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My fek (4).

Same birder back from Spain, after seeing the flooding, also blogs

"Perhaps ironically, the vast flooded area held fewer birds than usual; passerines were flooded out, wetland birds dispersed across a greater area and the raptors presumably finding a less than usual amount of prey.."

"I like bikes (mostly when they're strapped to the roof of my BMW X5)" is the general impression I got.

His green credentials were never much more than surface vibes - never helpful on active travel / sustainable transport stuff in Richmond, afaik.

Saw loads of these in Amsterdam a couple of weeks back, and they always make me smile.

Because they're a conscious rejection of, a raised middle finger at, the ideology of power, bulk and dominance that typifies roads in the Anglosphere.

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Polanski has given interviews on that. TL;DR, Greens are already the most trusted on the environment so he doesn't see the need to labour that point.

And realistically, constituency MPs in a minority party have rather little clout or scope to deliver in those areas, vs local councils.

It's possible to be both pro the idea, and utterly appalled by the current reality.

And given the British penchant for rooting for the underdog, I'm guessing that's where a lot of people are at right now.

Centrism between the left and trad Toryism is different and fundamentally less appealing than centrism between the left and fascism.

A centrism that appeases climate deniers and throws vulnerable groups under the bus is, pardon my French, fucking worthless.

Depends, if it's an artisan pop-up selling organic, single-origin fair-trade crack you should be OK. An out-of-town retail barn from Big Crack would need permission however.

It's years of being beaten over the head by "they're not listening to our concerns", whereby the only sin worse than being bourgeois-bohemian is being "arrogant and out of touch".

Personally I'll willingly forgive a touch of arrogance if it's the side-order to a big plate of Getting Shit Done.

She's summoning two dogs with one whistle there.

A peach tree bare-root leaning against the back wheel of a bike.

A newly planted bare-root peach tree.

The second-best time is now.

Your occasional reminder that these are the same tactical geniuses who threw London's much-needed road user pricing under the bus* to appease Uxbridge and Chislehurst.

* Actually a Range Evoque. Detail, detail.

Which part of "Are" Wimin and Gurlz don't you understand?

Sometimes from the same people who decry Mamdani or Sadiq Khan for being "too woke". Okay...

Yep. I thought he was the type of village policeman who's got a good heart in the right place, and whose worst character flaw is having their perspectives a little limited by their inherent cop-ness.

Instead it's looking more like Hot Fuzz is a documentary...

If Reform had won Starmer would be on his knees to those voters begging for forgiveness. Greens win and it's like "Fuck off cranks"

It's also just a tad bit racist to assume that the only salient political fact about voters who are Muslim is their religion and ethnic background, rather than what they do for a living, or whether they might be concerned for their grandkids on a planet heading for 2.5°c of climate change.

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

Can only speak about the elected Greens whose work I've followed a bit, but Caroline Russell (London Assembly) and Ria Patel (Croydon) have done excellent, thorough work in holding the governing party to account.

And yes, that's perhaps an easier job than actually running things, but it bodes well.

It's not even left/right exactly, it's a Lawful Good personality type who are furious at Corbyn because of how he dresses and carries himself, before they've even considered his policies or whether some of his friends might have iffy views.

Same way the cops tolerate hooligans but go mental on XR.

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Bit harsh 😁

He's called out Reform on occasion, but you can tell they don't make him viscerally furious the way the Greens do.

It's not even about policies, it's about mindset and attitude, like that Labour woman getting mad about Hannah Spencer's front room.

Accurate.

If Labour stuck to the competent, unexciting delivery stuff they'd be the default choice, and could make an argument out of others' inexperience.

An ISP whose senior management likes to go around punching down on vulnerable groups, however, is going to bleed their market share to death.

"I dislike fascists, but I absolutely cannot fucking stand hippies".

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I mean, I doubt that a good rare roast beef, Yorkshire puddings and parsnips with a sticky toffee pudding for dessert is that easy to find in Phoenix either - nor many wanting to eat it, given the climate. Probably a few "Irish" pubs which no actual Irish person would recognise as such?

Wahaca's terribly expensive compared to places where cheap, fresh, tasty Mexican food is a way of life. But London has never been one of those places, so on that basis fair enough.

Their average-to-OK burritos cost the same as an average-to-OK burger in a pub down the road, it's just London prices.

I'm not sure I'd go quite that far, but certainly five decades of consumerism has conditioned people of every social class that pleasure is something you buy, not something you make and do.

Like, where do you expect your so-sorely-missed British Culture to come from, gents? It's YOUR job. OUR job.

Makes intuitive sense to me - in my corner of the world, the main barrier to people driving more (maybe, a lot more) is the time tax.

Make an hour in the car equivalent to an hour on public transport, in terms of being able to work/read/relax, people will be willing to spend more hours in the car.