If English people want to fight Farage and the menace of nationalism then they could do worse than embrace all the many good things about England.

#StGeorgesDay

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Nature ignore wars.

EU official are being asked to stop using WhatsApp and Signal, and use a in-house written messing app, French government is replacing Teams and Zoom with Visio. I'm trying to get NextCloud working in Docker on my laptop to have play, but having to learn more and more about Docker....

Every author needs a good local bookshop on their side, and @croftonbooks.bsky.social is one of the best. So I took them a copy of my latest.

Hope you like it. Out May 7

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

This is such bollocks.

All primaries and over 90% of secondaries already impose bans.

This is policy to placate GB News viewers and completely unnecessary.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is that bad? Seems bad

Reform UK 'looking into' Croydon candidate over 'research' paper that pushed Covid conspiracy theory Retired researcher David Booth is standing as one of Reform's two candidates in Kenley

Reform UK now says it is merely "looking into" Byline Times' revelations that one of its candidates authored a conspiracy theory article in a 9/11 Trutherb' journal.

It effectively claimed the COVID pandemic was a Pentagon-led scam. Bereaved families are furious.
uk.news.yahoo.com/reform-uk-lo...

Thank you

@richardknott.bsky.social question: a next few weeks a family member taking a longer trip in her skoda EV any suggestions over apps to preload on her iPhone?

Doctor who claimed Covid jab probably caused royal cancers standing for Reform Last year, at the Reform annual conference, Professor Angus Dalgleish was cited as saying it was "highly likely" that the Covid vaccines had been "a significant factor in the cancer of members of the ...

Another conspiracy theorist loon standing for Reform. It's rapidly turning into the political equivalent of the Flat Earth Society.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Hastings Reform UK candidate probed over offensive Facebook posts Ricky Hodges said on social media that Muslims

Reform's Ricky Hodges urged "veterans" to put the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, "in a coma for a long time".

Previously said he wanted to shoot people "in the face", and that he would "love to come up against" a group of Labour activists to "take their... limbs off".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did Donny pick him due to his links to Epstein? That why it was rushed through.

It's not like Mandelson had a squeaky clean image either.

Given the high profile nature of the role Starmer should have definitely gone that extra mile.

In fact he shouldn't have gone near Mandelson in the first place.

Senior Tory MP claims knife crime went up by 72% in London.

In fact offences fell by 11% in the year to September 2025.

5 knives within a wooden box. 'ORTH' on each knife.

These knives are designed for cutting the crescent-shaped disks of fibrocartilage that is attached to bones (meniscus). The blades vary from long and flat, tapering and straight, concave, or v-shaped ends. These knives are typically used for orthopaedic procedures.

Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Ridiculous statement from Ex Nato chief - UK unprepared for war due to an “ever-expanding welfare budget”.

25.3m people live below minimum income standard.
Since 2010 HMRC hasn't collected £500bn of taxes.

Does he think poor/ill make better defenders.

Silence on corporate welfare, taxing the rich

France doubles electrification aid to cut fossil fuel dependency France will double state support to 10 billion euros ($12 billion) a year through to 2030 to help its switch to electricity from oil and gas and their derivative ​fuels, its Prime Minister Sebastien L...

@richardknott.bsky.social @allshorts.bsky.social France doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry.

The reason?

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Surcharges Are Suddenly Everywhere—And Grumpy Americans Are Paying Up The add-ons were a feature during Covid and are once again sneaking their way onto bills.

The Wall Street Journal writes an entire article on the subject of predatory corporate fees without mentioning (even once) that Trump and his courts have lobotomized consumer protection and regulatory autonomy

weird artifice that pretends the government still works

I suspect we'll be seeing more stories like this, but I recommend just regulating AI and taxing the billionaires instead.

To follow up: Magyar just announced that Hungary will no longer block the EU’s €90 billion support package for Ukraine.

At the same time, Budapest will focus on unlocking €17 billion in frozen EU funds instead of taking on new debt.

Conservative Candidate Tells British MPs to 'Go Back to Pakistan' EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch suspends the Conservative party's candidate for North Harrow, after a Byline Times investigation uncovered a series of vile messages he posted over recent months

Excellent work from @bylinetimes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/c...

The EU has set 27 conditions for Hungary’s new government to unlock €35 billion. Lifting the veto on sanctions against Russia & anti-corruption audits. +amended its migration laws via @data.ft.com @professorgerdes.bsky.social @allshorts.bsky.social @ottoenglish.bsky.social @richardknott.bsky.social

St. Kitts and Nevis tenders major solar-storage project The electric utility of St. Kitts is launching a tender for a 50 MW solar plus 30.5 MWh battery storage project on the island. Interested developers are asked to register on the utility's bidding port...

This single project would be ten times their existing solar capacity. Pretty cool. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/13/s...

Trump’s 2nd term is a smash and grab.

He doesn’t care how much of America and the world that he destroys.

He’s a convicted criminal taking all he can.

It is an unprecedented crisis that will require massive democratic reforms and criminal prosecution for him and those who abetted his crimes.

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.

But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅

First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.

#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

@allshorts.bsky.social @eslibrarian.bsky.social

Le juge français privé de carte bancaire et de Gmail par l'administration Trump témoigne : « Ma vie personnelle est devenue un laboratoire de la perte de souveraineté » Auditionné par la commission d’enquête qui veut dresser l’état des lieux de nos faiblesses en matière digitale, le juge français de la Cour pénale internationale Nicolas Guillou a témoigné de ses huit...

The ICC judge who got sanctioned by the US
@allshorts.bsky.social
@eslibrarian.bsky.social
@politicalx.bsky.social
#digitalSovrenty
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@ottoenglish.bsky.social @allshorts.bsky.social @richardknott.bsky.social x.com/i_ammukhtar/... It’s actually wild that Nigel Farage thought nobody would notice that the couple who won his energy bills prize draw were actually his friends.

Juche America