It's her own fault, I have zero sympathy for Michelle Mone, but she's in the headlines now because she's always chased the headlines. However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption. Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory 1/2

I don't want to build Starmer's Britain: afraid, capital-obsessed and centralised. I want to grow our movement: bold, people-orientated and localised. Join.greenparty.org.uk

A little bit of good news from Hawaiʻi.

I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

What's that? Another Green byelection win in London! That's the 4th in the last 10 months! Overjoyed to welcome Tamasin Rhymes as the newest Green Councillor. Thank you to everyone who voted Green!

We have 3 years before we burn through the carbon budget for 1.5°C World leaders promised action in 2015. Since then: 🔥 Record fossil fuel use 🌲 More deforestation 📈 Rising emissions This isn’t a lack of solutions. It’s a lack of will. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you have solar PV and a battery but still use gas for heating then this is the elephant in the room. Gas fired CH is likely still your household’s largest contribution to carbon emissions. Plot 1. Our 2024 actual. Plot 2. Prediction based on our new Aira #AirSourceHeatPump.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK. With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK." 🤬

One year ago tonight, the night sky wow'd much of the planet with dancing colors in what was one of the best aurora displays of the last two decades. This was the scene all the way down on the freakin' Oklahoma/Texas border that night! Even had overhead pillars. Let's do that again soon, yeah?

I may be one of the only 44-year-olds in the country with a father who served in the Second World War. Wrote this a couple of years ago on how he and his generation sacrificed not just their lives, but their youth. www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

Now we know where Sir Keir Starmer's carbon capture plan came from, via dodgy dossier provided by Saudi oil lobbyist, Sir Tony Blair? euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...

Spring has sprung!

Hard to believe it’s mid April in the UK and 23 Celsius in the sun. Pictures from an idyllic walk through the countryside near #comptonVerney and #combroke Warwickshire UK earlier today

This is what passes for a perfect solar generation curve on our UK Midlands south facing 3.15 kWp solar PV array. We usually see the earliest +20 kWh day at the start of May, but was on the 6th April & is the earliest we’ve seen in 14 years We’ve had getting on for 2 weeks of sunny days now.

“So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane.”

I’ve just started my latest 1:48 scale aircraft modelling project. Somewhat back to front reading of the kit destructions means I’ve started with these. What do you think the aircraft is?

Hang on, that full transcript seems to indicate they deliberately targeted civilians? Isn't that a war crime?

A recent #plasticmodelling build. RAF Red Arrows Bae Hawk T Mk1 based on the Trumpeter 1:48 scale kit. Not a bad kit, but the incorrect wing fences need sorting out and the pre WW2 era RAF roundel decals supplied by Trumpeter had to be replaced.

Approaching 70,000 views in around 48 hours...... Is Donald Trump a Russian agent? Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump? @anthonybylines.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

When the orange wannabe imperator said “Drill baby, drill” this is what he should have meant. Of course he didn’t, but huge potential and a game changing disruption for the fossil fool industry if this works. www.quaise.energy

Hi gang. My films ‘In The Loop’ and ‘The Death of Stalin’ are on #BBCFour this evening, at 9pm and 10.40pm. Do enjoy if you’re a fan of repeated threat.

Great, better very late than never, now start by cleaning up your own house… Musk has no business being admitted to this hallowed space!

You first.

If you're wondering how we got here, these are the official British "Words of the Year" during Conservative rule austerity gaslighting fake news populism post-truth misinformation xenophobia peramacrisis and omnishambles

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

My open letter and FRS resignations reported in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID

A vintage Airfix 1:48 scale BAC TSR-2 prototype built during COVID lockdown. The kit has some major inaccuracies which required a number of aftermarket items and some major surgery to correct in order to better represent XR219, the only prototype to fly before the project was canned in 1965.

An old codger new to Bluesky. Amongst other things, I’ll be posting on the #plasticmodels I make in retirement. My latest build? Old school Hasegawa 1:48 F-4J Phantom II in the US Bicentennial markings of VMFA-451 in 1976. Various aftermarket bits and bobs were used to pep the basic kit up a bit.