What a sad desperate failure. You can decide for yourself which of them I mean www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If the government really wants a reset it needs fresh ideas. That means listening to its own supporters not shutting them out and trying and control them. Crawling up to Trump and refusing to challenge Brexit aren't cutting it. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

Rather difficult to get reliable 20 year guarantees out of a President who lies casually and can change his mind within 20 minutes if he sees profit in betraying anyone. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

A brave honest genuine Russian patriot got killed by Putin who has sent a million Russians to their death or severe damage in order to feed his own ego. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Silly me I could have sworn it was the climate that was changing not the location of the train line. The BBC headline ought to be about the cost of drill baby drill politics www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Difficult to believe that a failed football club owner who got kicked out of Reform for bullying can really register 10% support in a poll. Something very dodgy here since over 99% of the public haven't even heard of him.

Finally some signs of Spring in North Yorkshire. Seen along the Leeds Liverpool canal near Farnhill

Love the shapes of this recently collapsed roof

Society needs to start controlling social media content properly. The problem is ownership by a few ultra rich people with a serious obsession with proto fascists ideas not the free exchange of ideas between reasonable people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More money for his ultra rich backers. More droughts, wildfires and hurricanes coming the way of ordinary people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yet another proto fascist speech by our former allies. The US under Trump can no longer be trusted to support British values of honesty, decency, tolerance and diversity. Time for the UK government to face up to that reality and stop cosying up to them. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Corrupt, incompetent and exposed as a deliberate and routine exploiter of vulnerable young women. Proof if ever it was needed that a privileged birth shouldn't place you anywhere near the levers of power. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A dignified and impressive woman. Betrayed by a seedy and horrible ex husband. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From decline to recovery: seagrass returns to the Humber | A Wilder Humber project trial demonstates the possibility for large-scale recovery of the estuary’s vital seagrass meadows | Andy Jayes

High Court: proscription of #PalestineAction was unlawful. Greens voted against proscription, so we welcome this. Govt must now immediately end its authoritarian attacks on peaceful protest, and fully address its complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

jim ratcliffe is the keir starmer of football both promised change and clearly both have under-delivered on those promises both have used grotesque language to describe people who have decided to settle and make their lives here

Wrecking the planet by burning energy to create utterly useless bitcoins or enabling Elon Musk to send out pictures of women undressed without any agreement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You get what you vote for.....

In other news civilisation as we know it is almost screwed. But, hey, there's loads of money to be made for any ultra rich man who can get his hands on fossil fuels or build a data centre to uselessly "mine" for bit coin. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The mistake Starmer made was not failing to vet Mandelson but fan worshipping a man who had been endlessly exposed as corrupt and untrustworthy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A bankruptcy tip for Sarah Ferguson. Stop living a drippingly rich and privileged lifestyle that you haven't earned. And stop asking horrible men to fund your over spending. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wetter winters and frequent flooding aren't just here to stay. They are certain to get worse for another 30 years because we are still increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. It is called science. Drill baby drill means drown baby drown. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.

Let me rephrase. Emigrant to Monaco speaks out against migration. Utterly hypocritical.

Ash Sarkar, "Jim Ratcliffe is a stinking hypocrite" "He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"

“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston “Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski

Forever chemicals need banning quickly. Before they do even more long term damage that can't be reversed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Latest economic data seems to suggest that Trump is Making America Broke Again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is very correct www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why are customers paying to clean up the water industry? Yorkshire Water Bills Rise Again as Customers Pay for Upgrades climatewithbrian.com/2026/02/09/y...

Sexual abuse is often imagined as hidden and marginal, yet wealth and power quietly enables harm to continue, unseen and unchallenged | Margo

Better the devil you know isn't always true. The sucking up to Trump was his own political choice, as was excluding genuine talent who might argue with him like Emily Thornbury. He is leading the country in the wrong direction and that is why he needs to go. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The prime minister must answer to survivors Government has failed to provide an unambiguous answer to a request for a statutory public inquiry into Harrods and Mohamed Al Fayed Shanta Sundarason yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

This is what politics should feel like: thoughtful, honest and shaking things up. Hannah Spencer is going to be a brilliant MP for Gorton & Denton. It's time to stop Reform in their tracks: Watch online this Wednesday.

For weeks we've been told the Portugese election was close and the far right were very strong. What actually happened is the Socialist won 66% of the votes and thrashed the far right. www.reuters.com/world/portug...

For all its flaws the UN is a huge force for good. So Trump wants to replace it with a club of compliant oligarchs and ugly dictators www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The chaos from a changing climate is only just beginning. Their plan is another 30 years of this getting worse. They aren't even sticking to their plan. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

If McSweeney was such a genius how come Labour's vote went down at the last election despite taking on an obviously finished opponent? He ruthlessly excluded talented people who disagreed and was brought down because there was no one to point out obvious mistakes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

No One Above: why we speak, why we build, why we won’t stop Survivors of Harrods abuse advocate to educate, overcome self-blame, protect future generations and ensure power is held to account Shanta Sundarason yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/no-o...

Britain's security services have wised up to the risks from climate change to food security. When will the British government? My latest article for the Yorkshire Post www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

“To us he’s just Mandy” “To us he was just Jeffrey” “To us he’s just Trump” “To us he’s just Andrew” And the victims? “To us they are just immaterial” There should be no ‘just’ only justice.

Deliberately cutting Britain off from easy access to our biggest export market. Who could possibly have predicted that would go badly wrong? Reverse Brexit before it is too late. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The water companies couldn't operate businesses with utterly predictable numbers of customers without getting greedy and overloading them with debt to pay excessive salaries and dividends. They are still trying to cheat to pay themselves too much. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Big polluters, climate deniers, and oil and gas interests have donated millions to Reform. Why? Because they trust them. But we don't. The Green Party is taking on Reform and their corporate backers - because we know whose interests they serve. Are you with us?

Starmer's statement that "To us, he's just Mandy" as he appointed him US ambassador was a staggeringly bad judgement about a man sacked twice before for corruption. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy! Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence. Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.

Many more people who can afford it are buying organic. The challenge is to make good quality food produced sustainably affordable for everyone. That can't be done without controlling supermarket buying practices or proper government subsidies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What an utterly shitty human being Donald Trump has become. And one surrounded by some even worse people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It is bad enough that student loans are so huge but forcing people to pay 3% above inflation on the interest rate is downright wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...