Andrew Tomkinson

Trump just committed yet another felony — and this time he knows he's been seen The president says he has the power to pay members of the military even though the government’s fiscal year ended on Sept. 30.That may seem acceptable. After all, why should those who serve the countr...

Trump just committed yet another felony — and this time he knows he's been seen

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MAGA farmers, get it through your heads:

HE. DOESN'T. CARE. ABOUT. YOU.

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

How to Argue with a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time) | The new book from best-selling author Ed Winters. How to Argue With a Meat Eater will teach you to not only become a skilled debater, sharing the secrets of renowned vegan educator Ed Winters, but it will arm you with powerful facts and insights that...

These is a book that captures and debunks all kind of arguments pro meat in a similar fashion www.howtoarguewithameateater.com

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8. I could go on, but you get the jist.
TL;DR: Beware of what you want to believe.
Making yourself feel better about something is not the same as getting it right.

7. No, Europe did not become “great” through meat-eating. Thoughout the entire early modern and modern periods until the late 19th Century, the vast majority here ate very little meat. Only imports of beef and lamb from the colonies, enabled by genocide, expulsion and land clearing, changed that.

6. No, “grass-fed” meat production does not “avoid chemicals”. It still relies on veterinary medicine and large amounts of supplemental feeding. Hill farmers now use heavy applications of NPK. And the ecological opportunity cost is off the scale: vast amounts of land for tiny amounts of food.

5. No, buying local animal products does not mean you automatically know more about them. That long poultry shed at the bottom of the lane – do you have the faintest idea what goes on in there? What the chickens are fed? What medicines are used? How they are treated?

4. And what exactly does “local” chicken or “local” pork mean? The local bit is the factory or field through which the feed is channelled. But where does the feed come from? On average, there is more soy (in the UK it’s all imported, mostly from Brazil or the US) in chicken than there is tofu.

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Prince Andrew and the political economy of privilege

What does Prince Andrew have to do with political economy? Quite a lot. In this video, I explain how royal privilege reveals the deeper structures of inequality that run through Britain’s politics and economy.
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Richard Murphy: Think Rachel Reeves 'red tape blitz' will save £6bn? Think again RACHEL Reeves delivered one of those almost meaningless speeches today that chancellors of the Exchequer seem to think they must make in the run-up…

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YouTube video by Richard J Murphy What is the UK’s true debt emergency?

There’s a real debt crisis in Britain – but it’s not the one the politicians or journalists are talking about.

While Rachel Reeves obsesses over government borrowing, 4 million people are unable to afford the basics of life without debt. That's the real debt crisis.

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Inflation: there’s nothing to say except the big question no one wants to ask There's nothing to say about the inflation data out this morning from the ONS, about which they said: The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 3.8% in the 12 months to September 2025, unchanged from...

Inflation: there’s nothing to say except the big question no one wants to ask www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Fools, the ability to think, and crashes As Katie Martin noted in the FT this morning: A couple of months ago, warning about a bubble in the world’s most important stock market was largely the preserve of oddballs and attention-seekers. I wa...

Fools, the ability to think, and crashes www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

I'm back at the cat ranch 🐈‍⬛️ after running 🏃‍♂️ all my errands. The kids are just fine! 😺😺😺 #CatsOfBlueSky #CatsAreFamily

It's time for another episode of Hangin' with Merlin. 🐈‍⬛️ And yes, the bozo filming 🎥 is a klutz. 😸😸😸 #CatsOfBlueSky

I picked up some Popeye's for dinner tonight. 😋 #TimsFineDining F*** the food POlice! 🚔

Bedtime 😽 for Molly. 🐈 #CatsOfBlueSky #CatsAreFamily

Yep, Merlin's 🐈‍⬛️ here for breakfast this morning, but I didn't realize that Morty "The Mooch" was hiding under the chair until I went outside. 😸 #CatsOfBlueSky

Night night sweet dreamies

Life is hard on everyone, even the ones who hide it well.

If you can be anything,
be kind
Because you never know who’s holding themselves together in silence

Be kind to yourself too 🧡

Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday

Keep the faith & hold on.
Things will get better.
It may be stormy now, but it can't rain forever.
Like the way wellies, umbrellas, galoshes keep you dry- a sprinkle of hope will help see you through

Throwback to 4 years ago when two pygmy goats turned up at meownselves ticket window
Said they were off to KID-derminster…
🐐 🐐

I tried to milk them for treatos but they hoofed it

Friends! A tale of two halves. This sums up a typical day in our house. Crazy to Snoozy and back again. It’s well and truly Snuggling Season here and we have a storm approaching tomorrow. Thank goodness for our Comfy and Safe Sofa! Have a lovely day, everyone 🧡🤎🧡

How is Cheese Made?

Does that sound like a delicious process to you? 🫕

Cheese is one of the number one reasons people cite for not being able to go vegan. But when you put it like George Monbiot does, it starts to sound a whole lot less appealing 🧀

Many thanks to all those who helped with the Ruskin request - got it!

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
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Richard Murphy almost definitely brought the receipts this week