Farage wonders what he’s going to say, having bigged up flying 4,500 miles out to Mar-A-Lago for “diner with Trump” to discuss the Chagos Islands with his “friend”
But Trump does a no show, instead staying somewhere else, totally ignoring Farage 🤭🤣🤣😂
#NigelNoMates 🤭
"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."
~ Albert Camus
Le Moulin de la Galette (1886)
🎨 Vincent Van Gogh
Here's our 🎶 parody version of Barry McGuire's 1965 "Eve of Destruction" that we've modernised to turn to current US adventurism. We're calling it: "Grief and Destruction" 🚀
youtu.be/QLBjeM53iBI
I see Zack Polanski is back to his disingenuous, dishonest point scoring.
I think that Zack will discover that most of the public believe that Starmer's approach is the correct one. Starmer has said the attack is illegal, albeit very diplomatically but he has done so.
Sunday thread ⬇️
Marie Maynard Daly co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. She also studied the damage that cigarettes have on the heart & lungs. adalovelaceday.subst...
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
I thought the best person to talk to Laura Kuenssberg about the important moral and ethical issues of the day would be Robert Jenrick, the man who overruled a planning decision to save a billionaire pornographer £45m in exchange for a £12,000 donation.
I’m sorry, what? How can Chelsea & Westminster Hospital’s official charity *possibly* accept a £1 million ‘donation’ - meaning, in reality, an attempt to buy public credibility - from the Sacklers? Yes, those Sacklers, whose company, Purdue Pharma, caused >800k deaths from pumping out opioids. 1/3
Cover of Gisele Pelicot's book A Hymn to Life
On #IWD2026, it feels fitting to sing the praises of this extraordinary book, read beautifully by Emma Thompson.
If you’ve yet to read it, please do. Gisèle Pelicot’s strength, courage & basic human decency ring out from its pages - as does the grotesque misogyny of her courtroom experience...
Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...
I'm so relieved. Been beside myself with worry 😁
A paperback book entitled 'Tiny Moments of Joy' by George Penney. The cover is bright red, with a faint leaf pattern picked out round the edge. 'Tiny' and 'Joy' are printed in large, white font, which makes them really stand out. The post-writer can't wait to read it, as she follows George's Bluesky account and finds it fascinating, uplifting and an antidote to the way the world is at the moment.
@georgepenney.bsky.social
A woman (60s) has returned from walking her lively cockapoo, to find a parcel hanging from the letterbox inside her door. She smiles broadly & her heart lifts. She's been anticipating this moment. Cockapoo grabs the parcel & pulls it out, dropping it at the woman's feet.
At least if people are listening to audio books they're being exposed to the content, making pictures & connections in their heads, being exposed to the language etc, in a similar way to children being read to, I guess. And listening to books makes them accessible to people who find print difficult
Videos shared online falsely claim Keir Starmer banned New York mayor Zohran Mamdani from the UK, after Mr Mamdani supposedly said the UK had “lost its moral compass” at an event they both attended.
But no such event happened, and he hasn’t been banned.
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“Dear Diary,
Super excited to say that I’ll be serving my Clacton constituents today by flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald Trump and to undermine the UK government. God I love being a patriot!”
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Festival thread, full of fun ⬇️🎭
"When one political actor receives the overwhelming share of attention & the majority of headlines are negatively framed, the overall narrative effect may skew public perception"
Is the BBC biased against Keir Starmer? eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/is-the-...
“High standards and inclusion are two sides of the same coin.”
After reading the white paper carefully and discussing it during a SENCo forum this week, I’ve written on the shift in language, and what some of this might mean for schools in practice.
moderncassie.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-sh...
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Wonder who's paying for that. Can't imagine it's her.
The groundswell of anger against Katie Hopkins touring Britain like she's just some normal celebrity grows.
Well done to local people in Dorset who aren't taking it lying down.
www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...
Cheerful thread ⬇️
Why does she *never* get her facts straight? Absolutely useless.
At this week’s Prime Minister's Questions, Kemi Badenoch claimed Type 45 destroyers “cannot take out incoming missiles”.
In fact, they can. The Ministry of Defence says their primary role is air defence, including against missiles.
Badenoch was disgraceful at #PMQs today. People are terrified about the war in the Middle East. What was needed was a mature respectful exchange. It shouldn’t have been an opportunity for her to try and score cheap points about the welfare state whilst baying for escalation no one wants.
