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RIP Fred Smith. The very sad news has just been confirmed

...and Balls, obviously.

Having the White House defend the racist video and then claim it was posted in error less than a day later is one hell of a media strategy.

Ukraine confirms that the new whitelist for their Starlink terminals is working to maintain internet on the frontlines.

Russians confirm that they are now f*cked and none of their Starlink terminals are working.

Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters Material distributed in Gorton and Denton did not have legally required imprint stating it was funded by party

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Chris Lillis and Hunter Hess both skiers in Team US made clear today that they wanted to represent a country that treats people with love and respect. Both athletes declared themselves as anti-ICE.

Brown bears, lynx and wolves could be seen again in Rutland A planning application has been submitted to build the Wild Rutland attraction on Burley Estate farmland, parkland and woods between the Oak...

I remain unconvinced that the locals will take such a sanguine view, as too many of them will remember the sudden demise of the Bonkers Hall safari park, even if the old boy "still maintains that those nuns were the authors of their own misfortune".

But seriously folks, this sounds rather fun.

The lost streets Of Park Hill, Sheffield Any regular user of Sheffield station will be familiar with the Park Hill flats on the hillside above it. Until they were built between 1957...

Until it was redeveloped between 1957 and 1961, this was an area of terraced houses, shops, pubs, a cinema and at least one church.

A screenshot from a 1976 episode of Top of the Pops. Costume: 'Dorinda Rea'

The Pepto-Bismol diarrhoea man

#totp

YouTube video by SpaceOdyssee0 Television - Elevation

Richard Lloyd just announced that Television bassist Fred Smith died in hospice today

RIP to one of the greats

"Look, we were just pointing at the green room buffet as they bought it past. We were only following hors d'oeuvres."

Another GOP lawmaker quits: Nevada's sole Republican congressman announces retirement.
On Friday Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV), the only Republican representing NV in Congress, said he would not seek re-election.
Amodei's district spans the northern part of Nevada, Reno, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe area.

Same old trial balloon strategy we’ve seen again and again.

In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage

In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel  – Byline Times - and inevitable corrupt Farage connection.

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

The resident noticed that on the envelope it says, Hardings Print Solutions Middlesex. Our contributor Callum Taylor called up Hardings Print Solutions, this is what happened 👇

BREAKING 🚨: Reform have been caught potentially cheating in the up coming Gorton & Denton by election. Residents have received a letter from a 'local pensioner'.

There is no Reform Party branding on the letter

Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...

Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
@friends_earth 👇
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No doubt, Nigel Farage will be popping up to tell us how this is definitely someone else's fault

Opportunity for *former* (anagram of Reform), Tories to listen to their constituents. I'll wait.

Pinky peachy watercolour and ink translucent dreamy dove dove

Angry reddish jaggedy long eared owl ink and watercolour and pastels and and and such and such

Killdeer bird, with green, big orange eye and brown stripy little bird, nice textures and light

I now have a ‘BIRDS’ gallery on my website (that was Doves but is now going to EXPAND!)

www.chloecumming.com/birds

And I have added these three new drawpaintings:

So do have a look! Thanks

This is literally a Ceausescu policy.

She had social climber written all over her even back then.

Donald Trump is even being too overtly racist for the only black Senator in the US Republican party.

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Here we go…

Ancient yew in a churchyard

Near Glastonbury in a land of religious importance in pre-Christian times, & near an Iron Age hill-fort, lives a 1,700 year old yew

The tree, as a likely site of pagan worship & like many ancient yews, has a 14th century church deliberately built next to it

Hallowed ground

Ancient yew in a churchyard

Yew at Stoke Gabriel Church, Devon

Believed to be 1,000 years old, & likely the original place of worship, & why the church was placed here

'Walk ye backward round about me
7 times round for all to see
Stumble not and then for certain
One true wish will come to thee'

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Trump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Spin on Threat to Rig 2026 Goes Awry After Trump called for Republicans to “nationalize” the midterms, Karoline Leavitt struggled to spin it away. We talked to an election law expert who explains the nightmare scenarios we should fear t...

Trump's FBI raid in Georgia is potential model for getting search warrant to seize 2026 ballot boxes, says @rickhasen.bsky.social.

"Once those ballots are out of control of election officials we’ve lost chain of custody."

On the pod Rick illuminatingly explains all:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...