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and a bit of politix……with a wee terrier 🐾
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My shop has a collection of little letterbox original art gifts for just £25, including this chicken. They can be sent as a gift and will easily fit in a standard letterbox.
folksy.com/find/item/85...

#Chicken #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #ChristmasGifts #bsnm
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Australia’s unprecedented toxic algal bloom annihilates marine life
The bloom has impacted some 20,000 square kilometers and about 30% of the coastline of South Australia, and it shows no sign of abating.

www.science.org/content/arti...
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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"I’m determined to rebuild NHS dentistry” says Keir Starmer

For that to happen we need sustainable funding.

Yesterday I joined @thebda.bsky.social in delivering a petition backed by 120,000 people to the PM and Health Secretary.

Progress will hinge on whether they listen
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Wes Streeting is doing "a fantastic job", says Keir Starmer's Press Secretary, who also insists that Morgan McSweeney is doing a fantastic job too
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The Horizon IT system had been at the centre of the Post Office scandal.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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An energy rich nation having the piss ripped right out of them for decades

The average domestic electricity bill in southern Scotland has risen from £436 in 2008 to £1115 in 2024, while northern Scotland experienced an even sharper increase from £423 to £1140

www.thenational.scot/news/2561067...
Scots face some of the steepest energy bill hikes in the UK, analysis finds
SCOTS have seen some of the sharpest energy bill hikes across the UK over recent years, new analysis has shown.
www.thenational.scot
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The oxygen creators are disappearing

Phytoplankton biomass, that are the base of marine life and create up to 50% of our oxygen in rapid decline over the past two decades, especially in coastal areas, a new study has found.

news.mongabay.com/2025/11/not-...
‘Not good’: Ocean losing its greenness, threatening food webs
The consequences of global warming, caused mainly by burning fossil fuels, are varied and many. Now scientists have documented yet another one: The ocean is losing its “greenness.” The ocean’s chlorop...
news.mongabay.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*

"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Christian Adams @Adamstoon1 on the credibility of the #BBC @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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'The Rowers.' (1924) Manuel Losada is one of the key names in the modern Basque painting of the early 20thC - his work was praised by both Gauguin and Degas, and one can argue, there is a certain Degas-like expression of movement in this picture.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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#OTD, we remember Mary Jane Kelly, so brutally murdered in 1888. She, like all the Whitechapel Murder victims, are respectfully remembered in death still.

nathenamin.substack.com/p/rememberin...
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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"300,000 families and individuals.....are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness, including sleeping on the streets, in tents or squats, or stuck in unsuitable temporary accommodation"

Completely unacceptable in the 21st century England

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Crisis charity to become a landlord in attempt to rectify ‘catastrophic’ housing in UK
Exclusive: Homelessness charity planning to buy properties as it can no longer rely on access to social housing
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Rather enjoy those old Remembrance Sunday photos of Callaghan and Heath with their wartime service medals which highlight how the two flag-wavers next to them, Paisley and Thatcher, while old enough to have earned some themselves, had none.
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Is it raining where you are?

Every time it rains, oil, particulate matter, and microplastics from tyre and brake wear is washed off the roads, causing widespread pollution.

National Highways is failing to tackle this problem for our busiest roads
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop National Highways’ toxic water pollution!
We all know our rivers are polluted. However, it’s not just from sewage, or due to the inaction of failing water companies. What is less talked about, but in many ways worse than sewage and even more ...
actionnetwork.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Morgan McSweeney despises the left, this why Starmer’s Labour Party was ‘changed’, and why they are in hoc to corporate donations and corporate infiltration of government.
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The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power | Ash Sarkar Meets Paul Holden
YouTube video by Novara Media
m.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Dave Brown’s #RoguesGallery after #NCWyeth on #ElonMusk #Tesla #MuskTrillions @Independent – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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EXPOSED: ICE agents grabbed a father by the neck in Fitchburg, Massachusetts — sending him into a violent seizure while his arms locked around his toddler.

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of his hands!”

Agents then handcuffed him before putting him in an ambulance.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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These abominations have nothing to do with farming

They are simply industrial-scale torture and death chambers

Every single facility should be scrapped and no new ones built
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Intensive livestock farms fail to declare climate impacts in ‘emissions scandal’
Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I presume Mone and her husband are still on a permanent holiday somewhere lovely and expensive.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes
Statement by administrators puts PPE Medpro’s total debts at £188m, including £39m said to be owed to HMRC
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Poverty is the parent of revolution - Aristotle

Pic of the day

#photography
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Three years ago today I was sent the first photo of CELTIC WEIRD by British Library Publishing. 5 books with them in three years. Insane.
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM