Belinda Scott
@bycyclebee.bsky.social
Vegetarian, cyclist, dog companion of @lolablacklab and @rosarednosa Unenthusiastic about Brexit, Tories and the patriarchy. Enthusiastic about women’s sport, especially cycling.
My latest on Substack (free). How one incredibly stupid Excel error broke Britain. russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #Macro #MacroPhotography #Bee #WeeBee #ECK The moment between being here and being gone 🐝😉
Trump : “Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
Chris@oakymoron.bsky.social · 17h agoThe similarity between Trump’s and Farage’s alternative view of reality Both are conspiracy peddlers and both seek to stir up hate from those who are incapable of rational thought www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/p...
Let us be clear stealing land and forcing people out of their homes is ethnic cleansing. Such actions are outright wrong whichever community is the victim and anyone remaining silent needs to ask themselves what they would do if it happened to a Jewish or Christian community.
Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · 19h agoThank you for the reminders. He was a loathsome man. Why people feel the need to applaud him just because he’s died, is beyond me.
Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2d agoYour reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.
Interesting thread. Safe routes are a must as a start.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d ago"People want to see this issue addressed," Prime Minister Andy Burnham said in Dover, adding: "We also need to build a system that offers safe routes for people as well, because that also takes away the selling point of the gangs." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. My first thought was to rescue two more, but I don’t want to go through the menopause again." - Joan Rivers
Full performance here: Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 Isabelle Faust, violin London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle, conductor Barbican Centre, London 🙏🏼🎼🕊️ youtu.be/ucxyCKjcZsU?...
Brahms: Violin Concerto | Isabelle Faust, Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra
YouTube video by DW Classical Music
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"...touched, by the better angels of our nature." — Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861 German classical violinist Isabelle Faust performs the timeless, ethereal entrance of II. Adagio, Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, composed in 1878. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️
Cover-ups thrive when institutions know delay and denial carry fewer consequences than honesty. The Hillsborough Law could begin to change that, but closing Britain’s integrity gap means fixing donations, lobbying, and the voting system. https://www.uglypolitix.com/p/closing-britains-integrity-gap
There's something very simple that almost all of us can do about this - each less chicken and more plants.
Tea Junkie@teajunkie.bsky.social · last wk."As the chicken population has exploded, they’ve ... become a cauldron of bacterial evolution .. that’s where new Frankenstein monster bugs emerge." Another warning that we'll almost certainly ignore until people start dying. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ju...
Greyhound racing will be banned in New Zealand from 1 August, so when will Aus, England, the republic and north of Ireland, and the US follow?
Greyhound racing supporter tells activists 'We'll blow all our dogs away'
Greyhound racing will be banned in New Zealand from 1 August, so when will Aus, England, the republic & north of Ireland, and the US follow?
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Regarding the Mail's scare story (on 'death taxes', not Nadine's bikini): Example estate worth £500,000. New IHT @ 10% = £50k. But free care home for a year saves at least £1300 x 52 = £67.6k. So the inheriting family would be better off. 🤔
“Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?” - Steve Polyak
A reminder of why J K Rowling deserves praise, in Mandy Rhodes’ article about the Scottish reasons for her philanthropy.
Holyrood@holyroodmag.bsky.social · 2w agoJK Rowling deserves gratitude not vilification, says Mandy Rhodes www.holyrood.com/editors-colu...
And, whilst doing this, has also been attacking erstwhile friendly states, making them enemies, and urging them to rearm. Which they are doing. Yes. America is declining fast - very fast - under Trump And it is wilful.
Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · last wk.People need to step back and understand what they are seeing. After a few months of war, the USA is running out of munitions and options fighting a country with no air force, no navy and a damaged infrastructure. US decline is real and self-inflicted.
Patrick Blower @blowercartoons on the #MansionTax @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Insanity on both counts. The biggest party - shameful. Co-operating with the AfD - lunacy.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2w agoThe far-right AfD is now Germany’s most popular party. One of Friedrich Merz’s closest allies says the chancellor’s centrist conservatives should break a longstanding taboo and start cooperating with them. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/germ...
The no win scenario. I don't like bells, but for everyone who moans about a bell, there's always one who if you shout hello, will shout "where's your bell"! Strange who they rarely step in front of cars though. at least more than once anyway.
Rosamundi@rosamundi.bsky.social · 2w agoApparently, ringing your bike bell and shouting "careful" at someone who's about to step into the bike lane without looking is "rude" now 🙄
I bet loads of those criticising her loved Boris Johnson - the fat, dishevelled slob who did nothing but sell his country down the river. Men’s appearance is never questioned though is it. So disgusting (and depressing) that we’re still doing that in this day and age
Stop scrolling!!! A puffling* has been spotted in Purbeck, Dorset for the first time in 30 years! *Baby puffin (yes, they have the cutest name)
“Something fundamental has changed. Nigel Farage for the first time is looking vulnerable” Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on her latest deep dive into George Cottrell
More totally unacceptable escalation from Putin’s regime. It’s almost as if Putin is determined to provoke World War III. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russian warship carried out firing exercise off Plymouth coast
The Neustrashimy's live-fire exercise took place in international waters and lasted for 30 minutes.
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