Rob Yarham

Lyme, ME/CFS, endometriosis, long COVID, coeliac disease, adenomyosis, fibromyalgia & all the other conditions where there's actually nothing wrong with us, but we just enjoy pretending to be ill. For fuck's sake. It's like we've regressed to the 1960s when my mum was accused of being a malingerer.

Doncaster chippy owner 'scared for his children' after vandalism - BBC News Poseidon's Fish Bar had the word "England" painted on its front, says Iraqi-born owner Darin Ahmed.

This is the result of Farage and Jenrick’s far-right, divisive rhetoric. Hard working, responsible people feeling afraid for their future.
Disgraceful.

Steve Uglow in Seatoller House discussing the famous Trevelyan and Exeter annual (human) hare & hounds race during our podcast recording this afternoon.

Remind me, who was it Jack who crushed Weimar Germany's "Antifa" elements?

This is the country of Omaha and Utah beaches. That saved western Europe. How has it fallen into this?

Just Jack Posobiec, of pizzagate ‘fame’, advising the White House. Because of course he is.

You'd think there would be more interest from the US media that Trump is simply delusional - at best being fed complete fabrications by his team, at worst in serious cognitive decline and unable to recognise reality.

The Israeli government's planned hosting of Tommy Robinson is a reprehensible betrayal of Jewish values and history.

Robinson is a racist street thug. He is no friend of British Jews.

We must never permit the far-right to exploit antisemitism to attack Muslims.

Good to discuss on i24News.

This #overdiagnosis discourse is dangerous and will be deadly to many - not just those with ME who have been at the mercy of quacks like Wesseley and O'Sullivan for years -
but everyone who the govt wishes to remove support from and has to find a way to claim are not actually disabled to do so.

From today’s politico playbook: Exhibit A: "The Boriswave — and we should call it that - has f*cked us. Our record on everything in the last government, prisons, immigration, economy, is sh*t," one Tory figure lamented last night. "There's naivety at the top about just how much time they need to be spending doing surgery and showing we're learning our lessons from the last government, and the whole 'we'll look like the grown-ups eventually' thing isn't going to work."

From today’s Playbook - I find it curious that none of these political geniuses ever seem to consider how UK GDP growth might have looked in the few years post Brexit (a time of acute focus on relative economic performance) w/out immigration.

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
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Starmer pulled this trick claiming an entire development at ebbsfleet had been shelved due to "jumping spiders" turns out only part of the site had been refused ( a SSSI) and there were birds of prey etc there. They pick out species that might seem trivial to many. likely lobbyist playbook tactic

Green groups criticise plans to weaken protections for English national parks Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

Green groups criticise plans to weaken protections for English national parks

Cut those things that encourage critical thinking and bring joy. Without the arts we have no culture to defend.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

Appalled to hear this government describe our beleaguered nature in this way. Nature is a necessity, not a nuisance.
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UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
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This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

Lapland Bunting, Dunwich yesterday. A scarce migrant through Suffolk (rarely over winters), Lapland Bunting numbers have varied from 6-21 (av. 11) in the county over the past 10 years and is now hard to connect with, so it was nice to find this #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Like our wildlife, rivers & more, our bodies are exposed to & polluted by harmful PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ ❗

Blood tests of EU policymakers show the growing threat from chemical pollution to public & environmental health🧪

We cannot allow inaction on chemicals to continue🛑

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I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the…

It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.

It does just feel like there's something Jenrick is trying to say.
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It is likely that as WW2 has faded into the distance, so have the constraints on what is an acceptable political position has also changed.

You'd expect this to happen in the US first, a country never occupied by or directly threatened by fascists.

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Dubai seems to have become the new Singapore for Brexiters, even as they flog the rest of us to show obeisance to 'British values'.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Clouded Yellow at Aldeburgh Town Marshes today. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil Exclusive: Luis Vayas Valdivieso says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes

.@eia-news.bsky.social calls for trust to be urgently restored if there is to be any hope of reaching a meaningful outcome in plastic treaty negotiations, following the resignation of chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso

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