America's pollution of the rest of the world's sport continues. This is NOT the superbowl, USA. We don't need additional 'entertainment' at half time. Nor do we need advertising breaks in the middle of each half. Our attention span is long enough to cope... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Good Day, America. It's a little over a day since I wondered, on here, if #Trump was going to chicken out again and change what he likes to call his mind. He did. Your leader is, at best, an international joke... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've gained a few American followers lately. Hello, great to meet you! Someone wondered if I have a Yorkshire accent. Yes, I do... This lady comes from near to me, and has a similar accent - but an infinitely better voice! The wonderful Kate Rusby, with a Bob Marley song ❤️ youtu.be/OK5yDl0BonA?...

£10billion found to have been wasted on PPE but… ‘Barones Hallet said there was "no evidence of cronyism or corruption" by ministers or other officials when awarding the final contracts.’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah… OK. 👀

Think Andy Burnham will be a new broom, cleaning out Labour's stable? Think again. They're still playing Reform's fiddle and dancing to Farage's tune. It's time for some new music... @greenparty.org.uk 👍

Here we go... In shock news, Gianni Infantino extracts his head from Trump's arse just long enough to go and crawl to Qatar's ultra wealthy rulers instead... He is an exceedingly dodgy character, and FIFA is unfit for purpose. Football needs to rid itself of both! 🤮 share.google/qVqqXBkLBbIw...

A lot of @greenparty.org.uk policy is radical, imaginative and different. That's what I like about it! But this isn't. It's merely positive, and bloody obvious! It helps communities, AND saves a huge wodge of public - i.e. your - money! Surely this is the no-brainer to end them all! 👍

With 2.5 weeks still to campaign - and the momentum with us - Greater Manchester is really winnable for the Green Party. 🚀 Labour can't get volunteers out on the ground like the Green Party can. This is our moment! 🙌🏽 Join us by signing up below. 👇🏼

So there we have it... Not merely big money. The biggest of money. Crypto-wealth genuinely beyond normal people's powers of imagination. Contrast Farage's buddies' money with the *maximum* @greenparty.org.uk membership fee of £5 per month! I know which side I'm on 👍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Start a war, and then set up a protection racket... The Mafia would be proud of #Trump and his extortion tactics. Or is he going to chicken out this time, too? 🤮 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Old photo: "Leigh Court Barn is an outstanding example of English medieval carpentry, and the largest cruck framed structure in Britain. Built for Pershore Abbey in about 1325, it is over 42 metres long with 18 cruck blades each made from a single oak tree". Text: English Heritage. Photo: me.

Fair does to Matt Chorley on Radio 5. He's making that oily creep Jenrick squirm more than the average BBC presenter would. 👍 Take note, Laura...

A reminder - any time you think Daniel Hannan is talking rubbish deliberately, as a joke, because he can't possibly be *that* stupid - he isn't, and he can! 😂

And Driver - you did get some flowers from the petrol station on the way down here, didn't you?

Anything to stick the knife into the #NHS!🤮 That headline *should* be about crooked wealthy lawyers bleeding the system! To my dying day, I will stand up for our NHS. That day is still in the future, almost certainly *due* to the NHS! share.google/KUsaV9dxWOLO...

Labour had one last card to play. That after Keir Starmer they could find themselves a progressive leader. We're speed running the crash and burn faster than anyone could have imagined. We're building the alternative of hope with a plan to replace Labour. Join.greenparty.org.uk

These deaths are on the hands of politicians who failed to act over years. Putting profit over our safety refusing to take action - now failing to protect us from its impact. We need maximum working temperatures. Insulated homes. Cooling in schools, hospitals and care homes.

I even held my nose, and checked on Musk's fascist forum... Not a chirrup from Richard Tice about "stupid net zero". Odd, that, isn't it? 🤔 share.google/AWLt7rCdFr3E...

It's important that we seek to build a fairer Britain, that works for all its citizens, not just the wealthy ones. But even more important that we *have* a habitable country to make a better place. The war on nature, on our precious landscape, must stop! Before it's too late...

Brave lady... Knowing how out of control Trump's army of thugs is! ❤️

Looking reasonable... Shifty multi-millionaire Nigel Farage's Arthur Daley-like evasiveness is slowly weakening his fan club - sorry, party. Meanwhile the Greens' steady rise under @zackpolanski.bsky.social continues! 👍 @greenparty.org.uk share.google/gBjPxcgKoGGp...

Great to see how well the new report into rent controls has landed! It saves renters money and it saves Govenrment money. And some of that money should be used on building new social housing stock, too! Win/win all around! 🙌🏽

The present Lord's cricket ground, the supposed "home of cricket", opened in 1814. Its first men's Test match was in 1884. Lord's staged its 150th men's Test in June 2026. It is currently hosting its *first* Women's Test. Only took 212 years... 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice has insisted a donor at the heart of the row comes from a "very successful aristocratic family". Unbelievably, that 'defence' is a direct quote. Because Clacton is knee deep in aristocrats, eh? 🤔 Get in the Bin, Nigel 🤣👍 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Old photo: at 330.4m the Arqiva Tower, West Yorkshire, (still generally referred to around here as 'Emley Moor Mast') is the tallest free-standing structure in the UK, and a Grade II listed building. Photograph taken less than a mile from my home.

