Tracy Kershaw

This is the guy who was convicted of assault - kicking his ex girlfriend outside a pub - before he was selected as a Reform candidate. If Reform had a few hundred MPs, how many people of this calibre would be in Parliament? M

If you want to understand how fascism absolutely has an English pedigree and could certainly take hold in England, I recommend reading Martin Pugh’s ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’ (2006) (the title deriving from the Daily Mail’s enthusiastic endorsement of Oswald Mosley in the 1930s)

That’s where I got to then made the answer up!

I got it but had to look up the meaning afterwards! I just guessed it might be a word cos nothing else could go in.

Devon campaigners call for ‘right to riverbank’ after finding Dart has 108 owners Research shows difficulties ahead for ministers if they are to keep manifesto pledge to extend riverside public access

Who owns the River Dart? 108 separate landowners, it turns out - with 11 miles of it owned by offshore companies!

Great research by @lewis-winks.bsky.social which shows why the Government's 9 river walks policy won't work without a right of responsible access 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

When you become chronically ill, you have to grieve the life you had before

You have to work hard at acceptance & letting go of guilt. At leaning into accommodations

You have to learn to rest, to pace and to take care of yourself

This process can be very hard. Give yourself grace. It takes time

If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

“The real conflict is not town v country, but money & power v people.”

Profound piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the forthcoming eviction of an entire village by a faceless plutocrat, the enclosure of access, & @righttoroam.bsky.social’s next mass trespass:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Always this.

Fancy someone willing to give up their human rights and free health care for a winter fuel allowance

Pronatalism is an authoritarian misogynist project.

If facts hurt your feelings, you need new feelings, not new facts.

Amazing it even had to go this far…

Uk Supreme Court.

“Woman = Adult Human Female”.

Unanimous.

God save us from the mindless slebs who have read as far as Be Kind and are peddling endless content showing just how kind they are. Apart from, you know, towards infirm, vulnerable, lesbian, autistic or religious women and girls who they haven’t noticed at all.

Absolutely essential that people turn out to keep this monster (and others) out of power.
Low turnout could result in hideous wins.
#Vote4Democracy

Rock Idols: a guide to Dartmoor in 28 tors is out in April. It’s been a joy to research and put together with my husband Alex who has produced some extraordinary and beautiful drawings of the tors. @visitdartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorac.bsky.social @dpadartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorcollective.org

Chart showing the percentage of men and women of different ages who agree with all three statements: 1. Most women fail to appreciate fully all that men do for them 2. Women seek to gain power by getting control over men 3. Most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist The chart shows that around 5% of both men and women aged 18 agree with all three statements. Among men, this rises to around 15% among men in their 20s and 22% among 35-45 year olds, before falling back to around 12% among 55-65 year olds. Overall 16% of men and 5% of women agree with all three statements

Good news from the British Election Study: there's no sign of the reported uptick in sexism among young British men

Bad news: what's going on with middle aged men?

Meta has stolen all three of my books to train its AI.

bsky.app/profile/mich...

Screenshot of polling data from Jan 2025

The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%

Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.

The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer.

Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer.

We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is.

It will never reach you.

I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.

Unity across the House for Ukraine today 🇺🇦🇬🇧

(2/2) 🇺🇦

8/10 in John Clarke's Saturday Quiz in the i paper (answers in the paper or here later)

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.

I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

Labour steps up attacks on Farage and Reform over pro-Russia stance Government targets party’s ‘softness on standing up to Putin’ to show Reform is out of step with UK public

“Labour steps up attacks on Farage and Reform over pro-Russia stance”

About time.

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

The right-wing witchhunt over Rachel Reeves’ CV is utterly pathetic.
I seem to recall a certain Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson who brought our country to its knees with his lies and behaviour.
Where was your scrutiny then!