English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books. Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich. Social vandalism.

Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ECHR protects us all, we must protect it youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...

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making sense

Words like "idea" or "plan" or "strategy" are not suitable to describe trump's unthinking uncomprehending bullshit. Just refer to it as bullshit and be done with it

Rankle #301 1/4 “Pardon my French” 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 www.rankle.app 🥳🥳

Please share this far and wide. Their voices must be heard

Back in 1997 there were just 11 booming male Bitterns left in the UK – almost extinct. Thanks to conservation by @rspb.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social 283 booming males were recorded in 2024. Les Cater shares his story and stunning photos of these rare birds ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

The Brexit wrecking ball people are the BBC wrecking ball people for the same reasons. It Is interminably depressing.

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We don't know how lucky we are to have the BBC - what a jewel it is

"a litigious fellow" Samir Shah on Trump I love the polite understatement

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job. To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him. The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.

There is going to be WAY more to this www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Right wing propaganda machine 🤔 Left wing propaganda machine 🤔 It's a conundrum

Oh, go on then Cheers!

Christmas cake in the oven! 🌰🌲 An old recipe from 2005, courtesy of the fabulous @nigelslater.bsky.social

This account just followed then immediately unfollowed me. I just caught it in my notifications 🤔

People DO realise it's no longer November 5th, right? Stop with your bloody fireworks FFS

Fake acct klaxon

Bloody brilliant TV #TheTraitors

This account - AddySpectre - is obsessed. They have held onto and remembered a post I made FIVE MONTHS ago, that was nothing whatsoever to do with them, and apparently DISCUSSED IT AT LUNCH (no apologies for the caps) this week with a "clinical psychologist". It is deranged behaviour.

🚨If you are one of nearly 14 million adults unable to access NHS dentistry in England sign this URGENT call for action to the Government, NOW you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

A busy (and very green!) morning for our Green Team & DofE volunteers! Thanks to the Edwards family for donating six trees 🌱 — Richard planted them, Bill sharpened tools, Oscar’s team cleared the gate area, and the other Oscar oiled benches. Great teamwork all round! 💚 #WeDigCanals #Lichfield

It’s possible to live a normal, happy life in America, and it produces many brilliant, enlightened, warm, generous people. But, on some issues it remains a deeply alien, troubling, almost medieval place eg death penalty, gun rights, bigotry, religious extremism. The best and worst of mankind.

Big tailbacks on M5. Air ambulance has just taken off. Someone is having a bad day ☹️ So a shout out to the various dickheads whizzing up the hard shoulder. We're all in the same situation, fellas, and you're gonna block the emergency vehicles. Just chill tf out

As a teen or young adult in the 1990s you had constant encounters with people in their 50s-80s who were combatants, victims or perpetrators during catastrophes of the mid-20th century That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone

I think there were people who thought he'd be homeless and begging Yes, he's humiliated (maybe). No, he's not materially affected nor held actually fucking accountable www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files” (BBC News). #Andrew #Epstein #Melania #Musk #Trump

Righto. Ultimately it tho, it sounds good, but his title is just a public symbol and losing it results in precisely fuck all difference in terms of the real power and influence that's dispensed by and concentrated within this weird, dysfunctional family. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I heard there was a statue tall That sneered at folk and commanded all But you don't really care for symbols do ya It goes like this the feet the fist The head that fell the aim that missed The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias Ozymandias Ozymandias Ozymandias Ozymaaaaandias

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

If anyone wants it, ITV’s complaints form is here: itvsupport.freshdesk.com/support/home

Fungus hiding in plain sight

I'm playing Paris tonight & tomorrow night. I think there are a few tickets left, maybe... It would be nice to be sold out both nights. It's a beautiful theatre. Very exciting. Ticket links, etc, at my website lloydcole dotcom / LIVE

Time to educate myself. Looking forward to this one!

"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'

Yesterday, our brilliant Green and Grounds team — four adults and twelve Duke of Edinburgh volunteers — returned to the Fosseway Lane end of Fosseway Heath Nature Park. Several benches were sanded ready for oiling (until a touch of rain tried to stop play!)... #WeDigCanals #Lichfield 1/2

Fuck me. People now actually think the AI Rachey catfish speaks in relaxed RP even though not 12 months ago she was posting voice notes and book readings in a (bad) Mancunian accent...also AI generated My periodic reminder that these accts (Addy, magnolia/Amanda, Debbie etc are not real)

I'm not going to mind waking up to this view for the next few days

💪This is Lev Uliesov. This incredible young man was a world-class model. Now he is on the frontlines, serving as a combat medic and saving the lives of his Brothers-in-arms.

Too much credit for Reform in the headline. Makes it sound like factionalism, farce and chaos is happening *to* them, rather than actually caused *by* them www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Even if you’re already against the death penalty — even if you’re already a prison abolitionist, please read this. It is devastating. No society worth redemption engages in state-sanctioned torture and murder.

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