well it certainly has given us a lot of funny internet posts

Considerable predictive power.

Leanne Wood | Substack Recovering politician, Cymru. Click to read Leanne Wood on Substack. Launched a day ago.

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Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination.

open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse Changing the rules for migrants already here is wrong and unfair but only affects a finite group of people. Extending default settlement to 10 years or more for everyone is a social policy disaster.

A rare Substack piece from me on the biggest problem with the earned settlement proposals. It's not the unfair treatment of those already here, as bad as that is. It's the forward-looking, permanent change for all future migrants. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are t...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Perhaps he's aiming to become Tory party leader.

Thank you, please keep fighting!

We can all start with the idiot pheasants, that should keep us going for a good while.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

Another blow for the ascientific disaster that is the Cass Review: "It is profoundly misguided to cast health care based on low-certainty evidence as bad care or as care driven by ideology, and low-certainty evidence as bad science."

HE HATES BEES

Brad Mehldau. At least I hope he's more famous than Frank Luntz.

It's quite extraordinary that they thought any of these people would do a better job than Karen Pierce, who did not need to be replaced! It wasn't like there was a vacancy that had to be filled.

Or, as we call it in Wales, the dry season

Comparison of three temperate rainforest climate envelopes for Britain and Ireland: Where could our rainforest be? There are multiple methods for creating climate envelopes for temperate rainforest, and these climate envelopes result in different extents across Ireland and Britain. An awareness of these differenc...

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

In response to the deluge of messages on casting in The Odyssey:

Helen was born from an 🥚 Don’t talk to me about historical veracity.

Call to Allies: Complete the ‘Earned Settlement’ Consultation - Migrants' Rights Network New 'earned settlement' proposals left members of our Network feeling incredibly distressed. We're calling on allies to respond.

UK people please respond to the government request for comment on the Home Office's "Earned Settlement" plans, deadline 12 February. migrantsrights.org.uk/2026/01/29/e...

Bekina wellies are the best I've found. Reasonably comfortable and reliably last for years.

I enjoy telling current PhD students it took me 11 years to do mine. It's like a kindness I can now bestow on others.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.

- Drawing.
- Anthropology.
- Civil engineering.
- Operating systems.
- Infinite series differential equations.

Just been doing another Afghan asylum appeal. Win or lose, client isn’t being removed unless the UK recognises the Taliban as the official government of Afghanistan. Even then, removals might not take place. What is the point of this? What is the Home Office’s 3D chess masterplan?

Yes this. All the farmers I know have European model pickup trucks. The people who are importing giant American pickups are probably not farmers.

European Pickup Truck Guide: How to Choose the Right One Compare European and American pickup trucks by size, design, efficiency, and use case. Know what specs matter and where compromises make sense.

European and American pickup trucks are different sizes and designs. See carinterior.alibaba.com/buyingguides.... There is no American Hilux, instead it's the Tacoma. The number of Hilux and Navarra in the UK doesn't tell you anything about the number of giant US style pickups here.

The article is about US style pickup trucks which are overgrown monstrosities with shrunken truck beds. I'm a farmer, I have a normal Toyota Hilux, a lot of my neighbours have normal Nissan Navarras. I wouldn't have one of those US monsters.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen, no jam bands

Johnny Thunders
Iggy Pop
Patti Smith
Replacements (with Bob)
Television

Labour are dancing to the tune of Reform's cruel agenda on asylum.

These proposals, including confiscating personal belongings, will punish people who have already endured unimaginable hardship and will create further divisions in our communities.

Plaid Cymru rejects such performative cruelty.

Imagine how far the £2.5billion announced for nuclear today could go if it was invested in energy communities.

Community Energy Wales Manifesto:

communityenergy.wales/content/publ...

Archaeologists and Game Designers Collaborate to Create “Basically the Best Book on the Picts Ever Written” - Dig It! Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts is an illustrated and comprehensive book for anyone interested in Scotland’s past, including those who play tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). Fol...

Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏

www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...

One of the government's plans for the NHS is "left shift", taking services from hospitals and placing them in the community. Closer to the residents, more responsive to their needs, cheaper, and faster services.

What's not to like?

This is not as easy as some think. A short thread:

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