I am poised to recognise the Avian Republic of Rockall. A low-key press release will be issued in due course.
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I am poised to recognise the Avian Republic of Rockall. A low-key press release will be issued in due course.
This would be fine if there were a state to recognise.
Defectors from the Fruit & Nut Party, I take it. What could possibly go wrong?
The talking gerbil will be thoroughly delighted.
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.
"Israeli government to pull funding for film awards after Palestinian story triumphs "The Israeli Film Academy's Ophir awards saw The Sea, an Arabic-language film about a Palestinian boy from the West Bank trying to see the ocean, widely honoured"
What is it about Grays? The place is a hive of iniquity.
Anyone else feeling this way these days? 😂
🔥🔥Dr. Peter Hotez’s MUST READ op-ed on antiscience an existential threat. Science must return to Washington DC. Not enough being done. Millions of children & babies, seniors & people with disabilities like me are at major risk. Please repost! @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social 🔥🔥 time.com/7317436/scie...
Poor wee Nigel. Bless his little Union flag socks.
Is the talking gerbil correct? Given the history of privatisation and England's economic ups and downs, I have to ask.
"Reinventing European democracy: a path to regeneration "From local initiatives to transnational cities assemblies and research projects, Europe is testing new paths to counter its democracy crisis." #ScaleDem #democracy
Carbon capture and storage? There is only so much that may be brushed under the terrestrial carpet. The global limit for carbon storage is likely to be met by 2200, and this represents just 0.7 degrees of future global warming. It looks like the answer is no. #CarbonCapture #climate #geology 🧪
Ukrainian media report explosions by a Russian military unit in Vladivostok region of Russia.Injured&dead Russian soldiers are reported,local Tg channels write that a lot of equipment&Russian special services arrived on location.Traffic has been closed off
"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"
It's a "malicious communication", apparently.
Zack Polanski a Janus-faced* opportunist? Shocked, I tell you. Shocked. *TBH, he comes across more like a gerbil on speed.
Beautiful kaboom as a Russian Buk-M2 surface-to-air missile system explodes. Impressive fireworks courtesy of #Ukrainian Defenders from the 15th Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade "Black Forest". The launcher, worth around $25 million, was completely destroyed. Glory!
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump and the Charlie Kirk killing... "This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish." And for that he is un-personed. Free speech in America? The MAGGOTS have a nerve lecturing Europeans on the matter.
Why Maga’s next project is to fix ‘Broken Britain‘. V good analysis.
So the fact Musk has killed thousands with his DOGE cuts to USAID doesn't make the @royalsociety.org "consider expelling Elon Musk". But inciting violence at home, does - though nobody has died yet. Is it that dark-skinned lives don't matter to the @royalsociety.org? Just asking for the dead.
Zack Polanski a Janus-faced* opportunist? Shocked, I tell you. Shocked. *TBH, he comes across more like a gerbil on speed.
In recent days, Labour MPs have been calling for the head of Morgan McSweeney. This evening in Windsor Castle, McSweeney was seated next to Rupert Murdoch. Is Keir Starmer really that blind to the political optics? It would appear so.
The Scottish Greens and other infantilists behind this can go boil their heads.
In the here and now, I double over and vomit.
In the hereafter, Orwell rotates and vomits
"If Charlie's life represented anything, it's the notion that racism and bigotry sells extremely well in this country." Given sufficient racists and bigots, this is so. The thing is, though, love and compassion pay countless dividends. For all. G-d bless America!
A new study tracking 6.5M people finds heart attacks and strokes peak 2 months after hurricanes pass, not during the storm.
This evening I started watching The Donald Trump Show on Channel 4. Big mistake. I soon switched over to journalist Simon Reeves' Wilderness travelogue in Patagonia. Real place, real people, real life, no Spectacle.
Gaza today, fleeing from death to the unknown.
🚨🚨 If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute." BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE 🚨🚨
May the pipers detune their drones, and play all night under Trump's bedroom window.
The silly twat should instead read a book on thermodynamics, and learn how to live in the here and now.
The rest of us can learn not to waste the precious time we have being this stupid.
Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.
From Keir Starmer's Rosh Hashanah message... "We will always challenge hate, and we will always champion the values of inclusion, dignity and respect. “May this New Year bring you and your loved ones peace, health and sweetness. Shana Tova U’Metukah."
Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...
I’ve just been at the “Trump Not Welcome” demonstration in London, standing alongside people from across the country to tell the govt that a leader who abuses his office to enrich his family and fan the flames of racism, xenophobia, and misogyny is not welcome in the UK.
"LATEST 'BIG BEAST' DEFECTS TO REFORM" Or, Chris Mason continues his BBC predecessor's ignoble tradition. @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Team Trump continues its effort to erase history. Government information can no longer be trusted. #RFA
Under the banner of the “Great Patriotic War,” Russia hides the dark truth: the USSR helped start WWII on Hitler’s side.
