Alan Burkitt-Gray

And, if you start early enough, it's possible to do Louisiana on the same day (though it gets dark early at this time of year)

Pressure on Robbie Gibb to stand down increasing. Well-deserved

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Do not skip the alt text. 10/10 recommend.

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

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Apologies for the screenshot. I had no intention of actually paying to read this hysterical rag 🤮

The hack responsibile refers to words "supposedly uttered" by #Trump.

There's no supposition involved. They might have been badly edited, but he said those words.

A pity the Telegraph is so biased!

Brilliant study!

Explain the Quakers, then

I'm not religious but you misunderstand people who are. It's a lot more than "doing good"

Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”

On this Epstein stuff, just a reminder that multiple contestants in the Miss Teen USA pageant - to repeat, TEENAGERS - said that when Trump owned it, he would walk into the dressing room so he could watch them changing clothes

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Whoaaaaa

Sorry kids, greens fantasy politics don't add up

And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.

Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.

And every day we are growing.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

That implies Substack writers have enough self awareness that they will seek and accept editing

FFS, Kate wasn't suggesting hiring an editor. Just get a literate and numerate friend to look at it and give a candid comment

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.

Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."

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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

We had to do nothing but refer all complaints to the company's libel lawyer. Never offer to publish a correction. Just get the complainant's details and contact the law firm

When I was a full-time journalist and we did our annual libel refresher, the lawyer always warned: if someone contacts you to say you've libelled them, never confess and never apologise

Infographic: The U.S. Has the Most Expensive Healthcare in the World This chart shows per-capita health expenditure in selected countries in 2021.

The United States has the most expensive health care un the world with some of the poorest results.

www.statista.com/chart/8658/h...

It would be an interesting trial in the High Court in the Strand

Reform UK Kent council leader has been branded "Captain Chaos" after suspending nine councillors including five members of the fire authority.

The removal of fire authority members means that Kent FRS Chief Executive is unable to sign off on big spends.

"Captain Chaos" is threatening public safety

The European Convention on Human Rights was written by British lawyers after the Second World War to protect people from torture, persecution, and abuse of power. It is the backbone of the Good Friday Agreement, guaranteeing equality and peace in Northern Ireland. To abandon it now, as is now being demanded, would be to tear up those protections and betray Britain's promise to uphold human rights at home and abroad.

The UK played a pivotal role in creating the ECHR. Leaving it now would betray that legacy, and destroy the very principles we helped to create.

I suggest you look at EU rules on compensation for delayed flights and copy them

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

UK investigates remote ‘kill switch’ on Chinese-made buses — The Times and The Sunday Times The UK is investigating a security loophole that could allow hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses to be remotely deactivated. Government officials are working with the National Cyber Security Centr...

"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."

Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.