Protections citizens would lose under Conservatives retrograde policy of REMOVING rights guaranteed under ECHR: The rights to life, liberty, a fair trial, a private life, to marry, to education, to free elections; freedom of thought & of expression & of association & from discrimination.

Yes it sucks for them; only "fourth in the 2025 Sunday Times Rich List, with an estimated fortune of £20.8bn". More sad though for an acquaintance of mine and around 1,000 others who lost their UK jobs in the reorganisation. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If you can, please consider helping to save the rarest felines on Earth from unscrupulous development. www.crowdjustice.com/case/wildcats/

If you can, please consider helping to save the rarest felines on Earth from unscrupulous development. www.crowdjustice.com/case/wildcats/

We shouldn't ask why Ukraine doesn't retaliate for these murders of civilians on the equivalent medical institutes in St Petersburg or Moscow because that would be a war crime, which is not in Ukraine's nature. The question is why does Russia think this abhorent criminal behaviour is OK? 💔

I can't endorse contributions to Boris Johnson of £115,000 a year from public funds to develop his personal business interests. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/suspend-...

This really shouldn't even need saying, let alone agitating for. It is a truism more than a proposition.

Lib Dem leader Davey: “The Government needs to block any future contracts with Tesla, and block Musk from being granted a license to supply energy to British homes “Ministers should make clear that if you are egging on violence on the streets of the UK, you are not someone we can do business with.”

Broadband AI help Bot: I am having technical difficulties at present. Please try later. Me: Well, if you used humans with real intelligence ... Bot: [gives zero f***s, apparently]

Two salient points to note on this prognosis: Nick Thomas-Symonds "lifetime" is not yet a precise unit of time and secondly, he doesn't know that the next or subsequent UK governments will be Labour.

Since BBC political coverage is inversely proportional to the size of a party's [or private company's] representation in Parliament, then should I start a party [plc] & rattle off a few inflamatory populist policies, I expect media, especially BBC to publicise my party's policies above all the rest

Since BBC political coverage is inversely proportional to the size of a party's [or private company's] representation in Parliament, then should I start a party [plc] & rattle off a few inflamatory populist policies, I expect media, especially BBC to publicise my party's policies above all the rest

See how this works? Russia has failed to win its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, so now it modifies its ambitions to win the peace by neutralising any security guarantees for the victim: Pause. Play victim. Rearm. Repeat.

Yes, there are more wasps than we’ve seen for many a year - but nothing like a return to the wasp numbers we had before pesticides devastated insect populations. Wasps' black & yellow stripes and stinging ability make it safe for all non-stinging pollinators which mimic wasps' appearance too. 🐝

BBC hyperbole & ageism: "Over-70s face driving ban for failing eye tests" How BBC should report it: "Motorists could be banned from driving if they fail compulsory eye tests, while government intends to ignore the imperative for drivers under 70 to have them too" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A US-UK trade deal threatens our food standards, our NHS, and our ability to control Big Tech. Join the campaign to say no trade deal with Trump: act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4305

#Trump to Europe "Stop the #windmills. You’re ruining your countries ... these windmills all over the place, ruining your beautiful fields and valleys 🤔 Windmills actually created substantial European territory, reclaiming land from the sea. q.v. low countries 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inman needs to seriously rethink his notion that 'baby boomers' are harming the UK economy by choosing to retire in their 50s. Boomers are up to 80 yrs - the least aged over 60. Many have passed, their worldly possessions having already gone to Gen X, Y, Z & HMRC www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#Trump to Europe "Stop the #windmills. You’re ruining your countries ... these windmills all over the place, ruining your beautiful fields and valleys 🤔 Windmills actually created substantial European territory, reclaiming land from the sea. q.v. low countries 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Surprising that JD Vance would choose a family vacation in the Cotswolds after claiming in July 2024, that Britain was the "first truly Islamist country" to have nuclear weapons. Obviously, doesn't have a scoobi about Pakistan. Or indeed about diplomacy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

And Kevin Hollinrake, the shadow communities secretary, should choose his metaphors more carefully. The Titanic was hardly an exemplar for the management of water. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Do rules act as a “boot on the neck” of Parliament? No, they exist to block malpractice in politics. Without rules, chaos rules - e.g. 95% mortgages that will never be redeemed; life savings unprotected in high risk investments? No, best practice must always rule. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Do rules act as a “boot on the neck” of Parliament? No, they exist to block malpractice in politics. Without rules, chaos rules - e.g. 95% mortgages that will never be redeemed; life savings unprotected in high risk investments? No, best practice must always rule. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why does it need a Met Office official to tell us that the new norm of weather extremes “is really of profound concern”? Are we not a sentient species? Has it not been clear for decades? 🥵 #NetZero is existential & everyone knows this, even if they're in denial. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yup! And I would expect that some resident doctors will avoid losing income through industrial action, relying instead on colleagues to strike, knowing they will still receive any concessions won. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yup! And I would expect that some resident doctors will avoid losing income through industrial action, relying instead on colleagues to strike, knowing they will still receive any concessions won. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

