Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

Rosalind Levine and her partner, Maxie Allen, said they were held at a police station for 11 hours over their complaints about the school.

'Not A Patriot': Liz Truss Slammed For Suggesting Trump Should Destroy The BBC www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/not-a-...

Cllr Farzana Aldridge said she left Labour after feeling the party was moving away from "community-focused and forward-looking politics".

This does seem to be a relevant question. Reading the Sun and Guardina pieces side by side it is hard to believe they are describing the same policy. That kind of spin might have worked in 1990s but in a social media ecosystem where anger goes viral is is likely to generate own goals

'[Possession] of...property is essential if a man is to enjoy full liberty. The possession of some property widens a man’s choice & gives him more scope to exercise his talents. Personal ownership is the badge of a citizen as against a proletarian. It is a shield against petty tyranny' (Jo Grimond)

This is now a familiar rubric for ideas that are hard to sell on merits. 2019: Boris Johnson’s agenda is the only way to stop Nigel Farage’s. 2024: Nigel Farage’s agenda is the only way to stop Tommy Robinson. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why Herefordshire was the perfect stand-in for Shakespeare’s Stratford in the new film of Hamnet

Although trespassing is a civil offence, hostile signs and barbed wire can make us feel like criminals for simply enjoying our countryside. Being in nature should feel welcoming, not intimidating. Why do you support a Right to Roam? Tell us here -> forms.gle/49Uutk3K2nJa...

Women angry at male violence - as reported in Leeds Other Paper, 45 years ago this month. #ReclaimTheNight #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

Now with a different photo because Semilong post office closed some years ago.

The only purpose is cruelty, and that is not the basis for any government policy. Time for Labour MPs to stand up and speak out or leave. No economy was ever grown on the basis of hate. Disappointed that Parliamentary time will be wasted on this nonsense.

It could never be proven what The Standells were referring to when they encouraged their fans to "Try It". Was it sex, drugs, or something else? Whatever the case, the content was too much for McLendon and KLIF.

Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Since September, a net total of 57 councillors have left the Conservative part, compared with 75 from the Labour Party. The Lib Dems are unchanged, the Greens have gained 13, and Nationalists have lost 3. Reform UK have gained 34 councillors, and the balance have become Independent, non-aligned etc.

A rare serious debate about the UK economy. Also showing why so few politicians want this. Because our economic strengths are inconveniently linked to migration, and an ageing population is simply going to be more costly in taxes. What you won't hear in the budget...

the end of the Keir show?; Denmark's asylum policies; Michael Prescott, the BBC and impartiality; The Great Smog of 1952; Tirzah Garwood exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery; Union Chapel, London

The form of association...which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end...is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, & work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality...' (J.S. Mill) 🌻🔶️

Russian law enforcers are kidnapping civilians in the occupied territories of 🇺🇦 ,trying them on charges of espionage and treason-at least 190 such sentences have been imposed over the past 3yrs ◾️From July to September 2025,courts in Russian-occupied territories imposed such sentences every 3days

Girls and young women locked up and mistreated in Church-run institutions under Francoism (and beyond). For the usual 'reasons' (see Ireland, England, France... 'wayward/lost' women, girls answering back, free thinkers, rape victims, single mothers, you name it...) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Another US citizen kidnapped in Charlotte, NC 11/15/25

We had a Labour to Lib Dem defection in Lambeth a week ago.

I'm excited to share that the latest episode of 'Gone Medieval' podcast features the Shropshire Witches! We talked about medieval ghosts and all things spooky! Teenage me would be pinching herself! open.spotify.com/episode/303k... #history #halloween #medieval #folklore #medievalist

A grey and calm #weather day following the floods caused by #StormClaidia yesterday. Looking north towards the #Wrekin from the top of Caradoc. #ChurchStretton, #Shropshire

Now with a different photo because Semilong post office closed some years ago.

Another absurd briefing, presumably by some twit of a SPAD. Someone tell these out of control pillocks to stop briefing...#Labour

Howel Jones obituary www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The 🇬🇧 British docu style gritty drama "CATHY COME HOME" directed by Ken Loach originally shown as part of BBC1's ‘The Wednesday Play’ anthology about homelessness, starring Carol White and Ray Brooks was first shown #OnThisDay in 1966

“Climate change is already biting.” The outgoing Broads Authority chief, Dr John Packman, warns Norfolk’s wetlands can’t be saved by resisting the sea.

2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood

Scottish Wildcats were, until now, creatures unknown to me. Turns out, they look exactly how you would expect a Scottish Wildcat to look like...

Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.

Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

It is positively dumbfounding to me that literally ANYONE still has Alexa in their homes, neverminded that they're lining up to buy literal surveillance sunglasses

Minsterley Brook is polluted in its headwaters by cadmium, however after the input of a mine water discharge known as Wood Adit at Gravels, the watercourse is polluted along its length for cadmium, lead and zinc down to the confluence with Rea Brook.

Since September, a net total of 57 councillors have left the Conservative part, compared with 75 from the Labour Party. The Lib Dems are unchanged, the Greens have gained 13, and Nationalists have lost 3. Reform UK have gained 34 councillors, and the balance have become Independent, non-aligned etc.

Today I met a woman who had come to live in Britain more than 30 years ago. She told me how her sons, now in their 40s, who had lived in Britain since they were 10 were worried about being made to leave the country. Reform, and the Labour government who pander to them, should be ashamed.

Anyone who uses the delivery ‘platforms’ is consciously or unconsciously blinding themselves to the fact that the business model only works by exploiting the vulnerable. #GigEconomy

This is very concerning. In future the BBC should submit any proposals for the Reith Lectures to Karoline Leavitt at the White House so that President Trump can sign off on them. Maye Pete Hegseth next year?

More Labour MPs starting to express public unease at these proposals. Lots more saying so privately...

Hertfordshire police admit unlawful arrest of couple in school WhatsApp row – report

After long discussion Bevis and Mark had decided that the time had come when they must return from the island, for if Bevis's mother went to Jack's and found they were not there, her anxiety would be terrible, and they could not think of it. #BevisTheStoryOfABoy #RichardJefferies #Bevis

Why a media scoop about Labour's internal polling is less exciting than that makes it sound - and also some rather strange things in the details of how a poll about striking doctors has been covered buff.ly/oK0gbtu

I'm reading/reviewing Richard Marson's marvellous new @tenacrebooks.bsky.social opus Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television for The Big Issue. Where else are you going to read about Johnny Ball cheerfully drop-kicking Humpty through the round window between takes on Play School?

Tiny remnants of the past, atop an old cottage in Sherborne, Dorset.

The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.

At last some good news. I'm sure there'd be volunteers to drive them to the airport.

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...