Dave Pettit

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate

This report is disingenuous and dangerously misleading

Astonishingly, it even suggests that adapting to 4C 'will not be costly' 😮

The reality is organised adaption to 4C is impossible

The world will 'adapt' to 4C via economic and societal collapse

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just nightmarish. Fuck me, the 70s were weird. It's no wonder all us 70s kids are a bit odd.

WOMEN TO BE EXECUTED FOR THE CRIME OF HAVING AN ABORTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA An all male committee of South Carolina lawmakers will decide this week if the state’s women will face the death penalty for getting an abortion & doctors will risk 30 years in jail for performing one

The USA
Gets more evil
By the day

I really want to see a photo of this 79-year-old male visitor looking shocked. Ideally, while holding a vegan tampon.

"Why aren't the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?"

If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he'll attack the kid again.

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

And Netanyahu. And Milei. Big supporter of 'western values' too. And she supports foreign military intervention in her country.

Well, she's a Trump and Netanyahu supporter who has suggested she would welcome foreign armed intervention in her country. She's also a neoliberal who campaigns for 'western values'. Not sure she's the hero everyone thinks. (And I'm no fan of Maduro either).

Labour are heading for a spanking in May.

Net leader approval:

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Polanski +2
Davey +1
Farage -20
Badenoch -37
Reeves -37
Starmer -39

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Polanski +6
Davey -4
Farage -19
Badenoch -29
Reeves -44
Starmer-49

(Opinium/The Observer; 1-3 October)

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Even I was surprised when Zia Yusuf (Reform) started throwing his toys out of his pram in response to Zack Polanski turning his personal attacks back him instead.

Zia might be a divisive, hateful, privately educated multi-millionaire - but he can’t handle the heat.

Zack absolutely coming for them

Is there no limit to human stupidity? This truly beggars belief.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

We are nature. Its best interests are our best interests. So it's pretty dim of our chancellor to again pit wildlife against people, boasting of 20,000 homes built despite "some snails" that "are a protected species or something". www.theguardian.com/environment/... Unsavoury lobbying here too.

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

This should be a clarion call to every single urban mayor. As a policy, ULEZ probably felt like a complete moonshot - and an unpopular one at that. But it's worked.
It should be a clarion call to the government too.
Don't kowtow to the right wing media. In short: BE BRAVER.

UK petition: "Do not introduce Digital ID cards"

"We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards."

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Fuck Labour, fuck Starmer.

That was so hard to read, so sorry Milly and your family had to go through that Patrick, and I hope Milly is continuing to improve. You shouldn't feel guilty.

As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body? I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

YouTube video by Novara Media This Is Why They Hate Kneecap | Ash Sarkar Meets Blindboy

Absolutely wonderful meandering conversation with
@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social

youtu.be/NjmXzFQl4xI?...

Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.

I love this Vonnegut post so much!

Great article.

Vuelta chaos shows selling sport as a tool for peace can create its own battlefield | Jonathan Liew Once teams promote a country, are owned by states or have to reflect government policy, sport becomes a playground for power

wrote a column about the vuelta protests, the india v pakistan stand-off, and how the sporting battlefield has increasingly come to resemble the real thing

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...