Whoever pays for this long-running obituary notice has either never heard of Edgar Ætheling or really, really hates him.

You can currently download my non-Playmobil account of the Norman Conquest for 99p. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

Today's the 960th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

He's just a violent thug in a suit

Gareth Davies@garethtbij.bsky.social · 2d ago

They want to create a 'Deportation Command' and the 'Migrant Identification Centre'. Their Chancellor in waiting is comfortable telling TalkTV that the Navy should be allowed to use 'lethal force' against migrants www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

finde ich super, dass wir peu a peu die Stromversorgung auf erneuerbare Energien umstellen! Einzig es erschließt sich mir nicht, warum dafür nicht bereits versiegelte Flächen (bspw. Parkplätze) verwendet werden, sondern Grünland

Markus Marterbauer@markusmarterbauer.bsky.social · yesterday

Auf dem Weg zur #Klimaneutralität2040: ÖBB nehmen in Enns größte Photovoltaikanlage für Bahnstrom in Betrieb. ooe.orf.at/stories/3374...

“Reform has to take ever more extreme positions to keep winning headlines. As horrific as Jenrick’s comments are, they should be understood less as a policy proposal than as the political equivalent of a toddler acting out for attention.” Cruelty is weakness. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/482...

Robert Jenrick has confused cruelty with courage

Jonn Elledge: The Reform politician thinks he’s brave to say what he does – he’s actually just got no humanity

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Just realising that various eminent folk have been talking EU trade for nearly an entire morning and services have barely been mentioned, and perhaps that tells us more than anything why the EU is struggling - not thinking forwards.

Amusingly Bernd Lange chair of the European Parliament trade committee just said the EU's trade surplus would be great if it wasn't for China's trade surplus, really don't think this is the best prism to be thinking of today's world.

The statues are dancing in excitement at the prospect of EU Trade Policy Day

The EU should consider suspending the operating license for Starlink

Royal Mail losing 400 postal workers a week, says union. Fewer workers lead to more pressure on those remaining. Low morale. Parcels prioritised over letter delivery. Letter delivery targets not met even when lowered, prices hiked. Can RM survive?

Royal Mail losing 400 postal workers a week, says union

The CWU says more posties are leaving since a new delivery system was brought in, that it claims is not working in hundreds of offices.

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Some archaeological finds may appear unremarkable and ordinary, yet they often are more interesting than any treasure, such as this Roman glass square bottle remarkably containing a rare find – preserved ointment. The waxy mass of fatty acids and glycerine contains plant fibres from...🧵1/2 📷 me

GERMANY: AfD Nazis 👇 The AfD is already disgusted by the fact that a "German dish" is served by foreign staff. How sick can you be?

Omas gegen Rechts Frankfurt Uffbasse@ogrffmuffbasse.bsky.social · 2h ago

www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/kultu... Schon das servieren eines "deutschen Gerichtes" durch Personal aus dem Ausland ist der AfD zuwider. Wie krank kann man sein?

It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social · 3h ago

Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation.

Operation Vivaldi has completed its four seasons. Ukrainian Defenders have liberated another 101 km² of Ukrainian land. The 3rd Army Corps and attached units have freed three more settlements - Zelena Dolyna, Lypove, Kolodiazi.During the fourth stage of "Vivaldi," Russia lost nearly 3,000 soldiers

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot

Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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What about natural alternatives? Wood for example...

Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙@heib20.bsky.social · 4h ago

A lovely black granite worktop surface is in my kitchen. I can clearly remember the day when it took 3 men to lift & fit it in. Whilst it still looks super, I’d be appalled if the cutting of it had endangered someone’s health. This report from Sky is worth a watch!🤔👀 news.sky.com/share/13599076

Nigel Farage’s statement that he would hand Chagos Islands to Donald Trump as a trade for silence on the Falklands. He really can’t spin it as a positive today.

I think it's great that our Parliament represents people with different faiths, and our country respects freedom of religion. Shame about the whiny jealous haters though

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h ago

Don't hide behind your followers Matt. Tell us what YOU think about it

My Trade Secrets today. Unfair Chinese competition may exist but it’s not the main reason the EU’s car industry is screwed, and tariffs won’t fix it on their own. Companies need to move faster and leave the internal combustion era behind.

How not to revive Europe’s auto industry

The electric vehicle market shows how legacy EU companies continue to fail when it comes to countering Chinese competition

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Ummm…👇

General Keith Kellogg: “I would burn down every one of the goddamn refineries that Russia has today. Take them all out. It’s a military target.” It is the fastest way to end this war, because it is the fastest way to deprive Russia from the means to wage it.

Former Trump Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg said he would tell Zelensky to strike every Russian oil refinery, arguing there should be no military sanctuaries. “I’d burn down every one of the goddamn refineries that Russia has today. Take them all out. Make them pay the price.” #Ukraine

"Ukraine has not conducted strikes on Russian oil refining or energy facilities overall for two days since the President of America announced a ceasefire in energy. However, Russia did not comply with the President of America. ⬇️

🚨 The Atlantic: Trump is trying to force Ukraine to surrender "In the past 72 hours, Donald Trump has dropped all pretense, torched a couple decades of American policy, and undermined 18 months of his own diplomacy." Interesting analysis, I suggest reading it.

Roman the dog helped search for people trapped under the rubble after the Russian strike on Pryluky. Search and rescue dogs have a lot of work in Ukraine because of Russia, sadly. 📹: lid._ka/Threads

Deirdre Costigan MP: "Many of my constituents voted to leave the EU because they were bombarded with lies, from the mythical £350 million a week for the NHS that never appeared to the lie that immigration would come down when it actually trebled."

'Bombarded by lies': London MPs rage against Brexit as Sadiq Khan says rejoin EU

Quitting the European Union has been ‘an unmitigated disaster and has left us poorer as a result,’ says Marsha De Cordov

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Trump is such a belligerent narcissistic piece of shit. F*ck I hope he gets destroyed at the midterms and gets impeached, along with that alcoholic lying piece of shit Hegseth

I'm so pissed off that I've taken to ranting into my empty kitchen cabinet. Here's me on why Farage is wrong about everything. Thank you for listening.