Nigel Farage called out in US for 'backing free speech' while banning journalists www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage called out in US for 'backing free speech' while banning journalists www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.
Pathetic that the PM refused to answer my simple question about climate action today. Instead of playing party political games, why doesn't Starmer show some actual leadership and finally put an end to climate-wrecking projects like Rosebank oil field? #StopRosebank
John Lee Hooker at his Woodside, California home circa 1997. #bluesmusic Photo by ©Peter DaSilva
Daily Epstein re-skeet.
Go Jamie.
Congratulations, Mothin!
There's a bike for nearly everyone. They simply need the infrastructure.
Asked to estimate what % of the global population are willing to give 1% of their income to fix climate change, delegates at the UN Environment Assembly guessed 37%. It's actually 69%. That gap partially explains why our politicians aren't nearly bold enough. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I'm not sure I want to give way to the right.
1. On this specific point, just as he is on so many other issues, Farage is a massive hypocrite. 2. A free, fair and, above all, safe society puts limits on free speech, right about where hate and incitement respectively start.
"The Greens are now the political leadership of the left in England." It's good to see this recognised. novaramedia.com/2025/09/03/z...
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A new investigation undertaken by Manchester Mill's Jack Walton reveals that a 'raise the flag' activist and a key figure behind the protests against irregular migration across the channel has himself been convicted of illegally smuggling migrants across the channel. youtu.be/nvpgUrHLQkk?...
No, I very much doubt it.
Wes is what happens if AI tries to create a Tory Health Secretary.
Wes Streeting has today said that hate speech laws should be revised, saying they have had "unintended consequences." Which has reminded me that Dawn Foster's assessment of him is as true today as it was when she posted this in 2021:
Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?
Those who can channel our anger at 15 years of misrule, who can speak the language of outrage and hope, are the politicians of the moment. They will contribute to what could be, in 2029, the greatest electoral reset in our modern history. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Farage remains deeply unpopular in the UK; he has merely stepped into a gaping vacuum of disillusionment and despair. The opportunities for progressive politicians to seize this moment, to even greater effect, are simply waiting to be taken."
National Highways will be grilled at the Environmental Audit Committee today on its poor environmental record. The committee will hear from Jo Bradley from Stormwater Shepherds, whose research shows National Highways are polluting rivers. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...
Painting by Kate Jarvik Birch ‘Summer Rain’ 2025. Gouache on paper. Dimensions 6 x 6 Inches. katebirchart.com/collections/...
It's very rare that I have any praise for Labour's comms. This (first paragraph) is one of those occasions. Let's see if their frontbenchers adopt this as a talking point.
"[They] stood on the stage together: a Jewish Londoner, a woman from the home counties and a Muslim man from inner-city Leeds, united by a desire to remake their country in the face of established power and an insurgent far right. For a moment, it was hard not to feel just a little bit of hope."
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
"Amplifying the right since 1922." If that's not on a brass plaque somewhere in their HQ, it blummin well should be.
Oh yes, without question.
the idea that some of the most important strategic transport infrastructure in the country is managed by a charitable trust continues to baffle me
"I'm definitely on the right." - No shit, Sherlock. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Faced with irresponsible leaders who then lie about what they've said, "Stop. Play the clip" is *exactly* what good journalism looks like.
English documentary photographer Janette Beckman, Tracy Chapman, New York, 1988 #WomensArt
Indeed they do.
I've been locked away at work all day, so this - Zack winning, and by a landslide - is news to me. Very good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Giuliani definitely did not have a sex worker with him in his car at the time of the crash. Definitely.
Hopefully some prison time will give these scumbags pause for thought. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Diana Ross in Mahogany (1975) Photo by Steve Schapiro.
In 2024 alone, Drax "collected the equivalent of £2m in subsidies every day for its biomass power generation, at a cost of £10 for every household in Britain." Drax has also sponsored aspects of numerous Labour Party conferences in recent years. Which is nice. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Just saying: In the midst of a climate crisis, any government that champions "maximising oil and gas extraction" is not leading; it is legislating for collapse. Oil and gas expansion should be treated as the moral outrage that it is.
We are living through a pyrocene of our own making. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Endless patterns carved by Iceland’s glacial rivers
Yowzer.
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South Uist, 2024 #otd
A @davewalker.bsky.social cartoon that is perfect. This should be everywhere not shitty flags.
Excellent public interest journalism here, from @yorkshirebylines.co.uk yorkshirebylines.co.uk/regular-feat...
ICYMI: A sitting British MP, James McMurdock, is using the N-word to attack a journalist, Mhari Aurora. Far-right influencers such as Andrew Tate have been deploying the capital "N" as racist shorthand in social media attacks on Black people.
