Colin Pritchard
@stroller63.bsky.social
Grumpy old fart who has a wonderful wife and two terrific children.
Supports West Bromwich Albion!
Member of the Green Party.
Supports West Bromwich Albion!
Member of the Green Party.
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Because Britain's right wing press hates young people - and it is the master Wes Streeting serves.
Why is Wes Streeting coming for my ADHD medication?
Why is Wes Streeting coming for my ADHD medication?
Why is Wes Streeting coming for my ADHD medication?
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Because Britain's right wing press hates young people - and it is the master Wes Streeting serves.
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights
Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement
At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
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November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
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"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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April 2019 I had a run-in with Nathan Gill on Twitter after pointing out how bad Nigel Farage's record as an MEP was.
He said: "I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples."
Enjoy prison, Nathan.
He said: "I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples."
Enjoy prison, Nathan.
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
April 2019 I had a run-in with Nathan Gill on Twitter after pointing out how bad Nigel Farage's record as an MEP was.
He said: "I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples."
Enjoy prison, Nathan.
He said: "I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples."
Enjoy prison, Nathan.
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The sentencing hearing of Nathan Gill has begun.
Follow @thenerve.news for updates throughout the day.
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Follow @thenerve.news for updates throughout the day.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The sentencing hearing of Nathan Gill has begun.
Follow @thenerve.news for updates throughout the day.
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Follow @thenerve.news for updates throughout the day.
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
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Meanwhile, those who brought it about are free to walk about with complete impunity, threatening to cause even more damage, while being applauded by their hard-of-thinking fanbase.
The absolute state of this country...
The absolute state of this country...
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Meanwhile, those who brought it about are free to walk about with complete impunity, threatening to cause even more damage, while being applauded by their hard-of-thinking fanbase.
The absolute state of this country...
The absolute state of this country...
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The best way to understand what is actually “driving the small boats” is “if something carried a one in a 100 risk of death, would you do it it it gave you ten more years of healthy life?”
Shabana Mahmood tells Sunday Times it should take 20 years for somebody granted refugee status in UK to secure permanent status (ie, reapply 6 times) if came without permission.
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The best way to understand what is actually “driving the small boats” is “if something carried a one in a 100 risk of death, would you do it it it gave you ten more years of healthy life?”
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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Of course the right wing attack dogs at the misnamed Office for Students will do nothing about this speech being banned. No swingeing fines for UCL, unlike University of Sussex which banned no one. Revolting hypocrisy, which Labour will ignore for fear of upsetting our rabid press.
University free speech latest. This sounds* pretty grim and I'm pleased Jewish students don't have to put up with it on their campus. But why are students from other minoritised groups not entitled to the same consideration? Why must they endure appalling attacks on their humanity?
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Of course the right wing attack dogs at the misnamed Office for Students will do nothing about this speech being banned. No swingeing fines for UCL, unlike University of Sussex which banned no one. Revolting hypocrisy, which Labour will ignore for fear of upsetting our rabid press.
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Was having a conversation recently about these people and how they have to believe they are right. They truly believe history will laud. They couldn't do what they do if they believed anything else.
I came across a clip from yesterday from LBC of John Sopel and Emily Maitlis talking to Shelagh Fogarty about what's happening at the BBC and they all conceded the complainant DID have a point about the BBC's pro-trans bias and it was just three people being transphobic for a couple of minutes.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Was having a conversation recently about these people and how they have to believe they are right. They truly believe history will laud. They couldn't do what they do if they believed anything else.