“We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be”
Harold MacMillan, Conservative Prime Minister.
Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a *single* oil price shock
& will insulate UK against future shocks
Meanwhile Reform UK & Tories want to scrap net zero targets on the grounds of 'cost' - so either foolish or doing donors' bidding
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Vampires don't live in castles. Count Dracula lived in a castle because was a Count not a vampire.
I must admit I do like the new Reform UK manifesto:
‘WRONG
WRONG
WRONG
WRONG
WRONG
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO!’
It’s catchy isn’t it?
Bit like one of those wrap songs. 🎤🎵
DJ U-Turn is in da house & layin down sum fat off grooves!
(As Dean our Paperboy would say…)
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Letter headed "Make Leeds great again?" which was published in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 11 March 2026. Peter Packham, Chair of Leeds for Europe, says his group will support a Leeds Stand Up To Racism counter demonstration being mounted in Leeds city centre when Reform UK leader Nigel Farage holds a rally in the city in March 2026.
#ReformUK & #Farage are bringing their toxic hypocritical politics to #Leeds.
Chair @leedsblue67.bsky.social explains in a @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk letter why we support the #StandUpToRacism counter-demo.
📅 Tuesday 24 March, 5pm, city centre - save the date!
(More details soon.)
#StopFarage
When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
Farage has a new saying “Wrong, wrong, wrong”
I’ve heard the odious little freak of nature use it twice in past 48 hours to berate and speak over journalists asking any question he doesn’t like..
He’s passionate about the right to free speech.. as long as it’s the right speech he wants to hear❗️
Brexiter Arlene Foster who now sits in the House of Lords wants to cut welfare support and spend the money on defence instead
Brexit costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax income every year,if we didn't have Foster's Brexit we could keep supporting those in need while also ramping up defence spending
It beats the alternative, I suppose.
Worked for an independent BMW/MINI retailer & if you ever had a full stop, after your name on a letter or invoice it wasn't a typo. It was an internal note that you were an arsehole.
“Dear Don, I wrote you, but you still ain't callin', I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom. I visited Mar-Lago, you must not've known I was there.”
A reporter brilliantly called out Donald Trump over his claims Iran bombed their own school and had the entire internet cheering
www.thepoke.com/2026/03/10/a-reporter-brilliantly-called-out-donald-trump-over-his-claims-iran-bombed-their-own-school-and-had-the-entire-internet-cheering/
With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.
thought the name rang a bell and though he's poshified himself - once upon a time he was "Craig Dillon" - I interviewed this guy back in 2019 as he was doing social media for MPs in a vaguely interesting way - crucially, he seemed entirely normal back then! yet another radicalisation case
And describing it as ‘a damning indictment of the impact of mass migration’ rather than as a deranged racist rant.
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. And yet here we are.
Superb.
The description of Oakeshott occupying 'the grim perineum between journalism and politics' deserves an award unto itself.
Been close friends with someone over a decade, we met in secondary school. She's now married with kids. Just found out she's rehoming her three year old dog she's had from a puppy to move into her 'dream home.' Instantly blocked her, dogs are family.
When in the supermarket and I see a parent allowing their kids to run amok I like to walk behind them, talk into my wrist to pretend I am undercover security and describe the parent out loud. They soon take ownership of their putrid offspring.
Whenever an Amazon delivery says "handed to resident", but it's been either dumped on my doorstep or left somewhere random, I wait the required 48hrs, then claim to have never received it. I like to think of it as payback for them not paying tax properly. It's saved me hundreds.
Had a DIY job to do, with an electric drill, today. However, we had a proper workman round doing a couple of jobs. Didnt want to look like a middle class twonk half arsing the job in front of a pro, so sat on my phone till he'd gone before I started.
I won an award at work. Instead of it motivating me I have started doing less. Obviously I worked too hard and I'm now trying to find the right level between working and not getting fired.
Reform voters aside, hardly anyone sane supports it!
Four from These Isles for #InternationalWomensDay2026: Mary Robinson, former Irish president; Welsh nurse Betsi Cadwaladr; suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst; Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy.
African American mathematician Katherine Johnson seated at her desk at NASA’s Langley Research Center in the mid-1960s. She is wearing glasses and a white dress, with her hands resting on a desk covered in mathematical papers and charts. Behind her is a large celestial globe used for tracking orbits and a Friden mechanical calculator. She is looking intently at a document. The scene captures the precise, manual calculations that served as the final verification for NASA’s early electronic computers, which she performed at a time when women of color were barred from using many standard facilities. Digital restoration and colorization by Seriously Scientific.
Remembering Katherine Johnson on International Women's Day!
A literal human computer, her hand-calculated trajectories were vital to the first human spaceflights and the Apollo moon landings.
She didn't just calculate orbits; she mapped the path for humanity to reach the stars!🚀⭐
#WomenInScience
So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"
Oh, just the business vehicle of Nigel Farage masquerading as a political party breaching its obligations at Companies House.
A vintage black-and-white engraved portrait of Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, shown in a three-quarter view seated in an upholstered armchair. She is a woman in her thirties or forties with large expressive dark eyes and a gentle, introspective expression as she gazes directly at the viewer. Her dark hair falls in soft, full ringlets around her face and over her shoulders, parted in the middle with a small decorative hair accessory visible. She wears a dark, long-sleeved Victorian dress with a fitted bodice buttoned down the front, wide puffed sleeves, a white lace collar and cuffs, and a voluminous skirt. In her lap rests some papers, which she holds with her left hand; her right hand holds a quill pen. Behind her is a softly rendered background with foliage and rose bushes, evoking a serene indoor or garden-like setting. The overall style is a detailed 19th-century steel engraving or lithograph, with fine shading and cross-hatching to create depth and texture.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the Victorian era's most celebrated English poets, was renowned for her lyrical, passionate & intellectually rich work.
She expanded what women could write about and how seriously they were taken. She was born #OTD in 1806. #WomensHistoryMonth #poetry #literature
I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week
Nigel Farage said today, I’m not interested in public opinion. Just think about that for a while.
