Colin Farlow

Generalissimo Trump is what he has always desired.

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

Good morning New York, while you were sleeping this was our most read story. on.ft.com/4a2VQC9

"Gary is far kinder to Rory Stewart here than Rory has ever been to him."
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
#TaxWealthNotWork

On and on it goes. The depravity, the violence - Israel is completely beyond the pale, if it wasn't always.

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.

The State Department is instructing its staff to deny visas to those engaged in activities like combatting misinformation, disinformation or false narratives, fact-checking, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety. 🫠

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If we play this out: What would 3 °C of warming mean in 25 years? What would the world look like? FB: We would all live in different climate zones. Open an old world atlas and you see a huge red patch for the Sahara. With 3 °C of warming, that zone would stretch into parts of Spain. Vegetation, rainfall weather patterns, all would look very different. And what would 3 °C mean for Germany? FB: In summer, meteorological records could reach up to 50 °C. Three degrees of global warming does not mean hot days will just be 3 or 4 degrees hotter. It could mean up to 10 degrees hotter. We would also face much

Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible.

3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.

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Often appears in cold weather and eats all the berries or crab-apples in the garden.

Kremlin Rats: Three more of Farage’s MEPs are alleged to have followed Putin's script. CPS has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill by Oleg Voloshyn when giving interviews to 112 Ukraine, a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019.

New US national security framework – is a huge win for Russia As the US releases its National Security Strategy paper; an alignment with Russia and an abandonment from Europe becomes evident

As the US releases its National Security Strategy paper; an alignment with Russia and an abandonment from Europe becomes evident | Martin Burns

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones.
This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history.

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‘We’re ready to meet him any time’ HEALTH SECRETARY Wes Streeting put himself on the warpath with the BMA union today, saying he has “had it” while accusing doctors of “juvenile delinquency” and being “moaning minnies” as they prepare ...

Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said:

“Streeting throws around insults at resident doctors and the BMA, but compare his £225K donations from private health related sources with the pay of resident doctors starting at £19.91ph..."
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If only we could have got rid of her a lot sooner

Hundreds of GPs write to Health Secretary Wes Streeting demanding ‘mutual respect’ amid contract negotiations row

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I am about the same age as Nigel Farage. It was absolutely not normal for school children in the 70s and early 80s to behave the way he did.
Is anyone else wondering why Dulwich College tolerated his vileness? - would not have been allowed in the schools I attended.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much rather have an entire Somali immigrant family with two happy trans kids living right next door to me than a white supremacist or a racist MAGA lunatic any day of the week.

The Government abolished the IPP sentence in 2021, yet the people affected are still living with its consequences.

If Ministers are serious about reducing the prison population, they must act now to resolve this injustice.

#PrisonReform #JusticeForIPP

Nigel Farage sang antisemitic songs to Jewish classmates, former Dulwich pupil claims Two former Dulwich pupils have spoken to Sky News about their time at the school with Nigel Farage.

Farage sang antisemitic songs to classmates

‘Gas them all, gas them out, gas them all, into the chambers they crawl'

Vile

The UN must acknowledge its role in one of the greatest deceptions of history. And, if it is to live up to its charter and conventions, it has an obligation to work toward the liberation and self-determination of the Palestinian people and ultimately to the restoration of their homeland.

Palestine Is a Fundamental Moral and Political Compass On Tuesday, November 18, I was meant to address a meeting at Berlin’s Karl Liebknecht Haus, headquarters of left-wing party Die Linke. There I was

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Joe Biden Lashes Trump For ‘Trying To Distort’ Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality “Get up and fight back!” the former president said to applause and tears as he accepted an award honoring his record of advancing LGBTQ+ rights.

“Get up and fight back!” the former president said to applause and tears as he accepted an award honoring his record of advancing LGBTQ+ rights.

RFK Jr.'s handpicked panel votes to end hepatitis B guidance for newborns The committee now endorses "individual-based decision-making" for pregnant people who test negative for the virus.

RFK Jr.'s handpicked panel votes to end hepatitis B guidance for newborns

'Fair access to education is a fundamental right. We must ensure that every child, whatever their background or beliefs, has every chance to succeed.' Alf Dubs Parliamentarian and humanist

Happy 93rd Birthday to Alf Dubs! From arriving in Britain as a Kindertransport child refugee to becoming a lifelong campaigner for human rights, children’s rights, and humanist values, few people have done more to champion compassion, justice, and support for those who need it most.

Breaking: Trump Quietly Lifts Lukoil Sanctions Days After Kushner’s Secret Kremlin Meeting With Putin While America is told he’s “tough on Russia,” Trump quietly hands Lukoil sanctions relief right after Kushner and Witkoff’s five-hour session with Putin—then drags Ukraine to Miami to deliver offer.

Breaking: Trump Quietly Lifts Lukoil Sanctions Days After Kushner’s Secret Kremlin Meeting With Putin
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Time catches up with us all When your memories become someone else’s history

😱 "For example, the release of The Beatles’ first UK number one, Love Me Do, is closer to the reign of Queen Victoria than it is to the present day." @jackkessler.bsky.social

Just in: A new US national security strategy is calling for 'cultivating resistance' in Europe, warning that the continent is subverting democracy, blocking peace in Ukraine and facing 'civilisational erasure' from high migration and falling birth rates. on.ft.com/3Y7XP0G

I agree

I suspect the real reason Nigel Farage is getting so rattled by the racism allegations is that:

1) He knows he said all these things so can't properly deny them
2) He knows that he carried on saying them well into adulthood

I wonder whether he’ll also boycott LBC if/when I ask exactly the same question about him…