Rockalina the turtle meets member of her own species for the 1st time in 48 years The rescued turtle spent decades on a kitchen floor in New Jersey, subsisting mainly on cat food www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?

IANAL. However, I would suggest that the BBC prepare to stand their ground and defend their case, and while doing so, use discovery to unearth emails, phone records, and any other information demonstrating Trump's intent and actions on Jan 6, while creating a "behind the scenes" documentary...

“Can I sue?” - yes “Should I sue?” - no That is pretty much most sensible litigation advice.

Succinct and elegant, as per. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Suffer the little children… Palestinian infant freezes to death in Gaza as Israel keeps blocking aid - Al Jazeera

Fewer potholes fixed, despite large additional central government funding for Highways in Reform UK North Northants Council

Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos gets £120m govt subsidy to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at Grangemouth. Ratcliffe is worth $14.7bn (£11bn). Can he not invest? Will he be back for more? Govt is not taking any equity stake. £120m is not repayable.

Creative solidarity means: If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover" If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references" If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc. Never help AI steal another medium No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.

Trump is coming after our BBC. He’s suing it for $10 billion, and the Conservatives and Reform are cheering him on. The BBC must not pay Trump a penny. Instead of rolling over, it should sue Trump back for the lies he’s telling about it.

A warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be | Tom Baldwin

Review of How Capitalism Took Over the World by Sven Beckert | “Beckert emphasizes how capitalism has depended at every stage of its development on the military power of the modern state and frequently on practices of extreme violence…” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...

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obvs we COULD just carry on having social norms bent out of shape by a combination of malign foreign actors & Nigerian teenagers cosplaying MAGA on the internet, convincing us all that this What The Public Thinks now, but maybe at least.... give the alternative a whirl?

Given the PM loves a flag-waving presser about something patriotic, i don't get why govt is not now in full 'launch an inquiry on foreign interference in UK politics' given this week we've had Nathan Gill jailed over Russian bribes, Chinese spies again, & this www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

UK to investigate foreign interference in politics after Russia bribery scandal

Wow — White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles did not hold back. 👀 Start the clock! ⏰ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Super proud of this one - sometimes in museums we get to do the right thing & correct a historical wrong. Honoured to have played a part in returning Preben Holger Larsen's remains to Denmark, and I hope sharing our methods helps other museums follow difficult research threads. bit.ly/4iZXCpX

Foreign influence on UK politics - let's think about US cash, as well as Russian and Chinese

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

"In an email to Novara Media, Cunningham said: 'It is not my habit to comment to the media on cases in which I am instructed as counsel.'" Is she having a laugh? She did an BBC entire podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

LOLOLOLOL hahahahahahaha

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.

BREAKING: Angela Constance has survived a vote of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

I'm glad Keir Starmer has listened to our calls for this inquiry following the Reform Russian bribery scandal. Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.

If this woeful article by a sitting SNP MSP in any way reflects the thinking on energy in Scotland's governing party then we're in an even worse situation than I thought. It directly defends handing over our sovereign resource for a pittance. 🧵

This is extremely important

New free to read link. as.ft.com/r/cc471e39-d...

9. Incidentally, my statement that the trend of population growth has fallen massively is correct: the growth rate has dropped from 2.1% in 1963 to 1% today. But, by decontextualising my remark, Greenwashed made it look as if it were false. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP...

4. There are 2 fundamental principles in journalism: if you are to conduct a hostile interview, first you tell the target what it’s about, then you put to them the criticisms you intend to make. Greenwashed did neither. The first I knew of its real agenda was when I started getting hate on socials.

The president of Ukraine in a town that the president of Russia claims Russia occupies. Ukrainians can defend themselves if they are helped by their allies. We have a simple job here — help courageous people who are defending themselves in horrible circumstances. Continuous good work by Phil OBrien

A lot of this is because Google is absolutely NOT a source of traffic for publishers now. It hoovers all their content up and recycles it out as AI summaries. Then people don't click through. It's another dimension of Big Web eating itself.

Russia has deployed 360,000 troops in Belarus, directly along NATO’s border, Bild reports.

youtube.com/watch?v=2lkx... #Butterflies Glad our #MI6 is in her hands. Let's hope more Brits listen to her words. At all costs we must defend Liberal Democracy & Universal Human Rights against those who seek power through force, who create Autocracy, Kleptocracy & Theocracy. They are our enemies.

1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...

🇹🇷 The Turkish Defense Ministry announced the shooting down of an unidentified drone. The drone was shot down in a safe zone over the Black Sea by NATO F-16s and the national air force.

I have another #inspired #poem to share with you (inspired by #Spirit, written & tidied up by me, flow checked by Alan) 🙏🙂 Please accept or reject it as you choose. As always, it's designed to make you think, not tell you what to think. #gay #psychic #love #spiritual #poetry #pendulum #spiritual

The enemy within

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

This should be posted on X at Trump's account

Rob Reiner on Christian nationalism

Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket. Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.

This is *hilarious*. I actually barked an angry, triumphant laugh.

This is good news as it suggests we have stuck to our guns on data protection and so on.

The Spectator have not yet had a full on right wing melt down. They're very close, though! Join.greenparty.org.uk