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Just got these security alerts on my mobile, accompanied by loud beeping.
Eek.
#severeweather
#balearics

Zelenskyy: Farage is infected with the virus of putin

Farage on twitter threatening to sue the Mail on Sunday

Did Farage ever sue the Mail on Sunday?

This threat was issued in June 2025, but I can find no further reference to events after that.

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

I agree, Stop The Boats

Bloody oligarchs coming over 'ere on their mega yachts, stealing our public assets, influencing our government, exploiting our work force, dumping their waste into our rivers & expecting the tax payer to foot the bill for their billion pound government contracts & bail outs

When I see journalists allowed free access to Gaza, then I might believe that the killing has stopped.

What!!! I’m 77, thankfully just had my Covid vaccine. But I object to being called “very old” young man!

(That said, completely agree that the vaccine should be much more widely available at no cost. My friend aged 74, who is much frailer than I am, had to pay for her jab. Not good.)

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

"Brexiteers boasted that leaving the EU would be worth hundreds of billions a year. Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade Britain's economy will be £300bn smaller than if we had not left the EU. This is self-harm on a heroic scale."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Covid vaccine needs to be much more widely available to maintain any kind of herd immunity. At around £95, Covid protection is out of reach for many people.

I really can’t understand this 75+ policy. Very short term thinking in my opinion.

He’s rotten to the core.

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

Totally unexpected news.

With the assistance of that greedy and self serving idiot, Boris Johnson. He ousted any halfway decent Tory politicians.

I sincerely hope not. We don’t have enough people as good as Dolly in this world.

Badenoch clearly swerved the dreadful fate of studying English.

Not sure they let graduates loose on designing planes after a 3 year degree. But I stand corrected.

My view has always been that it’s not the subject you study at university that’s important. It’s the process of learning how to study a subject effectively that is the real life skill.

Today’s uninvited guest, a beautiful 3 inch long mantis.
Gently removed and released into a pomegranate tree. It was miffed.
#mantis
#majorca

Dawn in Cala d’Or
#majorca

A lovely big donation at our Foodbank today. The harvest festival offerings from a local secondary school.
It’s great that these kids are learning about supporting their community.
#harvestfestival
#foodpoverty

Done.

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

I’m irresistibly reminded of Nosferatu whenever I see Miller. Shudder.

Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?

🔴 Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery

As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/c...

Firm linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone must pay nearly £122m after it breached PPE contract A company linked to Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone breached a government contract of nearly £122m to supply surgical gowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, the High Court has ruled.

BREAKING: A company linked to Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone breached a government contract of nearly £122m to supply surgical gowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, the High Court has ruled.

The £121.9m sum must now be repaid by the company, PPE Medpro

news.sky.com/story/firm-l...

"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis."

Just amazing then how many of them are called Nathan Gill.

She knows “Somalian” is a nationality, not a race, right?

1st October. The 1st day Covid vaccine is available for those eligible.

My GP surgery was like Armageddon with walking frames this morning. Rammed with sensible seniors at the drop-in Covid jab session.
I’m booked later today at my local pharmacy. No faffing about here in Worksop.

#vaccines