Something that is depressing me more and more is the litter on our roadsides. This piece on a village website is about country lanes but it’s everywhere including major roads and motorways. Where has our pride in our surroundings gone?
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🔴 Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning,
Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness
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So the Telegraph is taking this well
In the past 2 days senior(ish) Reform politicians have called for:
- opponents to be murdered
- to undo the sexual revolution and a regulated sexual market
- mass purges of the civil service
- to undo renters and workers rights
- mass deportations
This is a party that is entirely spinning out
I had a wonderful chat to a cabbie yesterday. I was planning to sit and do emails so was mildly irritated when he started talking. It turned into an incredibly enjoyable and entertaining 20 min that took my mind off the workshop that I was worrying about
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Farage the fucking piece of shit doing some bollocks miles away from where he's paid to be as usual.
There is only one way we will defeat Reform: together.
That’s why I’m backing the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
We are a mass movement of all ages, backgrounds and faiths — united in a belief that things can, and will, change.
A little spark of good news.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social for Monday’s show? 🤦🤯🤬
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
The Government must stop listening to dodgy advice! Hear the trade unions, the care workers, the migrant support organisations - LISTEN TO YOUR BASE.
The immigration plans must be scrapped.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social
@unison.org.uk
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#Brexit #OwnGoal #cartoon
How Nigel Farage's obsession with Donald Trump could leave you with fewer rights.
Fabulous column by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social in today’s @theguardian.com on how the US is waging an internal propaganda war to limit what people see and therefore think
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Feels kind of appropriate
I can’t urge you strongly enough to support this campaign for a debate on Palantir’s role and reach in our public services; they are absolutely everywhere you look!
Suella Braverman becomes the latest Tory MP to defect to Reform UK. “I feel like I’ve come home,” she tells a rally of people who can't wait to be in power so they can deport anyone whose parents weren't born in this country.
Amazing news that Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK a mere 194 days since her husband, Rael Braverman, left Reform UK for comments they made criticising his wife.
Huge thanks to everyone who’s donated. We’re almost at £10,000. Every donation is funding organisers, materials and rapid response work to challenge Reform UK in 2026.
Brown booze!
@bjennings90.bsky.social has utterly nailed it in the @theguardian.com cartoon 👏
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Just done this and both my adult and child selves are delighted
But the stakes are rising. With rumours of a Westminster by-election in Gorton and local by-elections already happening, we need to be ready.
Please help us raise £10,000 by next Friday to fund organisers, materials and rapid response in key areas.
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Who is paying Nigel Farage while he’s meant to represent Clacton?
Terrifying how much access these amoral grifters have to our politicians (of all stripes) and how so many decisions appear to go in their favour
Freedom is a Collective Endeavour: some thoughts on Minneapolis
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Holme Pierrepont #parkrun set an unenviable new record this morning, and also formed part of the new closest pair of events (but >6 km apart by foot at present).Though only if you go by pins on the events map - the 2 courses that get closest to each other are actually Atlasville and Homestead Lake.
No, but his birthday isn’t until February 😆
Ha, ha. Did exactly the same on the Rough Trade vinyl sale site this morning 😬
