It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
02.02.2026 08:20 — 👍 2281 🔁 816 💬 50 📌 43
Infinite You, by Kayla Painter
8 track album
I've recently discovered #Kaylapainter and her album Infinite You is wonderful!
kaylapainter.bandcamp.com/album/infini...
01.02.2026 08:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bruce Springsteen ist mit seinem Protestsong „Streets of Minneapolis“, den er in 2 Tagen produziert und aufgenommen hat, in 19 Ländern auf Platz 1.
Die widerliche Frau von dem orangenen Monster ist mit ihrem 75-Millionen-Dollar-Propagandafilm in sämtlichen Ländern der Welt auf dem letzten Platz.
🤷♂️
30.01.2026 12:27 — 👍 1287 🔁 309 💬 40 📌 17
Ein Wiener Lokal bietet jetzt ein Wiener Schnitzel mit Blattgold um 395 Euro an, mit Kaviar als Beilage.
Was die Welt halt so braucht…
Wenn wirklich jemand meint, er muss sowas dringend haben, sollte er mindestens denselben Betrag für Bedürftige spenden. Oder das Lokal sollte es tun.
22.01.2026 19:28 — 👍 1056 🔁 136 💬 97 📌 9
Es wäre sehr dumm, mit Trump irgendeine „Verhandlungslösung“ für Grönland zu suchen.
Trump hält sowieso keine Verträge ein und steht nächste Woche, wenn nicht schon wieder mit Grönland, dann mit etwas anderem, erneut vor der Türe.
Nein heißt nein! Ende der Diskussion.
21.01.2026 05:58 — 👍 336 🔁 72 💬 17 📌 0
I've largely given up teaching English as a foreign language, but I still one student, and his mum bought me this book "Around the World in 80 Words"
I love books where the footnotes take up more of the page than the text does
21.01.2026 09:58 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Liebe EU,
wenn du vor einem pädophilen, faschistischen Milliardär mit Allmachtsfantasien stehst und 600 Millionen Europäer hinter dir hast, ist es der falsche Zeitpunkt, sich in die Hose zu scheißen.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
die Geschichtsbücher der Zukunft
17.01.2026 20:37 — 👍 2136 🔁 534 💬 27 📌 11
Irgendwo kann ich Milliardäre sogar verstehen, die keine Erbschaftssteuer bezahlen wollen.
Wäre ich Milliardär, würde ich auch nicht wollen, dass das halbe Vermögen, das andere für mich verdient haben, an diese Bundesregierung geht, die es dann nur an ihre Amigos verteilen würde. 🙄
15.01.2026 06:17 — 👍 148 🔁 19 💬 5 📌 0
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
06.01.2026 17:04 — 👍 3563 🔁 1089 💬 95 📌 52
war – iraq – George Monbiot
Many of us warned - repeatedly - before it occurred that the Iraq war would be a huge and fatal shift. We were ignored or shouted down. But I don't think any of us realised just how many monsters would come through the breach. 3/3 www.monbiot.com/category/war...
19.12.2025 08:35 — 👍 419 🔁 62 💬 23 📌 0
The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3
19.12.2025 08:33 — 👍 1053 🔁 256 💬 100 📌 32
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;
The sun is spent, and now his flasks
Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;
The world's whole sap is sunk;
The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk,
Whither, as to the bed's feet, life is shrunk,
Dead and interr'd; yet all these seem to laugh,
Compar'd with me, who am their epitaph.
Study me then, you who shall lovers be
At the next world, that is, at the next spring;
For I am every dead thing,
In whom Love wrought new alchemy.
For his art did express
A quintessence even from nothingness,
From dull privations, and lean emptiness;
He ruin'd me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.
All others, from all things, draw all that's good,
Life, soul, form, spirit, whence they being have;
I, by Love's limbec, am the grave
Of all that's nothing. Oft a flood
Have we two wept, and so
Drown'd the whole world, us two; oft did we grow
To be two chaoses, when we did show
Care to aught else; and often absences
Withdrew our souls, and made us carcasses.
But I am by her death (which word wrongs her)
Of the first nothing the elixir grown;
Were I a man, that I were one
I needs must know; I should prefer,
If I were any beast,
Some ends, some means; yea plants, yea stones detest,
And love; all, all some properties invest;
If I an ordinary nothing were,
As shadow, a light and body must be here.
But I am none; nor will my sun renew.
You lovers, for whose sake the lesser sun
At this time to the Goat is run
To fetch new lust, and give it you,
Enjoy your summer all;
Since she enjoys her long night's festival,
Let me prepare towards her, and let me call
This hour her vigil, and her eve, since this
Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is.
The sun is spent, and now his flasks
Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;
The world's whole sap is sunk;
The general balm th'hydroptic earth hath drunk,
Whither, as to the bed's feet, life is shrunk,
---John Donne, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
#poetry #solstice #winter #literature
19.12.2025 09:18 — 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2
Little Green Canal
One of those scenes that has the car screeching to a halt, crazed photographer grabbing bits and pieces in a mad dash to capture the moment before it twists away and is gone.
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Twizel, New Zealand
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#Aurora #SouthernLights #Nightscape #EastCoastKin #Scape
#bucketlist #BestWork
11.12.2025 11:59 — 👍 3356 🔁 327 💬 43 📌 9
