A tiny bit of temperate rainforest still exists beside the track to our cottage on the Mizen Peninsula.

I see we've reached the stage of a scandal where a PM says something that is completely, obviously untrue.

Market Manipulation ...

Bring Thames Water into Public Ownership NOW 😡 Thames Water wants to be allowed to dump sewage and not pay a PENNY. Right now, they're trying to force a deal so they can dodge fines until 2030, while customers foot the bill. This isn’t right. Jo...

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"This is an important thing to think about."

Could it possibly be time to reform our chronically dysfunctional farming model to another that *isn't* utterly disastrous for nature, the climate, and consumers?

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

This is so true! It happens on camera at the 35-36 second point. 👁👁 Importantly, I think this is also the moment where Ed Miliband decided he's going to stand for party leader (and PM) again.
#MandyGate

While I appreciate this man's dedication to reading ...

“Peter Mandelson should never have been appointed. This has been a very damaging episode for the government” - Energy Secretary Ed Miliband

Archaeologists Find Homer’s Iliad Papyrus Inside a Mummy in Egypt - GreekReporter.com Archaeologists found a rare Iliad papyrus inside a Roman-era mummy in Egypt, highlighting the spread of Greek culture.

“Inside one of the mummies, the team discovered a rare papyrus containing a passage from Book II of the Iliad by Homer. The text includes part of the “Catalogue of Ships,” which lists Greek forces involved in the campaign against Troy.”

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well... THAT's pretty eye opening, actually, Mike, to just say it out loud like that.

Did that sound different in your head?

I'm always skeptical of BBC-bashing, but BBC News website hasn't reported on the Tice tax scandal since 12 April, when the headline was "Tice £91,000 tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims".

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

@ofcom.bsky.social I know you won't do anything about this, because you are as corrupt as BBC News.

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

No previous American president, in any era, of any party, would have tolerated a drunken, erratic, absent FBI chief
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All to appease his dementia-ridden cult leader...

UK seeks EU deals on steel and EVs in push for closer economic ties Agreements would aim to shield British industry from new steel tariffs and stricter rules on electric vehicles due in 2027

Just align with the EU rather than try to negotiate a multitude of small deals! You can’t make Brexit work…
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I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.

Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.

It's a disgrace.

The DOJ is now 5 month in breach of releasing the Epstein files.

Holding these criminals accountable should be the Nuremberg of our time.

But he appointed Mandelson before the vetting was completed and before Olly Robbins was even in post at the Foreign Office!

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

This is the difficulty. It was reported Mandelson had failed security vetting as long ago as September 2025

This was actually raised in the Commons by Rachel Gilmour on 16 September 2025

“a source from MI6 has reportedly claimed that they failed to clear Mandelson”

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The report in the Independent that Mandelson had failed security vetting was actually raised in the Commons by Lib Dem MP Rachel Gilmour on 16 September 2025

“a source from MI6 has reportedly claimed that they failed to clear Mandelson”

The Prime Minister says he found out on Tuesday

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
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There is so much I cannot ever forgive Trump and Vance for, but their treatment and betrayal of Ukraine and boosting Russia is right up there at the top of the list.