend’ 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Every flag left flying and every case quietly dropped tells extremists they’re winning. The authorities’ fear has become the far right’s fuel – and it’s ordinary people who pay the price. Read Peter Thurlow's analysis ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @peterthurlow.bsky.social

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found Brilliant work from @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social and @manchestermill.bsky.social www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Stokesay is the UK’s finest medieval fortified house, and I’m not just saying that because it’s in South #Shropshire. #castle #SouthShropshire

Elon Musk Is Gaming the Internet for Fascism www.bylinesupplement.com/p/elon-musk-...

Let’s not forget!

Ludlow castle, the town of Ludlow and the Clee hills. From Whitcliffe Common. #Photography #Ludlow #Castle #Shropshire #Landscape

Had a quick trip across to Ludlow and Mortimer Forest yesterday to try and capture some of the Autumn colours. Will probably be better later this week, if the sun comes out! #Photography #Landscape #Shropshire #Ludlow #Forest

First relatively clear evening for ages, time to look for the comet. Apparently closest to Earth so should have been the brightest... Not incredibly bright it has to be said, and not the clearest of nights. Then there were Musk's f*%"ing satellites spoiling the view 😡 #comet #photo #Shropshire

Hi! I'm a colored pencil artist specialized in animal portraits. I usually draw wildlife but once in a while I do pet portraits too. These are the dogs I've drawn so far. The one on my profile was my beautiful Greta, a Spanish Water Dog ❤️ #petportrait #doglover #coloredpencil #animalart

Autumn in a single picture. The bracken close to the ground is turning brown and dying off, one tree is still in full leaf whilst it's neighbour's leaves are turning yellow and slowly falling off. #Photography #Landscape #Autumn #Fall #Shropshire #England #trees

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all. Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

My painting GREAT PLAINS STORM

As suspected these cheap Chinese 'flags' didn't even survive one storm. If only the people used the cash they wasted on something useful in the community. No doubt council tax will go up to pay for the removals too. Ho Hum... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is all authors. Unless we post about our books, you don't know they exist. And unless happy readers recommend us, our books die. And we don't eat. There is no "marketing dept". Algorithms favour the megastars, so they're no help. Anyway. I'm sorry for being repetitive. I have no option.

It seems that the original Star Trek series predicted the future with the 'Tholian web' Anyone attempting to take photos of the night sky now has to contend with thousands of streaks from mainly starlink satellites. 😠 (Article from spaceweather.com)

Now, having just returned from Israel, Richard 'stupid' Tice says that there's no famine in Gaza. www.conservativewoman.co.uk/on-the-gaza-...

But, but, but… what about DOGE? They promised.

I may be late to this, but I just found skyview.social Rather like the old threadreader app on that former twitter place it's useful for sharing long threads in a readable form. Apologies if you knew about it already 🙂

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Don't spread this one, either

Don't spread this Nigel Farage really wants it to disappear.

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 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