Outsider. Fell running. Cycling. Mountains. Moors. Lakes. My politics dress left of centre.
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.
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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 😡😡
Indeed he did - things like "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids"
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.
Urgent warning issued for Lancashire lake as suspected algal bloom reported
Urgent warning issued for Lancashire lake as suspected algal bloom reportedVisitors have been warned to avoid direct contact with the water in Lancashire after a suspected algal bloom was reported.dlvr.it
I visited Dounreay Nuclear power plant as a school child 48 years ago. It stopped generating in 1994, yet it is still being decommissioned, with a workforce of 1,000+. So don't tell me that wind power curtailment is expensive, or about the landfill of benign, end of life, turbine blades.
Clacton bin day leaflet, make sure the local Facebook and tiktok groups have a copy
We've created a handy tool to fill in the consultation. Click on the link to be taken to our consultation page, and you can send your views to the government in seconds. protectthewild.org.uk/fireworks-co...
UK Fireworks Consultation - Protect the WildTAKE ACTION: Fireworks Consultation The government is consulting on proposed changes to fireworks legislation amid growing concern about their impact on community safety, vulnerable people and…protectthewild.org.uk
According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.share.google
"First they came for the EU. Then the ECHR. They say leaving both will mean taking back control. It’s all lies. What they actually plan to take away is 100+ years of hard won worker’s rights, children’s rights, women’s rights, HUMAN rights, all of which make YOUR life better." via We Demand UK
This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to copsEXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...www.mirror.co.uk
Reform councils in action. Selling the country's lungs that keep us cooler. I'm sure Kent will be fine even hotter and drier. Paying attention #Clacton?
The GuardianCampaigners rail against ‘plundering’ of ancient Kent woodland to make way for quarry expansion
Litany of failure here from Port of Tyne and companies involved in perhaps worst ever plastic pollution event in UK/Europe: No immediate containment of spillage No mention of spillage in press releases until day 4 *Still* no large-scale clear-up operation Nurdles found 20 miles N and S of Tyne
Port of Tyne criticised over River Tyne plastic nurdle spill responsePort of Tyne says it acted to tackle the spillage of nurdles once it was aware.www.bbc.co.ukAlison Stenning“This incident is believed to be the largest recorded nurdle spill in Northern Europe and the UK.” @northwildlife.bsky.social
This changes everything. Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UKExclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her sonwww.theguardian.com
This is one of the best things I've read in a while about the psychology of car supremacy, and how those of us who even *question* it are viewed as heretics. Thanks to @pflax1.bsky.social for sending this my way.
We Don’t Have a Culture of Convenience in North America. We Have a CULT of Convenience.And you can tell the difference by what happens when you question it.medium.com
I have another lovely #buyastrangerabook offer for you. @lulabelli.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of either of these two books. ‘Did I Ever Tell You This' by Sam Neill or ‘Great-Uncle Harry’ by Michael Palin. If you'd like one of them, let us know! UK only
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