Earlier today I was carrying out water testing in the River Roding in Ilford & became increasingly annoyed by the insistent buzzing of a helicopter directly overhead. It was only when I saw the police approaching from both sides of the river that I realised it was for me! I

Turns out we can’t have nice things. Just over a week after the heavenly photo in the tweet below was taken & a short rain shower means that the clear water, gravel & languid drapes of water crowfoot have been replaced by a foul grey stinking mixture of oily road runoff &

#NigelFraage is the opposite of a British patriot. He is in the pocket of US anti-abortionists and the US gun lobby.

Channel 4 News And because this chap claims something, every outlet reports it? A party with 5 MPs. Led by a self- enamoured fantasist. When do the news channels report on what The Green Party claim? (4MPs) Plaid Cymru? (4) Libdems? (72) SNP? (9)

Nothing screams “law and order” like giving a get-out-of-jail-free card to rich white tax cheats who support you.

Badenoch does photo call with law breaking fisherman.

I thought this was AI, but no

RFK: journals are fraudulent MAHA report: AI generated without human review, uses studies that don't exist and cites authors saying things they never said. This would be a career-ending scandal in any other universe.

🧵The NYT “discovers” the link between Elon Musk's madness and extremist tech ideologies like Longtermism (not to mention Cosmism and Transhumanism). Baby steps, I guess. cc Dr. Émile P. Torres

A fact: More than 3,000 people were convicted in the last month of fare dodging Cases all brought to court by TfL More could be done, sure But let's not pretend nothing is done Also a fact: The last government invented a court system which hides these cases from the public

Does rather feel this way

Zack Polanski is smashing it! He is a breath of fresh air. Pragmatic, genuine and has bags of sincerity that seem to have evaporated in politics. #BackZack

Nick Tyrone Community breakdown is not occurring. Crime rates have fallen steadily since peaking in the 1980s/1990s. Right-wing tossers want you to think it’s occurring because they know that’s when people will vote for them. Oldest trick in right-wing playbook. More fool you falling for it.

Interesting Fact of the Day: If Robert Jenrick were to catch 50 fare dodgers a day, recouping £2.90 each time for the taxpayer, it would take him well over 1,000 years to recoup the amount the taxpayer lost when he helped a major Tory donor avoid a £45m tax bill back in 2020.

Everyone should have been on alert, because Greg Barbaccia was such as bizarre choice as our CIO - an ex-Army guy who did "physical security" and "executive protection" for Palantir. And yet Trump hired him 4 days after inauguration. He was pre-planned. 4/ x.com/capitolhunters…

The ultimatum was made in a letter sent directly by the pope to the head of Opus Dei As well as the reforms, Leo has also demanded an investigation into abuse allegations These include human trafficking, enslavement – as well as physical and psychological abuse of members

WSJ: Putin has created an economy so dependent on military production that peace would threaten Russia's economic stability, trapping him in perpetual conflict. 1/

The fact that someone as dishonest and hypocritical as Robert Jenrick was not long ago shamed out of public life is a damning indictment of the state of politics and media in the UK adambienkov.co.uk/p/robert-jenri…

Solar energy in the Netherlands is so efficient the network can’t cope & electricity will be free from 12-5pm at weekends from tomorrow until 30 Sept. Reform Ltd are liars.