Penalties are too much on a Thursday

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The reason Joanna Marchong hates the NHS is that she's paid to do so by the right-wing Adam Smith Institute, which lobbies on behalf of the private healthcare industry.

"I could see my kids tomorrow. If the court allowed it."

The Optimates are scared!

Five minutes riffing on pens and he's not even doing any of the good pen jokes! I've got a pen that can write underwater. It can write loads of other words too! What's the difference between Trump and a pen? A pen has a point. I asked my pen why it never goes anywhere. 'Because I'm stationary.'

Firstly, those statistics look extremely dubious. As someone who has lived and worked in Leicester for over 30 years, I just don’t believe them. Secondly, not speaking English as your first language isn’t remotely the same as not speaking English. As Welsh speakers will no doubt confirm.

How convenient for the Net Zero Brigade that famously anti-oil environmental fanatic and champion of all things renewable... <checks notes> ... Donald J Trump, would start a massively disruptive conflict in the Middle East that triggers an oil and gas crisis!

"It's not fair of environmentalists to point out that in addition to being finite resources that are actively destroying the planet, fossil fuels also leave us at the mercy of fragile supply and logistics chains significantly controlled by autocrats in geopolitically chaotic parts of the world."

Not sure why so many people appear to be in an emotional relationship with using fossil fuels.

The remains and outline of the granary at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields on South Tyneside. The fort was probably built in around AD 128 to guard the mouth of the River Tyne. 📸 My own. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #Arbeia #RomanBritain #SouthShields

Reminds me of Delboy Quote from Only Fools & Horses - the end of the world could be just the break we're looking for Rodney.

The Net Zero brigade have been agitating for a war with Iran for some time.

Is the Net Zero Brigade an Antifa unit?

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Also. Not the obvious problem. But still pleasing to see no one at Reform has dared to point out to Nigel the ongoing tweed & mustard look is a lot less man of the people and considerably more belligerent braying arse of the Home Counties. Which is a lot closer to the truth than pint & fag Farage.

Calling her a camel is a bit harsh

Just been chatting to an old pal about the randomness of life after we left school - careers, successes, failures. In our year group, we've got it all covered, from abject failures, tragedies, deaths & suicides to CEOs earning tens of millions per year. I reckon the most common denominator is luck.

The two stars in the bottom left-hand corner are a perfect touch

Good article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Biggest comeback of the year just dropped

Was it one of these?

If you're replying to a post about torched ambulances in London with a point about Israel, you've crossed the line into antisemitism. And you're doing absolutely nothing to help any cause. Even if you consider yourself one of the good people. Maybe especially so. You've just caught racism.

Your PERFECT lunchtime companion with the ever compelling @willhaycardiff.bsky.social on the upcoming Senedd election - probably, the most consequential in its three decades. Incisive stuff that applies much more widely.

Here are some Easter eggs from the 1980's with no mention of Easter on the packaging. My personal favourite was the Lion Bar one. Can we all move on from this now please?

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'Sorry, is this in your way?'

This is perfect. Honest Bob too stupid to sustain his own insincerity

Facepsalm

🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

I have the book and have just looked through the references. There are 12 in total for the entire thing. 5 are to Matt Goodwin’s own Substack, 3 include a reference to ChatGPT in the UTM, and 1 Telegraph article quotes… Matt Goodwin. It’s the academic equivalent of sniffing your own farts.

“When an enemy becomes an 'imminent threat', the first thing ya do is lift their oil sanctions, duh!” Sun Tzu The Art of War

Sarah Ferguson in The Queen's Cloned Corgis... a five part series in which....

Monarchy and the Church have always been in it together, ever since Christianity was designated the state religion of the Roman Empire. Emperors knew how powerful the idea of “one god up there, one king down here” was.

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For some this is about class war (either sticking one to the toffs, or battling to preserve a rural way of life & a handful of precious rural jobs helping generate a ‘sporting’ income for landowners), but let’s set that aside for a moment . It is sheer environmental madness at scale.

60 million pheasants and red legged partridges are released annually. That's more than double the amount of our native breeding bird biomass released into the landscape EVERY autumn. And most never even get shot. The majority starve, get predated or are hit by SUVs.

A week tomorrow!

“Any idea that this is part of some time-honoured English tradition is absolute rubbish. This is an almost wholly unregulated industry. I am glad to see it being licensed.” I spoke to the Times on why we shouldn’t let landowners release 50million pheasants per year: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

“We had asked Glenn Massacre, spokesman for the Estates Gamebird Guild, for comment but unfortunately he’s too busy poisoning raptors”. @mrhenrymorris.substack.com

This is very cool ... (now, who's going to be the first to set an FKT?) ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stopping gas dictating UK energy price could cut bills by £200. Renewables are the cheapest but Ofgem's pricing links electricity price to gas, enables profiteering. Gas produced energy must be decoupled from the rest. Public ownership is even better for ending profiteering and lower bills

As ever the opposite is the case. What they're all arguing for here is dominance over Muslims. Dominance over a religious minority's right to worship, to freely assemble, to be visible, and to exist as equal members of British society. The complete opposite of what Britain fought for in World War 2

Brilliant result from our legal challenge about overgrazing on Dartmoor ⚖️ Now the Dartmoor Commoners' Council must fulfil its statutory duty & urgently make appropriate assessments of stocking densities & reduce the number of sheep where overgrazing is apparent. wildjustice.org.uk/dartmoor/wil...

Brilliant news: Wild Justice wins High Court ruling that Dartmoor commons have been mismanaged Dartmoor Commoners Council has failed in its statutory duty to assess the number of livestock grazing on Dartmoor & take action to prevent overgrazing. Now it must do so wildjustice.org.uk/dartmoor/wil...

Huge