I’ve had a few hours to digest this awful news and I’d just like to say from us laughing about middle aged medicines in DM’s to being the first to check on you if you went quiet for a bit he was a genuine soul. R.I.P @PaulPitt1967 absolutely grim tidings. A “Bit of a day.”😞
It really is true, only the good die young!
He made me laugh a lot, one of the originals from our Twitter gang. When Twitter used to be fun and you could have a laugh.
He’s the second good guy we have lost this year.
If Paul’s family see this, I hope you realise how loved he was and sending lots of love your way xxxx
One last song quiz from the magnolia coalface for @PaulPitt1967
🎵I see a red door
And I want it painted black
No colors anymore
I want them to turn black 🎵
People seem to have forgotten that it rained *constantly* this year in Britain between Christmas and Easter, and again for much of May. There is no water shortage. We’ve drained and desecrated our landscapes to the extent that they are now simply incapable of storing all that rainfall for us. The water is sent barrelling down land drains, ditches, artificially straightened streams and rivers to the sea, causing mayhem as it goes, and leaving us with no water afterwards. It’s so easy to fix this. It’s called ‘natural flood management’. Put back the bogs and marshes, the ponds and wetlands, re-wiggle the streams, liberate and reconnect the rivers to their flood plains, and we’ll find we have way less flooding, fewer hosepipe bans and cleaner water. Yet all we get each winter are hysterical calls for *more* dredging and straightening of the rivers, more draining of the fields. We must be the very last country in the world to grasp this basic natural hydrology.
Port Talbot’s blast furnaces are closed. 2,000 workers have paid the price.
The political class calls it climate progress.
But if steel is made in India instead of Britain, emissions haven’t disappeared they’ve just been outsourced.
UK gets poorer. The climate gets no benefit.
This is Louis.
He was 17 years-old.
On Friday night he was beaten into a coma by a group of foreign savages in Narbonne, France
The video is too graphic to post.
Last night, he died.
How many more times does this have to happen?
Europe has fallen to the third-world.
Louis avait 17 ans.
Vendredi soir, il a été lynché par une bande de 5 racailles qui l’ont laissé inconscient dans une rue de Narbonne. Touché lourdement au crâne, il avait été placé dans un coma artificiel.
Hier après-midi, il a rendu son dernier souffle.
Louis, 17 ans, a été lynché à mort avec une violence inimaginable, filmé par ses agresseurs hilares, laissé agonisant pendant toute une nuit et retrouvé inerte sur un chantier à Narbonne.
Il est le symbole d'un pays à la dérive, miné par un ensauvagement que ni le laxisme ni l'aveuglement de nos dirigeants ne peuvent enrayer.
Il faudra oser la rupture avec 30 ans d'échecs si nous voulons rétablir l'ordre en France.
Le 23 avril, nous fêtions les deux ans de la superbe Tante Wild. Ce samedi 20 juin, c’était au tour de sa nièce, la jolie Alma (« Jeune fille », en hébreu) d’être à l’honneur pour son premier anniversaire.
Un an, c’est évidemment une étape importante pour un chat, mais pour une petite femelle #MaineCoon, l’âge adulte est encore loin, puisque sa croissance physique ne sera terminée qu’entre 3 et 5 ans.
En attendant, Alma passe donc du statut enviable de « petite fille » à laquelle on pardonne tout parce qu’elle est adorable et qu’on est gâteux devant elle à celui d’adolescente (entre 12 et 15 ans pour une humaine) à laquelle… on pardonne tout parce qu’elle est adorable et qu’on est gâteux devant elle.
On appelle ça le changement dans la continuité, Alma restera donc une adorable chipie, championne de la casse…
So the Scottish Prison Service admits it has been acting unlawfully.
But says it will continue to break the law until it figures out how best to respond to the court’s ruling.
Have I read this right?
🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms”
Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media:
“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”