I somehow thought I would never read that question in any newspaper. Thank you, @financialtimes.com. See: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “America is becoming a petrostate”

Farage wants to frack Britain - like Liz Truss did - and his acolytes are cosying up to the fracking companies: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Farage's fossil-fuel-financed gang of privately-educated former Tories wants to scrap the Equality Act, halt action on the climate crisis and frack the UK. A vote for Farage is a vote for Trumpist politics in the UK: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Ok UK media - oh so scandalised by Mandelson - when are you going to be scandalised by US interference in our democracy? Epstein, Farage, Bannon, Vance, Thiel, Musk, Trump, Brexit, Heritage Foundation, the funding of far right populism to collapse our govts….?? After you’ve helped their collapse?

Email the General Synod members representing the diocese you live in to add their name in support of the motion! actionnetwork.org/letters/help... 2/2

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Climate change = Record sea temperatures = common octopus (usually rare) now common around SW england = crab and lobster catches down 50% = fisheries out of business/switching to horrific practice of octopus fishing (octo = v.clever bugger) = average human-made disaster provoked by capitalism

Gwithian Sands and Rainbow. Composite of several images, all taken with a Nikon Z7 + Pentax Takumar 50mm vintage prime lens.

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gwithian Sands and Rainbow. Composite of several images, all taken with a Nikon Z7 + Pentax Takumar 50mm vintage prime lens.

Gwithian, last weekend. Some more experimenting with a mirrorless camera and vintage lens combination. The tones with this lens in the winter light are incredible. Nikon Z7 + Asahi Pentax Super Takumar 50mm prime lens @ F8

Gwithian, last weekend. Some more experimenting with a mirrorless camera and vintage lens combination. The tones with this lens in the winter light are incredible. Nikon Z7 + Asahi Pentax Super Takumar 50mm prime lens @ F8

First round of shots from my Nikon Z7 + Asahi Pentax Super Takumar 50mm prime lens. Loving the sharpness and rich colours, and textures. These are from a walk around Loe Pool recently. Loe Pool is a unique place: Cornwall's largest freshwater lake, with the shingle bar separating it from the sea.

I've been meaning to share more photography here and have a new year's resolution to take more and share more, so here goes! Here's a shot of the aurora borealis and a star-filled sky over our little house in West Cornwall this week. Taken with a Nikon Z7 and 16mm lens. #photography

"These horrific murders may seem like ancient history. But they are at the centre of astonishing legal claims against [the Daily Mail], which is currently bidding to increase its hold on the British media by buying the Telegraph group." @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/a...

For years, experts have warned that nature loss would become a security threat. Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder. Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?

This should be posted under every post Farage sends and quoted at him in every interview he gives - forever.

I was at PSV in the CL in '97. Peak Dalglish: J.Barnes and JDT in a feckless attack. Zero entertainment. 0-2 loss. Miserable evening. Main memory is of the Dutch fans filing St James' with a rendition of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life for the last 10 mins. Hope for better tonight. #NUFC

@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best

The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it. All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow. WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.

Future generations are being handed an extinction-level event by billionaire media owners. They'll be remembered as some of the worst humans in history if anyone is still around to care.

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It – Byline Times

UK residents can use this template letter from @pscupdates.bsky.social to write to David Lammy: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/LammyHungerS...

Rob Reiner was the best of us, and the other guy is the worst of us. Try to be more Rob and less the other. 💙

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

I've signed. Have you? Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Dartmoor is dying - it's time to bring it back to life. Today the Dartmoor Nature Alliance publish a new call to action to restore Dartmoor's habitats: rewet peat bogs, revive heaths by reducing grazing, double temperate rainforest area Read it & join here: www.dartmoornature.org.uk/call-to-action

'Our oceans and forests are deeply connected...' This looks like an amazing new project - No Trees, No Seas - which aims to restore coastal & riparian woodland to cool rivers, boost salmon numbers & restore missing ecosystems notreesnoseas.com Film trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2F2...

Beautiful. 👌

As the PM heads to the Amazon for COP30, remember that Britain is also a rainforest nation. UK Ministers must support Brazil's plans to save the world's tropical rainforests. They must also set a goal to restore Britain's own lost temperate rainforests: lostrainforestsofbritain.org/2025/11/05/a...

Farage is flagging. He’s losing councillors and by-elections, and his polling’s plateaued. But we all need to fight him harder. A month ago I wrote this blog about 10 things you can do to help defeat Farage - keep doing them, it’s working! - bsky.app/profile/guys...

Autumn begins to distract me from the lament of summer's passing at last.

If a Labour leader had been accepting bribes from Russia, it would been on the front pages of every paper for weeks (and quite rightly so). And yet apparently the BBC won't let us talk about Nathan Gill and Reform. It should be headline news everywhere.

You'd think living in West Cornwall and about as far away from Newcastle in England as possible I wouldn't encounter many toon fans. Think again. Check out Bado's Barbershop in downtown Redruth! #nufc

The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been convicted of taking bribes from Oleg Voloshyn to promote the interests of Putin - the leader Farage said he most admires. Here’s Farage with Voloshyn’s wife. If Gill had been a close associate of Jeremy Corbyn this might be bigger news.

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Wonder if Starmer will find room in his speech to acknowledge the objective fact a century of escalating climate impacts means global migration will massively increase. We either find a way to effectively and humanely manage that fact, rather than deny it, or things will get very dark very quickly.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Angry? Get active and start holding these charlatans to account. Brilliant blog by Guy here. Read, act, share widely. 👇👇👇

And *another* Reform-led council in North Northamptonshire ditches its 2030 net zero target, delaying it by twenty years. Bye-bye green investment. Hello to a vision of what Farage would be like in power bylinetimes.com/2025/09/11/r...

Here's the BBC saying that political discourse should be viewed through the lens of Reform, as they're 'making the political weather.' I'm calling BULLSHIT. It's an editorial decision by the BBC to put Reform's harmful rhetoric front and centre for clickbait.

American billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, founder of Blackstone & owner of the 2,500-acre Conholt Park shooting estate in Wiltshire, has been tankering in huge quantities of water from drought-struck Hampshire to fill up his lake (legally, but outrageously): www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Repellent climate denial from the Reform-led Kent Council, who have tabled a motion to ‘rescind the climate emergency’, in a document that is bollocks from start to end. You can’t rescind atmospheric physics. But Farage would rescind the Climate Change Act. democracy.kent.gov.uk/documents/s1...

Good campaign from the Lib Dems here. Farage should not be getting the air time he does, it's disproportionate and dangerous. I've made a separate complaint to the BBC which will elevate to Ofcom. I encourage others to join in and give them hell.