Met Office weather earning of 56 mph wind in Aberdaron - plus light rain and 10 degree C that feels like 5!
In the meantime - itβs blowing a hooley out there and the greenhouse is in peril again π€·ββοΈ
I vote for all the animals that have won the PDSA Dickin Medal for bravery β¦ even though mainly pigeons, dogs and horsesβ¦β¦fine by me! #banknotes
A paradigmatic example of the mistaken prioritisation of βresearchβ over teaching. Cross-subsidise research from student fees, and penalise academics who prioritise teaching.
Doubt much of the electorate have noticed but the mess Badenoch and Farage have got into over Iran shows just how beatable they are.
So, of course heβs found a way to not support the war whilst still supporting the war. Total charlatan.
Words fail me.
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Oh my word, this is not sounding good at all π #Glasgow
Save the dates!!
RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Poetry & Arts Festival
June 18-21 in Aberdaron
Theme is "Abercuawg"
Rowan Williams, Jason Walford-Davies, Clare e. Potter, & more
Tickets on sale later in March
rsthomaspoetry.co.uk
Well, itβs been quite a day at the #6Nations Italy 23 England 18
What a magnificent tryfest!
SCO 50 - F 40 Incredible!
#6Nations
Anyway, you all need to be reading Charlie Gammell over on Substack open.substack.com/pub/onceadip...
Dydd Gwanwyn bendigedig, eto!
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@stellacreasy.bsky.social: "When we ask ourselves what is holding Britain back from being more productive, it is not immigrants or women who donβt have enough babies β whatever the claims of the right. Instead, tackling the cost of living crisis and confronting division should be our priorities."
They blew up or drowned 150 people with absolutely no justification and it was a 10-minute story.
full end terrace house wall painting on cream of black swallows above the words "you belong here" from Bearwood, Birminghamm England by Foka Wolf and Jodi Ann Bickley
Beautiful work from Birmingham artist Foka Wolf and hope-filled writer Jodi Ann Bickley
18 Walls of Light murals brightened key areas across Bearwood #WallsOfLight
www.creativeblackcountry.co.uk/blog/2024/9/...
This is superb, as ever from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social who should be in charge of political content in the BBC.
Head and shoulders above all domestic political commentators.
Unemotional fact based unpeeling of bullshit
Untrue - the Convention provides both for the possibility that protection might cease to be necessary (ie the cessation clause: refugee status ends if there's a change in circumstances) AND the possibility it might need to be long-term (ie references to facilitating citizenship of the refuge State)
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
This is an excellent and extremely informative listen for anyone, like me, whose understanding of Iran and of Middle-East dynamics in general is fairly superficial.
This is a big reason European states are getting drawn in. Iran can keep chucking drones at Gulf states for longer than they can shoot them down.
It tells you something about the disorientating rate of change underway that nobody is particularly shocked that a head of state has been assassinated by other states, something which has *never happened* in the modern era. Which is illegal under US law. Shed no tears for Khamanei, but still.
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Up North. Around Hebden Bridge and pilgrimage to Heptonstall today.
Dw i ddim adre ar hyn o bryd on - yn West Yorkshire!, ond Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi Sant Hapus, pawb!
Aw, what a sweetie β₯οΈ
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
Loving that the party whose slogan is βFamily. Community. Countryβ are now claiming that they lost because of βfamily votingβ.
Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.
Expect weeks of "family voting" rhetoric from Reform. They're out of the gates on it already.
It mustn't be allowed to wash because look at the scale of that win.
Tactical voting has obviously played a massive part.
Gorton and Denton rejected Reform and its hateful agenda.
These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.
