That’s the way to do it.

Now tell me that opera is expensive and elitist.

The Effects of Cheese Making and Dairy Produce on the Status of Women in Farming in the 19th c

Let’s be clear. What Farage has done is immoral and almost certainly illegal. He’s taken 5 million. It’s a huge sum of money. He didn’t declare it. 5 million buys a LOT.

“We can disagree and still be friends.” Yeah, about whether pineapple belongs on pizza. Not racism and homophobia.

Every year I re read this and it’s essential to have it clear in your head

This. Also: if you’re cis? Prefer not to say.

So what do cis allies do? I write, I argue, and I’m naturally outspoken, so that, obviously. But is there any practical action I can take? (MP is gender critical and yes I’ve written).

Recalls the old gag: "What's England's second city?" Manc: "Manchester". Brummie: "Birmingham". Geordie: "Newcastle". Scouser: "London".

Can we all take another deep breath and remember that the Odyssey isn’t history? It’s myth. Helen of Troy looks stunningly beautiful. That’s it. End of.

Meanwhile in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⬇️ Under 22’s and over 60’s (SIXTIES) already have free bus travel in Scotland. Three areas in Scotland currently have a trial £2 limit on ANY bus journey. The SNP Scottish Government proposes to extend it nationwide. No peak rail fares, on publicly owned ScotRail and ⬇️

Corruption is the guiding principle of the administration and has been from day 1. What is happening now is nothing new, it’s par for the course. It is what the USA is now. Face it squarely.

There are a lot of people feeling cheated and aggrieved. This is partly because they haven’t the courage/education/mental flexibility to seize the opportunities they still have, partly because they are told outright but attractive lies. Shut down the lies, educate and empower. Tough but possible.

I suspect that carping about rose species may be peak 🦋but, the ‘small white rose of Scotland is presumably the Burnett or Scotch rose, either single or double. Though the Old Yellow Scotch is the rose also clearly identified as Scottish.

Given the new Nigel Farage/Boris Johnson revelations/accusations and the gravity of them, what does it say about the pathetic reporting of UK media organisations that I've seen nothing about it on any major news network? The media are all complicit in this whitewashing of Farage and Johnson.

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

I don’t like Starmer or his government. I really detest Streeting. Just NO.

I spend a lot of time in the diaries of people who knew any illness could lead to their lives falling apart in moments. No easy cure, no ability to work, probably a pay packet or a few sales or a harvest from disaster. And by the Victorian period medicine was only starting to have any impact.

Wonder if we should offer to let John Swinney double up at Westminster for a few months to bring England/UK some stability instead of chaos with Keir Starmer?

Now that Europe has forced standardised phone chargers on reluctant manufacturers, could they please tackle power tool charging? I don’t want to have to buy a new charger and batteries for a tool DeWALT doesn’t make.

Exclusive footage of Wes Streeting backing the Prime Minister this morning.

The absolute fucking STATE of this headline on the Welsh section of the Beeb's coverage. Plaid Cymru on track to win in Wales and DON'T EVEN WARRANT A MENTION in the headline which gives up on the entire country halfway through and starts blowing Farage in England.

Well that’s us done our duty. #DogsAtPollingStations #Greyhound

You want to pray for five things? 1 Pray you can find a way to help someone who is hungry. 2 Pray you can find a way to help someone who is a stranger to your community 3 Pray you can find a way to help someone who is short of decent clothes for themselves or their families.

Don’t criticise leaders for their face, race, weight, or even their incontinence. Go for speeches, decisions, actions, polices. That’s what they are there for.

I’d have no problem because I have a small farm. Joke. Three farmers discuss winning a billion. Tam ‘I’d sell up and cruise the world in my yacht!’ Wullie ‘I’d buy a huge castle wi’ a spa!’ Jock ‘Och I’d just keep on as I am now till it wus all gone.’

Shit, I didn’t know she was this fierce about it.

How civilised a society is, is shown by two things. The first is how it treats its weakest people. The second is by how it treats those it most abhors.

Where do I sign, @zackpolanski.bsky.social?

I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.

proof that nature truly abhors them

Behold the famed Judeo-Christian culture in action.

‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale on safety, LGBTQ rights and the future of Stonewall Dugdale feels nervous holding her wife’s hand. I feel more nervous in the Ladies. I’m reasonably easily mis gendered which only worries me if it leads to an attack. Trans rights make us all safe.

Of the latest AI Trump images with odd demons in the sky …

Following Trump’s example of how to return traffic to the Strait of Hormuz, I’m going to unclog my kitchen drain by stuffing it with chewing gum and anything I find in my hairbrushes.

"In 1958, Mao ordered every village in China to produce steel... The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Thirty million people starved. In 2026, every other company is having top down mandate on AI transformation. Same energy." leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

I feel compelled to go on the record and say this: Genocide is always evil. To threaten to eradicate a civilization in the name of Jesus Christ is blasphemous and morally repulsive. Genocide must be rejected in the strongest terms by all who follow Jesus. #ThingsINeverThoughtIWouldHaveToClarify

Interesting the difference that FPTP creates, innit?

Reform are a dangerous far-right movement, and they are also a collection of the pettiest, most joyless people on the planet, and that is not a coincidence.

For what it is worth, I definitely read Catullus too young …

TL: DR Gender Crits began bad got truly vile and petty. Poor GGs. Marlow’s Dr Faustus is unfinished. If the current play reflects his original intentions it shows Faustus moving from ambitions at least big (‘the most beautiful woman ever’) down, as the play progresses, to playing cheap tricks.

Rebec had her first kids today. First kids on the holding this year. With little fat and very fine coats they are vulnerable to the sudden plunge of temperatures we have had. There is snow lying in patches outside, hence the heated box to warm up. They are dam reared. Clarsach (f) and Chanter (m).

In a move designed to greatly increase the range of colour and texture for producing rugs, I’ve crossbred some gimmers, and the odd yow with my new Icelandic tup. It’s resulted in a megaton of cute.

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1 my collie sitting next to me 2 fairy lights all year round 3 vets and modern veterinary medicine

It’s these caterwauling idiots who slowed our move to clean, renewable energy leaving us economically exposed and the plaything of tyrants like Putin exploiting oil & gas markets. They are the enemies of Britain masquerading as patriots. They’ve destroyed this country and will bury it eventually

And I pray to God that at the end, ‘those who shaped this evil will be forced, confused and terrified, to kneel and pray.’

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

Well, the plumber fixed the drip