Just another day in autodestruct mode.

The Marble Caves (Capillas de Mármol) are a stunning natural formation on Lake General Carrera in Chilean Patagonia, carved over 6,000 years by wave erosion on marble deposits.

2006–2016: 3 Prime Ministers. 2 full terms served. Cabinet ministers averaged around 26 months in post. 2016–2026: 7 Prime Ministers. Zero full terms served. Cabinet ministers averaging 8 months, the shortest in the Western world. PM churn. Political instability. Did something happen 10yrs ago?

Took a walk to the shops to pay a bill. Should’ve taken 20 minutes. Took me almost 40 because I kept meeting good dogs. Great start to the afternoon say I and my now slobbery hand and fur-covered jeans.

There’s always a tweet….or 4

The judgments of the US supreme court continue to be exercises in partisanship cosplaying as pieces of judicial reasoning. Two judgments today, for example, Slaughter and Cook, deal with near identical situations, but have very different reasoning for no good objective reason. Sheer politics.

I built a calculator model using hard data & published research. Comparing UK to international economies navigating same global headwinds but without Brexit. The divergence between them & UK isolates the Brexit effect. Enter a few figures, see Brexit's effect on you. www.brexitbonus.com #Brexit

The fact that everyone in US talks about partisan control of the supreme court is actually sickening if you take a moment to think about it. It's a court, it's job should be to interpret edge cases of what the law means, not set broad social policy.

Great tribute, interesting life! Here's to the unconventional Aunt Barbaras in our lives.

USA still only holdout against universal healthcare in the top 32? Good job Mexico restoring it's universal healthcare. Did you see Norway spends more per capita on defence than the USA now, and has universal healthcare. Maybe ask them how. #USA #universalHealthcare #Mexico

Hiding from the heatwave in UK 😂 Pretty grateful for this ATM. #UKHeatwave #Aberfall #Lincolnshire #Yorkshire #UKholiday

Temperatures of up to 59C were recorded on pavements and other surfaces across parts of London, according to thermal images captured by Greenpeace. The images were taken on Wednesday afternoon, when the air temperature reached 35C; roads, pavements and urban surfaces can become much hotter

Either that or they'll just say it's fake news. Just like their fuckwit president does.

A decade on, I wanted to separate what Brexit did to household finances from what Covid and Ukraine did. So I built a calculator that models it from published research: wages, savings, housing, sterling, finance costs. Enter your figures. See your number. www.brexitbonus.com #Brexit #BrexitBonus

A decade on, I wanted to separate what Brexit did to household finances from what Covid and Ukraine did. So I built a calculator that models it from published research: wages, savings, housing, sterling, finance costs. Enter your figures. See your number. www.brexitbonus.com #Brexit #BrexitBonus

We humans really haven't been around that long...

Did Brexit cost your household more or less than £150,000? www.brexitbonus.com #Brexit #Brexitbonus

Arguably the best photo I’ve ever taken of an ominous stranger on horseback approaching lazy cattle on a chalk hilltop beneath an irascible sky.

China is eating our lunch in almost everything. (no sound needed) China builds solar parks over reservoirs. This design improves the efficiency of the panels by keeping them cooler and lowers water loss from evaporation

More or less than 150k? What's your personal Brexitbonus? Throw a few easy figures in the calculator and it does all the hard work for you. www.brexitbonus.com . #Brexitbonus #Brexit

Every year a wealth of studies is released on post-Brexit Britain. NBER, Resolution Foundation, LSE, OBR, Bank of England, ECB, Saxo. Nobody ever draws it all together in a way that lets you model how Brexit affected your individual household. So I did. brexitbonus.com #Brexit #BrexitBonus

Tree Mallow on the east lawn is looking pretty vigorous this year. . #DogFriendly #PrivatePool #Retreat #Lincolnshire #Yorkshire #Aberfall

52 months of my 3 day war. We've gone from 3 days to Kiev to 3 days queuing for petrol. I remain a master strategist.

Applied some heatwave trim to the beard. Maybe I'm getting better at it with practice slowly? Anyway more of a face bandana and less of a face duvet in this heat now. LOL 😂😅😜 . #Beards

I give up on getting a lot done in this heat. Time for a beer instead! . #Beer #UKHeatWave

US World Cup posts claiming European travellers in awe of US restaurants, running water, & stadiums smaller than Wembley. My tiny village of dogs, horses & 3,000 people has a church 4x older than the USA. My school 7x older than USA. Guys we have things in Europe also, for quite a while now🤣

It's a 2 person job watering. Luckily Jax here to help. . #dogs #ukHeatWave

2 bowls of clean water ignored. My dog thinks fermenting nettle fertiliser with bonus algae is yum! Then wants to lick my face. #dogs

QE £895 billion was just handouts for already very rich people. And before you say not just wealth management portfolios, what about pension funds? Who is managing the pension funds and how long until they actually reach employees.

One way to parse this. How much of your monthly budget do you have left over for truly fun stuff? Is it less than 5% of your total monthly outlay? It is for a lot of people. If it's say 4% each month, but we hadn't made the Brexit mistake, your fun purchasing power = 10%, ~2.5 times as much fun £

This Juneteenth, we should remind ourselves of two facts: 1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. It’s as simple as that.

Right, just mowing the last patch of grass he's sitting on and then, taking this daft doggy inside to encourage him to get some cold water and shade. #UKHeatWave #UKSummer #Labradors

Slice of establishment in political parties have traditionally wanted drunkards, sex offenders & white collar criminals as political candidates. Actively recruited, sponsored. Skeletons, vices provide leverage for voting against conscience. Or their candidate pool really is just that fucking awful

If he doesn’t win something soon, I wonder whether Nigel Farage will retire to spend more time with other people’s money.

Of all the dumb wars. This was the dumbest war. And it was ending only as it must, in the dumbest way possible.

Pottering in the garden. Birds singing all day. Everything's growing like mad! #lincolnshire #aberfall

Reuters reporting that Russia is now starting to IMPORT petrol this month. IMPORT! Oil derived EXPORTS used to drive 40-45% of the Russian national budget. #FAFO #Ukraine #Russia

The world may be a dystopian nightmare, but I got to share some oatmeal with this cute green gecko this morning, so I’m gonna let that be my happy place for a while.

The historical record is unequivocal, rabid nationalists obsessed with purity nearly always do huge damage to their own country. It's never "different this time around".

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sometimes in life we have to admit when we've got on the wrong motorway, rather than just stubbornly driving in the wrong direction.

When a white male commits a violent crime, we talk about the crisis in men's mental health. When a non-white male commits one, the conversation turns to immigration. . Same crime. Different agenda.

"I thought this trouble wouldn't reach us" - that line pretty much summarises the Russian attitude to their invasion of Ukraine.

What would our conversations be like without fake accounts pushing the most toxic versions of everything? . W Social could become a cornerstone in building a better internet. Verified humans. No bot armies. No algorithmic manipulation for sale. Protections against capture. #WSocial

This is so Artistic 😊

Lincolnshire Countryside. #Lincolnshire #Aberfall

Choice of our times is: mildly inconvenience a few thousand billionaires, or let conditions that ruin & shorten the lives of billions spiral unchecked. . There aren't too many people. There are too many billionaires hoarding & squandering vast resources that could provide our world with solutions.