FACTS:

Net Zero barely nudges your bill.

Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.

So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

Trump-proof our democracy. Graphic shows trump surrounded by his National Security Strategy, a Truth Social post, and three newspaper headlines outlining US government links to European think tanks, Elon Musk's reported plans to donate to Reform UK, and the US ambassador's redbuke UK medicines watchdog.

We need to Trump-proof our politics and stop the US administration peddling their divisive agenda here in Britain.

Nigel Farage wants to import Trump-style chaos and division into the UK, backed by a shadowy network of think tanks and campaign groups with close ties to the MAGA movement.

Depressing… Btw, both the title and writer’s name are somewhat different on Apple New atm

Coin used to pay for bus in Leeds found to be 2,000 years old Coin has been donated to Leeds Museums and Galleries

"Coin used to pay for bus ticket in Leeds found to be 2,000 years old

The coin was given to a local bus driver decades ago and kept in a chest ever since"
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Americans aren't facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath | Eric Reinhart The US was an oligarchy well before Trump’s first term. Recognizing this reality is essential to building a true democracy

"These are not signs of a democracy under threat," writes @eric-reinhart.com. "They are symptoms of one that eroded – if it ever existed – long ago."

"Why, then, does American political discourse remain fixated on a catastrophe that always seems imminent but never quite arrives?"

A cartoon from the 1950s, apropos nothing 😉 #war #priorities #iran

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question.

Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?

It’s the fastest animal on Earth and ruthlessly kills prey in mid-air – and it’s taking over London’s skyscrapers | Discover Wildlife The fastest animal on Earth is proliferating among the skyscrapers of central London

#london #wildlife

Nigel Farage is welcome to give his colleagues new name badges but it won't change the opinion of the country - that Conservatives, current or former, are totally unfit to govern.

Some exciting news: after a contest and vote, Fulwell & Hampton Hill Liberal Democrats have selected me to be one of their three candidates in May’s council elections! I’m enjoying the campaign already, let me know if you’d like to join in!

#libdems #lbrut #londonelections #localelections

Have a look at this from the Chinese Spring Festival Gala, celebrating the start of the Chinese New Year

Compare the 2025 robots which were very much robot like, to the 2026 robots which are much more humanoid

Superb innovation

A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | Lucy Pasha-Robinson Many women reading this will have experienced something similar: a warning that sharing public space isn’t a man’s job, it’s a woman’s, says Lucy Pasha-Robinson, a Guardian assistant Opinion editor

Upsetting and scary; what is happening to some men?

#wtaf #misogyny #vawg

Quite…

NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it.

Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

Polar Bear sleeping amid Fireweed blooms, by Christopher Paetkau

#Photography of the Year 2024 Award

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #animals

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

Yet another case of animals being smarter than scientists thought #intelligence #animalintelligence #cow #cows

Reading books can help you live longer—here's how — National Geographic “When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.”

Not at all surprising! #Books #BookSky #Longevity

Who’s into genealogy? There’s a bit of a mystery on my African-American side…

DNA (and, no doubt, AI) are making some progress - who knows what a few more brain cells will achieve‽ #genealogy #usgenealogy#americangenealogy

Amazing - people in London don’t seem to know how dangerous it is!

😉

#London #FarageLies #ReformLies

Doh - I see what I did there (in front of a potential audience of 100k, no less!

Congratulations on passing the landmark, either way!

Hate to be this guy, and: Surely you meant 10k, not 100k? Or am
I about to feel rather silly?

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

JONATHAN FREEDLAND: Why Britain’s Jewish leaders are silent on Farage’s schoolyard antisemitism While the Reform UK leader and his allies smear accusers as liars, the Board, JLC and HET remain mute, fearing the wrath of a rising politician

Hmm #farage #antisemitism

Readers reply: What are the greatest life lessons? — The Guardian The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

Worth a look - how many do you agree with? #lifelessons

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Our investigation uncovered that an elected MEP was taking payments to peddle narratives beneficial to Russian interests... This case goes to the heart of our democratic values.”

— head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy

Just stopped our #Disney+ subscription #freedom #freespeech

Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's remarks yesterday