Ellis Redding

This was the Starling murmuration, on Sinker's Fields, at Whixall yesterday. It was one of the most spectacular natural spectacles I have ever seen and is a must watch.

Enough.

🇳🇱 Outgoing Dutch Defence Secretary Tuinman: «If the US 🇺🇸blocks F-35 software updates, we will crack the code and do our own updates to make the plane fully European. I'm not allowed to say more».
This is the way, Netherland 🇳🇱😁😁

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Hollywood icon, James Dean, walking in the rain in Times Square, NYC (1955). 📷 Dennis Stock

The whole thing is appalling.
Thankfully it’s not too important to me - but the processes are farcical.
Glad someone negotiated it.
I think I have emails from senior ppl at CH from previous issues with their procedures. I will drop them a line.

In my line of work anything like that would see you sacked for gross incompetence.
@lizforleicester.bsky.social
I hope you have the power to sort things out asap, given it’s within the government!!
It is shocking.

Not sure who the IT bods at Companies House/HMRC are who dreamt up the whole ID verification. But it is an utter utter shambles. From the very very beginning. The whole concept is all over the shop. 2 different systems. Change of App. Change of name.
Farcical. That’s before trying to upload!

Priti Patel has a meltdown when Lewis Goodall points out that the assumptions Brexiters made have proven to be entirely wrong

That’s before you take into account the missing £billions or even £trillions of the Covid contracts cover up.

It’s her pout. To try & look sexy & to try & charm the journalist.
She hates content.

fashion industry: Emissions are projected to rise by 60% by 2030, potentially reaching 26% of the global carbon budget by 2050.

I am curious what about the fashion industry?
Umpteen different styles of jeans (for example) all the sizes & most end up in landfill. Then there is transportation. Then the trend changes & a newer slightly different version is released. Any research?

Davie has caused the “profound jeopardy”, he & the other directors need to step down, & hand over to those more capable & who wish to see the BBC succeed.

Minneapolis protesters march against ICE as governor urges Trump to remove agents Second fatal shooting an 'inflection point' says Tim Walz as protests spread over Saturday's shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis protesters march against ICE as governor urges Trump to remove agents

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh that’s right never believe MSM bc their social media dudes are all over everything & have the inside knowledge.
They are being played - as are millions of others. When will they understand?

RIP Isiah Whitlock (1954 - 2025)

Lineker leaves MOTD after 40(?) years on the show - 26 of which as the presenter. Doesn’t make it 😳

Last 2 *HOME* games against mediocre opponents, total 1-7!
He’s done.
I suspect a matter of when not if.

Managed decline?
Would keep the Tories happy & Murdoch would be delighted.

I have issues with the Guardian & their very American bias especially when it comes to issues of race - and have told them.

The only main broadcaster/news outlet that has real credit for me is Channel 4. Even I have concerns over their E4 output, but that’s another matter I suppose.

This.
“It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.”

Absolutely. Yes our politicians have been clandestinely awful, but massive stick needs to taken to so much of our main political “journalists” - & their managers.

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.

Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks

That’s the Tory position-when defending … (checks notes) … Boris Johnson!! 😬
Content.
“More charismatic” is a subjective issue, playing to populist politics.
Ps John Major as PM - didn’t he “anger rid” of polytechnics?.

But they do, they complain saying that the BBC is too left wing. And they tried to show they are very left wing & present it as non-bias.

Remember this will all blow over with the next news story. But the principle is there Save The BBC.
Don’t lose sight if it. Once it’s gone - that’s it. The fascists know it, that’s why they want to extinguish it.

Thank you for this.
#SAVETHEBBC

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Just shows he’s not the patriot he purports to be.