George Allison (GfromZ)

Robert Jenrick holds up a judges wig like a puppet during his speech to the Conservative Party Conference.

We have an independent judiciary in this country. Robert Jenrick wants puppet judges.

The Conservative Party once believed in the rule of law and our shared British values - no longer.

Staggeringly, Jenrick is a qualified solicitor.

And married to the daughter of Holocaust survivors…and we all know what happened to Jews (and dissidents) when Hitler turned the German judiciary into political puppets.

So shame SHAME on him.

EU threatens to kick out British second home owners British owners of holiday homes risk being thrown out of the European Union (EU) amid a border crackdown that comes into force this weekend.

Warning! This is from the Torygraph.
Seems they're not fans of the new Entry/Exit System or being forced to abide by EU rules, even ones they voted for.
uk.news.yahoo.com/eu-threatens...

Thanks to Trump’s tariffs on China, U.S. soybean farmers have lost their biggest customer and are grappling with higher prices for farming equipment.

Now, Trump has said he will bail out farmers — supposedly with the tariff revenue that caused the crisis to begin with.

Hello?

UK steel set for further hit as EU to double tariffs Losing access to the EU market, the largest destination for UK steel exports, would have a "catastrophic" impact on jobs, a key union said.

Is that another Brexit benefit?
No, quite the opposite.
news.sky.com/story/uk-ste...

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...

“The tide is turning.” says Heseltine.

People now see Brexit for what it is — a disaster that has left Britain smaller, poorer, and weaker.

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Counterflow cycling is welcome and maybe some additional space for pedestrians (if the pavements can be kept clear)?

Removing bollards and allowing cars to park where they want will not be successful.

A rational Tory. An almost extinct species.

Did you know that 🇪🇺 Europeans are welcomed in the UK for up to 6 months every single time they visit

And aside from the new (silly) 🇬🇧 £16 ETA charge they don’t even need a Visa to do it?

How cool is that?

Aerial view of part of the coast of Greenland, showing glaciers flowing through mountains and into a blue sea flecked with big and small icebergs.

Cold freshwater pouring off Greenland's melting ice cap and glaciers is messing with key ocean currents that help modulate the entire global climate ... Scientists say it's not a good thing.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

Fascism attacking judges and the Rule of Law !

Attacks on migrants will not return Tories to power, Lord Heseltine warns Badenoch Lord Heseltine warning comes as Robert Jenrick is caught up in a racism row

The tide is turning. Just 13 per cent of young people think Brexit was right - and fewer than one in five under 50 agree. A clear majority of Britons now believe leaving the EU was a mistake.

The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...

I am curious how many Americans believe the Republicans' lies about electricity from solar and wind being more expensive than it is to buy and burn fossil fuels to produce it.
#EnergySky
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

YouTube video by Leon Simons AI making energy cheaper is bollocks

This 'AI making energy 100 times cheaper' statement by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman to Trevor Noah on the What Now Podcast doesn't make any sense.

AI increases "energy" (electricity) demand, increasing electricity prices. Economics 101.

More:
youtu.be/-5TAAmXDBz8

David Cameron's austerity agenda and Brexit killed the conservative party. What came after that is just the snow ball getting bigger.

Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records Regional exceptions like the 1930s in the continental US notwithstanding

Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records

- analysis by @hausfath.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/most-of-th...

I’m in the main hall of Tory conference to watch new-ish shadow transport secretary Richard Holden give his speech. The title leads me to expect talk about the war on the motorist and 20mph zones.

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

In September 2025, daily shipments of oil and refined products by Russian Railways fell to 2020 COVID-crisis levels, according to Istebin.ua. The collapse mirrors the 2020 plunge when oil output dropped from 10 to 8 million barrels/day. Some wells may have been shut down permanently.

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides – and that he worked on the Kremlin’s strategic ...

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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Insiders reveal that the former MEP - convicted of bribery for his part in the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence - was one of Farage’s closest aides
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

There were rural communities before cars. My family has spent 5 generations in a VERY rural community -- it was once served by many different kinds of shops. When I was a kid, it was regularly served by a regional bus line.
Now everyone is FORCED to drive 60+ miles to shop.

Yesterday I said a society *requiring* you to own a car makes you less free than a society with options for biking, walking, & transit.
Lots of people have shouted at me that this could never work in rural areas, and that they have to drive long distances for everything.
YOU'RE MAKING MY POINT.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is not just serving a #CupOfJoe to the people of Illinois, but to every state. Get out your phones & record what ICE is doing! If the government won't hold them accountable, We the People will.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

I'll be talking about The Language of Climate Politics under the Trump regime at The Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen on October 21st.

Are you in Copenhagen? Come out!

And if can't make the talk but are around, DM me. I'll be in Denmark for two weeks ❤️🇩🇰