Phil
@phil-thebeachbum.bsky.social
Politically homeless Francophile & cat slave,lover of coffee wine food travel rugby & naturism(yes you read that correctly!We prefer to sunbathe nude!).EV owner,solar enthusiast,happy Octopus customer. Gaia Hypothesis believer.
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Phil
@phil-thebeachbum.bsky.social
· Oct 10
For some time now I have felt politically homeless, the Tories & Reform have wrecked our country, Labour have failed to repair the fractured spine of society. But now the Greens are emerging as a party with answers. Maybe it’s time to think about joining that movement.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Egos.
Everyone has one. Some more than others.
This power struggle masquerading as democratic notions of Your Party is the most disappointing thing I’ve seen in ages.
Their disagreements played out in the press, for all to see (we know why) mean people lose faith, just different version of a
Everyone has one. Some more than others.
This power struggle masquerading as democratic notions of Your Party is the most disappointing thing I’ve seen in ages.
Their disagreements played out in the press, for all to see (we know why) mean people lose faith, just different version of a
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Egos.
Everyone has one. Some more than others.
This power struggle masquerading as democratic notions of Your Party is the most disappointing thing I’ve seen in ages.
Their disagreements played out in the press, for all to see (we know why) mean people lose faith, just different version of a
Everyone has one. Some more than others.
This power struggle masquerading as democratic notions of Your Party is the most disappointing thing I’ve seen in ages.
Their disagreements played out in the press, for all to see (we know why) mean people lose faith, just different version of a
14:30 & the sun is already low!
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
14:30 & the sun is already low!
FFS… some complete idiot has already got all their Christmas lights up all over the front if their house!!! It’s not even mid November yet!!😂😂😂
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
FFS… some complete idiot has already got all their Christmas lights up all over the front if their house!!! It’s not even mid November yet!!😂😂😂
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Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
Illinois to add 3 GW of batteries, saving consumers $12 billion over 20 years
Illinois is set to issue procurements for 3 GW of battery storage, under a bill expected to be signed by Governor JB Pritzker. Transmission improvements to speed renewable deployment are also in the w...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
Saddened to hear of the passing of Quentin Wilson.. an erudite & tireless campaigner for Britain’s motorists.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Saddened to hear of the passing of Quentin Wilson.. an erudite & tireless campaigner for Britain’s motorists.
My wife’s bestie has just got back from a trip to Bali & Thailand & had a stopover in Dubai. Got us a bar of Dubai chocolate (seen in Waitrose for £10, you’re having a laugh!), it’s £15 over there!WTAF?! £1.50 a piece!
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My wife’s bestie has just got back from a trip to Bali & Thailand & had a stopover in Dubai. Got us a bar of Dubai chocolate (seen in Waitrose for £10, you’re having a laugh!), it’s £15 over there!WTAF?! £1.50 a piece!
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Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
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And no - this article nor the independent - are as horrendous or as bitter as Jeremy Clarkson, Quentin Letts or the shitrag that is the Daily Mail.
But it's this insidious commenting on people's appearance in something pretending otherwise to be political commentary.
Do better. All of you.
But it's this insidious commenting on people's appearance in something pretending otherwise to be political commentary.
Do better. All of you.
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
And no - this article nor the independent - are as horrendous or as bitter as Jeremy Clarkson, Quentin Letts or the shitrag that is the Daily Mail.
But it's this insidious commenting on people's appearance in something pretending otherwise to be political commentary.
Do better. All of you.
But it's this insidious commenting on people's appearance in something pretending otherwise to be political commentary.
Do better. All of you.
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Some really positive news, demonstrating why green investment should be urgently reframed, from costly environmental subsidy to high-return national investment. Tories and Reform, please note.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Some really positive news, demonstrating why green investment should be urgently reframed, from costly environmental subsidy to high-return national investment. Tories and Reform, please note.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ok… bedding changed, now it’s time for a nice cup of English Breakfast tea & a toasted teacake with proper butter.
How’s your Friday afternoon going?
How’s your Friday afternoon going?
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Ok… bedding changed, now it’s time for a nice cup of English Breakfast tea & a toasted teacake with proper butter.
How’s your Friday afternoon going?
How’s your Friday afternoon going?
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Legends, Cole and his mum made a massive difference in the Caerffili by-election. Hope Cole gets involved in politics, Wales needs more Cole's 👏🏼👍😊🏴
October 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Legends, Cole and his mum made a massive difference in the Caerffili by-election. Hope Cole gets involved in politics, Wales needs more Cole's 👏🏼👍😊🏴
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
October 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Very good in depth interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social ....... He really does come across very well. Labour need to be very worried
pca.st/podcast/df31...
pca.st/podcast/df31...
The News Agents
Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall – three of the UK’s top journalists – host an award-winning daily news podcast: The News Agents.
They’re not just here to tell you what's happening, but w...
pca.st
October 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Very good in depth interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social ....... He really does come across very well. Labour need to be very worried
pca.st/podcast/df31...
pca.st/podcast/df31...
Satisfaction level high… peeling a cooking apple & getting the skin off in one unbroken ribbon!!😂
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Satisfaction level high… peeling a cooking apple & getting the skin off in one unbroken ribbon!!😂
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"Whether you agree with Zack Polanski or not it is important to have a different view articulated as effectively as some of the radical right have been doing.
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents
In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"Whether you agree with Zack Polanski or not it is important to have a different view articulated as effectively as some of the radical right have been doing.
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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Thing is, there's currently nobody else progressive to vote for. I don't think anyone joining the Greens now will ever vote for this Labour pty (and it's unlikely to change); and most of them remember the LibDems being absolute dangers in coalition & Ed's jetski buffoonery hasn't reassured anyone.
October 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Thing is, there's currently nobody else progressive to vote for. I don't think anyone joining the Greens now will ever vote for this Labour pty (and it's unlikely to change); and most of them remember the LibDems being absolute dangers in coalition & Ed's jetski buffoonery hasn't reassured anyone.
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‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥
#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.
His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.
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#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.
His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥
#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.
His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.
1/2
#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.
His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
For some time now I have felt politically homeless, the Tories & Reform have wrecked our country, Labour have failed to repair the fractured spine of society. But now the Greens are emerging as a party with answers. Maybe it’s time to think about joining that movement.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
For some time now I have felt politically homeless, the Tories & Reform have wrecked our country, Labour have failed to repair the fractured spine of society. But now the Greens are emerging as a party with answers. Maybe it’s time to think about joining that movement.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social