Simon Pease

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

Always the ones you most expect

What is the one thing that bothers me the most about Greer's op-ed proclaiming that the United States has remade the world economic order? Out of all the inaccuracies and 'too early to tell', it is how badly Greer restates the history of the multilateral trading system from the 1940s to today.

For me, the BBC’s image choice here is reprehensible…

…it glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedom… rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.

Labour can be "aggressive towards Farage" by emphasising his enthusiasm for Putin and hatred of the NHS

How to create your own little pocket of paradise James Canton explains how he made his wildlife heaven in rural North Essex, and how we can all do something for nature

A nature writer transformed a former field into a wildlife paradise over 15 years, showing that small-scale nature restoration can bring back nightingales, butterflies and bees.

James Canton tells his story to Jenny Rhodes.

False alarm at sea: MP spots migrants, finds former Royal Marine An MP’s migrant scare collapsed after his ‘dinghy of illegals’ turned out to be charity rowers

113 miles from Calais. Four oars. Ex-Royal Marine on board.
Yes, Rupert, definitely a migrant dinghy.

Acute analysis. It’s essential at this point that “the coalition of the willing” moves from vaguely aspiring to police a peace settlement that will not come, to providing the military & economic backing to enable Ukraine to decide its own fate. Trump’s US is now more help to Putin than to the West.

As they’re following a brexity pattern, I predict bananas.

Yes. It feels as though he’s schizophrenic.

I know the feeling, Catherine. You see something and think “he’s coming round.” The next week it’s all undone.

Occasionally, he’s spot on. But not consistent.

Not sure it was that clever or organised. Just a lot of con artists realising they could print a prospectus, get people to invest and abscond with the money. Straightforward con the greedy and hard of thinking.

Yes, I do. Saw it on a menu once. Never again.

Good point

World at One - 08/08/2025 - BBC Sounds News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4

My thoughts here (15 mins in) on the latest Israeli escalation It’s a disaster, which will bring further deaths and misery. It shows Bibi has no plan to end the war. The idea he can at some point just decide to hand the running of Gaza to an Arab state is a fantasy. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Very similar to Russian channels.

At least you got a tulip bulb.

The South Sea Bubble.

How Donald Trump remade global trade The US president has smashed the system, but the speed and scale of the smashing owes to a system that had been growing increasingly brittle for years.

I suppose Trump is changing the way the US trades globally. To the rest of the world he is only changing how we sell goods to the US, which is a long way short of remaking world trade. www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...

Also a nice metaphor for Trump. The rosettes at the top don’t fit the panels. No attention to detail.

Party like it’s 1720.

Actually, cheap. Take a close look at the panels at the top of the door and the fit of the “gold rosettes”. They overlap the panel. They didn’t even bother to find plastic rosettes the right size.

No class expected with that one.

Good luck with the new one.

I know one of the big arguments against a Republic is "what if we ended up with a President .... (insert your bogeyperson here) instead."

But people forget that for some 32 years, we were just a single heartbeat away from Prince Andrew being the first in line to the throne.

Tots, bots, measles and the surging distrust in vaccines How does the decline in take-up of the measles vaccination tell a tale of our times?

A disease we eliminated is back, writes Liz Crosbie.

Measles is surging - and one in six children aren’t fully vaccinated.
Here’s why ⤵️

Charity rowing crew mistaken for 'illegal migrants' by Rupert Lowe 'Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing, the Great Yarmouth MP wrote on social media

Oh FFS. Is the wazzock planning on chasing channel swimmers next?

Not seen that many in one place before. Fun change of view.