petermnorman.bsky.social
@petermnorman.bsky.social
We need to win one or two of these games however to lift ourselves clear of the relegation threat
January 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM
We’ll have to agree to disagree on this. French and British Governments were blindsided by US actions in Venezuela and the planning needed for the op they carried out meant it must have been planned sometime in advance. ISIS is a real danger to Western democracy and cultures and should be eliminated
January 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
and hospitals. Parliament does not have to be in London and it would be an opportunity to completely rethink how we do politics and finally fix the H of Lords so that it properly represents interest groups reforming legislation and making it better

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Will 2026 be the year MPs and peers agree how to repair Parliament?
Parliamentarians will shortly have to decide if they should leave their building to allow for billions of pounds of maintenance work to take place.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 6:23 PM
It’s a tricky one. While Trump’s actions are totally out of the bounds of international law and is a naked oil grab, I don’t think it can be equated with an attack on ISIS, which is clearly a barbaric ideology and are clearly a destabilising presence in the region. The action helps the Syrian Govt
January 4, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The fact that Trump advocates drill baby drill and his first move is to try to get American oil firms into Venezuela’s vast untapped oil reserves does not bode well. This transactional President doesn’t give a f*** for future generations
January 4, 2026 at 12:01 PM
But more important still is to compel owners of empty houses or those with second homes occupied for less than six weeks a year to make these available for residential use

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government rolls back nature protections to boost housing
Critics say government changes to a flagship biodiversity policy could stall nature recovery.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The UK must listen to Chinese Volvo and not German VW in ensuring we sponsor the industry of the future rather than the vestiges of the past. This is one deadline we can and should look to meet. 2/2
December 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Just goes to show Trump’s words are not worth the paper they’re written on. And they will act as a guarantor to Ukraine’s sovereignty? Didn’t exactly work with the Budapest memorandum…
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Thank God for that, I thought you were going to say spotted Dec 2025!!
December 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Funny how we now romanticise what would have been hovels in Victoria England. The same transformation of views has taken place in Tavistock
December 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM