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"The way to see off the populist right isn’t to cower in its shadow; it’s to step up and offer a compelling, positive alternative." @eddavey.libdems.org.uk calling for a new, positive relationship with Europe including a UK-EU customs union.

Petition to Protect Rural Post Offices: https://keithpound.com/2025/07/15/petition-to-protect-rural-post.html

On the water at 8:30 this morning to catch the tide

It’s not every day you find a Henry VIII silver groat in the garden.

Day 6: Contrast Canon EOS M6 Mark II, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2025 #mbjune 📷

Day 5: Reflection #mbjune 📷

Day 4: nostalgia My collection of Psion PDAs from the 19080s and 1990s. I also had a Revo, but that died years ago…. #mbjune #psion #retrocomputing 📷

Day Two: Curve iPhone 14 Pro, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2025 📷 #mbjune

#mbjune Day One

I just added my name to this petition 38d.gs/cdpr

This guy and his brother woke us at 5am this morning. Who knew peacocks sat in trees?

After a busy Saturday, it was great to get out of the house and do one of our favourite walks from Bulberry Head to Hope Cove, Devon. #devon

Every vote for the Liberal Democrats counts. It's a vote to elect a strong local champion, who will fight for a fair deal for you and your community. Kemi Badenoch may sneer at us for being the party that will fix your local church roof, but we are proud to be focusing on fixing local issues.

England water pollution at a 10-year high, campaigners say.: https://keithpound.com/2025/04/16/england-water-pollution-at-a.html

People are worried about Trump’s trade war and want to know what they can do to help. The Government should launch a campaign to encourage people to Buy British and support our high streets, as part of a national effort to back British businesses.

Tide’s out. Polperro, Cornwall on a cold early February afternoon. iPhone 14 Pro, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷 #cornwall

Martin Rowson on the fifth anniversary of Brexit – cartoon

Waiting for the tide. iPhone 14 Pro, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷 #devon

"Sir Keir has refused to carry out an audit on the economic damage of the withdrawal so far." Keir Starmer and Labour are a pro-Brexit party. They are the problem now. Not the Tories. It seems the pushback has at least begun now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Bantham Beach, #devon iPhone 14, Lightroom Mobile 📷

If you’d like to support an Instagram replacement, Pixelfed has a Kickstarter campaign. www.kickstarter.com/projects/…

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Thanks so much for your interest! FYI the app is NOT available yet. I hope to start an open Testflight beta next week and will post the invite here.

Seeing some sun on the dog walk yesterday made a nice change. iPhone 14 Pro, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷

It was great to see the sun over Burgh Island today #devon

Our last beach walk of the year was at Bigbury-on-Sea. It stayed dry despite the promise of rain in the clouds. iPhone 14 Pro, processed in #Photomator 📷 #devon

Finally, something may be done to remove the abandoned boats on the Avon at Aveton Gifford www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #devon

Politicians, MPs, and Parliamentarians alike have tried their best to avoid the elephant in the room in recent months. But the spectre of Brexit is simply becoming too big to ignore www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/kei...

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. Would we really want to take that path?

If you are anti-Brexit and pro EU and want to find some extra followers. RT and reply to this post and add each other. No fun speaking to yourself.

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely

Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country

The old kitchen has gone, and the new one is ready to be installed. Parker is wondering what’s happening to his bedroom.

Well -- I "verified" my bsky account using the website-based verification tool. It was simple enough and the security is worth far more than a paid-for blue check. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

This ITV podcast is a powerful indictment of how badly we treat people in social housing in the UK. The pod highlights a litany of failures by the British state. Read more and view the episodes here: thetrapped.co.uk

This is an interesting article from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace that ranks political parties’ election manifestos ahead of polling day on 4 July. After scrutinising the details, Labour scores four times higher than the Conservatives, but t... https://keithpound.com/2024/06/24/this-is-an.html

Lightroom’s Generative Fill is impressive. This is a before and after photo of the tower on Glastonbury Tor. Sony a6300, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 📷

We met this swan on the estuary on our walk this morning. iPhone 14 Pro, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷

Anyone interested in how Britain’s water companies are letting us down should read this article in The New Statesman. The piece by Will Dunn discusses how privatisation and the pursuit of profit lead to the devastation of England’s waterways.

It was misty in the valley this morning. iPhone 14 Pro, processed in Adobe Lightroom Classic 📷

Day 30: hometown #mbapr Scan of a photo of my first house taken in 1985, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷

Day 29: drift #mbapr Sony a6300, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 📷

Day 28: community #mbapr Canon EOS M6, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 📷

Day 27: surprise #mbapr

Day 26: critter #mbapr

Day 24: light #mbapr iPhone 11, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 📷

Day 23: dreamy mbapr iPhone 11, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 📷

Day 21: mountain #mbapr Fuji X-T1, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 📷