I still remember a similar tree from my childhood.

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.

'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.

'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

How many weeks til I'm used to the clock going back?

Not in the UK

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Same old same old. I was thinking is his face drooping and why has he got a purple rinse?

Two pumpkins side by side the right is more rotund than the left

Today my belly feels like the one on the right

Morning Bluesky.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says his country’s airspace was "violated by a huge number of Russian drones". He described them as a direct threat.

This incident should be a wake-up call to people in Europe. Putin won’t stop at Ukraine.

Yesterday I binned a flag
I took it down and it tore

THIS

BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED

DISTURBING ON ITS OWN

AND ON SAME DAY JUDGE DEMANDS TRUMP PAY E. JEAN CARROLL $80M

SIGNATURES MATCH

WE ALSO LEARN HE PURCHASED A "FULLY DEPRECIATED"
GIRL FOR $22,500

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

I love Oslo for its high trust and open spaces and culture and transport and ..... . I come back sad that the UK no longer makes me feel as happy.

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

'He cut me off because he didn't like what I was saying'

Jamie Raskin, Ranking Democrat on the Committee, said the Reform UK leader 'only wants to protect free speech (he) agrees with'

why did the NYT print - repeatedly - that Harvard was about to settle for some gargantuan sum? Will they run a retraction on those stories? Discipline the reporters who reported inaccurate information to their readers? Out the sources who lied to them?

With Door to U.N. Slammed Shut, Palestinians Urge U.S. to Drop Visa Ban When world leaders meet in New York this month, several plan to recognize a Palestinian state, but Palestinian leaders may not be there to revel in the moment.

When world leaders convene in New York this month for the United Nations General Assembly, several are expected to recognize a Palestinian state. Yet Palestinian leaders may not be there to revel in the moment after the U.S. blocked their visas.

Bullocks

How’s that £350million a week for the NHS going you lying bastard?

They're doing this because they're scared.

And Israel too?

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

Dodgy immigrant here. Nine years in the army followed by a working lifetime in the NHS. What an incalculable amount of damage I have done.

I will not forgive Starmer for his speech yesterday.

How else can we interpret what she said this morning?

UK must choose Brexit reset over 'costly' Trump trade deal, says ex-ambassador Ministers are 'over optimistic' over what a US deal will look like, according to Lord Darroch

“There’s a lot of misplaced optimism about [a UK-US] deal. It’s inconceivable that the Trump team do a deal that doesn’t involve a big concession from us... If you want a quick win on UK growth, reducing trade barriers with Europe looks like an absolute no-brainer.” ~AA

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

The penguins aren't fucking around with retaliatory tariffs.

Great comic timing from the Danes here.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Police break into Quaker meeting house to arrest six women at political meeting I'm blogging about this because the story does not seem to have been covered by any general news outlets. From Quakers in Britain : Police b...

"They broke open the front door without warning or ringing the bell first, searching the whole building and arresting six women attending the meeting in a hired room." liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/03/poli...

Saw a new furrow in my face this morning. Do I: a) banish news or b) banish mirrors

Deform

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."