If you think that the BBC News (UK) should have a rule that Think Tanks can only appear on the BBC after disclosure of their main funders, then please retweet. (If there is enough interest I will set up a petition to the BBC)

This is a brilliant (disturbing) thread

What do you call a snake that's exactly 3.14 metres long? A πthon.

If more people had the courage and clarity of Nicola Sturgeon on the issue of immigration, the country would not be in this utter #Brexit shambles to start with. Whatever my politics, whatever caveats, whatever subjects I disagree with her on, this is what leadership looks like.

The Three Laws Of Brexit: 1. It is ALWAYS someone else’s fault. 2. Whatever you said earlier wasn’t what you meant. 3. Details don’t matter.

This is why I will always engage with people across the political divide. Being confronted by the reality of social problems we may personally never have experienced, can change minds in a profound way. theguardian.com/society/2019/j…

It's almost as if many in the Conservative Party have been raised with no sense of consequence. That they are free to act on impulse and faith for personal and professional gratification, completely fortified from the outcome. Our society is like a little doll house to them.

Spring Garden starting to wake from its winter sleep.

“If protest depended on success, there would be little protest of any durability or significance. History simply affords too little evidence that anyone’s individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures...is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success...

#DailyPictureTheme #DailyPicTheme2 Drummond Castle Gardens,Scotland

Utopia Now: why we must continue to dream, against all the odds. newstatesman.com/politics/femin…

How microbes found in soil can be as effective as anti depressants ecology.com/2014/08/25/ant…

Have read this awesome Caitlin Moran article 3 times through, most of it out loud to various people. Every school should be an art school.

It took me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

As is so often the case, James O'Brien finds the words to communicate just how horrible this government is while the rest of us are still reeling at this latest injustice. lbc.co.uk/radio/presente…