www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/u... He wants to steal your right to vote. By calling Democracy - "Communism" you know he wants to continue taking the taxpayers money for himself and his friends. Time for rebirth of the "commune": That's us, that's you and me, the people. Gift Article

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Itinerant Adam moves again. Great to see him build a new garden, missed the start...BBC4? #gardenersworld

This is quite a thread! 👀

Drones. QED

How cool am I?

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Energy in = energy out (usually in the form of heat) Newton's First Law of Thermodynamics.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "...if you’re getting your news about bond markets from political hacks...you can safely ignore it...On Monday, when Starmer did his goodbye speech outside No 10, the interest rate on the 10-year gilt actually fell...yet no political editor mentioned that..."

@unitesharon.bsky.social Sharon! Think about Scargill, NMU and where coal is today. He wouldn't encourage diversification. Unite must! Oil will be history, listen to John Kerry #Miliband

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06... #Trump must send help. He is supposedly the friend of #Venezuela. gift article

Is there anything he wouldn't steal, from music to a 12-year-old's virginity? ================

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "[I]...now use “enshittification” for everything, from the degradation of public services post-austerity to climate-crisis-related chaos events...Doctorow’s proposition had quite a specific use...giant platforms lock you in and then make your experience worse..."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Think Owen will reserve judgement before returning to the fold. @andyburnham.bsky.social should make no false promises on stuff he cannot do.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... I know who I would trust between those two.

The unusual thing about last night's thunderstorm is that it usually comes after a heatwave, not before. "Three fine days and a thunderstorm" Nothing like it before in London in several decades.

Tropical!!

He did NOT inherit a "Labour Party that was politically, morally, financially bankrupt" Morals of Mandelson? Empty politics of No. 10 Huge membership subs dropped when he told them to p!ss off. Where's the apology to the hundreds of councillors who lost their jobs in May?

Sir Keir Starmer discussed sacking Shabana Mahmood and Ed Miliband from his cabinet earlier this month as punishment for what he saw as their disloyalty, according to people close to the situation www.ft.com/content/d586...

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

To describe Starmer as "country first, party second" is the absolute polar opposite of the truth. He rarely spoke with conviction about anything outside the subject of "my changed Labour party"

#Trump wrote: “...[ #Starmer] failed badly on two very important subjects- IMMIGRATION AND ENERGY (OPEN NORTH SEA OIL!). I wish him well!” I've got news for him... Also for Musk...will he play the exact same game with the next PM? 'Cos that would be grounds for action?

David Hockney’s funeral held in private with just two mourners

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... I wonder whose fault he'll say it is?

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju... Yet another part of Companies House which should be tightened up. What happened to the law which says/said a director cannot open a new company if they've bankrupted the last?

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... Needs more than Kahlo to give Tate Modern a kick up the backside. The permanent collection is important in all galleries. Tate Mod is empty.

Where are all the bees? NW London Tom plants minimal pollination (just 2!). Lavender and blue flowers, roses...nothing, zilch, no visitors. I expected it during the cold windy snap, but new flowers out now. #NotOneBee #gardenersworld

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Can someone wake up these #Starmer loyalists and remind them that the one person who wants KS to remain in place is #Farage !

Advice from #GardenersWorld folks, please. My first early spuds are not flowering. In a bag for ... 6-8 weeks shld I lift anyway?

Parkinson, Yul Brynner: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002qlzf Apart frm abject sexism of the period, it was fascinating interview. Filimed in 1972, discusses escaping frm the toxic lung destroying dust annually over Beijing. His 1983 dianosis of Lung Cancer was ascribed to smoking.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Sorry? If he's not fit to be interviewed, is he fit to be out on the loose? A clearer statement than this is required.

Oh Streeting, oh dear oh dear. Credibility = ZERO

Of course!....Webb interviews Reform FFS! Give it a rest #r4today Change the guard. Push off back to Washington Justin. Trump is your bandwagon

🚨🚨 This is the only way: First UKG Department leaving #X over concerns of incitement of #racism, #violence and #misinformation concerns. Major kudos to Richard Hermer pulling Attorney General's Office off X platform. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Numbers show that...May's disaster: Was not down to Reform Was down to Starmer!

YESSSSS!

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Oaks can surprise you. It may yet recover. Remove some of the competition and prune some branch ends. Water copiously. No harm in trying. My baby oak was written off last year. Now recovering. @rspb.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Shouldn't have been a shock, but still missing him. It's as if we knew him.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... After Turner (ish)

The Interview, Celebrities: David Hockney: A Life in Art: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002b6gp via @bbciplayer It's just occurred to me...there will be no more new Hockneys 😒

Freudian slip by BDA director...prices are high for private dentistry to cover for the *lack of profitability* of NHS work. So being paid for their time, materials and overheads...is not enough? #BBCNews

The Military Industrial Complex are kicking up a fuss about money. Got news for them, modern warfare is a lot cheaper. and I'm someone who doesn't like Starmer #BBCNEWS

Hockney's stuff was always somehow miraculous for me but never more so than with the wettest day anyone has ever captured RIP boss

Always loved a bit of Hockney

Always loved these early Hockney paintings of Bradford

Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88

Hockers has left us. 😢 My condolences to JP. #Hockney

True? @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social

Cracking #Springwatch this year. Enjoyed both content and banter. If only we could have an extended #Summerwatch until those peeps stop kicking balls around in the Americas.

27 people were made homeless after Tuesday night's violence in Belfast, including children.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?