Austen

Although if you send a suitably erotic one to Prince Andrew, who knows.

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
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Agnes Kory interviewed in the Metro Hats off to the Metro newspaper for giving space to a moving and timely interview with Hungarian Holocaust survivor and…

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Moving rebuttal of the canard that Jews support the Gaza holocaust.

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

Many of the 90 bodies of Palestinians returned to Gaza by Israeli authorities under the ceasefire deal showed signs of torture and execution, including blindfolds, cuffed hands and bullet wounds in the head, according to doctors’ accounts.

Of all the stupid things they’ve said, this is the stupidest. And the most dangerous.

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

In his own words, he explains what Keir Starmer's Isreali handlers did to him

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times around Brexit

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Letter to the editor: £5bn over ten years isn’t ‘ambitious’ – it’s a fraction of what the EU once gave Letter to the editor

Letter to the editor:
In 2018 alone, the EU gave £5.9bn to help deprived UK regions.

Now the government calls £5bn over ten years “ambitious.”

Brexit really did take from the poor to give to a slogan.

It was only eight days ago that 300 federal agents descended on a Chicago apartment complex at 3:00AM on a Tuesday morning, zip tying its residents (some of them CHILDREN) and denying them the opportunity call a lawyer.

Don't let the never-ending shit-news-cycle get in your way of remembering that.

Goddamn.

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

🎯

They lie about the ECHR.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.

An image of a nurse speaking to a patient, with the text "Sign the EverDoctor Charter" and "Stand with NHS staff and patients".

An image of a doctor wearing a surgical mask with her eyes closed showing exhaustion, with the text "- Every NHS staff member must receive proper support, including adequate resources, staffing levels, and working conditions".

An image of a doctor holding a patient's hand, with the text "and every NHS patient must receive excellent care."

A graphic of a building with an open padlock and people outside alongside a free sign. The text overlayed reads "All patient services within the NHS must be fully publicly-owned and publicly-run." and "The NHS must be free at the point of use, and provide equal, comprehensive healthcare to all. These are the core principles of the NHS, and politicians must uphold them."

🚨 The NHS is under pressure like never before. Staff are burnt out, patients are suffering - and politicians aren’t listening.

Sick of empty promises? Swipe to see the EveryDoctor Charter and join a movement holding decision-makers accountable for the NHS.

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A blue EveryDoctor graphic titled “Voices of the NHS” displays the quote "Signing this in support of my daughter and son-in-law who work so hard but still feel guilty about not being able to provide a better service. For the Foundation doctors who can’t find a training post.Thanks to EveryDoctor for speaking up and exposing the payments to Ministers from private health lobbyists." from an Endorser. The bottom text reads, “Join us. Sign the EveryDoctor Charter.”

We’ve been so moved by the messages people are leaving when they sign the EveryDoctor Charter 💙

These are the voices and lives behind our Charter.

Every signature is a stand for staff, patients, and a publicly run NHS.

Join them today → bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...

👉 What are PFIs?
👉 Why did they fail the first time?
👉 And why are they quietly making a comeback?

This is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the NHS.

📖 Read the full piece here:
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The real seismic shift
Britain isn’t being changed by immigration.
It’s being transformed into an authoritarian corporate client state
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YouTube video by ChristinaLMartin A man and a fence

Going to make this my pinned post
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If you would like to know more about our use of HTR then tune in on Zoom next week: Harry and Emily have been working on our models alongside Mark and they will be discussing our approach.

All welcome (not just postdocs!).

Meeting link on this page: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

arrested for singing "... if you hate brown people, and you are a Nazi, come on ICE leave Portland" to an ICE agent 👀

Controversial UK oil field reveals climate impact if approved The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.

Rosebank forced to admit its climate impact would be 50x greater than it initially claimed. Clear evidence that this climate-wrecking oil field must never be developed

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Tweet by Melanie D’Arrigo stating: “The UAE bought $2B of Trump’s crypto — and gets computer chips. Saudi Arabia gave Kushner $2B for a new Trump Tower — and gets weapons. Qatar gives Trump a private jet and a $5.5B real estate deal — and gets US military protection. This is how bribes work.” Below is an image of Donald Trump sitting across from the Emir of Qatar in a formal meeting room. Text overlay: “Quid Pro Presidency.”

The GOP spent years screaming about a manufactured Biden bribe but says nothing about this. Tells you all you need to know.

That shouldn't be an obstacle, but politicians have to think about their own future l guess.

Mornin' Ian.
Well, here we are back at Thursday.
I'm sure there are more than there used to be.

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife 'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
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Making the case for wealth taxes on @SkyNewsPolitics just now. Rumours that Chancellor might seek yet more spending cuts are horrifying - public services are already on their knees & top 50 richest families in UK now hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population - over 34 million people.