Current plans to tackle global warming will only save 3 percent of Europe's Alpine glaciers from disappearing this century, with most melting away within the next two decades, a new study has found. 

Scotland, remember what happened in US when 44% of population didn’t bother to turn up to vote. 22% turnout in Scotland got this #Reform candidate elected. If you don’t want Reform….you’ve got to get out & VOTE

Tommy Robinson's Christmas Carol service featured two arrests - one for assault and another of a man suspected of homophobic abuse. And loads of union flags and massive crosses... because that's traditional at the events where we celebrate Christ's BIRTH, isn't it. Crosses and flags.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Interesting www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...

As always @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social is giving us some good advice about flu symptoms.

Things are getting bad in the US.

Private hired guns The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005. The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.

I can’t think of a better symbol of Reform’s ambitions for Britain than a sideways flag hanging forlornly over a blocked drain. From the people who brought you ‘sunlit uplands’. No thanks.

Also, expel Elon Musk

"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this." (Me, stating the obvious) www.ft.com/content/2b60...

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

Reform UK Staffordshire Ian Cooper: sacked for racism. Wayne Titley: resigned after calling on Navy to sink small boats with gunfire. Peter Mason: exposed for racism. Mike Broom: sanctioned by council for accepting concert tickets. Tracey Dougherty: resigned job due to a conflict of interest.

The replies! 😂

And you think migrants on wee inflatables are the problem...

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

So he's still a racist then. Not a bit of "banter" in the distant past...

Nigel Farage made 90 times more Cameo videos than speeches in Parliament, records show

Misinformation about migrants is stoking hostility and causing division. Read our editorial explaining some of the ways in which it is used against migrants, and why it is wrong. 🚨Support Migrant Voice in combatting misinformation🚨 www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The Co-op is backing the government, supporting the people in our country and our farming industry. In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for". 1/3

Emma is so good at this

@efdss.bsky.social ?

That the EFDSS doesn’t have an online shop (like the transport museum) where you can buy all the old Cecil Sharp House posters is a real missed opportunity to raise some funds.

John Major, "One aspect of reducing immigration would be to make it more palatable for migrants to remain in their own countries" "That is why the policy of cutting aid and investment to poor countries is a very poor sighted policy"

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?

Support this great local bookshop, being threatened by a Waterstones planned to open about 65 yards away. Argonaut Books - Leith's Independent Bookshop share.google/dNA7CtKg62r2...

I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal. theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

Support this amazing bookshop!

Yesterday Labour won the by-election in the South Bank ward of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council. …beating Reform UK by just 24 votes.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

A very personal story of Covid tragedy and Dominic Cummings, which I wrote early in the pandemic in 2020. bylinetimes.com/2020/05/27/c...

The BBC Director-General is apparently entitled to the use of a car and driver, so no Freedom pass required!

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This is from Robert Jenrick in 2018. Sugar tax in UK could be extended to milkshakes, Government warns | London Evening Standard | The Standard share.google/Krie9OhpY7do...

Your periodic reminder that climate change means levels of migration will increase sharply in the coming years and we either find an effective and humane way to manage that or we invite ever more chaos and suffering.

The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)

On the eve of last year’s General Election, an RPO survey found that 76% of adults want to ‘see the new Government do more to support arts and culture in Britain’. This has now risen to 85%. Survey says that public wants to see decisive action on music access, provision and funding. bit.ly/3WWIaRt

It's time to taken action to get these things off our roads FULL STOP. Absolutely nobody needs one. I lived in the Highland of Scotland for more than 20 years and absolutely nobody who went off-road used one because they were too big, too heavy, too wide, and didn't have buck/boot space

Emeritus Professor Chris Grey on the links between the Prescott memo which brought down the BBC's DG and Head of News, the History Reclaimed lobby group which is associated with the Tufton Street linked, Telegraph boosted, would be entryists Restore Trust and the wider world of "Brexitism".

Michael Rosen for DG

#Souleymane'sStory Wow. Such a powerful film.