Joseph Nicholas
@larklander.bsky.social
Mostly human. Also a gardener.
Sign on a bridge over Turkey Brook, Enfield, seen on a visit to Myddleton House Gardens yesterday afternoon.
September 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sign on a bridge over Turkey Brook, Enfield, seen on a visit to Myddleton House Gardens yesterday afternoon.
Brilliant and pointed.
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Here's JSO's short cut of my protest rant on Politics Live. www.youtube.com/shorts/L_93v...
"They Cannot Tolerate Challenges to Wealth and Power" | George Monbiot | BBC Politics Live #shorts
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April 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Brilliant and pointed.
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Art historian Bendor Grosvenor on the extraordinary goldification of the Oval Office. Only kings and emperors do this...
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I'm gripped by the ever-increasing bling in Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Yes, Trump has bad taste. But also something else. Here’s an art historical view. 🧵
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April 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Art historian Bendor Grosvenor on the extraordinary goldification of the Oval Office. Only kings and emperors do this...
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So growth will be curtailed. GDP will be affected. The volume of trade will fall. So what?
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The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a spectacle of struggle and control | Editorial
Editorial: The US president wields tariffs not as a policy tool but as an instrument of pressure, rewarding loyalty and punishing defiance – even among allies
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April 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
So growth will be curtailed. GDP will be affected. The volume of trade will fall. So what?
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What a complete wimp Starmer is turning out to be. The correct response to Bezos, Zuckerberg et al is to tell them to get stuffed.
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Starmer offers big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs
Exclusive: UK willing to placate Trump with lower digital services tax rate also encompassing non-US companies
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April 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
What a complete wimp Starmer is turning out to be. The correct response to Bezos, Zuckerberg et al is to tell them to get stuffed.
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A bit long-winded, but it does show how closely Starmer is following the Trumpist script and replicating the Tories' socially and environmentally destructive policies.
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As Rachel Reeves follows the deathly neoliberal script to the letter, here is our latest video, explaining the dire state of this government and demanding better. Please do watch.
EXPOSED: Keir Starmer’s Corporate War on Great Britain
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March 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A bit long-winded, but it does show how closely Starmer is following the Trumpist script and replicating the Tories' socially and environmentally destructive policies.
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Rachel Reeves very obviously has a particular animus against bats: "A very niche directive to Natural England, the nature watchdog, to take advice from the Bat Conservation Trust out of a planning document, became the linchpin of Reeves’s deregulation plan."
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Reeves scapegoating bats to cut red tape is absurd, says Packham
Broadcaster and nature campaigner claims Labour’s attack on wildlife in push for economic growth is ‘PR disaster’
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March 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Rachel Reeves very obviously has a particular animus against bats: "A very niche directive to Natural England, the nature watchdog, to take advice from the Bat Conservation Trust out of a planning document, became the linchpin of Reeves’s deregulation plan."
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We began stockpiling food items -- canned foods and dried foods such as pasta and rice -- before Brexit, but (obviously) only in a small way. Perhaps I should ramp up the stockpiling....
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Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you? | George Monbiot
I’ve started a stockpile, but that isn’t the answer. If crisis strikes, the government needs a strategy to protect us all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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March 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We began stockpiling food items -- canned foods and dried foods such as pasta and rice -- before Brexit, but (obviously) only in a small way. Perhaps I should ramp up the stockpiling....
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This is rather amusing.
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Uninvited otter wreaks havoc in family kitchen
A family was surprised by the uninvited guest who wreaked havoc in their kitchen in Shetland.
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March 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is rather amusing.
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Last night's full moon (the Snow Moon) as seen from Wylie Crescent, Albany, West Australia (eight hours ahead of UK time).
February 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Last night's full moon (the Snow Moon) as seen from Wylie Crescent, Albany, West Australia (eight hours ahead of UK time).
John Harris doesn't say it explicitly, but the message is there: seven months in, Starmer's government has already lost its way, and is unlikely to recover.
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Starmer’s dislike of real politics is plain to see. It’s why his government has no direction | John Harris
In power, Labour’s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth and an imitation of Reform UK. The public isn’t falling for it, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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February 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
John Harris doesn't say it explicitly, but the message is there: seven months in, Starmer's government has already lost its way, and is unlikely to recover.
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Yes indeed.
I recommend his and Peter Hutchinson's The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, which eviscerates the pretensions of the capitalist worldview.
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I recommend his and Peter Hutchinson's The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, which eviscerates the pretensions of the capitalist worldview.
