What a strange world in which there is simultaneously a dangerous excess and a serious shortage of CO₂.

Couldn’t agree more

Sign the Petition Hold a Parliamentary Debate on Palantir’s Role in UK Defence, Security & Public Services

What happens when a company whose tools track and deport migrants abroad is entrusted with our most sensitive public health data at home?

✊ Sign our petition calling for a full Parliament debate on Palantir’s use in UK services: www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

'The Illustrated History of Chapel Allerton' on the ground

Walking tour 14:00-16:00 Sunday 18 January relating to a new book by local historian Steve Burt.

I'm editor + author of Ch.8 & supplied loads of photos.
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-illust...
(I'll be offering other dates later.)

Wishing you all a peaceful and happy Christmas. This Christmas bauble is older than me. Seeing it on my parents’ tree reminds me of the love I’ve been enveloped in for 62 years. I’m so very fortunate.

Fascinating

The greatest, and arguably most important player in the history of #NFFC.

Rest in peace Robbo.

This evening sees the earliest sunset in London. After today the evenings start getting lighter.
The mornings continue to get darker until the latest sunrise on 30 December.
Winter solstice is at 15:03 on 21 December, which will be the shortest day.

www.ukweathercams.co.uk/sunrise_suns...

I agree with every word. I’m about to retire and am pleased that none of my children have chosen to follow in my footsteps.

Interviewing future medical students gave me that rare thing: hope for the NHS | Devi Sridhar They face long hours, mediocre pay and, at worst, no job, but their optimism is astonishing – let’s support them better, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edin...

My latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

What utter dickheads we are…

Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal

Farage and his MPs voted it down

Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty

Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on

The mega wealthy win again.

Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English

When the history of the rise of fascism in the UK in the 2020s gets written, the complicity of the BBC will require a full volume of its own.

Is that the same as backend-ish?

We’re at the point in the year where Warren St George takes over from Warren Easter.
In the Autumn, Warren Conkers and Warren Poppies provide the warm up for the main act, Warren Christmas.

There is something hugely revealing in the rage that her kindness has provoked. A real “HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME LOOK AT MYSELF?” vibe. And something immensely powerful in her continuing to show them up, by insisting on being kind. A beam of light piercing through. Great interview, @maddow.msnbc.com.

Absolutely. But your daily photos bring such joy that I would really miss them if you stopped. No pressure!

So pleased you’re doing this on here.

“Now night passes and New Year draws near,
drawing off darkness as our Deity decrees.
But wild-looking weather was about in the world:
clouds decanted their cold rain earthwards;
the nithering north needled man’s very nature…”

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, late 14th-century, trans. Simon Armitage

Quite the contrast with a president who sneers at the military.

It often doesn't feel safe as a pedestrian with speeding cars - even with car lanes.

We’re going for the no tree this year option!

These are fabulous. I’ve just ordered three!