So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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"The politicians basically serve the rich, the wealthy, and their self-interest." Listen to this man in Nigel Farage's constituency.

Bernie's On It.......

Yup. You did. And cancer research for children was first to go.

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

Ofc she doesn't. She has the IQ of a satsuma.

Pawel Swidlicki@pswidlicki.bsky.social · 2d ago

Does she realise Dunkirk wouldn't have even been possible if French forces had surrendered as opposed to fighting a rearguard action which allowed the BEF to assemble in Dunkirk and the evacuation flotilla to be formed?

Does she realise Dunkirk wouldn't have even been possible if French forces had surrendered as opposed to fighting a rearguard action which allowed the BEF to assemble in Dunkirk and the evacuation flotilla to be formed?

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d ago

The war. It always comes back to the war. That happened long before they were born.

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

What @toni.bsky.team might be missing is the fact that we've all successfully migrated before to escape a platform that put first quantity, then controversy, then hate before quality. There's nothing that stops us from doing so again. 🤷‍♀️ @bsky.app

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d ago

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

Two faced BadEnoch criticising Labour re the Prison crisis when it was the Tories and specifically Sunak who knew it was a major issue that they didn’t address. In fact Sunak ran away.

Appreciate this is 'make it make sense' howling into the void, but the failure (with some exceptions) of government, politicians, media, and business to point at the heatwaves and fires and state 'this is why climate action matters' is a serious problem. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Summertime silence

The right of British politics has stepped up its attacks on climate action in recent weeks, so why has the rest of the political spectrum largely failed to seize the 'teachable moment' presented by cr...

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Scottish actor #BrianCox, best known for playing Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. In an interview with TRT World’s Ghida Fakhry, Cox explained why he refuses to stay quiet despite concerns about Hollywood backlash......” #AllHeroesDontWearCapes 🇵🇸

Not a word about verifying the gender of boys... this is little girl specific. Child sexual abuse on a state level 'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners www.rawstory.com/project-2025...

'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners

A Washington State ballot measure that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before taking part in sports provoked nationwide outrage.IL26-638 w...

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The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic

We’re not even at the peak of El Niño yet, but the wildfires across Europe and the floods in South Asia are already devastating. Will we ever see real and urgent climate action from our world leaders?

My dad (RAMC) spent days on those beaches waiting to be evacuated. He never had a bad word to say about the French forces that helped make sure he got home alive.

"Dear Diary The launch of our scheme to use the Royal Navy to stop small boats has gone exactly to plan. It is so patently absurd that it is all anyone can talk about, providing the perfect distraction from all our dodgy financial dealings"

French 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. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡

I genuinely think this woman is evil. Definitely very dangerous and quite obviously nasty.

I Remember, Hope you do….

In Norway the oil was nationalised, in Scotland it was privatised, so companies drill under license and sell the crude oil on the international market. bsky.app/profile/alas...

Alastair Παν 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🇪🇺@alastair-pandelus.bsky.social · 5d ago

A rare moment of clarity from the Daily Mail. The SNP in the 1970s said Scotland's wealth was being stolen. It was, then frittered away on tax cuts that mainly benefitted London, with nothing to show for it. No legacy at all. Renewables are going the same way. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Calgacus in 83 AD (according to Tacitus) "They make a desert and call it peace". Netanyahu in 2026 AD (according to press reports) "our goal is to safeguard our security and also to expand the circle of peace around us."

There has never been a Prime Minister of England. The office did not exist in 1707. Andy Burnham could be the first. Let's do it. Let's split up the UK and leave him to it.

No thanks Westminster, give Scotland and Ireland back to its people. England have relentlessly exploited both for centuries. The ‘union’ is built on a pack of lies.

Watch out as they try again to blame the SNP but remember NO liberal democracy ANYWHERE has EVER closed the school attainment gap talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/25/n...

No liberal democracy ANYWHERE has EVER closed the school attainment gap yet in Scotland it’s a stick to beat the SNP with

Maoist China in 1960s closes attainment gap by simply sending middle-class students to the fields and not letting them sit the exams at all! BBC Scotland yesterday bypassed evidence of the attainme…

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