Being a Canadian Liberal right now must be like being in the Labour Party c1998, but with the added bonus that the French keep vaguely threatening to invade Britain and William Hague, due to ideological ties to Jacques Chirac, can’t quite articulate if this is a bad thing or not.
Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.
This is beyond shocking - how can this be allowed to happen? Why on earth can’t they be released on bail? They have a right to a fair trial, appropriate medical treatment, & the removal of punitive Prison Service conditions. Govt’s ban on Palestine Action is simply intolerable
I happen to know quite a bit about Venezuelan oil.
TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount)
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South Park alumnus Toby Morton saw the rename on the cards months ago and bought the trumpkennedycenter domain (com and org).
https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org
This is a litmus test of British people's patriotism. Do you back your national broadcaster? Or do you back this guy?
The Good Old Days Pity the poor children of today, with their calendars stuffed with chocolates, never to know the thrill of opening a small cardboard door and discovering behind it a picture of a bell. Brian Bilston
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
A social media post by Karoline Leavitt (The White House Press Secretary) showing two news headlines side-by-side. The left headline, under a caption that reads "Shot" reads: "Trump goes to war with 'fake news' BBC," and the right headline under a caption that reads "Chaser" reads: "Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general over Trump documentary edit."
I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
Luckily the ‘Ready Brek’ glow makes it easy.
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Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.
Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
Yet no ‘Tomorrow Belongs To Me?’
Brothers of Sid James?
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Such a fantastic book. Can’t recommend this enough.
I'm no Oasis mega-fan, but this is such a beautifully written piece. I'm roughly the same age as @petepaphides.bsky.social so it takes me back to a formative time. Very evocative & surprisingly moving. Thank you 🙏
HEADS UP.
BSky added a feature that allows people to be notified every time you post. A fine feature!
By default, it's set to allow anyone to do this. If you are prone to stalkers though:
*Under Privacy and Security settings, you can change this to only allow people you follow back to use this.*
To those who question what Labour stands for – look at Best Start. It will change Britain’s future | Polly Toynbee
Have you read ‘The Antidote’ by Oliver Burkeman? I read it in lockdown and really liked it.
Phenomenal news story this and I love how the Mail seems quite supportive of it.
The Ballad of Wallis Island is a gorgeous little instant classic. I laughed hard, I wept, I sighed — such a beautiful film. Go see it in cinemas, and support a charming UK indie
The existential national crucible that Donald Trump has brought to the fore with his experiment in disappearing people to a torture gulag in El Salvador presents us with one of the starkest test of values and the constitution our country has ever faced. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/has-americ...
Vaccines do not cause autism.
Keep saying things that have been demonstrated by robust science and are the subject or organised disinformation. Don’t just ignore the attempts to brainwash.
#academicsky
You've got to hand it to Elon Musk - getting 71% of British people to agree on anything is impressive
Thanks . In the Christmas @newstatesman.com
A Child's Calendar George Mackay Brown No visitors in January. A snowman smokes a cold pipe in the yard. They stand about like ancient women, The February hills. They have seen many a coming and going, the hills. In March Moorfea is littered With knock-kneed lambs. Daffodils at the door in April, Three shawled Marys. A lark splurges in galilees of sky. And in May A russet stallion shoulders the hill apart. The mares tremble. The June bee Bumps in the pane with a heavy bag of plunder. Strangers swarm in July With cameras, binoculars, bird books. He thumped the crag in August, A blind blue whale. September crofts get wrecked in blond surges. They struggle, the harvesters. They drag loaf and ale-kirn into winter. In October the fishmonger Argues, pleads, threatens at the shore. Nothing in November But tinkers at the door, keening, with cans. Some December midnight Christ, lord, lie warm in our byre. Here are stars, an ox, poverty enough.
Some December midnight
Christ, lord, lie warm in our byre.
Here are stars, an ox, poverty enough.
—George Mackay Brown, “A Child’s Calendar”
published in FISHERMEN WITH PLOUGHS (Hogarth Press 1971)
#Christmas #poetry
6/ Incredibly, over the last few years around £200,000 has been raised for homeless charities as a result of this thing. So, this year, if you're enjoying the pix, you could fling a few quid to Centrepoint via this link: gofund.me/637d21d0
24 books wrapped up and positioned on Bert's bookshelves.
I've been a bit rubbish with #BertVent this year... We've still been doing it, but I've forgotten to tell you what they are.
So we're gonna do a mega-thread!
These are the books I've enjoyed the most in this year. Each day during December, we've given one away!
