David Powell 💙

Commuter and natural philosopher.

[The Mercian @TheMercianNews]

🚨NEW: KC Anu Mohindru has been allowed to continue being a barrister despite falsely claiming that he studied medicine at Oxford University and for claiming that he was a qualified doctor.

He also claimed that he had played cricket for the Bar, for Lashings Cricket Club and for MCC, and that he was a cricketing blue having represented Oxford in a varsity match against Cambridge.

A tribunal disbarred him for telling his 23 Essex Street interviewers a “reckless, foolish and completely unnecessary lie” about studying at Oxford, and because he “doubled down" on his CV.

On appeal at the High Court, Mr Justice Johnson overturned  Mohindru's expulsion, stating that it "would be wrong to impose the ultimate sanction merely because dishonesty is present".

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Apparently @Nigel_Farage gets annoyed when people call him,

"Five Homes Farage" so please don't do that.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The £17 billion of tax HMRC is choosing not to collect https://t.co/tdiiJzx41r That's enough to pay for 50,000 council houses a year, and HMRC don't seem to care that it's being lost.

[Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) @colder_sarcasm]

This

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

The stuttering run up to a penalty kick. Learned from other players who did a stuttering run up to a penalty kick. Many of whom fucked it up.
And yet they still think it's some sort of magical key.
Just run straight on and hit it you dopes.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Every British person I know wants the end of Brexit and the UK to rejoin the European Union. Nothing wrong in correcting a mistake.

Fix it, the sooner, the better and put Brexit behind Britain.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

'A soup of toxic waste': E.coli levels in Thames '30x higher than usual' after sewage discharges during heatwave.

Execs rewarded for endangering biodiversity, human and marine life.

Sewage dumping the result of decades of infrastructure neglect.
https://t.co/97gl0X8hGy

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

These people are heroes. There are scenes like this all over the country. Can you imagine what Britain would look like if the army of litterpickers weren't out virtually every day trying to stem the tide of our litter epidemic and national disgrace...? They need hope, we all do.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Young men with inadequate moustaches should be held down and shaved.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Victory for common sense (for now, at least)…

It’s a relief that @EnvAgency have finally realised that prosecuting volunteers for cleaning & restoring a river (that they had left to rot) without permission was not a good look, so they have dropped their charges in favour of a ‘warning’. Thank you for all your support & encouragement, from across the country, the political spectrum & around the world. I’m certain that the comms disaster suffered by the EA over this was crucial in getting them to begin to see sense at last.

This is, however, not the end of the story. The River Roding & its tributaries, like most rivers in the UK have still been abandoned & in parts left to die by the Environment Agency, with no plans to even put a stop to the serious environmental crimes taking place (like illegal sewage dumping), let alone to begin the process of restoration that the river so desperately needs.

I am therefore seeking a meeting with the EA’s Chief Executive to ask (1) that the EA instead use its prosecuting powers for good, to demand a detailed plan from Thames Water to fix all illegal sewage discharges in years, not decades & (2) that the EA turns this whole saga into a good outcome by using the River Roding as a pilot scheme for how the EA can work with, rather than against, grassroots river guardians, to provide the protection & restoration our rivers so desperately need.

I hope they will accept these very reasonable requests. But if not, I will continue to defy the EA, & will not be seeking their permission or authorisation to continue to care for & restore the river I love.

[David Powell 💙 @DonBricks]

@AVFCBlog Mistake. Even without contact, a boot that high is dangerous play and therefore a foul.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This is Lord Rothermere the owner of the Daily Mail.

He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax here because he identifies as French.

While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere.

That is his ‘Patriotism’.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Here's David Cameron in 2016 explaining that if we leave the EU we'll be economically worse off and so have less money for public services

Here we are in 2026, worse off, and with less money for public services

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

Is anyone not embarrassed that the side of the M25 looks like this? @nationalhways are given £5 BILLION a year and they repeatedly leave the motorways looking rundown, littered and squalid. Has Britain really sunk this low…

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[National Rejoin March @MarchForRejoin]

Reform pushed for Wales. Lost.
Reform pushed for Manchester. Lost.
Reform pushed harder than ever before for Makerfield. Lost.

72% do NOT want Reform Nationwide.

Game Over, @Nigel_Farage

Brexit has Failed! Burnham wants to rejoin!

National #RejoinEU March
London, 20/6/26

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Genius.

[David Powell 💙 @DonBricks]

@paulpowlesland @EnvAgency Keep going Paul. You are doing great work and everyone can see the truth.

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

We're going to nail this lazy, anti-social, bloke.
However... we're not totally sure of where this fly-tipping location is. We think it might be in Petersfield, Hants.
Can anyone confirm or challenge this? Please email [email protected] with any info. Thanks.