@smithsmm.bsky.social I’m writing a background paper on reading for Green Party Ed Policy Group Id be suited if you could find time to either/or send me the most pertinent of your fab think pieces or a few bullet points. Promise not to mention source unless you want me to!

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation. www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

I am now very confident that Reform are a laughing stock. Without their constant fan boy media presence they would be nothing. Seems people are a lot more decent than I thought. Vote Green and let’s have actual change as opposed to meaningless soundbites. 💚

Help please. Youngest expecting 2.2 min Biology degree. Thinking ref post grad teaching year. Starmer bragging last week about bursaries etc. Anyone know exactly what he might get?

Go on humour me. Things rarely taken up by our gallant journos. -Farage Russian connections -Farage housing arrangements -People other than Mone who ripped us all off during COVID -The blatant complicity between OfWAT and privatised water companies Others?

Greens 15% 😉

I’m so enjoying the ‘share owning democracy’ that I was promised by Thatcher and all her like-minded decedents. Seems Starmer is a particular fan🤮

Why were the cabinet all clutching little union jacks during Starmer’s speech?

I used to be OK with the periodic ID card debate, but that was when I saw govt as generally benign But now they are a bunch of corrupt genocidal nut-jobs in the pay of the highest bidder and as trustworthy as my dog with a packet of biscuits; they can shove their ID card where the sun doesn’t shine

I started writing a list of well-considered reasons for raging against a Y8 reading test. However I got to reason 5 and I was raging. Why are politicians such total dicks? Who the hell advises them?

I’m pretty damn sick of Trump’s rantings being given exposure and credence by ‘our’ National Broadcaster.

See BBC web site has managed to bury Farage story

Have I really just read Chris (Reform) Mason lamenting the fact that his hero wasn’t appointed US ambassador on BBC News front page. FFS

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to learn the real reason such a flawed, much sacked and disingenuous creep like Mandelson was appointed in the first place?

In other matters. Mazzy Star were sublime.

BBC News. ‘Sirens blare from millions of phones…..’ No they didn’t. I really think it’s time we binned BBC news and just keep the good bits like 6 Music. The ‘journalists’ are seriously deranged as well as bent Farage fan boys

Violence zero Threatening behaviour zero Damage zero Arrests 900+ Wonder what an extra-terrestrial observer would make of that?

Is impartiality still a thing at the BBC? Asking for a friend.

Please can the Daily Telegraph have quick sneck at Farridge’s financial and housing affairs? BBC? Sky? No though not.

A question for you clever literary types. Struggling with early part of a long novel…..thinking it should go to charity shop , but also got feeling it just might be terrific. I am forever looking at list of characters in front of book Question. If you need a list of characters should that be a clue🤔

Shout out for all those parents of four year olds who have to explain that starting school is a fourteen year sentence not just the one day😧

Strange times indeed. We now have the most senior government ministers trying to outdo each other’s domestic flag count. One awaits the first appearance of Union flag ties, waistcoats, suits and who knows the quick flash of patriotic undergarments. Truly pathetic.

Blair joins meeting to divvy up Middle East land grab proceeds. In other news, there was never ever a plan to loot the Middle East. Just really coincidental. I mean are there really people who can’t see what we are up to here? 🤮

Starmer K Israeli massacres are ‘completely indefensible’ I have a question. ‘What are you going to do about it then?’

Listening to people in the pub. We have done Trump (the best ever), immigrants, (hunt them down) and Trans people (don’t shove it down my throat) We are totally lost.

Katherine Priddy and George (who reminds me of a very young Richard Thompson) are sublime. Thank you

BBC News championing Reform again and cheering on ‘protests’ outside asylum seeker accommodation. Shameless.

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While we are all frothing at the mouth over refugees seeking safety, we fail to notice greater numbers of bright young professionals emigrating to places where they will be valued and respected. Weird ‘innit?

Only someone without empathy devoid of feeling for starving babies in other words a psychopath could support what Israel is doing in Gaza meme via Zoe Hulme

Seems we now need to be deeply grateful to the genocidal maniacs ethnically cleansing Gaza for permitting ‘aid drops’ FFS

Kindness Wins! 🥰🫶🏼❤️🐾🐶💟☮️

Reading Rob Macfarlane. ‘Is a River Alive?’ To the news backdrop of wilful starvation, brutality and ethnic cleansing, it feels like we have reached a terrible tipping point and are irretrievably lost. I quote Rob ‘Please of all things let me die before any of my children’

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

#FreeSpeech Has died under #Starmer

I keep wondering whether there is a connection between number of refugees and our active support for war and sedition across Africa and the Middle East? Then there is our love of multi national conglomerates with their land grabs, and subsequent displacement of whole communities? 😡

It really isn’t about u-turns or concessions. It’s about a hard right warmongering despot who would want to punch down on the most vulnerable in the first instance.

‘I could be the catalyst that starts a revolution, I could be an inmate in a long term institution’ Ian Dury is still amongst us.

I wonder if any of our client journalists, TV stations or silver-tongued presenters has ever had enough about them to link our leaders’ lust for war and destruction with the worldwide number of refugees?

I’ve always thought that ‘de-escalation’ was the polar opposite of supplying weapons to maniacs. The Labour Party really should come clean and openly admit that they will support any barbarism their backers demand🤮

BBC ‘Was Iran months away from having nuclear missiles?’ Me. ‘Was it bollocks’

Every F******* morning we wake up to this……and every morning our ‘free press’ defends and excuses it the lust for constant war

For the record:

Looking at the right wing loons both here and abroad. It might just be the time to have another focus on education. (Without the constant war side dish promoted by the previous proponent)

How delightful. New arms factories. Growth indeed. Let’s celebrate 🤮

Nice to know referees haven’t lost their form at Old Trafford🙄🤮

I can’t bring myself to outline the detail, but the reporting of Southwestern trains coming into public ownership is absolutely absurd on a minimum of the fundamental elements

Just got a feeling that Trumps attack on Harvard might backfire spectacularly

As an ardent non-Premiership football fan, it was interesting to hear all the fuss about a none event tonight. That Chapman bloke in BBC asks the world’s most vapid questions matched only by the cliched answers. Pathetic non-sport for mouth breathers