Dora

Best description of the mad bastard ever. Thank you!

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

"We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale" Stephen Lezak, Oxford "We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed"
@albomp.bsky.social + @australianlabor.bsky.social = #Fail
#auspol

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An unannounced potato announcement. My favourite of all the announcements.

DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME STEWART LEE

And he’s back!!

Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.

His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

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?” 🧵

Women followed by ‘mob’ after removing flags Flag disputes are escalating from lampposts to council chambers, fuelling heated clashes and political debate

Police told women removing flags they were “causing trouble” – while ignoring the mob surrounding them. Story and video here ⤵️.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Foolishly mine were. I won't be giving them the opportunity to disappoint me again.

Nigel Farage Is a Racist The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda ADAM BIENKOV OCT 04, 2025 Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

It is just outrageous that this is happening. What the hell is this Labour government doing. So very disappointed in them.

Damn Every Comic Who Sold Their Soul for Saudi Blood Money All these sell-outs can go to hell.

They’re dead to me.

The MET police at its finest : once again carting off pensioners who are anti- genocide
(Trafalgar Square, London, 4th October)

My MP in an absolutely rock solid Tory voting area. She has never done anything for her constituency and I am unaware of her peaking on day one or infact, any of the other days she's been an MP.

Kemi Badenoch: “I'm Not Somebody Who Peaks On Day One” Can she turn her party’s fortunes around? Kemi Badenoch talks to Sienna Rodgers about being ‘proved right’ on culture wars, hits back at the briefi...

The supremely arrogant, and monumentally stupid Kemi Badenoch says “I'm Not Somebody Who Peaks On Day One” in this interview..

‘Earth to Badenoch❗️You will never peak, just flat line through the rest of your career.. like Truss grossly over estimating your talent and ability, unaware of your flaws❗️

The Dutch can tell us something about managing extremism The UK and Netherlands have similar politics, but very different ways of managing it. What might we learn from across the North Sea?

Britain’s electoral system can now give a majority to a party backed by only a third of voters. In the Netherlands, their proportional system limits power to a true majority. Time we learned a lesson?

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Weird how The Times had Farage's "shocked" reaction to Starmer's speech published before Starmer's speech.

Amazing bit of 2019 footage this.

Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout.

And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.

Lucrative hate: YouTubers target migrant hotels for clicks YouTubers are cashing in by harassing asylum seekers at hotels, turning human misery into profitable, divisive entertainment

Hotels housing migrants are now YouTube content farms. Outrage = clicks. Clicks = cash: £10k–£20k a month, just for filming cruelty. Division is the business model.

Details here ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

UN: “Kids dying of starvation… what we give them is a peanut butter paste. We’ve been told we can’t bring that in because it’s a luxury.”

AMANPOUR: “Seriously?”

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

Americans vs Europeans.

‘We’ve spent years contributing to Britain – but under Reform’s plans we will leave’ Kushal Sureka and Preety Jalan moved from India to the UK in January 2020 on skilled work visas

Kushal Sureka and wife Preety, moved to UK January 2020 to work as chartered accountants.

In past 5 years they paid £100,000 in tax (Farage & Tice used tax havens to avoid paying UK tax) contributing to society & have indefinite leave to stay

They’re more valuable than 2 tax dodging millionaires🤷🏼‍♂️

They came to the UK for a better life, worked hard, paid tax unlike Farage & Tice did and now feel fear because of a 5 MP Party making threats aided by MSM🤬

Amid reports that MPs and an advisory taskforce will recommend scrapping the two-child limit on benefits, it's worth noting that this step would be the most targeted and cost-effective way for the Government to meet its aim of reducing child poverty ⤵️

Farage's blood libel against migrants is meant to distract attention from his own party's tax-dodging, money-laundering, wife-beating, workers-and-reproductive-rights-destroying clown car of membership.

Don't stop saying this, because, to a man, Reform comes out badly when faced with the truth

What Do We Have To Lose If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him? Plus: some natural borders; and the non-existence of grey, and other letters.

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!"

If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

Over 1600 people have now been arrested for offences like "wearing or displaying clothing" that arouses suspicion that they support Palestine Action. Impossible to overstate how repressive this is.