I had the great privilege of that view for three years at university

What happened to this RFK Jr?

Crepuscular rays looking out from Portstewart Prom to Donegal

Crepuscular Portstewart this evening

Number crunching: Iran war

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Multi member single transferable vote constituencies as we have in NI. No lists

You think

Oh, and switching to 21st Century technologies, rather than continually extending the long fossil century, also improves people's lives, creates jobs and helps prevent climate breakdown. But who gives a damn about such details?

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

Turns out marmalade won't have to be renamed despite Reform claims The new rule was introduced because some EU countries use 'marmalade' and 'jam' interchangeably - and is intended to protect the distinctiveness of Paddington's favourite spread

Marmalade will not have to be renamed due to EU rules, despite claims from senior Tory and Reform politicians.

Who would have guessed..

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Congratulations

Maybe the new seats could rotate on a lottery basis, a bit like jury service. Sorry, someone's telling me that's too close to the system we have...

Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions.
My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

two men are kneeling down and one of them is saying i 'm not worthy . Alt: two men are kneeling down and one of them is saying i 'm not worthy . It's Wayne And Garth

I almost feel unworthy. Wait until I tell Portglenone Writers Group.

I used to call them ascension sunsets like you get in all those religious paintings. We get a lot of them in Bellaghy so keep an eye out on your next visit.

No pun intended (or maybe, now I'm aware of it) but it was revelatory when I discovered that there was a name for those shafts of light through the clouds. Crepuscular. Great word. Dennis Potter once said his favourite word was 'elbow'.

Exactly the playbook for the UK and the NHS in particular

Already booked. Looking forward to this.

US and Israel’s war on Iran is a disaster for the environment, analysis shows Exclusive: War has led to 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in two weeks and is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

First analysis of the climate cost of the war in Iran has found the conflict led to 5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions being released in the first 14 days.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Any news from Northern Ireland?

Calvin and Hobbes on the futility of war

I know. Not a popular view, but I do love The Beatles. And these lads do a great podcast

Confession. Not that fond of Hey Jude - bit overrated

On a soft green background is a quote from Janet Mustin, a 1992 American Quaker and artists. The quote reads: The artist and the Quaker are on the same internal journey. Each is seeking a relationship with the Divine, and each is seeking a way to express that relationship. There are just many different ways of expressing it.

The Public Lecture at Ireland Yearly Meeting this year, entitled "Events from the Real World", will be delivered by artist Brian Maguire. Further information can be found on our website: quakers-in-ireland.ie/ireland-year...

#Quakers #QuakersIreland #FaithInAction #IYM2026

The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

💥 More than 20,000 people have signed the petition calling for changing the voting system to be part of the Representation of the People Bill.

First Past the Post leaves millions of people without representation. It's time to scrap it.

Add your name 👇

Difficult times call for cooperation and dialogue. But our voting system keeps giving total power to parties that only a fraction of voters support.

On 30% of the vote, one party could win full control of our economy, health, foreign policy and defence.

We can't take that risk.

Labour must not bind Britain's fate to the failing electoral system - Politics.co.uk It’s fair to say that British democracy is in ill health. Labour has inherited rock bottom public trust in politics and a state wracked by austerity. We are working to show that government can deliver...

"This Labour government can still build consensus for an alternative, but it must do so urgently.

We need a national commission on electoral reform"

✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP

#Democracy
@drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...

www.nicva.org/article/nicv...

Great to see these tenders live. Will make a big difference to the work of Joint Forum. Keen to see the focus on Fair Funding - a long term issue for the voluntary & community sector & a recommendation of Jones Review of Children's Social Care Services.

#Reimagine

Care Day Awards Social Action Champion presentation

Delighted to be sponsoring this award. Congratulations to the highly commended and the winners - brilliant examples all #CareDay26

I'm at the Care Day Awards in the magnificent Ulster Museum and we're about to get underway #CareDay26