Rick Gaehl

These days, you'll only find me here:

[Rick Gaehl @RickGaehl]

These days, you'll mostly find me here:
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or here:
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[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

As closing statements were heard at the Post Office inquiry today, we paid an early ‘tribute’ to the great figure at the centre of it all. Saint Paula Vennells…

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Nadhim Zahawi so concerned about homelessness that he took a photo of a rough sleeper to complain about it

Right: Nadhim Zahawi's government policies over 14 years saw rough sleepers more than double

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

The biggest social shock of human history is going to be when the first mass mortality event happens suddenly.

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

National Trust members. Please remember to vote. It really matters. Institutions need public participation to keep them healthy and open and evolving to serve society.

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

Did you know that on Manhattan Island, New York, there is still a naturally regenerating forest that has been untouched for thousands of years

No human activity until the indigenous population used the rock shelters a few hundred years ago for a short period.

Inwood Hill Park

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Whether it's about repressive legislation or the treatment of asylum seekers or welfare recipients, Labour seeks to appear as "tough" as the Tories, to appease the billionaire press.
a. It never works.
b. It leave us with a cruel, dysfunctional system.
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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Private equity groups join race to buy UK pharmacy wholesaler.

Already devoured Lloyds Pharmacy.

More debt, asset stripping and hike in drug prices will follow.

Private equity is part of shadow banking and is not regulated.
https://t.co/X5FlhB9MUg

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

After I found out about the Nazi concentration camps as a teenager, I was unable to understand why the Germans just let it happen. A chief scientist writes that billions will die unless we stop the elites destroying our climate. There’s not even a ripple of response.

"On our current path, civilisation as we know it will disappear. If we meet current commitments only – net zero by 2050 – perhaps some form of humanity will survive, managing the challenges of continued extreme weather events, ice loss, and sea-level and temperature rises." Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government.
https://t.co/UqtzwNDWwq
@Sir_David_King

[Simon Oldridge @SiOldridge]

Everyone does realise, right, that the insane extreme weather we’re seeing now will worsen until we eliminate fossil fuel emissions—which are *still* rising.
And once we get there, it won’t get better. That’ll be our new normal.
The time to act is now!

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Is there anyone credible out there can explain in simple terms why this isn’t a truly terrifying image? Like, why isn’t this headline news almost every day?

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

Unliveable means mass death.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Economy could have crashed if winter fuel payments for pensioners weren't cut, minister says.

Insane comment over £1.4bn cost.

Govt has alternatives
A taper
Add WFP to pension - well-off would pay tax
Tax the rich
Windfall tax on banks, energy companies
https://t.co/mJfs1XyOgu

[Miss Chief 🤨 @Midge1415]

Two lads, London 1902 at the height of Empire, when wealth abounded. Understand, they've never looked after "their own" & they're never going to, they look after themselves. There were no good old days, it's bollix. Blame the right people, not those with even less than you. X

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Something lovely for the weekend!

Marvellous Minoan pots with octopus decoration made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete about 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️

Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Photos my own.

#Archaeology

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Banning smoking in an outside space is the worst kind of prurient, hectoring, interfering, puritanical bullshit. No health basis to it whatsoever. Just a flat-out act of social control.

[Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitHasFailed @BrexitBin]

In case you missed it ..
Labour did not need Brexit supporters to form a government. In fact, supporting EU or Single Market membership would probably have brought them more than just 34% of the votes.
#BrexitHasFailed

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

Wistman's Wood, a high altitude oakwood on Dartmoor.

Oaks have been growing here for over 7,000 years with little or no human interaction.

Photo: Neil Burnell