'Watch out for the sword, Donald. It could take your head clean off.' #Trump
Call me old-fashioned, but integrity is sort of essential in a scientist. Solidarity with Susan Monarez. 🧪 #RFK
How did you get the Epstein files? #wato
May her memory be a blessing.
What an absolutely ghastly man. Does Trump not know that civilians do not salute, never mind draft dodgers.
#wato
*Unless it is Cameron being replaced by May, May being replaced by Johnson, Johnson being replaced by Truss, or Truss being replaced by Sunak. It is only if Starmer goes. Absolute. Charlton. Hypocrite. Imbecile.
From a Fakebook account.
What value the First Amendment with a regime that simply ignores the law?
They booked a hotel room opposite @ledbydonkeys.org
"Jewish Labour MP on delegation denied entry into Israel" And we're talking proper, observant Jew, from one of East Anglia's most notable Jewish families. Peter Prinsley is no gobby antizionist dressed in a tea towel.
"We’re constantly told, you know, we need to see peaceful protests. Well, here’s a peaceful protest … and now people have been arrested for malicious communications. I think that, frankly, says a lot more about the policing of Trump’s visit than it does about what we did." @ledbydonkeys.org
Council housing is the solution to the affordable housing crisis. The status quo relying on profiteering developers has failed to build genuinely affordable homes. Labour must deliver secure homes for all with a new era of council housing.
Whither free speech?
So excited to receive a copy of the first Annual Review of the Offa’s Dyke Association. There is so much going on. Conservation work, conferences and research all feature!
He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down
Former President Barack Obama commented on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during remarks in Erie, Pennsylvania, saying that "regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy." https://cnn.it/469EiCa
You should link arms with Max Hastings. Unite the Kingdom Against Trump! #UTKAT
A sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid in its mouth. I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.
Free the Frogmore Four! @ledbydonkeys.org #Trump
Yulia Navalnaya says foreign tests show her husband was poisoned www.reuters.com/world/yulia-...
Israel bad, but China good.
Three cheers for the Thames Valley constabulary!
The state couldn't face the political fallout from mass (>>25) arrests of decent, hardworking, voting white folk.
The Frogmore Four could possibly be done for not having a public entertainment licence. There's always something.
Free the Frogmore Four! ✊
I know the politics isn't easy. But it's a sorry state of affairs when the EU can't muster climate leadership at a time that the impacts of climate change are ever clearer the US is pushing in the opposite direction www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
It isn't a crime, but a ticking off is a way for the police to save face in the situation.
Corbunyon.
Just done this. Simple to organise through GP - no need to see GP, spoke to receptionist who gave me the relevant form. Booked appointment at clinic online, turned up this morning and took a couple of minutes to have blood taken.
I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
A healthy, active and proud Jewish community – the Maccabi GB vision for the New Year www.thejc.com/community/a-...
Embarrassing the state.
If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.
Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
That's a misleading headline. This is about non-EEA countries. Not just the UK. **The EU's Safe fund regulation stipulates that at least 65% of the cost of equipment must come from suppliers within the EU, Ukraine, or EEA/EFTA countries.**
Honestly he’s not having a great week. First being shot, now this.
What's the betting that the CPS declares a conviction under the Malicious Communications Act to be unlikely? Give the four a stern ticking off, and draw a line under the matter*. *This does not constitute expert legal advice.
This video should be distributed far and wide. #Trump
Brilliant. #Trump
"Coup plot charges for former Romanian presidential candidate" Calin Georgescu.
Know what I think? This Trump state visit thingy isn't actually happening. It's all staged, generated by AI. Fake News. Oh yes.
Unfortunately, my prayer was not answered. #Trump
Having had time to think over the past couple of weeks while I've been out of the country, I've come to realise that what's happened already is a complete destruction of trust in government and the courts. /1
Fire me.
Radical leftist Max Hastings* (sic) is out protesting Trump's arrival in the UK. On BBC now:"I feel desperately sorry for the King... as a lifelong crusader...for environmental causes and climate change measures, sitting next to the man who systematically dismantled America's climate role." Listen:
He was a great actor and so much more. So sad to lose a tireless champion for the environment. R.I.P. Robert Redford.
Donald Trump has used his office to enrich his family, fan the flames of racism and xenophobia, erode reproductive rights, deploy wartime and emergency powers during peacetime, and attack democratic institutions. State visits are honours; Trump doesn’t deserve one. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
Thank G-d for Radical Left Lunatic Max Hastings! #r4pm #Trump
I can't wait to see Max Hastings mooning Trump tomorrow as The Beast trundles by. Surely the BBC will cover the Spectacle.
Freedom for he, but not for thee.
JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.
2026: Israel awarded Eurovision win as sole contestant.
RIP Robert Redford, possibly the most shaggable actor ever. May his memory be a blessing.
"The UK’s Green Party has called on the BBC to withdraw from the song contest coverage if Israel’s state broadcaster KAN is allowed to participate." First off, there is no such party. Second, I would suggest that the UK withdraw from Eurovision if Israel is barred from participating. #jewsky