At 18:30 today, the temperature here in the shade was still well over 30°C. So I can't condone corporations who think it's their place to speed up the demise of the eco-system that sustains life on Earth just to appease the odd senile, avaricious & deluded despot. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“We are not at any lower point, stockpile-wise, than we’ve been in the three-and-a-half years of the Ukraine conflict,” Adam Smith, Democrat & ranking member of House armed services committee 🤔 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So this technique “might be the best tool we have to reverse population decline”, but has anyone considered checking 1) is human pop. actually declining? 2) is a decline from current >8.2bn inherently problematic? 3) is fertility the prime factor in such decline? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Temperatures of 29°C, are too hot for 🏃‍♂️ I did so anyway 🙄. Taking a break from the relentless heat in an almost treeless field 😰, I shared the shade of the few trees with some cattle; the heat contrast was palpable. Perhaps it would help if farmers grow more 🌳 🌳 🤔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Temperatures of 29°C, are too hot for 🏃‍♂️ I did so anyway 🙄. Taking a break from the relentless heat in an almost treeless field 😰, I shared the shade of the few trees with some cattle; the heat contrast was palpable. Perhaps it would help if farmers grow more 🌳 🌳 🤔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

Part 2

If Iran’s nuke programme is [according to Starmer] a ‘grave threat to international security’, then Trump's crass attack on already emptied out tunnel complexes is a wreckless roller-coaster to a global conflagration which UN Security Council member 🇬🇧 must reject www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Starmer: “nothing the president said that suggests that he’s about to get involved in this conflict … I was sitting right next to President Trump, so I’ve no doubt” Starmer shouldn't either doubt that Trump changes tack several times a day. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Normally, domestic troop deployments follow threats or attacks by a foreign power, so which foreign army are 4000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines in LA to repel and are Trump's stormtroopers the external aggressors in this scenario? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Haldane's confusing 'Tribune' with 'Pied Piper'. Farage doesn't advocate for the 'working class', instead, he leads the gullible among them haplessly towards totalitarian nationalism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Haldane's confusing 'Tribune' with 'Pied Piper'. Farage doesn't advocate for the 'working class', instead, he leads the gullible among them haplessly towards totalitarian nationalism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Private vulture capitalists are desperate not to lose the cash cow that is public-funded, immune-from-the-consequences-of-their-actions, for-private-profit water companies. Don't let 'em get away with it. #ThamesWater www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Private vulture capitalists are desperate not to lose the cash cow that is public-funded, immune-from-the-consequences-of-their-actions, for-private-profit water companies. Don't let 'em get away with it. #ThamesWater www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Badenoch's chilling proposal for a blanket travel ban may raise the prospect of cold knees when on a coach or a plane, but shouldn't concern us too much, since any root vegetable would be a far more plausible candidate for PM than Trump cheerleader Kemi. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I wonder that Keir Starmer didn't think about the risk of this eventually when he previously gave Israel his "unqualified support". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Appealing to the populist trope that to destroy Britain's natural habitats somehow facilitates development we need when it actually encourages the development we don't need - that which destroys #nature. If implemented, this will end my support for Labour. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I expect any Doge facsimiles in Reform areas of influence must comform with all applicable privacy, GDPR & employment laws. Because in the UK, unlike the US, the law is mightier than disruptors misappropriating data for unspecified, likely malign purposes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Observing Britain slowly emerging from its brexit nightmare of voluntary isolation from 30 mainland-European, Scandinavian & Irish EFTA countries is like watching a chick without an egg-tooth trying to break out of its shell. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

The libertarian right would like to stifle debate on those topics of public discourse they find inconvenient. This here curtails dialogue on the principle of 'don't advocate for your progressive viewpoint or we will crush you so you'll achieve even less'. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

BBC 30/5/2025: Israel accuses Macron of ‘crusade against the Jewish state’ Crusade: a remedial enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm [Merriam-Webster] Macron: European countries should harden their stance against Israel if the humanitarian situation in Gaza [does] not improve