Karen D Shipp

🇬🇧 Britain is close to losing the Atlantic to Russia for the first time since the end of the Second World War, the first sea lord has warned, - The Times

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins said the Royal Navy would struggle to keep pace without rapid transformation and the support of Nato allies.

Reform UK investigated by police over claims it broke election laws Nigel Farage’s party has been accused by a whistleblower of failing to declare thousands of pounds of spending during its general election campaign

Police investigating claims that ReformUK leader spent more than the law allowed to win Clacton seat in 2024 election bit.ly/4aBItJk Reform’s response is that whistleblower kept sex toys in the office and in any case it is too late for a prosecution

Reform campaign for Farage’s Clacton seat was a ‘juggernaut’, say candidates Defeated Tory and Labour rivals describe force of Reform ‘machine’ as police assess claims of overspending

So, Farage who’d previously failed 7 times to be an MP, decided that in Clacton he’d rely on his old Brexit friends - cheating (and racism) - to get him his win.
With millions now pouring into Reform, it’s beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Completely utterly beautiful. Thank you so much.

I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.

This is very long overdue.

Thank you. That's so beautiful.

The much-loved Spike Milligan?

Sometimes our best intentions do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen; may it happen for you.

A people sometimes will step back from war,
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

This, by Sheenagh Pugh, was in Poems on the [London] Underground in the eighties. A helpful reminder in these dark days:

Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail.
Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

I took great pleasure as a child in the sixties, memorising a version of this, and a few others, from 'Verse and Worse'.

It still springs into my head every so often.

Oh lovely. I looked it up. Thank you!

Late autumn and winter, these lines of Frost's come frequently to mind:

The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

Magical.

June sunset, Treyarnon Bay.
#Sky #BlueSkyArtShow

Scudding clouds. April #sky.
#BlueSkyArtShow

October sunset. Constantine bay, North Cornwall. #sky #BlueSkyArtShow

October #sky reflected in wet sand. #BlueSkyArtShow

Is it right to worry that the outing of Farage as a racist makes him very attractive to millions of Brit’s who are also racist but obscure their attitude ?

Far better to attack him as a traitor and Russian stooge. As a Trump lite economic assassin.

His racism appeals to too many.

Inside private members' club bash where guests laugh at Hitler jokes and sing 'we're all racist now' The dinner was attended by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Robert Jenrick and Lee Anderson among other high-profile political figures.

And there's this. Two former Tory PMs, Johnson & Truss, with Farage, partying together. Three greedy people. Deluded, selfish, right wing liars and racists - who broke Britain's economy, but they're still laughing all the way to the bank.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ins...

Syria’s al-Sharaa accuses Israel of ‘exporting crises’ across region Syrian president accuses Israel of fabricating threats to justify militarism and divert attention from Gaza massacres.

Syrian president accuses Israel of fabricating threats to justify militarism and divert attention from Gaza massacres.

In case it wasn't already obvious why Farage and his party are spreading misinformation about the climate crisis and trying to blame the most vulnerable for the problems caused by inequality - they've just received a record donation from a jet fuel multimillionaire!

The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply. Net migration to Britain has fallen by almost 80 percent from its 2023 peak, according to data released on Thursday.

Net migration to Britain has fallen by almost 80% from its 2023 peak, according to data released on Thursday.

I hope he makes a good recovery.

The headquarters building of the Office for Budget Responsibility shown from a low angle against a clear blue sky.

Opinion: Leaking the Budget is an unhappy tradition, continued this year by the Office for Budget Responsibility, writes Chris Giles. But the fiscal watchdog’s error is worse than other Budget leaks because the OBR exists solely to improve the process on.ft.com/43Ur7U9

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

“I had hemophilia for nearly five decades. I went to Philadelphia and had a 45-minute infusion, and my hemophilia was gone.”
Genes-> Medicine

nature.com/articles/s41...

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...

(from my presentation at the IMF last week)

The OBR’s careless leak has damaged us all The fiscal watchdog’s error is worse than other Budget leaks because it exists solely to improve the process

The OBR’s careless leak has damaged us all on.ft.com/48DvyFi