📸 Gabriel Puyana
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Saltaire, painting by Linda Mellin, Yorkshire landscape artist. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
Fair enough. My position is that I'm supportive of policies that seek to reform the private education sector because private schools entrench inequality. Can we agree that they have that effect?
You and I could have some to-and-fro on it, but what would be the point?
As the parent of a child who cycles to school, this frightens the bejesus out of me. And I'd welcome a step change in enforcement and punishment for phone use whilst driving.
Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
Nicely put.
Nice one, Paris. #AirPollution www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Tories: A vote for us is a vote to accelerate climate change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You don't like that policy. Got it. Have a great day.
Be Modern - Ride a Raleigh ca. 1950s
Paul Klee, Day Music (Musique diurne) from Art d'Aujourd'hui, Maîtres de l'Art Abstrait (Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art): Album I, 1953 (original executed in 1940) #paulklee #museumarchive
The company secretary of Your Party UK Ltd is Adnan Hussain, a transphobe who voted against the decriminalisation of abortion. He also consistently voted against charging VAT on private school fees. And he's a landlord, but not of a pub. I don't know about you, but I don't like the cut of his jib.
Modelled here by my glamorous assistant Jessie, someone - @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social? - has done a great job of repairing and improving a section of the Dales Way between Staveley and Bowston. Kudos.
71% say the economy has worsened since Brexit, 77% say cost of living has got worse, 58% say UK businesses face greater difficulties accessing European markets as a result. This is Farage’s one “achievement”. He should be asked about it in every interview. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/most-b...
Yep, him too.
Leeds, 1969, photo by Swiss photographer Eric Jaquier.
Well played.
![Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil tweets: Aug 27 So you're saying if we'd sprayed stuff white and then put a red cross on it the media would have supported us? You live and learn I guess. [Below, a roundabout in England painted with St George's flag]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ysg7hp6kgncoryoll2fz2pgk/bafkreigk4oedxcpckuvxaegjqc4atmjkfmb3guwybbialo6o5aiaq6m5jq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Artist: Jacek Łydżba
99% of cat content leaves me cold, almost certainly because the buggers sh!t in my veg patch, and I am bitter about that, very bitter. But this? This is outstanding.
Railway bridge, Carshalton as an alternative Daily Rothno
Dinah: I don't laud Nigel Farage Also Dinah: a life-size cardboard cut-out of Nigel Farage is a permanent fixture in my conservatory news.sky.com/story/our-co...
*Chapeau* - Copies of the Nottingham Post have begun to appear on lamp posts across the UK after the Reform UK leader of Nottinghamshire County Council banned the newspaper from speaking to him or any of his councillors.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
"[Today’s populist] arguments rely on an eye-watering double hermeneutic. JVL [Jonathan V. Last] wrote about this months ago: In the populist mind, 'if you’re an expert who gets one thing wrong, it damns you. If you’re a total lunatic crank who gets one thing right, it makes you bulletproof.'"
This is a lie. Philp is lying, but of course he has form for it. Here's just one occasion: youtube.com/shorts/c_2Tf...
Franz Marc, The Little Mountain Goats, 1913–14 #slam #museumarchive
i assume he was quietly transferred to another server
'Verrückte Natur' #FotoVorschlag (verschwommen) #scape #EastCoastKin #flowers
"These oversized vehicles are not just swallowing our public space, they're also far more dangerous, especially for children. If we want cities that are safe, breathable, and accessible, we have to get serious about tackling the rise of these urban land-hogs." - Absolutely.
Emma Haworth, Last Day of Summer, 2015, UK painter #WomensArt
Equal parts fascinating and horrifying
Coasting. The Seven Sisters from Birling Gap (well, just offshore).
WTF? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ashli-...
Kevin Dietsch took this photograph. I like it.
"Richard won't be defending his public utterances for the foreseeable future, what with his severe allergy to accountability. So whilst the other children are participating in public discourse, we would be grateful were you to let Richard sit alone and colour in Union Jacks. Yours, Richard's mum."
Free speech! ... No, not like that!
That would be a big help, but of course we fetishised choice at some point, and that's turned out swimmingly, hasn't it?
I'm sure this will end well.
I reckon so.
Walking rates are up, according to today's National Travel Survey data - but the government is failing to meet the target of 55% of primary school children walking to school. The problem? Streets are not safe for walking.
"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered." - A bit of Orwell for you, there.
Reform UK have had to go out to advert for a second time for folk interested in being their candidate for Croydon's mayoral election. Why a second time? Well, Reform's finest minds had selected a woman from Yorkshire who, it turns out, had died six months earlier. insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
Outstanding.
Fair.
You'll likely be as shocked as I was to read that yet another Reform councillor turns out to be a hideous racist, wholly unsuited to hold public office. It sounds like he's committed hate crimes, and I hope he's prosecuted for them. www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...
Utter bollocks. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...
Phwoar