Seems a pretty staggering miscalculation from the right. This outcome could have been forecast by a toddler. Elonification of X is melting a few - already beleaguered - brains.
Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.
I'd back a badger against Farage tbh
I don't think Britain is in danger of forgetting Churchill if we don't have his mug on a fiver.
Stick the bloody badger on and stop hamming up the culture war.
Communities must be given the right to own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs
Thanks to @jenny4suffcoast.bsky.social & other MPs for writing this letter to Ministers, urging them to amend Community Right to Buy rules whilst there's still time:
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The hereditary peers go out in the most British way possible: a step towards democratising the state is achieved only by taking a half step backwards at the same time.
If Labour are smart they'll harden their distance from the war and go to town on this.
Because these short decision windows, where everything is instinct, matter more than anything else for electability.
This is one of the few that hasn't been a Lab car crash.
And Reform's weak point is Trump.
This is it.
Reform are going to tie themselves in an amusing knot by taking the loudspeaker rhetoric of the farming lobby seriously, when they, and most farmers in Wales, know SFS is a lifeline they've had a disproportionate hand in shaping.
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For a long time, the way the countryside is managed, the way our environmental politics have been influenced, the future of our landscapes, have been dominated by a singular vision.
want to follow the news but can't bear thinking about ordinary Iranians, who've been stuck under such an oppressive regime for so long, who maybe got a flicker of hope, briefly, a few months ago, then watched in horror as their friends and relatives got killed by the state, and now this, unspeakable
This was such a joyous listen
We've now made six podcasts featuring artists, writers, and makers who feature in our current Radical Rural galleries trail.
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It's also a bit insulting they're making communities enter competitive bids for even these small beer initiatives (the final national forest and the future eight river walks).
What's that got to do with ending postcode lotteries? Why wouldn't they at least target the areas of greatest deprivation?
The government must know this line is nonsense. Yet still keep repeating it.
Nine river walks & three forests won't change the postcode lottery on access to nature. Even where these initiatives are happening they're so far only upgrading the existing infrastructure, not creating new access at all.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
"I would do anything for my grandchildren"
Absolute Units returns tomorrow!
We're back with Ruth Webb and @lisaschneidau.bsky.social, picking up where we left off last time and continuing the story of Old Crockern and the fight for wild camping on Dartmoor.
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interesting how we were able to get rid of leaseholds in scotland and it didnt cause some sort of apocalyptic end of days housing crisis or something. almost seems to suggest that siding against landlords is a good idea actually
If Labour HQ were smart they'd spend more time listening to MPs like Chris who know the nature space - and how it polls - far better than they do. Rather than treating him like a pesky rebel... and finding out the hard way down the track.
There’s a nature-loving majority in this country.
Those in power must listen and stop trashing our environment.
There are far more of us than there are developer lobbyists.
They have the millionaires. We are the millions.
We need a bold campaign to get our nature back.
It's a common refrain for ministers to note Nigel Farage's absence from the Commons, but the stats do seem to back it up. So far this year he has spoken five times and voted seven times. As a very rough, smaller-party comparison, Ellie Chowns of the Greens has spoken 46 times and voted 24 times.
I know the Telegraph is basically a meme now but...