This all sounds like mere fantasy. But people - @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social for a start - have been consistent in pointing out that the gap between the merely wealthy, and a handful of ultra rich has been growing exponentially. We need to wake up! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage is correct about one thing. It’s the people vs the establishment. Reform are literally the establishment. And it’s the Green Party on the side of the people. Wealth tax. Rent controls. Now. Join.greenparty.org.uk

"We generally wait for a court case". Actually, we don't. The crime comes first, then the court case to decide responsibilities. That's how it works... Surely, real, vile, dangerous anti-Semitism lies in conflating the crimes of the State of Israel with the everyday lives of ordinary Jewish people?

"I think Farage is honest. What reason would he have not to be?". FFS... He's a multi-millionaire, who nevertheless takes dodgy donations, from dodgier sources in huge amounts - almost certainly breaking the rules. What reason would he have to tell the truth? share.google/iJdRF6yOSbXp...

It's a long-ish watch, but worthwhile. To this Brit, it clearly shows how Bruce Springsteen is in closer touch with the heart of America than any fake-patriot fascist could ever be. Any country that produces a man like this can never lose hope that better times will come! youtu.be/jDlivJUNgYE?...

Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…

Personal Independence Payments are a lifeline for people living with disability. If reform is necessary, it MUST be carried out in consultation with those affected. May I ask, please, that you take a look at this petition, and consider signing it? I have done. the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...

My commiserations to her family, and I very much hope the killer is caught, and will face justice. But I would be a hypocrite if I regretted anything I said earlier about the woman. She was a force for ill. I regret the manner of her death, but not the fact of it. share.google/4hrRa7pxMArd...

Working people are simply a staging post on Housing Benefit's journey from the Exchequer to too many greedy landlords... Save communities' money, AND government money. Introduce rent controls, and make it cheaper to live. Surely, of all policies, this one's a no-brainer?

See below... And Ann Widdecombe claimed to be a Christian. She was the sort of religious person who made me, personally, glad I got myself free from all that. And I mean no offence to the many, many good, decent people of faith that I know, or who follow me here.

Old photo: St Cuthbert's Isle lies off the coast of Holy Island (Lindisfarne), Northumberland, and like the main island is accessible on foot at low tide. It's said that Cuthbert used a tiny cell on the island as a place of retreat and contemplation. The wooden cross marking this can just be seen...

Any chance any journalists or adjacent people can give them some advice please?

Brit version... For 'MAGA', read 'Reform'. For 'Trump', read 'Farage'. 👍

It's not just London... Imagine (arguably) the world's first industrial city with a Green Mayor. Working people made Manchester great. It's time to take it back again!

Teacher, Gwen Mayor Victoria Clydesdale Emma Crozier Melissa Currie Charlotte Dunn Kevin Hasell Ross Irvine David Kerr Mhairi McBeath Brett McKinnon Abigail McLennan Emily Morton Sophie North John Petrie Joanna Ross Hannah Scott Megan Turner Rest easy, little ones 💔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sticking two fingers up to the establishment or just Counting the candidates? Frivolous, flailing, flagging farage.

I've signed... Please consider joining me! 👍

If only the Telegraph could see that there IS an unfunny joke candidate in Clacton. But it's not Count Binface...

Bloody Robert Jenrick is sitting in for @mrjamesob.bsky.social on LBC👍 this morning. I've just had the sheer, visceral joy of switching him off, in favour of some @mrmarksteel.bsky.social podcasts. About time you woke up on here again, Mark!👍

I'm not American. I've never even holidayed there. But I know the country is suffering. As a direct result of just how foul, how narcissistic, how utterly despicable this evil man is. Hang on in there, America. The nightmare will end 🤞

Old photo: the glorious, highly decorated (and heavily restored) Gothic West Front of Wells Cathedral, Somerset. Fun question: Wells is one of two English cathedral cities without a railway station. Which is the other one?

Fair do's. Manchester has done well. It's a smart, handsome, thriving city. But Greater Manchester is so much more. Visit Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside. They're not doing so well... I believe @greenparty.org.uk and Geraldine Coggins will put all communities in the area equal first!

Donald Trump is suffering from dementia. Someone needs to step in before it's too late.

Just in case you were in any doubt that the purported leader of the West is now dangerously demented... 🤮

‘In the midst of a funding crisis, shocking amounts of public money are being taken out of our communities in the form of private profit,’ he told the conference delegates www.localgov.co.uk/Polanski-cal...