James Milne
@jmilnegreen.bsky.social
Architectural Psychologist(!) and Technologist. Newcastle Green Party. Basically a cat in human form. Most of my views are stolen, but nobody else should be held responsible for them.
Pretty rich from a party that hired James Orr as head of policy.
Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 10h agoA Reform UK spokesperson says it “beggars belief that Kemi Badenoch has hired a former neo-Nazi”. Says it’s “alarming news for the Jewish community in Britain”
By joining the Young Conservatives
Ba Dum Drummer Crow
Alt: Gif showing an animated drawing of a crow playing "Ba dum tsss" on a drum kit
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Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 11h agoIn a post on X he says he’ll instead be advising the Conservative Party on how young men become radicalised
Calculus eat your heart out.
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 19h agoBrilliant work by Benjamin Bartholet. He turns real ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz into an imaginary coastline: outbound vessels shape one shore, inbound vessels the other, and the channel narrows as traffic falls. The data draws the map. Source: github.com/telohtrab/st...
Barenaked Ladies @barenakedladies.com are back in the UK this December. I really can't recommend them enough. They are brilliant. And the bonus is - They've had some amazing support acts over the years but I have to say the guy they've got with them this time is my all time favourite.
The idea that the fundamental determinant of France and the UK's differing fates in 1940 was "resolve" rather than 21 miles of deep water would be risible if it wasn't so widely believed and so significant a contributing factor to many of the worst aspects of our culture and politics.
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d agoFrench forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Straw poll; off the top of your head, what's the most extreme political position you can recall encountering? And did you come across it on social media or as part of an in-person conversation?
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d agoOne of the more disturbing I've had was, in person, with a Assadist who was quite happy to say it was right to machine gun peaceful protestors
Case in point, all the people invoking a rose-tinted, sanitised version of the '50s and '60s as if this were some sort of evidence we should all vote Reform rather than do the exact opposite.
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d agoYep, the great weakness of social democracy is that it works. Its gains are taken for granted and the collective responsibility it demands can be resented by those it emancipates. It ends up defending what it creates rather than looking forward. Not sure we have a good solution here
Deputy Political editor of the guardian, who has written zero articles on the (lack of) political response to the Climate Crisis this summer despite the unprecedented heatwaves, wonders why politicians are not talking about it.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 3d agoWe are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Just back from holiday and catching up. Interesting quirk in latest @yougov.co.uk polling is they have a different party ahead in each of the four age groups they disaggregate. 18-24 Green 25-49 Labour 50-64 Reform 65+ Conservative
For the love of god *please* can you stop pretending this was some sort of autonomous vehicle. "Man arrested for dangerous driving after ploughing a Volkswagen T-Roc into the front of a Sunderland home, which is still cordoned off two days on."
ChronicleLive - The Chronicle@chroniclelive.co.uk · 3d agoA Volkswagen T-Roc ploughed into the front of a Sunderland home which is still cordoned off two days on
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
So far this summer we've smashed the following UK records: May max temperature (by 2.3°C) May highest minimum daily temp (by 2.4°C) June max temp (by 2.4°C) June highest minimum daily temp (by 0.5°C) No. of days max temp over 35°C: 6 (+1) No. of days max temp over 34°C: 9 (+2)
Green council leaders have written to the Prime Minister warning that local government is in financial crisis. They're calling for urgent action to stop more cuts to the services our communities rely on.
Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps
You see everything is connected. The marine heatwaves off the coasts of Europe make heatwaves on land more intense, which in turn dries out vegetation, which then creates perfect fire weather conditions. Brought to you by the world's refusal to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels.
Ongoing marine heatwave in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea | EU Space Support Office
In late May 2026, several countries in Western Europe faced above-average temperatures. During the same period, large areas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea also recorded above-average ...
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It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.
I did an experiment in which I asked Copilot to generate a review of a grant proposal. I gave it the review criteria and it spat out a surprisingly specific and thorough review… before I’d given it a proposal. It’s just predictive text. It is not thinking. it generates text, it does not write.
Yet more evidence that our society has abandoned empirical observation in favour of uninformed opinion. (Joking not joking).
Sophie Hall@sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 2w agoFinally, someone asking the important questions
Angela Rayner, "We won’t be looking at rent controls" That’s even more voters Labour will haemorrhage to the Green Party 🇩🇪 Germany : rent caps 🇫🇷 France : rent caps 🇺🇸 USA : rent control in some cities 🇳🇱 Netherlands : maximum rents 🇦🇹 Austria : regulated rents 🇸🇪 Sweden : negotiated rents
It takes a village, it takes a team and it takes time. But we can do all kinds of magic when we work together.
Kenny Stewart@kennystew.art · 2w agoOh and btw, I really like @lenniesaurus.bsky.social’s ode to our athletes and moreover the people and communities around them, Bring it Hame, filmed by my pal Gav.
In November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
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Chris Dennis served the RAF with honour. He was court-martialled for being gay in 1966 — and now, at 80, the UK Government won't give him the recognition it promised LGBT+ veterans. Sign to change that: a.allout.org/s/W78kl/
Give Gay Veteran Chris Dennis His Recognition
Chris Dennis was court-martialled for being gay in 1966, aged 21. Now 80, the UK Government's promised recognition for LGBT+ veterans has been denied to him over a technicality. Sign to change that.
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That's £10,000 MILLION! A lot of Tory pals & donors were set up for life. They got houses, fancy cars, yachts... from a scam which almost certainly led to the deaths of thousands of doctors and nurses, during a pandemic. Has a Govt ever sunk as low as this? And no-one has been held to account.
Broken Politics 🌍@landofbritain.bsky.social · 3w agoFive years on... We need to remember again just how bad and corrupt the Tories were, and still are. Can you also imagine what would have happened if the blatant crook Farage and his #UKIP / #ReformUK had been in government? We would all have died. #Covid #Johnson #bbclaurak #Clacton #ukpolitics
