Emma Quinn

ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.”

@RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.

Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, special contribution in honor of Dorothy C. Miller

Joan Miró, The Song of the Vowels, Palma de Mallorca, April 24, 1966
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Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.

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Fantastic Journey - Suffolk Artlink A Most Significant Change story from Suffolk Artlink’s creative social prescribing programme

What a lovely story.
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“Look at my flag.”

Priceless.

Imagine how bad you have to be to bring Reform UK into disrepute.

"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love."

Brilliant. ~AA

The Prince Andrew scandal is not just about Andrew. It is about the archaic institution - the UK Royal Family - which is not some irrelevant body but a core part of the unreformed British state. And Andrew has not given up his titles; he is just choosing not to use them.

At last

Many of us knew it from the outset...

#brexit

It doesn’t get any more dodgy than this - Farage will literally take money from anyone; anonymous people, people living abroad - all clearly against the rules - what kind of organisation are they. A dodgy shambles I reckon.

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"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Ask Emma Reynolds to base water policy on facts not water industry fake maths. Everyone deserves clean, affordable water. Lobbyists say it’ll cost £100bn to bring it back into public hands - but experts disagree. I’ve asked the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence ...

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Bonus – We won an award! But we want more, more, more! | American Friction Get more from American Friction on Patreon

Congratulations! Well deserved @americanfric.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/141451...

‘I shall be playing Danny Zuko in Grease at the Apollo Victoria Theatre for a limited engagement. I expect you all to buy tickets or I’ll execute you. Here’s Greased Lightning.’

One of the most inspiring days of the year for me is when I get to present the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security's annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards to honorees from around the world who are working to safeguard democracy, sometimes at tremendous personal risk.

My son got this Riddler in his Happy Meal and thought it was ‘Irish Batman.’ We’ve really lost touch with the old ways.

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Banks step up lobbying over threat of Reeves tax hikes The gap between the tax burden on British banks and their international rivals is widening, even before the imposition of any further levies in next month's budget, according to a report seen by Sky N...

UK banks oppose tax rise.

Falsely claim to be paying 46.4% tax rate.

The PwC generated number includes PAYE, employee national insurance which is paid by workers. VAT which is borne by customers.

it is extrapolated from a sample, can't be verified

Why do media reports not expose this sham claim?

I love my local offy. You already feel drunk before you even step into the premises.

Various chocolate bars next to their wrappers

If you’re after a little autumn treat for someone you care about, my seasonal chocolate bars are still around. Delicious, ethical, and sure to bring a smile this season 🍫🍂.
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Agreed. And don’t get me started on the ridiculous names.

God this is going to sound obnoxious but I'm doing it anyway: one of the most radical and genuinely bolshy things you can do right now is just fucking check stuff. Take a moment, find some sources, talk to some humans, corroborate stuff using independent pathways.

It is going out of fashion fast

Volksentscheid für Grundeinkommen in Hamburg gescheitert - WELT Das Experiment «Hamburg testet Grundeinkommen» kommt nicht zustande. Das Votum der Bürger war klar.

Disappointing news out of Germany where voters in Hamburg voted against a referendum to do a basic income experiment where 2,000 people would have gotten €1,346 a month for 3 years. 63% voted no, and 37% voted yes.

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

He is far from alone.
Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?

Reform UK's deputy leader has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register hospitality. So what's the story with Richard Tice, the French villa and the ex-Kremlin minister?

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Lush has a Scooby-Doo tie-in range, and they've really missed the opportunity to have a bath bomb shaped like a ghost which fizzes away to reveal a normal man inside.

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

How the Labour government would have banned the Labour movement.
My latest column.
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