John Pindar
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Retired science teacher. NW UK. #Photography #Screenprinter and #Artist, #pro-European #pro-EU and #pro-PR, LGBT+ ally, #art #printmaking #sketching 🚫 Crypto 🚫 Only Fans 🚫 Beggars No bio or no posts = no follow Always looking for the positives in life.
How come Farage is allowed to hold a press conference, which was broadcast on the BBC?
A small act of kindness toward someone vulnerable just went viral, proof that you do not need grand gestures to make a real difference. Sharing food, helping a hurt animal, aiding a stranger, this is
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.
Politicians: Stop talking about the ‘small boats’. It’s not the UK’s main problem. (It’s the only thing Reform have) Quote the latest reassuring figures then dismiss that topic and examine the real issues.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d agoLayla Moran says Reform UK are raising small boats again to distract from the Clacton by election where Nigel Farage is facing a Bin
John Cleese’s common sense is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It’s bereft of life, it rests in peace. ☹️
Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.
Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year.
Although painted in oils, Berthe Morisot's 'Hanging the Laundry out to Dry,' (1878) shows characteristics of her earlier watercolours with which she was able to create a translucent atmosphere and feathery touch, which contribute to the freshness in her paintings.
Sure do miss having compassion in the Whitehouse!!
A new government sets its direction early. I've just signed European Movement UK's petition asking Andy Burnham to drop the red lines on Europe and set out a real plan for the UK's European future. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/5_asks_for_a... #EU #ProEU #JoinEU #Europe #EMUK
Our 5 Asks for Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham must seize the moment to build a bold, forward-looking agenda for his administration to lead the UK towards a new European future.
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It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
Proposed Italian electoral law would remove First Past the Post seats – but it’s not all good news electoral-reform.org.uk/proposed-ita... Electoral Reform Society – ERS #PR #FPTP #ElectoralReform #Italy
Proposed Italian electoral law would remove First Past the Post seats – but it’s not all good news
For much of the post-war period, Italy was famous for having a very proportional electoral system – but this all changed in 1993 when they created a system that mixed First Past the Po
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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Reminder: everyone on American soil, whether they were born here or not, has the right to due process. Here’s everything you need to know.
86 active fires in Oregon. 34k Oregonians under some form of evacuation order. Oregonians have lost their homes, & it’s early in fire season Trump just denied emergency funding (FMAGs) for Oregon’s near 2 million acres burned _so far this year_ Republican Representative Cliff Bentz is silent…
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
"Before the match, Nobby Siles, the hard man of the team, was taken to one side by Ramsey. “Nobby, Argentina’s best player is Antonio Rattín, I want you to mark Rattín,” said Ramsey. After a perfectly timed pause Nobby replied “Alf, do you want me to mark him for the match or for his entire life?”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7d agoEngland’s 1966 World Cup heroes were fun, humble and unlike today’s stars
'Prospect Street, Gloucester.' (1928) Edward Hopper first visited Gloucester, Massachusetts in the summer of 1912, he was so entranced by the beauty of the place that he would return four more times including 1923 when he first began using watercolour.
During the Great Depression, Douglass Crockwell made several paintings for the Works Progress Administration including this work from 1932, which celebrates the industrial workers at the newspaper plant in the town of Glens Falls, New York.
This is one of the dumbest & most bizarre Executive Orders we have ever read. This EO is a clear political overreach, driven by an ideological agenda to rewrite American history. Our Smithsonian institutions do not belong to the President, but to the American people & so does our nation’s history.
Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy. On
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“There is nothing more unstoppable than an idea whose time has come, and PR’s time has come.” Andy Burnham
