Peace prize candidate declares war!

Interesting clouds this morning.

Yet another way of avoiding giving credit to Starmer.

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets

What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn

Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

They are not trying to out-Farage, or the policy would be far more extreme. They do, however need a clear policy on immigration. All I see on this site is self-righteous outrage rather than reasoned debate on their approach.

Bissau 10% Palau 10% Avalon (UK) 10% Fiji 32% Tyree (UK) 10% Isles of Ebony (UK) 10% Peru 10% Cebu (Philippines) 17% Babylon (Iraq) 39% Bali (Indonesia) 32% Cali (Colombia) 10% Beneath the Coral Sea (Australia) 10% Ebudæ (UK) 10% Khartoum (Sudan) 10% Deep Sea of Clouds 10% Island of the Moon (Madagascar) 47% The Ross Dependency (Antarctica) 10% Tripoli (Libya) 31%

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

If Trump can stand for a third term so can Obama.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

In the New Years Day Mummers play in the local pub, the villain, named Maximus Grabbit was “played” by Sadiq Khan. The racist attacks by the right wing media clearly have significant traction.

Breaking news!

November, 2024, came in at the second warmest in recorded history, at 1.62°C above the pre-industrial baseline.

Starting in June, 2023, there have now been 18 consecutive months above the pre-2023 record high, likely the hottest string of 18 months in the last 120,000+ years.

I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

If anyone wants to use me as a talking head or rent a quote I suggest the following format:
"You were an economist at the BoE?'
"Yes"
"At the same time as Reeves?"
"Yes"
"Can you confirm that she was an economist?"
"Yes"
"How can you be sure?"
"She wrote lots of economics and I read it."

Daily Telegraph ‘exclusive’ reports that Keir Starmer has not joined a golf club near Chequers.

Bastard.

This time around, the Kennedys are assassinating us.

Will inheritance tax changes really mean the end of Britain’s farming? The farming lobby is protesting loudly that the budget changes to inheritance tax will kill family farms. So should we be alarmed?

Farmers need help. But from #farmwashing & supermarkets making huge profits while squeezing payments to farmers - the #IHT hue & cry is disingenuous. Dyson & Clarkson have voices & RW media support.
Learn the truth from East Anglia Bylines not Daily Mail
eastangliabylines.co.uk/farming/will...

Welcome. It’s great to have you here.

Cartoon: tatters to Me.- Margaret E. Atwood & @MargaretAtwood BUT WHY DIDN'T YOU VOTE AGAINST THEM. MOMP WHY DIDN'T YOU TRY TO STOP THEM FROM TAKING IT ALL AWAY? WELL. BACK THEN, GAS PRICES WERE QUITE HIGH HONEY... LagE.cam 2:14 pm • 30 Jun 22 • Twitter for iPhone

Handmaids.

The first scientific paper highlighting the observed rise in global temperatures was in 1938.

By me!

And I also linked the observed warming to the rise in CO2 levels in the atmosphere, building on the earlier theoretical work.

We have known all this for soooo long.

CDC calls for expanded testing for bird flu after blood tests reveal more farmworker infections Federal health officials are calling for more testing and treatment of workers on farms with bird flu.

Just exactly the right time to gut US govt agencies, isn't it, as the country incubates this disaster in the making. This is why people like Cummings are so confused: they're going to destroy any potential for the Bismarckian state they actually want. apnews.com/article/bird...

Cruelty has been vindicated They saw what he was. They saw what he did. And they voted for him anyway.

The hardest thing to accept is the cruelty. People saw what it was. And they voted for it anyway tinyurl.com/5bud875t

In the last week, Labour hit a crucial milestone on getting rid of hereditary peers, unlocked £1bn funding for social housing insulation, initiated plans to regulate buy-now-pay-later lenders and started to coalesce around an HS2 replacement. Barely any chat about this at all.

A colour coded map of UK showing central England with extraordinary high rainfall in purple and western Scotland very dry in brown

Extraordinary rainfall distribution in UK in September. Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire saw their wettest month in our 188 year series. But only 25% wetter than average overall despite many areas having 3x average rainfall. More details in Met Office press release www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

A year by year study from the 19th C onwards of summer temperatures compared with summer 2024

Just bringing this extraordinary graphic from Met Office data viz expert Neil Kaye across from the other place. Show s how our baseline for a cool summer has shifted radically

External view of a corner of Osterley House, London and its gardens with daffodils flowering. Osterley is a National Trust property.

Voting has opened for the National Trust's annual elections & members' resolutions. Deadline is 11:59 pm on Friday 25 October. As in past years, so-called 'Restore Trust' is running candidates, identified in the banner on their website. Quick-vote is a quick way to vote against RT, if so minded.

Ah yes, another “Starmer’s doing it wrong” because he isn’t doing it the way I would piece.

Quite a change from the shambolic failure last year

Glad to see my favourite “Starmer is going to do it all wrong” commentators are also here. Suggestion - wait to see what he actually does.

Dartington Hall Trust announces closure of College amid mounting losses Schumacher College in Dartington is to close amid mounting losses.

We do now have our first Higher Ed institutional closure -- Schumacher College in Devon, which offers e.g. ecology-focused MAs. 33 staff to be made redundant.
www.totnes-today.co.uk/news/schumac...