Marvin.

Just after sunset. High level wispy orange clouds with the moon behind, a few lower level darker clouds above the land that can be seen beyond the sea. Some dark bushes and trees visible in front of a small stretch of beach on the waterfront

Just after sunset. High level wispy orange clouds with the moon behind, a few lower level darker clouds above the land that can be seen beyond the sea. The sky changing from light by the horizon to quite dark blue above the moon

Another sunset from February 2016 on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Looking North West-ish from Kuaotunu, the bush and beach in the foreground, the sea and the north of the land beyond. The moon riding high above the clouds.
#Photo #Photography #Sunset #NewZealand

As the temperature rises, lots of walkers and families are enjoying these scenes on the #LongMynd this afternoon. #churchstretton #shropshire #snow @thephotohour.bsky.social @snowhour.bsky.social

They claim it's about deporting people.
They need to be challenged to tell us how many deportations the ECHR have actually stopped.
Hint: Since *1980* the ECHR has halted only around 13 (THIRTEEN) deportations.
These people need asking the real reasons they want to leave!
I think we all know why.

Europe and the UK should come closer together – on security, on economy or on defending our democracies.

Ten years on from Brexit, our futures are as bound as ever.

So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership.

Dear UK media,
If you’re going to fall for Farage’s every cry for attention, FFS, be ready with the facts that show that, not only is he peddling anti-immigrant sentiment/racism for votes, but he’s lying about the stats too.
It’s dangerous and dishonest.
Please say so.
Thanks
A v tired-of-this, UK

I'm a big guy too, and I ended up walking off the footpath as someone came staggering along the footpath towards me!
It was someone, quite elderly who wasn't all that steady at walking, so I thought I'd give him some room.
We exchanged a 'Morning!' between us.
I just don't feel safe anymore. FFS

A sunset but looking the other way. a calm sea beyond the silhouettes of some local vegetation along the bottom of the picture, a long low island can be seen on the horizon beneath a sky ranging from light blue at the top, through orange to grey at the horizon. several bands of clouds at differing height are floating across the sky.

A sunset, but looking North East towards Gt. Mercury Island / Ahuahu from Kuaotunu Bay on the Cormandel Peninsular February 2016.
#Photo #Photography #NewZealand #Sunset #Landscape #Seascape

Sadly the Farage fans just take everything he says as the truth.
He needs to be confronted with every lie he comes up with at every opportunity.
It should be the goal of every interviewer to make him and his type face up to the lies they spout and let the public see them squirm

If there is ever another election...

It's going to take decades, if at all to put right.

In other unrelated news, you can buy Nige for about £60 on Cameo

He will literally say anything

A clump of native grasses with very hairy spikes. Background is an inlet of the sea with hills behind with a blue slightly cloudy sky

A clump of native grasses at the site of the road on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand overlooking part of the Hauraki Gulf.
#photography #photo #NewZealand #NativeGrasses #Landscape

The steps from the car park up to the summit of Mount Parihaka running through the bush, a communication tower and antenna on either side under a blue sky with quite a few summer clouds

The World War 2 monument at the summit of Mount Parihaka with the lookout behind, sadly closed when I visited, The metal monument rises high in the photo into the blue summer sky with white clouds and trees behind. the lookout is to one side cordoned off with tape and cones

The stone wall surrounding the paved area surrounding the monument. There's a thin yellow wire aerial slung between a tree in the corner of the wall and another behind where the photo was taken. some small portable radio equipment can be seen on to of the wall attached to the centre of the wire antenna

10 years ago today, I was driving from the Bay of Islands to The Coromandel Peninsular in NZ. Couldn't resist the temptation of activating zl1/nl-076 Mount Parihaka in Whangarei for SOTA.
Nice and easy drive up, which was nice 😀
#Sota #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #NZ #NewZealand

Uproar as Reform policy chief threatens to defund Welsh university Martin Shipton Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf launched a culture war in Wales by threatening to withhold funding from Bangor University after its student debating society refused to host two lea...

Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

A white lighthouse on top of a grass and bush covered promontory overlooking a blue sea with a few white waves under a clear blue sky

The Northern tip of New Zealand, the bush covered land disappearing into the blue sea across a sandy beach with waves breaking on the shore under a sumer sky peppered with fluffy clouds

Today in 2016 found me at the top end of New Zealand, wandering down to the Cape Reinga lighthouse on a hot, sunny day!
#NewZealand #CapeReinga #Photo #Landscape #Lighthouse

Ooh, jealous. I was there 10 years ago this week!
Enjoy it!

A panorama of the town of Ludlow, its castle visible in the centre of the picture beyond some trees and bushes with the town behind. both the Clee hills can be seen on the horizon under quite a bright though somewhat cloudy sky.

Here's an autumn panorama of Ludlow in Shropshire.
The town viewed from Whitcliffe Common, The castle in the centre framed between 2 trees with Titterstone Clee Hill to the right and Brown Clee Hill just to the left of centre on the horizon.
#Shropshire #Photo #Panorama #Ludlow #UK

£240m. With no tender. Palantir.

I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers.

Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal.

Palantir out.

This is exactly who they are, and we can see from what's happening in the US at the minute, that's exactly what they want to do here.
Enabled by the press and the current Government.
There's only a limited opportunity to stop it all, we need to take that opportunity now or it'll be too late.

WATCH: Ghislaine Maxwell refuse to answer qtns about Epstein at a Congrssional hearing yesterday

Maxwell appeared virtually from the Texas prison where she is serving 20 yrs for sex trafficking
👇

Obviously never been to Bangor University which happens to have to have excellent b&b accommodation and a fantastic restaurant with amazing views over the Menai Straits to Anglesey. Oh and a few Nobel Prize winning alumni and - Oakeshott wouldn't rate him, perhaps 😂 - director Danny Boyle.

Nigel Farage shows off the new Reform limited edition shirt.

Didn't see many aspirational young people at their 'rally' in Birmingham yesterday...
Did the older white people (around 99% of the audience if not more I think) have to pay to join their 'rally'?

Not to mention a LOT of is is via crypto too, with the difficulties of working out exactly where it comes from.

It's fun, though I haven't done any since before I broke an ankle (not on a hill or mountain!) a few years ago. I intend getting back into it this year. Not doing any mountains though 😀 there's a few 15 minutes to an hour walk in hills around here, that'll do me for now (M0HCU BTW)

The Trig Point on top of Kauri Mountain complete with seat with my radio equipment on. A travel 'fishing' pole attached to a gatepost held the wire antenna. A couple of trees in the background beneath a summer blue sky with wispy white clouds

The private road that had to be walked up to the trig point from the small car park. the road snakes its way up the hillside with trees to either side a small farm building on the left behind a wooden fence

A view to the South from the trig point looking through the trees to a sweeping beach terminated by another hill, a summer blue sky with some cloud

Good grief.
It was 10 years ago today when I walked up Kauri Mountain in New Zealand to activate the summit, ZL1/NL-079, for SOTA.
Pleased to qualify it with 7 QSOs!
A long way to go to be the first to activate it though 😀
#HamRadio #SOTA #Radio #NewZealand

The one (other) thing to takeaway from all this is the totle inabillety of thees pepole to spell!

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy The US is now funding the far-right in the UK

Richard Murphy always talks a lot of sense.
We should be worried by what's coming our way. If we're not it'll be too late!
youtu.be/srCked8HMNc

McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.