AJ’s Ramblings

graphic depicting how isolated brexit britain is in the European community, sitting alongside Belarus & Russia, outside EU Schengen, EU Customs Union, EEA, EU and EFTA.

that will involve a lot of flags!

I have felt for a long time that the BBC is feeding the anti migrant right wing. This week their no 2 article was the number of migrants coming over in boats. There doesn’t appear to be any balance to their reporting which just feeds the anti migrant movement.

Good Morning BlueSky.
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I am very proud to be featured in this video produced by University of Oxford, describing my work to save the hedgehogs through research, conservation, research communication and political influence:

I dag tæller vi Danmarks pindsvin, så vi kan få kortlagt bestanden og dokumentere, hvordan den har det!

Klik ind på www.danmarkspindsvin.dk

Vi varmer op ved at live-streame mit foredrag om pindsvin. Se med fra kl. 14:30: bit.ly/pindsvin-live

Så, op på stikkerne, Danmark og tæl nogle pindsvin 🦔🫶

Tart looks excellent … we can cycle this then @daveih.bsky.social

Cartoon by Charles M Schulz showing the Peanuts gang reading - Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Woodstock all with books - Woodstock weighed down by War And Peace!

Why read books? Because there's a book for EVERYONE out there. And once you find the right book - reading will change your life forever! #literacy

(Art: Charles M Schulz)

1971, Sesame Street Storybook. My son's favorite story. It may have been the alliteration, but it was wonderful to see.
Thank you, PBS!

Book cover for Funnybones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

Book cover for Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins

Book cover for The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones.

Book cover for When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

In honour of the great Allan Ahlberg, who died yesterday, I wanted to use this #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate all the great children’s writers who formed us as readers. For me, along with Ahlberg, it was Pat Hutchins, Judith Kerr and Diana Wynne Jones. Who would you celebrate? #KidLitUK #KidLit

David Willetts: Slowly, Britain's populists are learning that the grown-ups had a point | Conservative Home It is the application of their slogans which end up doing the damage to real people. It is just a pity neither Conservatives nor Labour have the confidence to make that case.

An interesting article considering it’s from Conservative Home

‘Brexit also meant we lost access to data in other EU member states about criminal records of migrants coming to the UK. We have also lost access to the EU fingerprint data-based of migrants so tracking their history is more difficult’

Politics isn’t tribal anymore – teenagers take a whole new view Labour will let 16- and 17-year-olds vote: adding in the perspective of younger voters may bring much-needed refreshment to political life

Nigel Farage calls votes at 16 an “attempt to rig the system.”

But Gen Z isn’t naïve. They’ve grown up watching Brexit tear families apart. They’re not joining a tribe.

Read how they’re starting a quiet revolution, picking values over parties.

This is every photo of my new cat. He's hip, he's cool, he's a tree climbing fool.

Reform paid £1.3m to right-wing newspapers during election campaign EXCLUSIVE - Farage caught up in “major” conflict of interest...

A quarter of Ref UK’s entire election spend (£5.5m) went on adverts placed in Mail, Sun, & Express. Biggest slice – £906k – went to the Mail. Another £309k went to Murdoch’s Sun, while £74k was spent with the Express.

*They’re bought & paid-for media*

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👇THIS! Farage is a horrible divisive man who wants to be the Trump of the UK. Turning back all this batshit crazy narrative needs to happen fast. The media need to read a room that is not Twitter!

Nigel Farage at his crime press conference in London is openly arguing that migration is causing an increase in the number of rapes, and talking about the need for the "right kind" of migrants. It feels like Reform's supposed firewall against far right rhetoric is disappearing at speed.

Farewell free-to-air: Inside ITV's final Tour de France After four decades of free Tour de France coverage on British TV, the ITV team are on their final lap. Tom Davidson drops in on the roadside studio

good feature, this www.cyclingweekly.com/news/farewel...

Chloe Kelly doing her thing 👏⚽️🥳 #WEURO2025👏🥳

Number of British acts at European music festivals plummets since Brexit Fans in France, Spain, Germany and Denmark set to miss out this summer

Another Brexit ‘win’

When will people wake up from their little island mentality ?

Suspect many are just too dim to realise that economic growth has been hindered by Brexit

Stuck in some form of 1950s time warp

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The mainstream right wing press is desperate for a race riot.

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

But it was all about protecting women and kids, right… www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Dear "Nige". Ventured out in the crime-ridden hellhole that is "Sadiq Khan's London" earlier today. People were dancing. Smiling. Laughing. Enjoying themselves in the regenerating Docklands. It was terrible. Please put a stop to it immediately. #london #farage

‘Threatening letters’ and cancelled committees: inside Reform UK’s Kent takeover The takeover of Kent County Council by Reform UK in the spring local elections has proved to be fractious, fraught and sometimes farcical, but no one’s laughing

Kent County Council staff soon received a threatening letter from Kemkaran, Farage & Zia Yusuf, demanding they co-operate with cost-cutting or face disciplinary action.

But neither Farage nor Yusuf have any legal status as far as Kent County Council is concerned.

What the next Scottish Government could do for you in 2026? Scotland never wanted out of the European Union and Brexit proves a failure. Can a new Scottish Government bring change?

"In 2015, Nigel Farage promised farmers and fishermen that they would have nothing to fear about leaving the European Union. The reality has been that this action has imposed new barriers, checks, tests, extra costs and realms of red tape on trade with our largest market."

Lucy White @LucyJayneWhite1 Follow Just landed in Heathrow Airport T3. Went into M&S. Three @marksandspencer staff speaking in another language. I asked them "What language are you speaking?" They responded "Hindi" I have a voice recording & their names to report to M&S. We must confront them every time. 22:35 24/07/2025 1.3M Views

What is she going to report them for? It is currently perfectly legal to speak another language. Top tip for you, Lucy: English is not the only official language of the UK.

Will and I have all the cleverness … we are the wise ones.

Because you needed a video of a group of cute otters chasing a butterfly... 😊

OMG this footage is so beautiful.

Find someone who runs to you the way Paret-Peintre runs to van Wilder 🥹

Nice one Meta -

Dead children who wrote poetry of hope before they were killed are really dangerous. 🙄

So they only arrested one person … and the police said that the right to protest is protected by law. Shame that didn’t apply to that 80 year old peaceful protester in London last week. Yvette Cooper needs to sort out the policing and ensure that all protests are treated the same!

Farage can only be against things

He never has any policies or ideas to create or change anything

Brexit was his campaign against the EU with no actual idea of what to do next