It's time for a montage!

One of the harder aspects of getting old is hearing more & more friends/family/acquaintances going through medical issues as their bodies age and start to fail. It can be frightening, complicated, expensive & draining. Not much of a reward for surviving to a good age.

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

One Battle After Another is being used by Trump's gang as a guidebook.

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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

This is not a mere lofty ideal, my day-to-day experience as an advocate is that judges vary on a scale of affability but not on a scale of commitment to making a just decision.

This is the home of Diane Goodstein, a federal judge who ruled against Trump last month.

Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows.

Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.

Do good

But the right's jibe was always that the left were do-gooders and it was often pointed out that they fell short and did not do go. But the right were exempt because they did not profess to do good - the market sorted everything out or they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps as should others.

#RuckTheWRU2025

It’s not that Heseltine has moved to the left, but that the Tory Party has moved to the right.

Surely their line is - they say they are good people, they fail and so are bad whereas we never pretended to be good?

This has forever been the right's pitch

Ardderchog! Da iawn, chi 🦉

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Frailty in ageing populations worsened by air pollution, global review finds Coauthor of research says condition linked to heightened vulnerability and loss of independence – but is reversible

Air pollution is a global crisis and it's hitting our ageing population. This week London achieved a major milestone meeting its clean air target 184 years earlier than predicted.

The impact on vulnerable people shows why our work is so vital.

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Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.

It's Brexit 2.

And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.

I would like to hear similar sentiments expressed with as much conviction by leading UK politicians.

FARAGE: “.. I’d love to sit here with you in two years’ time and we both say: ‘Wow. That WORKED.’” 🤡

A horrible, sad loss

And she was far more deserving of the Order of Merit than many who did receive it.

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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"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Anyone remembers the panic in 2023 because Labour lost a by-election in Uxbridge and South Ruislip over ULEZ expansion, and the pressure Khan was under to axe his climate/air quality policies? Feels like a decade ago now.

Retrospectively, Kamala Harris’ speeches were so on point that they feel like a prophesy.