Alan Rew

Sniffing is her equivalent of checking her email inbox.

This is fantastic news!

Yesterday Labour announced and additional £30m funding to support coastal communities in England adapting to coastal erosion.

Under the Coastal Adaptation Pilots, there will be support for Norfolk, Suffolk & the East Riding to continue advanced coastal adaption work.

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The Gorton and Denton by-election: a tale of two Manchesters? Unpopular incumbent + fragmented opposition + unusual seat = unpredictable contest

New Swingometer post now out - my look at the Gorton and Denton by-election, taking place down the road from me swingometer.substack.com/p/the-gorton...

UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

High-cholesterol diet doesn't bode well for a long life.

It is a curious policy. In short, if a person can be refused entry and sent home at the whim of a border guard not approving of their social media accounts, you are unlikely to spend £5k on a family holiday to Florida.

Side-by-side photos captured on 11 November and 6 December 2025, of the Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)

NOIRLab image of the week

Gemini North Catches Crumbling Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)

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On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.

But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

Might apply in the corporate world as well.

I’m guessing even less ERFs are gonna be given out. Thank god the UK government are putting £2 billion into their “AI for Science Strategy” instead of directly funding scientists…

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“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day

FactCheck: the donation scandal surrounding Sir Keir Starmer’s top aide, explained FactCheck takes a look.

No need to repeat the funding scandal: Morgan was the party’s billionaire-bungs man, and he took shitloads of undeclared cash to wage war on his own party, a thing that looks to my inexpert eye like people should be going to prison for it. Details are here www.channel4.com/news/factche...

The Fraud by Paul Holden

Right: I already read the other two books with McSweeney and Reed bragging to journos about how excellent their campaigns of lying and wrecking were, so I’m not expecting revelations here: details, basically. So I’ll try to avoid doing 😲😲😲 every time there’s some new piece of despicable bastardry.

Now _this_ is a false flag.

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

Sillycosis:
-Terminal form of Poaster's Madness induced by over exposure to the word "sand."
-Responsible for the Great Opposition of '26 when Geology Bluesky and Astronomy Bluesky blocked each other, leaving Planetary Sciences Bluesky to wonder what the hell happened.

Journalists accompany Starmer to China seem excited by the idea of carrying "burner" phones. Have they not been to the US recently?

There's always a tweet.

Reminder

Head of MI6 signals change from data collection to war-time active measures against Russia.

What Russia does to the West MI6 will do back. And in the next breath mention WWII era SOE, whose mission was violent operations including sabotage and assassinations behind German lines.

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There should be a hard rule that says *any* duplication merits retraction.

I suppose the problem is how many duplications does it take to infer an attempt to cheat?

I have over 20k followers. I’m pretty sure around 13k of those are bots/scammers.

I gave up blocking them as and when the followed months ago. I couldn’t keep up!

I have to say it really puts my off using this app regularly going forward. Anyone else experiencing this?

Anyway here are 4 images…

Click on one of those links. Click 'subscribe' in the top right hand corner, then choose 'block' when asked.

#WildlifeWednesday We had a FANTASTIC photo journey in Tanzania: cheetahs, elephants, various ungulates & calves, the migration, & lions. I am naming this lovely female Sekhmet after the lion-headed Egyptian solar deity.

#ExploreCreateInspire #ArtWolfe #wildlifephotography #CanonLegend #potd

French embassy only serving water and juice to attendees until the evening's speeches are over, a misunderstanding of what Brits look for in a drinks reception of such proportions that I can only assume the declaration of war will come overnight

This reminds me of the absolutely delightful English man I once met who was employed by the German embassy in London during the 1980s to insert jokes and quips into the ambassador‘s speeches, so a British audience would pay more attention.

Does the French embassy need a Party planer now?

Surely both the right and the politically smart move at this moment would’ve been to come out and say “abolish ICE” and dare anyone in the caucus who feels otherwise to say so. Democrats and independents support it, and that’s before anyone in congress is even making the case for it.

Now there is independent proof Zack Polanski was lying to his supporters.

It's not just me saying it, but Full Fact has investigated and confirmed it.

Will Zack apologise? Will he tell his supporters he deliberately lied and misread them?

Will the proven liar resign as Green party leader?