Good piece of analysis, fantastic movie #OneBattleAfterAnother. I didn't read the first Guardian review properly till afterwards - they had me at "loosely-based on Vineland by Thomas Pynchon". Went straight off to see it at the wonderful Showroom Cinema www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Anyone got any experience of a #blind/VI person being denied extra time in court (when making a statement)? Judge saying "I have to treat you the same as all the others" (other defendants in the same case) @disrightsuk.bsky.social @barristersecret.bsky.social

You can go on TV and say the sky was made from recycled carrier bags by retired seamstresses in Portsmouth and if you are from a right wing think tank the news will report it as one side of a contested debate.

Case Thrown Out for Drax 15 After £3m Police Operation to Prevent Protest Last August Reclaim the Power were organising a climate protest camp near Drax. But it never went ahead as police arrested many of the organisers before it was even set up. Today the charges against 15 people accused of…

VICTORY: citing "lack of evidence", prosecutors have dropped the trial against the Drax 15. They never had a case, but they kept defendants waiting for a year to somehow justify an astonishing £3 million police operation. This is yet another example of the repression of protest rights in Britain

www.instagram.com/axe_drax/p/D... (@axedrax.bsky.social )

"Last summer... the police chose to spend millions preventing a peaceful climate camp focusing on Drax Power Station from going ahead. 25 protesters were arrested preemptively, whilst planning a peaceful protest camp near Drax, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter...

Please consider supporting the Drax 15 Legal Defence Fund. Reclaim the Power! ✊ chuffed.org/project/drax...

We don't have a problem with immigration. We have a problem with having too many shitty journalists and politicians.

💩 Waterways inside national parks are being polluted by sewage at twice the rate of those outside protected areas. 💰 Meanwhile, water companies have paid out £88.4bn in dividends in the past 34 years. 🚰 Privatisation has failed. Time to take back control of our water.

I’ve signed the @libdems.org.uk petition to Balance The BBC. Reform only have 4 MPs, yet Nigel Farage accounts for 60% of the BBC website's mentions of opposition leaders. The BBC has a duty to deliver fair, impartial coverage - we need year-round rules to ensure all parties are treated fairly. 📺

The BBC says it must give a lot of coverage to Reform because of its standing in the opinion polls. Reform is only riding high because of its relentless promotion by the BBC and the right-wing press. The LibDems can only dream of getting such massive help from the media.

Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.

There is no limit to what we can achieve when we work together and with @zackpolanski.bsky.social at the @greenparty.org.uk helm, there has never been a better time to join us! join.greenparty.org.uk

Thanks so much to Graham Wroe for his lovely write up in the Sheffield Telegraph. Do check out @telltherealtruth.bsky.social and join us reclaiming our moors!

The fact that an anti-migrant politician, who tells us every single day that he doesn't like immigration, is saying it once again, is not in any way news

Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza City. Entire communities are starving, not by accident but by design. This is collective punishment: illegal under international law. The UK must act: demand an immediate ceasefire, lift the siege, and let aid in. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

Whoever you’re voting for, don’t forget to vote!

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

@themeadhallbard.bsky.social 👇 this is how it's done.

The Inglorious 12th. It’s time to Reclaim our Moors. On August 10th, I joined the “Reclaim Our Moors” walk on Moscar Moor near Redmires Reservoir (which was looking extremely depleted). This is an annual event which precedes the “Glorious 12th, or the Inglorious 12th as I prefer to call it, when…

Thanks so much to @thestar.co.uk for this lovely double page spread in today’s paper to mark the start of the shooting season.

🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.

In the silence of Friends meetings today, we are called again to listen—not just inwardly, but to the voices that history tried to suppress. These were not just acts of resistance—they were prophetic ministry And they ask us still what testimony will you bear? @quaker.org.uk @afsc-org.bsky.social

In "Legitimate Concerns" news. 41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The ICJ has ruled: climate change poses an existential risk and member states have a legal duty to prevent it. This must serve as the starting gun for accelerating UK climate action: we need greater cuts to emissions, investment in renewables, and protection of nature now.

The govt’s own analysis has confirmed the horrific impacts of Labour's decision to slash international aid. Countless vulnerable women and children will face an increased risk of disease and death due to the govt's decision to balance the books on the backs of the world’s poorest.

Southern Water nearly doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Am I the only person who found both Wallace and Torode completely charmless?

As we head into the 3rd heatwave of the summer, *please* take just 2 moments to sign this petition calling on government to help our communities adapt & prepare for the impacts of #climate change. We are not safe — we need to be #SAFER @climatemajority.bsky.social

No explicit mention of pollution and shellfish deaths but this is surely important - please share and sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. ‪@mcsuk.bsky.social‬ ‪@bluemarinef.bsky.social‬

An excellent piece of work, insightful, loving and courageous. It meets the standard of "truth is the arrow, compassion is the bow". One of two fantastic films I saw yesterday @sheffdocfest.bsky.social

Bravo to Durham Miners’ Association 👏👏 www.durhamminers.org/statement_du...

🚨Introducing: Making #SpaceForWater UK rivers are in crisis. With @nationaltrust.org.uk, @beavertrust.bsky.social and Woodland Trust, we are calling on government to urgently fund a nature-rich river corridor network. Sign the petition, help restore rivers: www.makingspaceforwater.com

Apparently, running @theGreenparty candidate reduces Reform’s chances of winning by an average of 19% on average - more when we campaign. Help Andy Davies campaign in the Stocksbridge & Upper Don By-Election crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sudbyelect... (Funds left over go to @SheffieldGreens)

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Monday afternoon re-up: addressing the arguments that - even if he can get a deal he might think works - Putin can't afford to end the war. My view? He could... but the risk-averse tyrant might ultimately convince himself a forever war is safer. (Though he'd be wrong)

@davidfickling.bsky.social I think you've posted in The Other Place, some time ago, about Salter's ducks. Is there any interest anywhere in these? ‪@katemac.bsky.social‬

Maybe we'll get the true story behind the assassination attempt much sooner than I anticipated. #TrumpVsMusk

Calling all Whovians! These tunnels were featured in Flux, Series 13 ‪@whittakernation.bsky.social‬

Go Krishnan! @krishgm.bsky.social

“Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns and then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture and music.” Mass lobby of Westminster, Wednesday 9th July

“England’s peatland burning is releasing harmful levels of air pollution that current monitoring fails to capture, and existing regulations struggle to control”https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/30/moorland-fires-measuring-system-peak-district#

Scrapping the two-child benefit cap is the "cost effective way" of getting 500,000 children out of poverty, according to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He's right. Child poverty is and always has been a political choice. Labour should remove the cap immediately.

I also discuss the bizarre and disturbing association between the Starmer government and former special advisers to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. I vaguely remember being told something about "Change". But this continuity is beyond our worst nightmares. Not just Tory policies, but actual Tories.

Attempt to protect rare chalk streams in Planning and Infrastructure Bill rejected by Labour MPs. Thank you @elliechowns.bsky.social for so passionately speaking up for this today. Very disappointed in the government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Accusatory glare from cat - I can’t believe you have hung MY Blanket on the washing line!

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

Scrubs, M*A*S*H* and Green Wing ignored. No wonder they closed the comments.

For my birthday, a friend gave me a huge pot with a little stub of a plant shoot poking through. She said it was a scented peony. So, here it is, a few weeks on. It may be lovely, but it’s not any kind of a peony, is it? Any suggestions what it might be? #Garden #Plants #Gardening