I was only 30 something when I helmed The Enterprise.

No Kings Cleveland lump in throat...

I still have no idea what Number 10 was thinking intervening over policing. If they ‘win’ the standoff, Keir Starmer personally owns any incident that happens around the match. And he’s broken the precedent of interfering in operational matters, and so will be asked to do so relentlessly.

I wish more people could understand what Noam Chomsky was saying to Andrew Marr in 1996. What most people think is reality, is far from it, and on the whole it's based on what a handful of very rich, very powerful men, want you to believe, predominantly to make themselves richer & more powerful.

“Hey, c’mon now! … You two were made for each other!”

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

Sauna time. Oslo, Norway. #sauna #Oslo #sunset #Norway #Scandinavia #sunset #winter

BBC Radio 4 Today takes the political temperature in Manchester by interviewing a cross section of the population … in a golf club Next, a representative survey of US public opinion in Mar a Lago?

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“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight

🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted an interview on the flagship BBC show after being elected, or during his party conference bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Help @bylinetimes.bsky.social get to the bottom of this “This weekend, we not only revealed that Reform’ Nathan Gill pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight counts of Kremlin bribery – was one of Farage's closest aides” subscribe.bylinetimes.com/nostoneuntur...

Really looking forward to speaking in Wiltshire tomorrow about the impacts of climate change on UK butterflies & moths butterfly-conservation.org/events/wilts...

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry.

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry. 🔥

Well done Moldova - you've won a bright European future! Lucky bastards! Love, Brexit Britain

This is wonderful 💚 Real Betis invited 11 of the club’s oldest members to be mascots this weekend, celebrating their long-held support and International Day for Older Persons 👏

Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to eight bribery charges while an elected member of the European Parliament. The charges relate to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money during his time as a member of the European Parliament.

Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant. His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom. But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague. We will miss him terribly.

Interesting discussion on political funding at Lib Dem conference. Transparency International point out that South Australia has now banned private donations to political parties for state elections, while federally Australia introduced a £25,000 annual donation cap for the next fed. election.

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

I will repost this EVERY TIME I SEE IT 🐅❤️

Carl Sagan.

In 2020, I learned how to walk again and my breakthrough moment was walking from my hospital bed to the loo without using a stick. To inspire me I sang to myself 'Search for the hero inside yourself'. Today, on camera, I met Heather Small to thank her.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=HlIv... Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, Senator Sanders is the grown up in the room here

Lots of #ConservationScience🌍 in ten years of WaderTales. I'm building a thread to celebrate some of the cool stories in the blogs: bsky.app/profile/wade...

Bravo Banksy. 👏 “A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London.”

Looking at centuries-old headstones in an old cemetery, I am struck by not only how many children died, but also young women of childbearing age, & whole families who died within a week or two of one another Improvements in medical science & sanitary engineering brought us far Let's keep 'em, OK?

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

Not in our name: the flag belongs to us all The far-right does not have an exclusive claim on our national flags.

Remembering Mark Smart, on his birthday. Mark was the architect of so much breeding wader habitat in the UK, replacing some of the previous losses. Gone too soon (1967-2024), Blog about his work: wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/m...

The same goes for many scientific institutes, universities, conservation NGO's and charities. A notable laudable exception is the @btobirds.bsky.social

Who would have guessed? Well, all of us who abandoned the cesspit that is now X. Morality as well as pragmatism. Yet I'm still wondering why the UK government remains there (not the only thing about it that makes me wonder) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pre-ECHR, rights were almost completely at the whims of the current parliament - which doesn't always represent public majority. The Bill of Rights of 1689 could be very easily abolished by parliamentary majority. The ECHR created a set of rights that have an external guarantor. That's the point.

🔴‘Progressive Parties Must Start Working Together or Concede the Next General Election to the Nationalist Right’ If parties on the left can’t find a way of working together, then the Conservatives and Reform will, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/08/29/l...

The best marketing "Socialism" ever had.

So @onekdog.bsky.social is showing our children Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds. Truly it was a golden age of television.

Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness. On a plane, I want a pilot. In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence. Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data. Ignore it and we all pay the price.

I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”

This leucistic Ruddy Turnstone was on the beach at Selsey Bill this afternoon. #birds #ukbirds #nikon #D3

“A progressive governing party has become so mute in the face of the radicalisation engine, so stricken with internal neurosis, that it has lost the ability to recognise extremism. It was an act of complete political and ethical surrender” - spot on @iandunt.bsky.social 👇

14 years for red paint if you're an activist. Zero arrests for red paint when it's used to intimidate immigrants in our communities. Prof Richard Murphy re-examines the idea of two-tier policing. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social

We just watched this and really enjoyed it. One of the first films on birding I have properly liked! Recommend, and it's not just for birdwatchers btw youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?