BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
Good time to re-up this 🎉
New reading material I’ve acquired direct from the authors… nice and varied!
Climate + nature need joined-up solutions 🌿 Our Oxfordshire strategy with the Oxford Local Nature Partnership & the district councils shows a diverse habitat approach could boost carbon storage by 28% & offset ~20% of emissions in 30 years.
brian jonestown massacre on stage playing
Guitar Minimums > Parking Minimums
7 is the bare minimum of guitars needed for that perfect wall of noise - Brian Jonestown Massacre Montreal 2022.
Inspirational BBC Radio 4 feature on Beaker, putting the Oxfordshire music scene, past and present,
on the map.
Catch them live at the Jericho Tavern on Friday 8th May.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And a tambourine, of course
Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.
Cheese, sliced into two (Jonny Gios at unsplash.com)
The Government consultation on how to reorganise Oxfordshire’s councils closes tonight at 23.59. Three proposals have been put forward: a single council for the whole county, two councils covering north+city and south (‘Ridgeway’), and three councils covering north, an enlarged Oxford, and south.
I like the one halfway up the pub wall…
wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog
this war is certainly becoming protracted
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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strong play for 'worst panel ever' there
This new Harry Enfield character is really shit!
Reminiscent of this…
I’ve been commuting to central Oxford a bit via park & ride and it’s SO much quicker than when I last did it a few years back (apart from that day a canal boat got stuck on Folly bridge!)
well said Calum!
Thames Water discharging sewage into watercourse at South Morton for 940 hours … and counting.
No rain for ~4 days, and no storms or heavy rain for longer than that.
They should be prosecuted for this asap and the law applied (which can be imprisonment btw not just fines that end up on bills)
sewage in brook.
Abingdon Green Party candidate Aidan Reilly has called on Thames Water to clean up a sewage filled watercourse just south of the town. Thames Water data shows it has been dumping raw sewage into Oday Hill Ditch alongside Peep-O-Day Lane for hundreds of hours in February alone.
Just throwing it out there: telling people that they have legitimate grievances about immigration will never reduce the sense of grievance. This isn't how anything works and a government that paid even the merest attention to social science research would know their approach helps the far-right.
quite.
I usually get that written into the S106 agreement..
Meanwhile, Labour had to send actual UK government cabinet ministers out to desperately knock on doors…
We do have some of them too, but only the good ones like @samcaseyr.bsky.social
It’s actually a great political moment that Hannah Spencer apologised in her speech to clients whose pipes she now won’t be able to fix.
😅
In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out.
Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton
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INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚
