Happy World Frog Day. This beauty was purchased from a Moroccan artist last week at the oasis at Tiout.

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Utter Shit. Disgraced hedge funder Crispin Odey’s reaction after a temp agency complained about his behaviour to a young female assistant and refused to have anything more to do with his firm.

Reform’s Danny Kruger criticises UK’s ‘totally unregulated sexual economy’ Former Conservative laments divorce changes and says Reform UK will pursue policies to boost birthrate

Let me introduce you to the new head of the British Taliban - Danny Kruger, who, like a lot of US fascists, was born to South African parents. What an awful twerp he is.

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Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

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Copy of March’s edition of Byline Times with Epstein story on the front cover and the words Darkness Visible in large letters.

Don’t think I’ve read an issue of @bylinetimes.bsky.social so quickly before! This is outstanding!

Do get a copy if you can. 👍

Palestinian Action activists remanded for nearly 2 yrs.
Yet no one jailed for

Enabling abuser Mohammed Fayed

Banking scandals

Grenfell cladding

Post Office scandal

PPE frauds.

Try to stop a genocide in the UK and you get prison without trial.Anything else is fine.

Book cover, in black, red and white. The Old Enemy by Henry Porter

Great read, The Old Enemy, by Henry Porter. V timely. Ready for another. @henrycporter.bsky.social He’s written some bangers

There was a UK Epstein. His name was Mohammed Fayed and Vanity Fair did go after him and then I spent two years investigating allegations of sexual abuse in defence of a libel suit. We proved the case beyond doubt. But this wasn't just about libel laws; police corruption was key to his survival.

This is the final paragraph of Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion on Trump's illegal tariffs. These 250 words are all you need to understand the issue at stake and why yesterday's decision was so important. Worth a read.

Palestine Action wins High Court challenge over group's ban as terrorist organisation Palestine Action’s co-founder has won a legal challenge over the group's ban as a terrorist organisation on two grounds.

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EXACTLY. This is the question that UK journalists *should* be asking.

I spent 7 years at the @washingtonpost.com. Did some of the best work of my career. Had some of the best times of my life. The people responsible for the misery that is about to unfold will probably fail up, which is a damn shame. There will be a time for recriminations. But today...

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

The Government must reveal all details of Peter Mandelson’s links to Palantir - Foxglove Sign the petition for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm?

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

Tell your MP: our democracy shouldn’t be a gamble! Our democracy shouldn’t be a gamble. First Past the Post fails 70% of voters. We urgently need to scrap it. I’ve asked my MP to attend a crucial briefing on how to do just that. Join me 👉

This May’s elections are expected to bring chaos because our voting system is broken.

I’ve written to my MP to push for fairer elections before it’s too late. It takes 2 minutes to do the same here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
@compassoffice.bsky.social

Breaking: The US lost 32,000 jobs in November, far worse than expected.

Small businesses were the hardest hit.

Wayland's Smithy in its autumnal coat.

Protest is under greater attack in Britain than America Successive governments have attacked our civil liberties, leaving us vulnerable to an authoritarian crackdown

This is me on Labour’s gift of oppressive demonstration laws to Farage.

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This is extremely nice of you, Nick. Thanks!

Firefly by Henry Porter review – flight from Isis A gripping procedural takes us into a world of suffering refugees in the Middle East

#FridayReads - loved @henrycporter.bsky.social's most recent title, so slowly picking through the back-list... the geopolitics may have changed in the last few years, but the human stories remain. Thrilling and full of empathy. Excellent work 📚

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Letter from Jordan: on the aid frontline of the Gaza war With the Israeli blockade, in place for more than 80 days, piles of food, medicines and water are not reaching starving Palestinians

With the Israeli blockade in place for more than 80 days, piles of food, medicines and water are not reaching starving Palestinians, writes @henrycporter.bsky.social.
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A Small boast: U.S. Amazon’s Best Book of the Year So Far, which considering this is the first thriller I know of that’s set in Milton Keynes isn’t half bad. Very happy .

My Enigma Girl is out in paperback and ready to fill your mind. It’s my favourite of my ten books and it seems that it’s everyone else’s too. www.amazon.co.uk/Enigma-Girl-...

UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements

It is incredible how many mainstream parties - in multiple countries - think they can win elections by loudly agreeing with extremists. “Farage is right; vote for me!”

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BREAKING: A woman was kicked out of a women’s bathroom at a Massachusetts hotel by a security guard who demanded she “prove her gender.”

No badge gives you the right to sexually harass someone in a bathroom. This is what fascism looks like in real time.

And it’s coming to your city next.

What Farage's fashion choices tell us about his politics Farage's country cosplay is meant to communicate support for rural voters, but it reveals more about Reform's leader than he may have intended

“No amount of tweed or the flat cap he wore will disguise the agenda of an urban political chancer.” @henrycporter.bsky.social on Nigel Farage’s attire: www.prospectmagazine...

What Farage's fashion choices tell us about his politics Farage's country cosplay is meant to communicate support for rural voters, but it reveals more about Reform's leader than he may have intended

Nigel Farage may dress up like a farmer to address rural constituents, but his attire is “a parody, and betrays the truth that Farage has spent most of his life in London and its suburbs,” writes @henrycporter.bsky.social.
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Bronze ibis head. Egypt, late dynastic to Ptolemaic, ca. 664-32 BC.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection

Brian Greene explains the double-slit experiment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.