Nearly 100,000 properties in England and Wales – worth c£460bn – are owned by offshore companies. In 44% of cases, representing c£190bn of property, the real human owner (the “beneficial owner”) is hidden, despite the law requiring disclosure #WhoOwnsTheUK taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/01/29/w...

I picked up my specs and can see! optician warned because these don't address the neuro issues I DON'T try 8 hr reading stints but start with half an hour (which is probably all my mind can cope with) . I'm going to become a two titles at a time reader !

* Mention that X has been banned in multiple countries over this * Ask whether your emotional or legal risks from exposure to this kind of material will be covered * Confirm that they know Musk restores the accounts of, retweets & PAYS those suspended for CSAM violations www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/i...

So at the current pace of ticket sales, Amazon MGM should break even on that “Melania” movie right after the Trump DOJ releases the Epstein files as required by law.

Starmer has a massive majority. Why isn’t this govt using this majority to limit donations - particularly donations from those based overseas? Farage is laughing, he knows that the very wealthy will shower him/Reform with money and there’s nothing to stop them. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am a simple creature and my local greengrocer stand just made me REALLY happy. We cannot usually get these here.

Phaia being Phaia

Finally I feel well enough to maintain a fire so the wood burner is lit and hopefully we'll stop breathing like dragons soon!

feeling frustrated because the world is on fire, and there’s nothing you can do about it? good news! you can now give money to Mira to buy drone dectectors, which will make the worst people mad, and as well all know, upsetting assholes is the purest, most impactful form of activism ever devised

It's a very good App. Works in all countries not just Denmark. If you have an Android phone you can use their web version. udenusa.dk

Goxua and I snuggled under a blanket listening to Mr JOB.

I'm genuinely scared with the Iran / USA situation. Not so much for myself but because I believe both regimes are nuts enough to go nuclear. The loss to the world of all the innocent people and even more- the natural environment, would be horrific even if relatively contained.

SCHOOLS! Here are fifteen books. I'm giving them away. If you're a UK school and would like them, let me know. I'll pick one of you this evening. You can share it too, if you like. Ta.

God I hope this get reposted many times of fb

One of my fondest wishes for today was to get more likes than tickets sold in the UK for the Melania movie. So thank you, thank you to all six of you that helped to grant me that wish.

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Beautiful colors in the sky in Minnesota #Photography #Photographer #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Nature #Minnesota

The Dogtor and I just got sworn at in a supermarket'get it the fuck away from me' . I am guessing he was just very scared ( but he walked into us!) .. The Dogtor stayed totally relaxed, but with utter comedic timing, slowly licked her lips.

The cats usually get the projector in the early Evening . Goxua runs off ahead every afternoon to get the best seat - and stares at the blank wall for a bit in

Trump is loathed in Britain, yet Reform are ahead in the polls. There can be no clearer proof of a radical disconnect in the knowledge & understanding of the public. Not to be reductive but, above all else, this is the media's doing. People in the UK need to be made to see that Reform is MAGA-UK.

A double rainbow over the farmyard this afternoon!

This little paperback was $.35 in 1957. In today’s money that would be about $3.85. We no longer price books that inexpensively because we can’t count on enough people buying it.

If leasehold over homes is coming to an end can the same be applied please to leasehold of ebooks and audiobooks?

I am the same size as the Bedlington'

Both the kittens on the high beam in the kitchen.

Omg - it's stopped raining . Birdy and Hurdygurdy came to tell us and Ma'amoul insisted on going out to see them .

This is one of the reasons we should be *very* wary of things like digital ID, extended facial recognition and AI policing. These are tools we should not put in the hands of fascists.

As I sadly often do, I am hugging a bucket in the early hours of the morning. My husband does something incredibly kind- he doesn't just clean up when I have vomited but he gives the bucket a rinse in something that smells good. So for the few moments before I am sick there is something nice

I think what I resent the most about all this, is that after years of not trying to hate folks despite my beginnings... I feel hate slipping into me and I resent that the most.

Husband brought me home a sandwich - it had rocket in it - Goxua was pulling arugula out of my mouth in a lady and the tramp moment. She is a fiend for trying to get my food but pulling a leaf out of my mouth was amazing .

France will ban public officials from using American platforms including Google Meet, Zoom and Teams for videoconferencing, according to a spokesperson.

No #terriertuesday pic from us today as I am 'blah' but I have loved seeing all the pictures ♥️

The Dogtor took good care of me last night . But it was rough. The storm raging made also it less bad somehow - even though we lost one of the original glass panes in a Georgian window.

Many wheelchair users are ambulatory users. Meaning they can stand up, even walk around. They use the chair as a mobility aid, to be able to get around, get further, to preserve energy, manage conditions, prevent risks, manage pain, and lots more. They are not “faking it”

Same in the UK, probably getting worse with the disappearance of ‘intellectual’ Tories & Reform’s glorification of pig ignorance. I never know how to articulate this without making the problem worse! (As demonstrated above.)

Save our Oceans and Seas

I shared this video the other day. Tonight @maddow had this lawyer on her show. People are being tortured at Trump's detention camps Including children deprived of medical care. PUTRID WATER BUGS IN FOOD Call your Senators & DEMAND they stop funding DHS! 202-224-3121 Do Not Fund ICE terrorism.

Saturday 6pm US embassy #London Please attend if you can, and reshare this post.

Suella Braverman says that she believes that if an MP changes party there should be a by election But then explains why after she's changed party there shouldn't be a by election in her constituency

We had this tonight - and for any one else with few spoons it's excellent - low prep time, and easy prep at that . I can see us having it a lot. ( we had steamed broccoli too because I love broccoli and would eat it every day)

Here's an explanation from a UK privacy org about how the Trump administration is trying to collect people's social media and DNA before they can enter the country if they're from 42 listed countries. It's super alarming! www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...

Just opened here www.jumblebee.co.uk/schnauzerfes...

I am misophonic. If you need to do something that impacts me but saves your life / someone else's I am so VERY cool with that ( even if I grimace in the moment) . Similarly we have people who object to working dogs because of genuine reasons - but they don't supersede my need.

There are people trying to stop others from using whistles, and next they'll say it's ableism. As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot. Block/mute this argument, it's an op.

I feel it's relevant that I can tell the cats apart by feeling their coats in the night - all feel so different.

This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.

Can’t help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

Poor Luna pony had a really sore bit of gum today. She has to have a dental in three months. The ponies see the dentist WAY more than we do.

So - I am having one of those days where if I move I heave my guts out. I've had to leave the vet to the pony dentals and I am lying on the sofa despising myself . Vomiting is one of the lesser discomforts I suffer but it's pretty hard to be around other people when it happens .