Alf King

The clock is ticking on the end of hunting and we couldn't be happier.

Blimey! The number of @bsky.app
users just passed 40 MILLION!! 👏

She’s right. She *deliberately* hacked into Harriet Harman’s website, whereas Rachel Reeves is accused of obtaining a license late by accident. I assume that’s what she means, given Badenoch is widely known for her thoughtfulness and her self-awareness.

Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.

State support for UK banks

Bailouts: Govts found £1162bn (£133bn cash+£1,029bn guarantees) in 2008
£895bn QE
State is the lender of last resort
£85k bank deposit safety guarantee
PFI profits
£22bn a year interest on reserves deposited with Bank of England

Who else gets this level of state support?

I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

See this post for video from after the crash

Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say

What sex-offender could ask for more?

And, even worse, are in denial when it is pointed out to them.

They are opening the doors wide to every marginal political group, wondering why anyone would vote differently.

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

America’s super-rich destroying the planet’s safe climate spaces.

Wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%.

Corporations spend $277,000 a year on anti-climate lobbying.

Super rich control political system, strangling life. What's to be done

Reform UK Just Won Britain's Least-Prestigious Award – For 'Promoting Pseudoscience' Nigel Farage's party were recognised for “their widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”

🔴Reform UK Just Won Britain’s Least-Prestigious Award – For ‘Promoting Pseudoscience’

Nigel Farage’s party were recognised for “their widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”

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The Kennedys - America's royal family; ours meanwhile still in the mire! And blonde bombshells; Brigitte, Marilyn, & Nicole... Plus massive recruitment drive for full-fat subscription holders risks losing audience through boredom - but we have to give it a go, we don't have a collection box!

An entertaining listen for the older folk amongst us. Go on, give it a go!

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Audrey White — the pensioner who stood up to Keir Starmer — now faces trial for opposing his Palestine Action ban.

Fine, if you shop at Waitrose or with Ocado. No mention of Lidl or ALDI.

New report confirms local government crisis is growing The Institute for Government’ annual review of the state of local government, published last week, paints an alarming picture

Local government isn’t “boring bureaucracy.” It’s social care, housing, libraries, leisure centres, youth clubs. When these vanish, communities fracture – and people notice. When local government breaks, so does trust in politics itself.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

It turns out Farage hasn't put his name forward to ask a question since July.

Guardian headline and story photo. Photo is Tim Davie in suit by a posh building, possibly royal, he has a red ribbon around his neck possible attached to an OBE or some other arse kissing trinket. The headline reads “BBC reporters cannot wear Black Lives Matter T-Shirts in newsroom, says Tom Davie.

Fair play he doesn’t go to work wearing his ‘I’m a Tory Cunt’ shirt.

I'd sooner trust a stoned monkey with a bag of hand grenades than this lot with the economy.

Pecksniff – Brexit: the government blinks In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

For two years, Pecksniff has been claiming Labour’s position on Brexit would have to change before 2029.

Now at last, it has.

Such happy, well-adjusted people.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters

Wild honeybees have been officially listed as endangered in the EU – the first time their decline has been formally recognised.

Dr Arrigo Moro tells us why their survival matters for biodiversity, agriculture, and food security. ⤵️

I'm an advanced and native English speaker, I write for a living. I got one of these wrong (number 4 can jump in a lake) bsky.app/profile/otto...

We haven't visited Tenerife for two years and are unlikely to do so again. I do have a minor addiction for birding in Fuerteventura however so we do go there.

Tourists will always go somewhere.

A Wren stands upright on a mossy branch, beak open in full song, small but defiant. Against a soft golden blur, it seems to speak out for nature itself: a clear voice cutting through the noise, refusing to be ignored.

The Government has tabled 67 last-minute amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.‼️

Rushed through with little scrutiny, it’s a shambolic way to reform the planning system.

It creates confusion, sidelines science and leaves nature dangerously exposed.

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Just normal for the BBC nowadays.

Very true. Tenerife in particular is very cheap. How can this be changed?

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
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Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

Walked past this building earlier, the Salvation Army Citadel in #Sheffield. It's boarded up now through lack of use but I learnt from a fellow speaker on Saturday that there were riots against the Sally Army in the 1880s! In #worthing all the windows in their HQ were broken