Walk in the woods, Lee Moor Heard cuckoos calling at various points along the route, an increasingly rare sound in recent years #Dartmoor #Devon

They say 'take care of the pennies + the pounds will take care of themselves' Do we really want someone running the economy who can't quite recall what he did with £1.4mn?

Frensham Pond in the Surrey Hills. #BlueSkyMonday #Reflections #Landscape #Photography

Oddly, I am not forgetting the Epstein files. Are you?

"Bombing the living daylights out of Iran" doesn't sound like attacks targeted at military facilities. It sounds like war crimes.

"No progress on Iran, no progress on trade, no progress on tariffs, but a stern lecture on Taiwan. Behold, the towering dealmaker of our time..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

We are at war with Iran because we have a fool as a president.

Who sent us to war with Iran and illegally raised tariffs? Donald Trump.

He Should Be Arrested Immediately For a Lot of Reasons….

You're definitely not going to hear Gov. Abbott brag about it, but for the first time ever, solar is set to generate more electricity than coal in Texas. Fortunately, clean energy momentum cannot be stopped. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Epstein files! Remember? Release them pronto

Release the Epstein files now.

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. No matter what.

We Are a Democracy! “We don't live in a democracy, we live in a constitutional republic." This is like saying "I don't have a dog, I have a golden retriever." A constitutional republic is a type of democracy. You didn't catch anyone in a gotcha. You told everyone you don't know what words mean.

#DailyFlowers to brighten your evening ✨ #ColorADay #MacroMonday #MinimalMonday #flowers #MacroMonday #photography #closeup #Art #nature #naturephotography #bloomscrolling #thelittlethings #ECK #EastCoastKin

I do a lot of my growing in tubs and pots, you can grow more or less anything so long as you've got a big enough pot. They do need a lot of watering though, some things will need watering twice a day if it's really hot and dry 🌱 #GardensHour #Bloomscrolling #ContainerGardening

#SteepleSaturday St Lawrence Warkworth is one of those Northumberland churches that began as a Saxon wooden building... then built in stone with partly defensive role vs 9-10th C Danish raids... and finally largely rebuilt in this 12th C version. Love the little staircase to tiny door.

#AllMetalMonday The extraordinary 57.5cm tall C3 BC #Etruscan figure, called (in recent times anyway) Ombre della Sera, as it recalls long shadows cast at the end of day. Inspiration for Giacometti is pretty clear..... Now in Volterra's Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, stopping people in their tracks.

“News that Reform politicians are shunning, or worst still smearing, local media in Ipswich is really concerning," said @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social, CEO of Index on Censorship. "It’s made all the worse by the fact this is not an isolated incident.” bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/r...

The billionaire-funded ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march this weekend was seething with extreme racism, spouted by its far right organisers. We witnessed calls for remigration, to ‘stop Islam’ and for communities to prepare to ‘fight’ back.

This is designed to promote racist violence and intimidate people of colour. The very explicit and gendered mockery of Muslim women was obscene, and reflects intensifying and normalised Islamophobia that thinly defends itself as ‘free speech’.

The mainstream political agenda has descended into some of the most divisive and corrosive conversation - alienating communities from one another whilst demonising and scapegoating.

This relies on the complicity of our traditional political parties and media, and only recently are there indications that this might be challenged. But belated words alone will not fix a crisis that has been years in the making.

If the government is serious about addressing violent and intensifying racism, it needs to urgently change direction. We're calling on the government to provide a meaningful space for anti-racist charity and community leaders to engage, and commit to an all-encompassing anti-strategy strategy:

1 - End the hostile environment for migrants and change the narrative on migration, making clear the positive social and economic effects of migration historically and presently.

2 - Address the cost of living crisis, falling standards of living and widening wealth inequalities, including by fixing the housing crisis, energy crisis and our regressive social security and tax systems.

3 - Make our school curriculum anti-racist, including teaching about the history of slavery, empire, colonialism and migration. This is not about national guilt but about well evidenced empirical realities.

4 - Invest in public services and community infrastructure, so that people receive the services they pay for and deserve, and live a more hopeful life alongside their neighbours.

5 - Resist reaching for police powers and further securitisation, which fail to address the root causes of hate and degrade democratic rights for all.

How would each party have done if May’s elections were across all of Britain? electoral-reform.org.uk/how-would-ea...

@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain: "The last big project Farage tried to sell us turned out to be a complete farce. "He rarely talks about Brexit anymore."

BREAKING: It's official. The Trump DOJ just confirmed the creation of a $1.776 billion slush fund that can be used to pay Trump allies who claim they've been wrongfully targeted by the Biden admin's ‘weaponization' — including, reportedly, Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

Public health professor and emergency room physician Dr. Craig Spencer, who is an Ebola survivor, says this Ebola outbreak could be the fourth largest in history.

"Under FPTP, parties can win huge majorities on a minority of the vote. Entire regions can be politically written off. Voters are told to vote tactically rather than honestly. Then Westminster acts surprised when people become frustrated with politics." ✍️ New blog by our CEO Emma Harrison:

No voting system is perfect – but Scotland’s elections continue to highlight the difference proportional representation makes. Seats are distributed more fairly, and fewer voters are left feeling ignored.

Carole Cadwalladr on why appointing Matt Brittin as director general could be a huge mistake for the BBC

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📌 ICYMI — ‘Flag Man’ Behind Nazi-Linked Anti-Migrant Protests Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Woman Craig Kitts, who says he is fighting to 'protect our women and children' from migrants, admitted to assault by beating

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

🇪🇺👏 @pimlicat.bsky.social explains the benefits of EU membership on LBC - and why Reform UK is being disingenuous about the real cost of Brexit. "I don't take it from a party that takes gifts from billionaires to line its own pockets as speaking for the ordinary person."

Would be good if something finally stuck on him. He has been at it for years...

What a tangled web we weave, When we practice to receive... 💰 bsky.app/profile/fina...

What will be his next excuse?? Yet another clerical error?? It's in his girlfriends name (this really really really needs to be looked at)?? It was a gift for fucking the country up?? Angela Rayner lost ipods?? Starmer wears glasses?? Zak eats vegetables?? Antifa made me do it?? Fake news??

He’d sell his grandmother if the price was right, and you think he’s not going to sell the country to the highest bidder if he gets the chance?

Farage doesn't seem to be very adroit at retaining the details of major financial transactions.

So first he told us the £5 million he secretly took from a crypto billionaire was for "security", then he said it was a "reward" for Brexit instead, then he said it definitely wasn't for buying himself a big house, now it looks like it probably was

If during vetting for, say, certain UK Civil Service roles an applicant was found to have lied about their finances to this extent or had a close associate who'd been jailed for taking bribes from a hostile foreign power, they'd be considered a textbook security risk. That's exactly what Farage is.

So, that’s 2 houses that Nigel Fagash has bought with mysterious cash. Who is funding Reform? bsky.app/profile/fina...

Mortgage costs rise sharply on Middle East conflict ft.trib.al/n2vbCx1

The UK must embrace its libraries in the age of AI ft.trib.al/qXd4JYk | opinion