YouTube video by ScottishTeeVee PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me - Live 2001 HD

For some reason Youtube wants to show me this clip all the time. Something about it makes clear how terrifying it might be as a mere mortal to stand up alone in front of a massive crowd, and then how singularly brillliant PJ Harvey is at it; absolutely compelling.

UK charities urge ministers to stop scapegoating nature for planning failures Exclusive: RSPB and National Trust among groups saying rhetoric from Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer at odds with public sentiment Nature charities with a combined membership of about 8 million people are pressing the prime minister and chancellor to stop demonising wildlife and to urgently strengthen environmental protections in new planning laws. Organisations which are household names, such as the RSPB, the National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts, are calling on MPs to back amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill to end what they say is the scapegoating of nature for the failures of the planning system. They say the anti-nature rhetoric employed by Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer, who has labelled environmental objectors as “blockers”, is at odds with public sentiment. Continue reading...

UK charities urge ministers to stop scapegoating nature for planning failures

I had insomnia the night Russia invaded Ukraine and watched it unfold in real time. And tonight watching, here in London, that's what it feels like again. A dark, implacable malevolent takeover. That's accompanied by almost total silence amid so much noise.

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You love to see it

Amyl & The Sniffers at the Roundhouse. Bonkers good

I think it has an Inbetweeners feel

Some art items I’ve spotted on #placeinthesun

If I breathe in

Quite astonishing, really, that some “Blue Sky” users are opting NOT to follow my patented blend of tepid satirical “takes” & feverishly rehashed Twitter #content ??? 🤔

@stephenworthy.bsky.social welcome! I’ll pop the kettle on

Decent!

he is. Pulled up

Invalid Handle?

YouTube video by Tulsi Gabbard Putin, end this attack now before the point of no return

For the Brits: Trump has announced this woman, Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence. Here she is spouting Putin’s best lines. To remind you: the UK & US share intelligence.

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Hello ! Good morning Bluesky ! Some Leopards can’t change their spots . . . but some of us can . . .

The best of us

Local GP surgery notice: “Somebody is diagnosed with bowel cancer every 15 minutes” - poor sod

I recommend this piece on why truth-seeking journalism is in trouble mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalism...

This is Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the two last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. She turned 110 years old on Sunday, Nov. 10.

Drop her some birthday love! 💙

I got chiles
They’re multiplying

Fabrezing the socials down, away from you-know-where