Reform UK government would replace top civil servants with those ‘more like to implement party’s priorities’ Exclusive: Senior party figures conclude outsiders or existing senior staff deemed more suitable should take over from current permanent secretaries

Well we're seeing what happens when governments only hire yes people from the US. No surprise Reform and Farage wouldn't want to be challenged on anything. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hundreds rally over sewage concerns at proposed 300-home development in West Sussex village Residents have raised concerns over a proposed planning amendment linked to a 300-home development in Bosham, which they say could allow homes to be occupied without a mains sewer connection.

"Southern Water have been discharging raw #sewage continuously for many months.. It is fanciful to believe that Southern Water will be in a position to rectify this other than in many years time,” said John Nelson, former chairman of Chichester Harbour Trust.
www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/...

US Sends Intercept Drones Used in Ukraine to Blunt Iran Strikes The US Army has sent 10,000 interceptor drones developed in Ukraine to the Middle East as it looks to repel Iranian attacks without using up high-cost missile defenses, according to US Army Secretary ...

NEW!! The US Army has sent 10,000 interceptor drones developed in Ukraine to the Middle East as it looks to repel Iranian attacks without using up high-cost missile defenses, according to Army Sec Dan Driscoll

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of the many many problems with this is all your directors and deputy directors would start leaving and looking for other jobs and there'd be no one to implement policies.

Reform UK could use NHS data for 'Big Brother'-style immigration raids | LBC Data analytics company Palantir Technologies won a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform in

Deeply worrying

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/reform-nhs-data-immigration-raids-5HjdWGY_2/

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

Remember the conspiracy theory about Trump being a Russian plant! Given everything that has gone on in the past 4 years, this now seems more plausible. The Russians plan for the long haul. They think in terms of decades. It makes sense to me.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won.
You broke it Don, you fix it.

Trump broke it, he can fix it

Nigel Farage regrets running 'bankrupt' Worcestershire Council The Reform UK leader says he wishes the party

“Farage has said he wishes the party "hadn't bothered" to take minority control of Worcestershire County Council, because of its financial problems”

V much summing up his approach to power.
Grifting and gobshiting - yes please.
Hard work and responsibility - god no.

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

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Russia preparing the legal framework for global military action.

A new bill would allow Putin to deploy Russian forces outside Russia’s borders to “protect Russian citizens
abroad.”

Same pretext used in Crimea.

Same language used before Georgia.

Same playbook again

Sign: Man Charged With Torture After Urine Covered, Zip-Tied, Shivering Dog Found - Animal Victory Erie, Pennsylvania – On the evening of March 3, a urine covered, zip-tied and shivering dog was found near a resident’s home in the Harborcreek Township suburb. The horribly neglected dog had been del...

Man Charged With Torture After Urine Covered, Zip-Tied, Shivering Dog Found:

animalvictory.org/petition/sig...

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

Trying to use less plastic?

Big Oil and the plastics industry are spending billions to make sure everyone else uses more.

“I think what stood out most is the deliberateness and intentionality over the years of pushing plastic into our lives,” said @bethgardiner.bsky.social. “It was such a shock."

Bittern at Strumpshaw Fen. It's wading in shallow water among reeds, with its beak pointing upwards. Its feathers are a complex pattern of brown, ivory and pale orange, and the foot that's out of the water is pale green.

A new 336-acre nature reserve in mid-Norfolk will restore ponds, meadows, woodland and wetlands for wildlife.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

Reform UK really are so lucky.

For a party of eight MPs they have the UK’s biggest news broadcaster on retainer.

Here we see their political editor doing the job of a local newspaper reporter.

For Farage.

EIGHT MPs.

We are facing an energy crisis. Britain is the worst exposed in Europe with only 2 days gas supply stored. If only we had our own gas to exploit. Or our own oil. Or our own coal.... Blame @Ed Miliband (Allison Pearson on X)

If only we had clean, renewable energy and were not beholden to a dirty, expensive, dangerous commodity that pollutes our environment and is the source of most of our geopolitical woes.

From UK Labour @labourlist.bsky.social @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social

Nigel Farage is not on your side - he wants to charge you to access the NHS. We won't let that happen.

Morning Guy,

Easy day today,
coffee with my ladies where we’ll put the world 🌎 to rights,
then home to cook Tuscan chicken for family and friends.
And finally play the night away with some hardcore bridge…♣️♦️♥️♠️

Have a good ‘un 😄

Was Iran really building a nuclear weapon? – podcast Among the many justifications Donald Trump has presented for the US and Israel attacking Iran has been the supposedly imminent threat posed by its nuclear weapons programme. But how close was the country really to developing an atomic weapon? Ian Sample hears from Kelsey Davenport, the director of non-proliferation policy at the Arms Control Association

Was Iran really building a nuclear weapon? – podcast

Zorro Ranch rally draws a large, passionate crowd Step-brother of victim Virginia Giuffre and wife come to New Mexico for the demonstration.

www.koat.com/article/crow...

We do things slowly here in the U.K. so I suggest you watch us as this may just pull down the Monarchy.
King Charles knew so much and said nothing.

In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦‍♂️
thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...

Right... And all for a conflict with no defined purpose, and no end goal, waged by leaders who apparently have no domestic guardrails and almost no limits as to what methods they will use.

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expec...

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

The impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK A new analysis finds that Brexit raised the number of foreign-born workers in the UK by about 200,000, but resulted in a more dramatic shift in the countries of origin.

The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social

Brexit

a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce)
b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%)

www.cer.eu/insights/imp...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the first group of Ukrainian military experts will depart for the Middle East on Monday, to share experience gained during four years of war with Russia.

I wonder if Farage and Badenoch are having a little think about whether they should have been so gun-ho about supporting this war. You sure that's going to be a popular long-term position pal?

However, more issues remain relevant today. In particular, the ongoing Operation Epic Fury is a US military operation. It will not be possible for the UK to exert any significant influence in its planning. Any participation will be - as it was in Iraq - in subordination to the US. As the Iraq inquiry report noted: "The US and UK are close allies, but the relationship between the two is unequal." Despite the UK providing significant military assets and personnel to Iraq, it failed to exert any significant influence on US decisions.

Would Farage, Badenoch, Johnson, Hannan, Blair, the Daily Mail, the Sun… like to comment on this?
No?
Thought not. Because their own raging inadequacy, dishonesty, arrogance, wrongness and startlingly cynical irresponsibility prevents them from being credible actors in this fireball of menace.

How lessons from Iraq are shaping Starmer’s Iran response Operation Epic Fury is a US military operation. It will not be possible for the UK to exert any significant influence in planning.

This is superlative.
theconversation.com/how-lessons-...

Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?