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The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

Of course Mums and Dads will have to lead by example now and not aggravate their teens by endlessly scrolling FB in front of them lol.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf 2/

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A bakery owner has raised concerns after a path once filled with wildflowers was left blackened by glyphosate spraying, which the local council has denied was carried out by them

NIGEL FARAGE - AN APOLOGY. thecritic.co.uk/once...

Radio 2 is so weird. Their best presenters are dead or departed. They just played Any Old Iron, a song I never hoped to hear again and their own presenters are doing their knock-off quiz 😳 Ok, i know I don’t have to listen to it.

Little Tree (Chestnut Tree at Lake Constance), 1912 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25255

How did we get here 😡

Hey, pushy doorstep guy, if you take an unsolicited aerial photo of my house and I don’t want to buy it, that is my choice.

Orchids at Powis Castle

I’m scared about what’s happening in Britain. I grew up in Northern Ireland during the conflict. I reported on the The Troubles. I know what terror looks like. Britain is on the same path. We must retain our morality and step back from the brink before it’s too late In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

M&S have sent me an offer for “Under Armour.” In vain have I searched their site for a dainty chain mail camisole or a designer chastity belt.

Current and ex-union leaders continue to speak out against the anti-worker, pro-bosses policies of Reform UK - lower minimum wage, but cuts to tax for superrich - removing protections for zero contract workers - discrimination allowed against women & disabled meme via Tony Howden

I genuinely, honestly, don’t understand how it’s possible to ban/jail peaceful protesters campaigning for justice for Palestinians, or who are anti-monarchy, yet permit far right agitators to continue spewing hatred on X, which leads to actual harm and violence on our streets. How? Why?

Castell Powis

Of course the prime minister is posting on X about how bad the riot organised on X is. Fucking of course he is. An expression of complete subservience to the men in Silicon Valley and the White House who have instigated this moment.

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

“In effort to fend off Reform” As a reason for public policy, this has to be the absolute worst. How much damage will politicians do to compete with Farage? Brexit, immigration, scrapping NetZero..the ECHR..the Equality Act… Stupid reasons to do stupid things. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Let’s all go back in time to a place where women, people with disabilities, people who are gay and ethnic minorities had fewer rights and faced discrimination. Bananas. Badenoch has lost the plot.

Hmm Italians, toilets marked SIGNORE and SIGNORI are not so helpful to the non-Italian speaker.

My partner had just reversed down a long narrow lane for one driver, when a bearded misogynist git in a jeep tried to make her do it again, with cries of “don’t you know how to reverse, darling?” 😡

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Look at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe | Lea Ypi

I gave up plastic straws and took on 3 extra bins whilst some motherfucker with more money than sex created a nightmare machine that burns money & water. Explain to me again about how economics works for us all?

Important. Please share. The govt is doing a review of access to face-to-face banking. For many elderly and vulnerable people in person banking is crucial and we need to protect it. The review wants your view, you can feed in here... www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/accesstoba...

As I have always maintained. The most damaging costs of Brexit are not economic.

Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thousands of Albanians again took to the streets of Tirana protesting against a development planned by a company linked with Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast.

We’re told wind turbines and solar farms are “ruining the view.” But massive data centers consuming land, water, and electricity get a pass. Somehow only one version of “progress” is treated like a problem. Make it make sense.

We stand with Albania! 🇦🇱 #SheShed

'Go home!' Ivanka Trump inundated with backlash over dubious private island scheme www.rawstory.com/ivanka-priva...

"Global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, more than all but 10 countries of the world...That electricity use produced about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide, about the same amount as Argentina, and producing that much energy consumed about 1.2 trillion gallons of water."

Albanians on Tuesday night protesting against ‌a 2 billion dollar resort, and yacht club planned by Jared Kushner on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic apnews.com/article/alba...

Data centres - creating drought, storms, fires, floods - near you ... "Ireland has ~140 data centres which consumes ~20% of its electricity. The UK now has over 500, growing exponentially consuming huge amounts of energy and water ... Why is there no debate around these things? " via Gordon Liddle

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Yesterday I witnessed something extraordinary: the author Sarah Wynn-Williams sitting silent on a stage at @hayfestival.bsky.social. And she got a standing ovation. I hope the attempt to censor her backfires magnificently. I have just ordered her book. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Just sat through an afternoon of partner and neighbour setting up new TV and want nothing more than a crossword, a 19th century novel and an analogue life.

There are government ministers and thousands of civil servants at the Home Office and apparently not one of them can see the cruelty and Kafkaesque nature of these outrageous decisions or do anything to put a stop to them. Utterly, utterly useless. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Motions concerning crime, children’s wellbeing, pensions, Northern Ireland, the King’s Speech, and even immigration have all been skipped by the Clacton MP.

#poetry #Lebanon #tyre #war #invasion

Israel's escalating military campaign in southern Lebanon has already killed thousands of people and forced more than a million from their homes. This utter disregard for civilian lives is inexcusable. We saw these patterns in Gaza - it cannot happen again in Lebanon.

Brutal and emboldened: how Nigeria’s bandit crisis spun out of control

When he was an MEP, Farage excused his absences on basis that it was an illegitimate government and that sovereignty should reside in Westminster. He's now an MP in Westminster And he's been absent for 77 Parliament votes in a row. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...

EU not US. Investment not Austerity. Inclusion not division. People not profit. Open hearts not clenched fists.