Suz MacLeod

It certainly gives you a boost in the morning!

These posed flag-framed vainglorious photo portraits (most party grandees can’t resist it) are stultifying.

Photo of a Shield Bug, Leicestershire UK, early October 2025

Pretty little (12-15mm) Shield Bug in the galley.

It’s weird that as few as two dotted lines are now required to link Keir Starmer’s government with ‘Tommy Robinson’.

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

This is Kemu Badenoch's vision for a future UK

I’ve seen little evidence that the Reform Hull & East Yorkshire CA Mayor has engaged with his nominal ‘infrastructure’ role. ISTR a ‘transport’ meeting he went to over your way a few months ago, though all he reported was a photo from a mate’s gym—nothing on ‘transport’ that I’ve seen.

Your last sentence is true, for sure.

But I don’t think I’d set such a high value on speed per se. Connectivity and opportunities to travel, definitely. I prefer trains that go slowly enough for me to read the names of stations we pass through without stopping.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

There are actual ‘British’ people who will salivate at this idea. Not British as I’ve always understood it.

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A close call. Streak on, Donna!

Me? Hemingway struck a rich seam on this one. Sixth word on the chosen page (p.59 since the time happened to be 07:59) qualified for guess #1. I followed up with SOP, and Bob’s your uncle.

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37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

Some good questions posed here.

BTW the ‘boy’ Polanski, as the estimable Mr Pecksniff has it, is nearly 43 years old. When the lad becomes a man, he may well prove unstoppable! 😃

Bridge over the River Hull in Kingston upon Hull, commemorating John Venn

I agree completely.

By the way this bridge commemorates John Venn of #Hull

There’s a very odd and troubling mixing of ‘steam’ and ‘smoke’ in this article, and it’s not clear who it is that’s getting these two different things mixed up.

What Is My Favourite View In Hull?

Marianne Lewsley-Stier heads to the waterfront to explain the influence of the confluence.

Supplementals: tinyurl.com/2jwn8urc

@hulllibraries.bsky.social

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Satisfactory.

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Nowhere near broken enough in Nigel Farage's opinion.

It has to be smashed to pieces and turned into a dictatorship like the USA.

In fact, about 63% of the electorate *did not vote in favour of Brexit*.

I dunno. I’m just an old Brit looking in horror and sympathy, knowing that the trailblazers of American Fascism will eventually be emulated by the champions of ignorance, cruelty, violence and falsehood of which there are a good number over here.

They don’t have the Army unless they have the Generals. Do they have the Generals?

“Back with Nigel, as the years went on, he developed attention issues: if the people didn’t give him attention, he would drive to Dover and start filming small boats. So we worked with sympathetic millionaires to establish GB News, Britain’s first emotional support TV channel.” 😂

¿Ineficaz? Estas acciones “bienintencionadas” sirven a menudo para _provocar_ las medidas tomadas por las grandes organizaciones ¿No?

I for one hold the answer to be self-evident.

Well, there it is.

First Christmas Tree.

Artificial. Baubles, no fairy lights. But a Christmas Tree. On 3rd October.

We haven’t even had Hallowe’en, Plot Night nor Remembrance yet and we’re ‘in the run-up to Christmas’.

Argos-in-Sainsbury’s #MarketHarborough, be ye hereby Shamèd.

The same had occurred to me. Slightly different segments.

This is why I have cause for hope. The number of people who are aware and yet plainly don’t care/don’t mind/are even extra friendly hugely outnumber the insecure and troubled. Outright hostility, I’ve found, is very rare.

Trans people are being (ab)used as a lever in sucky political machinations.

“Can’t find the decision” ✅

Nicely put.