Colin Farlow

They are killing us and trying to cover up the evidence.

More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map

The headline here should say:

"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".

(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)

www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...

Did you vote for this?

Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption

It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.

The danger of flying rings to seals: a young campaigner’s advice A flying ring killed a seal I saw – now I’m campaigning to stop them being sold

11-year-old wildlife campaigner Amaya Edwards saw a seal that had been killed by a flying ring. Now she’s leading a campaign to ban them from beaches and she won’t stop until real change happens.

Read her short article ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

This absolute turnip lives in Mississippi.

He's LITERALLY an economic migrant.

Does he have ZERO self-awareness?

Does he just think nobody will notice?

Or because he's an entitled white man, does he perhaps believe that he doesn't count?

Red flower with two bright yellow "eyes" looking like a natural muppet.

Muppet plant.

A hobby flying straight towards the camera low over a reedbed

What it looks like when a Hobby flies straight at you! 😲👀😍
#birds 🪶
Taken at Shapwick Heath in Somerset. 🐦

Billions needed for failing flood defences on Lincolnshire coast A breach could leave Lincolnshire communities under several feet of water, officials have warned.

Hang on, so a county which voted for Reform who refuse to accept the existence of climate change now wants £ billions of public money to fight off the effects of climate change…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Half of Brits want another EU referendum in five years as Brexit support slumps A new poll of more than 2,000 people found 29% of Brits would vote to leave the EU if the Brexit vote was repeated, compared to 52% in the referendum in June 2016

Half of Brits want another EU referendum in five years - as Brexit support slumps

A new poll of more than 2,000 people found 29% of Brits would vote to leave the EU if the Brexit vote was repeated, compared to 52% in the referendum in June 2016

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’

#RightToBuy - disastrous policy always opposed by @greenparty.org.uk.

#Privatisation - as always a few benefit and the rest of us pay

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm Company says extra payments relating to work for Kelda Holdings were covered by shareholders not billpayers

England's water companies circumvent rules on exec pay.

Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm.

UK company law is weak The payment not disclosed in annual accounts.

End the circus. Nationalise water.

Only 29% would back Brexit now

Britain’s ban on lead ammunition could save tens of thousands of birds from poisoning Lead poisoning kills an estimated 50,000-100,000 waterbirds annually in the UK. Many more birds are poisoned, but not killed

☠️ Lead poisoning kills an estimated 50,000-100,000 waterbirds annually in the UK.

Many more birds are poisoned, but not killed.

Obvious point this, but people need to stop believing what they are told by Farage, GB News, and the general declinist and alarmist media narrative and start paying attention to what is really going on regarding crime in this country.

The BBC and mainstream media have a duty to get the truth out.

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

#VisionZero in action: "speed limits are a key factor

#PublicHealth

www.politico.eu/article/hels...

Seen in a public bathroom. 🎯🎯🎯😂🤣👇

Orange Monday. Acrylic on canvas. 🍊

A British crow is asking passersby if they're alright.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As @timviles.bsky.social has pointed out, firing the person responsible for reporting job numbers just makes the jobs numbers one worse.

From the CWS Archive. 8th August 2024.

Yorkshire’s inglorious moors and the lies of the land Yorkshire’s uplands are ecological deserts, drained and burned by big landowners – it’s time to demand restoration over destruction

Yorkshire’s inglorious moors and the lies of the land

Yorkshire’s uplands are ecological deserts, drained and burned by big landowners – it’s time to demand restoration over destruction

By David Robson

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Widening participation in higher education, Academic year 2023/24 Annual statistics on young people's participation in higher education, including their background characteristics.

Broken London latest. As has been true for several years, the share of London teenagers eligible for free school meals (because of family poverty) who go to university is higher than the share of all English teenagers who go to university.
explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

Let me be more specific. In the summer of 2019 I was writing a regular monthly article for the online New Statesman. Within hours of publishing my latest piece, where I suggested Corbyn would do less harm as Prime Minister than Boris Johnson, they withdrew it. I was told I could continue writing for them only if I stuck to economics and did not mention to anyone what they had just done. I didn’t accept the latter condition, and have never been invited to write for them again. It meant I briefly felt I was doing the right thing and in reality the potential audience for my writing shrank.

LOL amazing

EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities Privatisation has failed.

Your regular reminder 👇

🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:

“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

Hammer on nail... this man is going viral.

Definitely. Too many MATs are corporate child prisons run by CEOs and business managers who have never taught anyone in their lives. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk