Looking through an old stone bridge over a canal. There are trees in the background and a perfect reflection of the arch of the bridge on the water.

Good morning from the Mon and Brec 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#canals
#wales
@bannaubrycheiniog.bsky.social

The Fraud's Prayer:
Our Father, who art in the White House,
hallowed be thy combover;
thy blingdom come;
thy will be dumb;
In Washington as you are in Florida.
Give us this day our daily round of golf.
And forgive us our insider trading,
as we refuse to forgive those who investigate against us...

Has Liz Truss been appointed chief operating officer of Bluesky or something?

Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Typical Pope with his "holier than thou" attitude.

A photo of the front cover of issue 1673 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “HUNGARY: ORBAN LOSES HISTORIC ELECTION.” The central image shows Viktor Orbán standing on stage alongside JD Vance, both raising their arms in front of a cheering crowd with Hungarian and US flags in the background. A speech bubble reads, “Who says America can’t achieve regime change?” A strapline at the bottom reads “HUGE TRIUMPH FOR MAGA (SURELY MAGYAR? ED.).”

Hungary: Orban loses historic election

The new Private Eye is out now.

I do think Robertson blunted his response with an unnecessary sideswipe as "welfare". Money could come from higher taxes. Or cuts elsewhere. And he did the politician's get out of saying "welfare" and not "pensions".

Turns an intervention from a defence-focused one to Retired Man Has Opinion.

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. 🧵

"Hello, yes, I'm a doctor. Normal doctor. Try not to notice that winged angel warlock thing up there. This is a regular sight in hospitals. Perhaps he's the registrar? I'm sure that's a hospital word. Also, the birds. They're just vultures. But you'll be fine. Now, eat this light bulb."

This is as beautiful a thing as you'll see in all your life. Hope, after months of darkness.

I’m incredibly obsessed with JD Vance sinking Victor Orban

Really hope Vance turns up to campaign for Reform

Kemi Badenoch! Roger Scruton! MattGPT! Bari Weiss! Rod Dreher! Jair Bolsanaro! Howard from the Halifax adverts! JD Vance? You hear me JD Vance? Your boy took a hell of a beating! Your boy took a hell of a beating!

My Spring to do list
by JD Vance

1. Prevent Iran war
2. Negotiate end to Iran war
3. Reelect Viktor Orbán

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian elections after 16 years in power - with opposition Tisza party on course for landslide victory.

It’s hard to believe, but JD Vance has somehow found a way to be even more incompetent than Trump.

Throwback Farage — “I genuinely believe Trump is what the world needs.” - 1 year ago

Upper Warlingham on the East Grinstead line

Neither Upper (it's in a valley), nor in Warlingham (it's in Whyteleaf)

The shameless hypocrisy -

JD Vance - the VP of the USA - rocks up in Hungary days before they go to the polls to overtly campaign for Orbán…

…and he has the sheer audacity to accuse the EU of external election interference (because EU stuck to its rules). Grotesque.

You may wonder why the Europeans aren't responding more forcefully to JD Vance in Budapest

1/ Because Orban looks set to lose & any EU intervention could be counterproductive

2/ Because the US is so far beyond the pale - Greenland, Iran, Ukraine etc. The EU is quietly moving on

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.

For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

One in five golf clubs at risk as developers eye lucrative land Rising land values, mounting costs and weak finances are forcing golf course owners to consider redevelopment, with closures expected to accelerate

www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...

How about "valuable new development unlocked" as a better characterisation?

I’m reminded of Churchill:
‘We shall f*cking fight those bastards on the f*cking beaches, we shall fight on the f*cking landing f*cking grounds, we shall fight in the f*cking fields & in the f*cking streets,we shall fight in the f*cking hills; we shall never f*cking surrender.’

Wouldn't travel any other way. Looking forward to Amsterdam-Vienna sleeper then on to Bratislava / High Tatras in June. Yes, it's pricey compared to flights, but much more relaxing and immersive. Byway Travel is excellent and will do all the bookings if you don't fancy working out connections etc

HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

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#BuhBYE

Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors

may this define her for the rest of her life.

she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired.

girl, bye.

Just a few weeks until we get solar panels installed. I know it's sad but I'm quite excited. There's something v hope-inducing about the sun directly powering your house

Lots of people seem to be exploring options ATM (inc plug-in solar). Let me know if you have panels already or are considering it