Bos días.

While watching by the river Thames the boat race last Sunday, I noticed how dirty the river was, including seeing a dead rat floating around and a lot of other stuff. It don’t use to be like that years ago.

Herbed Leg of Lamb This is relaxingly simple to make: a quick blitz with a stick blender, and you have an upliftingly fragrant, gloriously green paste which you coat the lamb with before roasting and, once cooked, gives...

Herbed Leg of Lamb is #RecipeOfTheDay! The vivid green of the marinade turns brown as it cooks, though the flavour loses none of its brightness www.nigella.com/recipes/herb...

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Call for a national inquiry into school culture and child mental health

c.org/LgprCgJv7m keep signing, it's important that our children are protected from these practices.

Natural resources to take over as usual

The United States has threatened Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba with the possibility of future attacks. Mexico and Colombia would likely inflict heavy casualties on US invasion forces at first contact if a similar operation were attempted against their capitals.

Heavens to Betsy, you mean to say that the geriatric orange game show host sitting in the White House has lied? Again?!

How terribly, terribly unlike him.

As Trump uses violence abroad and turns America into a global pariah, he’s also threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act at home to give himself dictatorial powers

JHRC, is anyone in the US with a spine stopping this lunatic from causing WWIII?

Venezuelan elections will happen the moment there is no oil left there.

After 9/11, the US invoked Article 5 of the NATO treaty and every NATO member helped to combat terrorism.

Some of our closest allies, like Denmark, went even further, voluntarily sending troops to Afghanistan and Iraq in support of US-led wars there.

Today, Trump is threatening to attack Denmark.

Inside MAGA’s worldwide campaign to undermine climate science What began as US culture war politics has become a well-funded, coordinated global campaign to undermine climate science and democracy

From Washington to Europe, the same organisations keep appearing – Heritage, Heartland, Koch-linked groups – pushing identical anti-net zero scripts & climate change scepticism.

It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives

Desde 1953, América Latina y el Caribe han sido laboratorio de golpes de Estado con intervención directa o indirecta de Estados Unidos. Guatemala, Brasil, Chile, Argentina, Panamá, Haití, Honduras, Bolivia, Venezuela…

And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations

Sen. Chris Murphy: Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio ‘Literally Lied To Our Face’ Before Venezuela Takeover “They knew they weren’t telling the truth in that room," the Connecticut senator said.

“They knew they weren’t telling the truth in that room," the Connecticut senator said.

Las grandes petroleras de EEUU, ante un negocio millonario en Venezuela patrocinado por Trump El presidente de EEUU asegura que los gigantes del petróleo están preparados para invertir miles de millones para explotar la industria venezolana tras expulsar ilegalmente a Maduro del poder; las com...

Las grandes petroleras de EEUU, ante un negocio millonario en Venezuela patrocinado por Trump

Spanish premier 'strongly condemns' violation of int'l law in Venezuela Pedro Sanchez furthers his earlier message in which he refused to recognize US intervention - Anadolu Ajansı

Spain shows leadership in the face of Trump's trampling of international law, a concept not even on Starmer's radar.

Mind you, Starmer's clamped so tight to Trump's buttocks, he can't see anything at all.

Even Farage admitted the USA's actions broke international law.
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Turncoats

It’s Colombia 🇨🇴, but yes it’s appalling

The fall out from the US terrorist attack and invasion on Venezuela:

1) The Supreme Court has appointed a new leader, vice president Delcy Rodríguez, this action legally invalidates the opposition’s case for election fraud, they no longer have a case to claim legitimacy.

Trump amenaza a Petro por tercera vez en un mes: “Me suena bien una operación en Colombia” El presidente de Estados Unidos ha escalado el tono contra el presidente colombiano a quien ha acusado, sin pruebas, de ser miembro del narcotráfico

“Me suena bien una operación en Colombia”. Trump amenaza a Petro por tercera vez en un mes a quien ha acusado, sin pruebas, de ser miembro del narcotráfico

Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor Exclusive: UK an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader * ‘The NHS would collapse within hours’: BME staff say Britain fails to appreciate their roles Foreign doctors and nurses are increasingly shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric and rising racism have created “a hostile environment”, the leader of Britain’s medics has warned. The health service is being put at risk because overseas health professionals increasingly see the UK as an “unwelcoming, racist” country, in part because of the government’s tough approach to immigration, Jeanette Dickson said. Continue reading...

Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor

Bylines Scotland - Powerful Citizen Journalism Nurturing democracy through not-for-profit citizen journalism

Morning! We've had a busy year at Bylines Scotland with new writers, editors, proofreaders and fact-checkers joining us. Plus our readership has gone up as well, thanks to you!

Over the next few days we're going to repost some of the great articles and podcasts we published. Hope you enjoy!

I worked for an American company and the CEO they sent here, changed his contract to a UK one, and was not thinking in relocated back to the US.

Some have claimed we're too cynical and inflexible on disabled children's rights. But here we are, with a clear indication that the government has given up on any sense of meaningful mainstream inclusion

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"Some have claimed we're too cynical and inflexible on disabled children's rights. But here we are, with a clear indication that the government has given up on any sense of meaningful mainstream inclusion..”

Mr Toothe (some kind of Dickensian nominative determinist, clearly) said to the primary school kids at the open evening, as his opening gambit, "I just want you to know that all the scary rumours you've heard about this school from the older children.. ARE TRUE."

The thing that really gets me about this is that Mossbourne is not seen as beyond the pale by DfE or Ofsted, quite the contrary. They should be investigating how widespread this problem is and putting a stop to it.

Anne Whyte KC of QEB Hollis Whiteman was instructed by Fieldfisher to conduct an independent review into governance and institutional culture at four academy schools in Hackney run by the Mossbourne Federation.

A quote from the report into Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy states: Overall, the evidence captured about the voices of pupils paint a picture of a school environment characterised by a profound lack of empathy. One of the pupils recalled their first day, thinking ‘we have to be like robots’ and then being told when they left that staff had been ‘especially instructed to glare at year 7 students, to pick on them and intimidate them’.

‘A school environment characterised by a profound lack of empathy’

My only surprise about this depressing report is how long it has taken for the dark side of the Mossbourne cult to be acknowledged. A lack of care and respect for children was written into the formula and celebrated from day one.