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February 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Yes indeed.
I recommend his and Peter Hutchinson's The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, which eviscerates the pretensions of the capitalist worldview.
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I recommend his and Peter Hutchinson's The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, which eviscerates the pretensions of the capitalist worldview.
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The crescent Moon and Venus, taken from just outside the front door a few minutes ago.
February 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The crescent Moon and Venus, taken from just outside the front door a few minutes ago.
The second photograph in this article is very misleading. The incinerator in question is in Edmonton, but the photograph has been taken with such an extreme telescopic lens that the casual viewer might think the thing is just outside the Square Mile.
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Tax on UK incinerators may push councils to send more waste to landfill
Government scheme to penalise pollution from burning rubbish won’t ensure more is recycled, consultants warn
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February 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The second photograph in this article is very misleading. The incinerator in question is in Edmonton, but the photograph has been taken with such an extreme telescopic lens that the casual viewer might think the thing is just outside the Square Mile.
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There is a white-bottied bee prospecting for nectar in winter-flowering creepers outside the conservatory. On the second of February!
February 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
There is a white-bottied bee prospecting for nectar in winter-flowering creepers outside the conservatory. On the second of February!
A fine sight in the southwest sky: a thin sliver of the new moon (on its back, as it were) and, above it, Venus.
But my camera isn't good enough at resolving them, and the pocket tripod isn't sufficient either. So no photograph. (Poot!)
But my camera isn't good enough at resolving them, and the pocket tripod isn't sufficient either. So no photograph. (Poot!)
February 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A fine sight in the southwest sky: a thin sliver of the new moon (on its back, as it were) and, above it, Venus.
But my camera isn't good enough at resolving them, and the pocket tripod isn't sufficient either. So no photograph. (Poot!)
But my camera isn't good enough at resolving them, and the pocket tripod isn't sufficient either. So no photograph. (Poot!)
Another photograph of the robin. (Male, I think, although on this occasion it wasn't singing.)
January 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Another photograph of the robin. (Male, I think, although on this occasion it wasn't singing.)
Excellent opinion piece by Labour MP Clive Lewis pointing out that the government's U-turn on its pre-election commitments undermines Starmer's pledge to restore trust in politics. The result, he says, will only encourage the populists.
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I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic | Clive Lewis
The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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January 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Excellent opinion piece by Labour MP Clive Lewis pointing out that the government's U-turn on its pre-election commitments undermines Starmer's pledge to restore trust in politics. The result, he says, will only encourage the populists.
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Everyone is missing the most important aspect of this story.
Will it fall out with HMS Agamemnon, get in a massive grump and refuse to fight?
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Will it fall out with HMS Agamemnon, get in a massive grump and refuse to fight?
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Grant Shapps calls Navy submarine name change 'woke nonsense'
HMS Agincourt has been renamed Achilles amid reports the defence ministry did not want to offend France.
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January 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Little florets on the little broccoli plants at the allotment. In January!
January 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Little florets on the little broccoli plants at the allotment. In January!
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Now her job is on the line, Rachel Reeves says the UK "can't afford not to build a third runway at Heathrow", having spent the last 6 months saying the UK can't afford to do anything
January 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Now her job is on the line, Rachel Reeves says the UK "can't afford not to build a third runway at Heathrow", having spent the last 6 months saying the UK can't afford to do anything
General election now, please, so that we can get rid of these wreckers.
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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
General election now, please, so that we can get rid of these wreckers.
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Rachel Reeves once promised to close non-dom tax loopholes. She now says she's "listening to the concerns that have been raised by the non-dom community".
What an imbecile.
What an imbecile.
January 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Rachel Reeves once promised to close non-dom tax loopholes. She now says she's "listening to the concerns that have been raised by the non-dom community".
What an imbecile.
What an imbecile.
There are two ways in which to view Reeves's statement about airport expansion and meeting climate objectives. She is either a complete ignoramus who doesn't begin to understand the issues; or she is lying through her teeth.
I know which I choose.
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I know which I choose.
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Environmentalists urge Reeves to rethink plans for airports and roads
Critics say chancellor’s ‘growth at all costs’ plans are not compatible with UK’s climate targets
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January 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
There are two ways in which to view Reeves's statement about airport expansion and meeting climate objectives. She is either a complete ignoramus who doesn't begin to understand the issues; or she is lying through her teeth.
I know which I choose.
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I know which I choose.
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