Sir Birdly

Happy hang, eviscerate, and burn someone who believes in the exact same God as you, but in a slightly different way, week.

Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink.

Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.

Word.

Never forget this. Monster.

Wise words by Sir John Lawton: "There is no surrogate metric that can reliably assess conservation success or failure without knowing what is happening to populations of plants and animals in the landscape."

Write to your MP today: act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...

Bearly Newsworthy: Issue Four Good reporting, bad politics, and one very flammable flag situation in Kent.

Bearly Newsworthy: Issue Four is live a day early.

Highlights this week include:

🧠 Proper journalism
🤡 Improper politicians
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bunting-based chaos in Kent

I contain multitudes.

The hide and seek skills of wrens cannot be described as "legendary"

How the world's richest man is boosting the British right How the world's richest man is boosting the British right

The full Sky investigation is also well worth a read:

The X-periment: Sky News Proves Elon’s Algorithm Does Pick a Side Nine fake British users, ninety-thousand posts and one undeniable conclusion - X is boosting the far right, and the rest of us were never meant to win the argument.

Today marks the official death of my Twitter blue-tick - and fittingly, Sky News published an investigation proving the whole thing’s an algorithmic bin fire.

It’s been real, it’s been ragey, it’s been hell.

Let it burn. Let it all burn to the ground.

Rabbits have got loads of energy but the meat lacks one essential amino acid so you can starve to death by eating rabbit but only if you eat just rabbit. Celery takes more energy to digest than you get from it but I suppose you could give it to the rabbit before you eat the rabbit 🤔

I'm afraid I can attest that they make excellent eating. You can snuggle the pelt afterwards as well if you like

Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️

…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

#RachelReeves
Yes Prits!
Apart from cocking up Covid,
Implementing Brexit,
Partying whilst people died,
Cutting local Govt funding by 40%,
Running down public services
And increasing levels of poverty.
We Conservatives were NEVER business bashing, job destroying or law breaking!

Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:

The right defends economic power.

The left resists economic power.

Ha ha haa! Fawage can't do maffs 😆

Nigel Farage vs The Bond Market: Round One (He Lost) Farage has discovered what every populist eventually does - you can’t outshout mathematics.

Nigel Farage finally met a force he couldn’t shout down - the bond market.

You can’t outdrink a spreadsheet, and you can’t gaslight a Bloomberg terminal.

Round one: he lost.

Ladies and gentlemen.
I present to you:
Mr Lee Anderson MP dressed up as a warlock, bleeding from his head, making serious political comment on GB News.
I feel as though I need say no more…
😬

It seems to me that the biggest destroyers of our uplands, both in Ireland and Great Britain, are sheep. They have been filmed eating eggs of ground nesting birds, the damage they do to vegetation is so well known. Only thing that comes close is grouse moor management and muirburn.

Hear hear!!

Bastard motherfucking fireworks

WHY!?!?

My dog: petrified
My cats: petrified
Every pet in 10 miles: petrified
Every wild animal: petrified

And tomorrow: same again
And Sunday
And next weekend
And the weekend after

When I'm king of fucking everything, they're banned. Death penalty. End of.

Let’s appreciate the one (yes only one) Labour Lord who voted to protect endangered species 👏👏👏 Well done Baroness Young. I hope the Labour MPs will listen to you and pass Amendment 130 🙏

Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say

What sex-offender could ask for more?

Fantastic 10 minutes spent with five ring ouzels at Emsworthy Mire yesterday afternoon including what appeared to be a family of four foraging on the ground and this confiding adult merrily scoffing sloes.
Photo by Bob Barrow

I expect it will be your usual waffle

British icon, hilarious comic & bird-kind ⁦‪Bill Bailey‬⁩ thinks securing homes for birds reliant on cavity nesting habitat is an ace idea. The swift brick debate is tomorrow. Help the birds. Email SWIFT BRICKS to steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk

Farage: epic grifter