Gladys West was instrumental in developing the mathematics behind global positioning systems (GPS). However... #papermapsarecool

Walk to School Week 2026 classroom packs are now live on our shop! From 18–22 May, schools can take part in our five-day walking challenge – and this year’s theme is Mission Move 🔎. Join the fun and order your classroom packs today! https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/walktoschoolweek

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

Be more Bearded Tit...jump into the week! #MondayMotivation

Donald Trump is placing a 10% Global Tariff on all goods to the USA, which will be paid by American citizens. I remind them, you literally had a Revolution because you didn't want to pay a tax on tea.

#NowPlaying Jackson Browne, Evenin' News, Live New York 1973. Released 2025. A good find. #livemusic open.spotify.com/album/5bkWAt...

#NowPlaying Police, Regatta de Blanc, 1979. Of its time. #music open.spotify.com/album/2EpuND...

About that supposed private sector "efficiency" and "good management"? #Outsourcing #Privatisation www.building.co.uk/news/problem...

13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement. "Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."

Cost of Privatisation Royal Mail letters sit undelivered 'for weeks', parcels prioritised RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Urgent letters missed. Fines passed to customers Profiteering: Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p. When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.

Protect our NHS, don’t vote Reform #NeverVoteReform

Yesterday we were pleased to host the EU Commissioner for the Environment. You can read her speech on the importance of the circular economy here ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

On Radio 4, Angela Rayner said 'remember our values' and back Starmer So will he - reinstate his 10 leadership pledges - stop arming genocidal Israel - stop adopting Reform Ltd hate speech - rescind anti-protest laws - tax the rich, not attack disability income - end NHS privatisation I doubt it

Why Is the Media Not Touching Jeffrey Epstein’s Clear Connection to Israel? They’re instead focusing on the possibility that Epstein was a Russian asset, writes @premthakker.bsky.social. Read now: zeteo.com/p/why-is-the...

Catfish, Time to Fly 2025. #nowplaying open.spotify.com/album/53o5Ar...

#NowPlaying Superb singing and playing by Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, All The Road Running. Released 20 years ago! open.spotify.com/track/1hiP9Z...

I wrote about this small childhood possession in a series of posts about "stuff" I still own. #memories www.pannage.com/2026/02/arte...

So his “lapse of judgement” seems to be that he said: “we haven’t cut front-line services other than what the Conservatives had already planned to do” So Kent-Dodge was itself a waste of money and effort? Everyone told them that before they started

#NowListening Peter Green Splinter Group, Soho Live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Recorded 1998. open.spotify.com/album/1W5m7d...

Private train leasing companies have syphoned out £1.16 billion in dividends since 2022. The Railways Bill won't change this. MADNESS! Ask your MP to attend @weownit.org.uk's drop-in session to find out how the bill can deliver for passengers, not profiteers. weownit.org.uk/act-now/rail...

Another intelligent read on the failings of the rich and greedy and those who flatter themselves to work on their behalf.

A very worthwhile read about politics, relationships and personal weakness. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Margaret Thatcher: The pitiless PM who sold the country to get-rich predators WHO BROKE BRITAIN? She destroyed our railways, water, and housing – and we're still paying for it inews.co.uk/opinion/marg...

In Maidstone last week, Chamberlain said there “just weren’t big cuts to make, because services had already been hacked away for years and years”. #REFUK #ToryCuts

To be fair, I can't remember $75,000 arriving in my bank account either. #justsaying

This is what’s known as dodgy as fuck… Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out. www.thetimes.com/article/660a...

“What verdict will history render on those many moments of cowardice and silence from journalists who fell into line with the genocidaires? What will it mean to look in the mirror and realize that, when it mattered most, they chose career safety and complicity in genocide denial?”

Astrid: Murder in Paris has "jumped the shark" tonight. But with great humour. #More4

England: "There is no way we can mandate swift bricks in every new build because errrrr ummmm <checks notes> developers will complain?" Scotland: "Hold my beer". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pay at the top of some multi-academy trusts has spiralled out of control. £220k salaries and £50k pensions cannot be justified while classrooms are under-resourced. #EducationFirst #AcademyAccountability

Never trust Reform, they are beyond useless! #NeverVoteReform

#NowListening Genesis, Seconds Out, Live in Paris, 1977. Live #music is the real deal. open.spotify.com/album/0qikCz...

Rats in a sack fighting each other

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Chris Mason BBC Political Editor is paid circa £270,000 by licence payers. His expertise includes Promoting Farage & Reform at any opportunity ✅ Avoiding challenging Farage/Reform re policies, funding, U-Turns, lies etc ✅ Producing negative PR on Govt/other parties✅ Amplifying Right Wing rhetoric ✅

I love what Labour are doing with prison reform, and this news is fantastic... Today we hear the new role of Prison Reading Laureate has been created. Author Lee Child known for the Jack Reacher book series will be the first. It's created to show the importance of literacy skills in... 1/3

So, #Trump is described as a fat Nixon and Stephen Miller is actually being the President. Well done, #USA

🤢🤮🤮 That’s it❗️ No more BBC News app for me today, this is the second Vom inducing report today, this 1 by #ReformBoyMason bigging up a twice sacked, Tory hasbeen joining Despite their members being incensed yet another nonwhite MP joined the clan & Farage saying it isn’t a Tory MP refuge❗️😡

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

The #Trump regime has "a playbook that disregards the rule of law, the notion of accountability and the truth." It is obvious that the same goes for #Farage and #REFUK

Could someone, please, update the Tory defecation bingo card? Nearly have a line!

It's a shame Andy Burnham can't hold a dual mandate. Other jurisdictions allow it. And, after all, Fartrage is an MP and has numerous side-hustles with oligarchs and other dodgy people in business. #mayor #mp

From another place but worth sharing after #trump 's appalling comments about troops

3 hours on and the centre of #StormIngrid has hardly moved 🤔 Big waves building over the Channel & Lyme Bay; the next 2 high tides could be very damaging for S-facing coasts! Weird sights on my drive home just now: Woman being gusted sideways A dumpy bag appearing - then flying over a high fence

So ‘man of the people’ Farage’s jolly to the same Davos he said he hated only a couple of years ago was paid for by an Iranian billionaire..now a British citizen. How can anyone fall for the utter bollocks this vile man spouts. Three hypocrisy’s for the price of one here!