Our co-chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social now at the event in parliament highlighting how pouring money into the private sector for apparent short term gain while leaving the NHS financially unstable, is a complete false economy.

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

This by Lewis Goodall on the internal ugliness at the BBC is very well worth reading: open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Why the news no longer tells the truth youtu.be/QHcNHG_iVPQ?...

Yes we've all felt immensely pissed off with the BBC from time to time But it's clear that the attacks on it come from fascists and proto-fascists who want to shut down our powerful public-service broadcaster For the sake of democracy we all need to defend the BBC as an institution

Electrification could now reach 75% of all energy demand, as the road-transport and heating sectors rapidly electrify 🔥🚗 These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons. https://loom.ly/BwyhReA

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A few tech-oligarchs are clearly influencing electoral processes. We’ve seen it in the UK, Germany, France, Hungary…and I’m sure we will see it in Spain.” (El Pais)

Very short sighted to knock back electrification of the midlands main line.

The Corporate Carve-Up of Britain: 12 actions to fight back against enterprise zones Please read, share and subscribe 💚 open.substack.com/pub/european...

#totp Guns n Roses - just fashioning the T towel into a bandana. The washing up will dry itself eventually #rock'n'roll.

#totp Enya is one of the most prolifically selling artists of all time - respect - but just wondering if Orinoco Flow is anything to do with the Wombles ?

#totp Yazzzz is quite cheerful (something I sometimes struggle with, with all the shit in the world an'all) although I don't think what she's wearing would suit me.

#totp Bryan Ferry sporting a shitey moustache.

#totp I like a bit of quality melancholia, but maybe Tanita Tikaram might try cheering up a tad. Apologies for snidey tone of post, I actually like her.

#totp Now onto the 1980s. From The Jam - Eating Trifles to ? Bon Jovi Oh woh Chewing on a Pear maybe.

Sparks on #TOTP tonight, lads

Jeepers - Phil Lynott was only 36 when he passed away. What a shame.

Just counting my jars of homemade chutney and considering myself a lucky man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq3b...

Does anyone else find Lene Lovitch - not at all strange ?

The Jam - Eating Trifles.

Nearly there! We need around 50 signatures to push my petition calling for transparency and a review of deregulated free zones to 10,000. Please sign and share across your social media platforms. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

$1tn dollars pay to Elon Musk is totally obscene. Just think what good could be done with this money. I don't think I will be buying anything from Tesla.

Other work by the Ladybird artists Red Squirrel Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

GOOD NEWS: Solar and wind book again in 2025. Ember just released the latest estimates with solar and wind additions this year. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

A reminder of what happened last time a UK govt tried to reduce bills by "cutting the green crap" Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 www.carbonbrief.org/...

The EU is winding down freeports due to money laundering and tax evasion. Britain is expanding them. Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive. open.substack.com/pub/european...

My son is on the minimum wage and also works unpaid hours due to unreasonable expectations on what can be achieved in the hours he gets paid for. Reforms policies would increase poverty amongst young people. Poverty, especially at a young is strongly correlated with poor mental health and crime.

Hugely concerning that govt is considering slashing funding for desperately needed home insulation to cut bills in the short term. It’s vital to protect the Warm Homes Plan for long term investment to fix poor housing. Why not use a wealth tax to cut energy bills instead, Rachel?

Ask your family and friends if they’ve heard of Freeports, Special Economic Zones, or AI Growth Zones. Most will look at you like you have two heads. That should worry you. Please support my research❤️Thank you! open.substack.com/pub/european...

URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Crime rates have strong links to poverty. Nigel is promoting a policy of reducing the minimum wage. A policy that is likely to make crime worse.

My understanding is that both mental health and violent crime have strong links to poverty and that when poverty is corrected for in the data, ethnicity has no effect. There is a chapter in the popular book Freakonomics on this, but lots of studies confirm this.

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVul... I was only 4 years old when this was released, but still remember this cracking happy little track.

A good year for Fly Agaric mushrooms in my garden.

It’s time to end the nightmare results of the first-past-the-post voting system #FPTP #getPRdone #ProportionalRepresentation

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

😂😂 This is spot on - lol

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this. At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

A new asset class is being identified as ‘Nature’s Economy’, where a country’s green spaces are targeted by a sovereign wealth fund controlled by a Saudi Prince, or Blackrock for example. This is global, but it is already happening in the UK and part of Zone Fever www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xn...

The PM just said at PMQs: "The UK is backed as a leading and trusted member of NATO - a timely reminder for the Green Party, whose policy is to take us out." Appreciate Zack Polanski has made comments backing leaving, but the Greens' official policy is actually this: "We would work within NATO."

Farage: epic grifter

All the bells and whistles was once misheard as: All the Belgian whistles. I always think of that when I hear this phrase.

Indeed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B-l...

Reform UK’s Sarah Pochin told a TalkTV caller that it drives her mad “seeing adverts full of black and Asian people” – 27 brutally frank responses. www.thepoke.com/2025/10/27/s...

As humans change the climate, largely by burning fossil fuels, the frequency and severity of weather disasters are rising. Climate Central now hosts the billion-dollar weather disaster database that the Trump administration took off NOAA's website. www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

We need to support the NHS. Private medicine in the US bankrupts thousands of people every year and maximises profits by denying health care with get out clauses.