Fionna O’Leary

Were English asparagus still in season then it would have been on the menu.

But as it isn’t I’m going to roast a butterflied chicken with preserved lemon and oregano.

And serve it with the butterbean herby salad & a crisp green salad.

It’s going to be a preserved lemon butterflied roast chicken, the butterbean salad and a crisp green salad!

Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.

Meet A Rural Doctor Already Seeing the Impacts of Trump’s Budget “Rural hospitals are infrastructure that all of us depend on.”

Hearing statistics about Trump’s budget doesn’t tell the full story. It’s about the real lives that feel the consequences of it.

Watch my full conversation with Dr. Jill, a health care provider in rural Wisconsin, about what she’s already seeing in her community.

🌿☕Pears are going well🍐🍐🍐

What did the Romans ever do for us 🤷introducing pear to Britain for a start, along with over 50 other plants like fig, grape, apple, cherry, plum, damson, mulberry, date, olive, cucumber, celery, seeds, lentils, pine nut, almond, walnut, sesame, coriander, dill & fennel 🌿

Great work by the legends of Leeds for Europe! #RejoinEU

Some @privateeyenews.bsky.social are only so-so. Others are for the ages…

Long's primary credential for IRS Commissioner was promoting a fraud-riddled tax scheme, and yet still appears to have more integrity than the rest of the Trump administration.
Trump has previously fired career civil servants reluctant to break the law, but Long would be the first Cabinet official.

Sky News, "It's just been arrests after arrests after arrests"

"People protesting in front of statues of Ghandi and Suffragettes.. I don't need to tell you the symbolism of what that means.. The police crowded around them and took them away"

The banner that the statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett is holding reads: "COURAGE CALLS TO COURAGE EVERYWHERE".
#PalestineAction #ProtestIsNotACrime
(Photo & reportage: @tom-d.bsky.social)

Police say 365 people arrested at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Met officers and other UK forces form ‘significant presence’ in largest protest since group was proscribed as terrorist organisation

Police say 365 people arrested at protest over Palestine Action ban in London www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

South Africa Plans Jail Time, Fines Under New Emissions Rules South Africa will seek jail time, fines and higher taxes for breaches of proposed rules to govern carbon emissions that will apply to almost all sectors of the economy.

Recommended read: A @bloomberg.com article said that South Africa “will seek jail time, fines and higher taxes for breaches of proposed rules to govern carbon emissions” as part of new efforts to reduce the country’s dependency on coal.

YouTube video by Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Johan Svendsen: Romance | Pekka Kuusisto & NCO

In case you’re in need of something peaceful and lovely…🌻💐🌦️
youtu.be/X3rCYTy193o?...

Violent, lawless, broken Britain? The facts tell a different story The populist narrative of a migrant-driven crimewave is catnip on social media and oil to the wheels of Reform. But it is so far from the truth that we’re in danger of losing sight of the country we l...

Quite a few of these ‘the UK is in a better state than you might think’ pieces around and that’s all to the good. But one thing rarely said is how important it is to have a functioning statistical system, so we at least have a shared set of facts
www.thetimes.com/article/63b7...

History is repeating itself. 😳👇

European Movement says Europe must have a seat at the peace table European Movement UK joins Zelenskyy's urgent call for Europe to participate in peace negotiations

European Movement UK joins Zelenskyy's urgent call for Europe to participate in peace negotiations

How California energy policy is holding back a game changing climate technology OPINION: Without major changes to the way Californians pay for energy, we’ll lose the precious opportunities new electric technologies provide.

High electricity prices are the single biggest roadblock to decarbonizing buildings and deploying heat pumps at scale.

We can solve these problems, but it’ll take public awareness (outrage?) & policy changes.

I wrote about it in the @sfchronicle.com today - www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

'There will be an insurrection': Trump warned by ex-Fox host over Epstein meddling On Saturday morning, Donald Trump was handed a warning from a former Fox News host that he needs to tread carefully when it comes to any meddling in the Jeffrey Epstein firestorm that is engulfing his...

'There will be an insurrection': Trump warned by ex-Fox host over Epstein meddling

"What do you what make of the fact that President Trump still refuses to categorically rule out a pardon for a convicted sex trafficker, sex assaulter?" she was asked.

www.rawstory.com/trump-ghisla...

Trump’s America

Making America Trash Again

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iolent, lawless, broken Britain? The facts tell a different story The populist narrative of a migrant-driven crimewave is catnip on social media and oil to the wheels of Reform. But it is so far from the truth that we’re in danger of losing sight of the country we live in

Once again, another excellent article from Fraser Nelson - who, as Editor of the Spectator, did more than anyone else in the UK media class to normalise the far-right conspiracist catastrophism he now so rightly decries.

archive.ph/AFWfc#select...

On Thursday, a Ukrainian official said that discussions between U.S., European and Ukrainian officials at first envisioned two bilateral meetings - between Trump and Putin, and Trump and Zelensky - and then a meeting with all three. Putin, however, has resisted any talk of a direct meeting with Zelensky, which would imply recognition of the Ukrainian leader as an equal. On Thursday, Putin, dismissing the idea of a meeting with Zelensky, said "for this to happen, certain conditions must be created. Unfortunately, we are still far from creating such conditions.

How does that expression go?

“If you're not at the table, you're on the menu”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Just a reminder that whatever Trump discusses with Putin in IKEA or wherever the fuck they are meeting, Europe and the UK have committed to support Ukraine as long as they choose to defend their territory.
If Russia stops attacking, the war ends.
If Ukraine stops defending, Ukraine ends.

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog Radioactive water from the base that holds the UK’s nuclear bombs was allowed to leak into the sea after old pipes repeatedly burst, official files have revealed. The radioactive material was released into Loch Long, a sea loch near Glasgow in western Scotland, because the Royal Navy failed to properly maintain a network of 1,500 water pipes on the base, a regulator found. Continue reading...

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show

Keir Starmer offers 'unwavering support' after Zelensky rejects Trump peace plan Mr Zelensky angrily ruled out suggestions Ukraine and Russia could "swap" territory - and said any deal drawn up without Ukraine's input would be a non-starter

Keir Starmer offers 'unwavering support' after Zelensky angrily rejects Trump peace plan

President Zelensky ruled out suggestions Ukraine and Russia could "swap" territory - and said any deal drawn up without Ukraine's input would be a non-starter

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

How times change.

In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million.

157 years later, Russia owns the White House, and they didn't fork out a single dime.

I’m definitely going to do a lovely green salad too.

Good for protein and a variety of other micronutrients

Not near the sea enough for spanking fresh ones.