Nick Orman

I care deeply about young people being groomed into right wing violence

The radical right in Britain increasingly claims to represent "Christian values" & "Christian civilisation" - though its leaders rarely go to church or pretend to believe anything.

It's especially important that Christian leaders speak out against this, as it's their tradition that's being claimed.

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Roald Dahl's Letter About Losing his Daughter in 1962 " there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. "

If you are reading your child Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach and the BFG, look at the dedication on the book. The author dedicated both books posthumously to his daughter Olivia who died from complications of measles. He later wrote this letter...
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Measles cases are surging in Europe and the US. This is what the anti-vax conspiracy theory has brought us Nearly 30 years after Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking the MMR vaccine and autism, we badly need an injection of rationality

Measles - an epidemic brought about by deception?
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After all he has demonstrated already in Kent CC that he has no understanding of procurement practices.

Are you saying that the Tories weren't incompetent enough to totally wreck the project so they should get someone even less competent to run it so that they can waste even more money wrecking it even more?

Top half of image: July 2016 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled: “ignore the prophets of doom: Brexit will be good for Britain”. Bottom half of image: May 2026 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled “From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort”

The top image:
The Guardian, July 2016
The article:

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The bottom image:
The Guardian, May 2025
The article:

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Part T of the Building Regulations (in England Only) that makes it difficult to provide only universal toilet accommodation in Public Buildings clashes with EHRC guidance. This is only permissible where there is insufficient space or in addition to single sex toilets. Can Greens get it changed?

Money

Highly relevant quote

"Men possessed of money have infallibly imagined the awe & admiration money inspires were owing to their own wisdom or personality. The contrast between their view & the frequently ridiculous reality has ever been a source of rich amusement"
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This is like when the Tory govt discovered Calais was important for our trade links.

YouTube video by Chris Packham Chris Packham meets Glenn Massacre

Watch the full interview on YouTube here: youtu.be/bOzsZYWMaXE

@wildjustice.bsky.social

A seagull drinks from a container marked “DOGS ONLY, NO SEAGULLS.”

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

"Buy Canadian Instead" signs going up in BC Liquor stores

But Brexit is a past policy - even though its effects are very much with us and still get worse. Remain voters are not likely to support him anyway so little point in attacking him on that. Better to focus on the damage Farage would do in the future if he got into government.

A wetter climate is one of the factors that might be different to our warmer climate in the roman/early medieval period.

Yes its as if those people who are seen to be successful and get paid lots of money because they are might be found out for being normal and could not justify being paid stupid money!

I am glad you do but I know some commentators really don't understand that such change is not as simple as they think. We should be piling lots of research and development money into finding ways to make this happen as much as possible.

Yes but, at least in our current climate, much of the land used for livestock will never be suitable for arable farming. There is a reason we graze sheep on our mountains! We have to look at what is possible rather than just look at numbers.

Nor have I seen an assessment of how climate change will affect existing agricultural land uses. Archeological evidence suggests that some of our grassland was used as productive arable when our climate was warmer, but that may not match onto future climate.

The most disappointing aspect is that there is a reduction in arable land as well as grassland. Also there is no mention of agrisolar schemes where both agriculture and solar flourish together.

I doubt it Billy Graham died in 2018. I could believe it of his son Franklin Graham though.

Climate Change in the British Mind We conducted a study investigating the British public’s awareness of climate change, their perceptions of climate change risks and impacts, their experiences with extreme weather, and attribution of e...

K. 86% believe climate change is happening. 75% believe it is mostly human caused. 80% are worried about the future. Politicians denying it are chasing a small minority of votes.
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What could English Devolution look like after Local Government Reform?

Based on rumours, news reports, and past proposals, here’s a potential map featuring 32 Combined Authorities across 152 Councils:

(Control based off current no. of district councillors).

Its important to have dreams - some of them come true!

That is what it should be. I only wish backward England would follow the lead from Wales!

Read about @britishacademy.bsky.social programme here
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A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was made to withstand a wildfire, and it did.

I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...