Just me, being me.

Surfing the tidal waves of life.

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

Tidal waves this weekend on The River Great Ouse.
@EDP24 @TheLynnNews @YourLocalPaper @itvanglia @BBCNorfolk

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

Tidal waves this weekend on The River Great Ouse.
@EDP24 @TheLynnNews @YourLocalPaper @itvanglia @BBCNorfolk

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

@DaleVince @EarlTheLeaf He didn't though, did he.

Everyone told Cnut he was godlike and had powers. He proved them wrong by showing them he couldn't stop the tide.

Trump, I fear, is not so humble

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

@GoodwinMJ So tell me Matt, what would you have done?

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

The Fens.

https://t.co/DSi48nnZ9d

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@carolecadwalla @CaerphillyObsvr @NationCymru @BylineTimes @thenerve_news This where all news papers should join all local FB groups and other online forums within a community and hit local ppl hard with these reports and stories.
Take the truth to the very places where false narrative is spawned

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

@NicholasLissack @Keir_Starmer I can answer that if you want, but it might undermine your whole being.

So can I suggest you do some learning and stop being a racist nobjockey

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Believe it or not, I had an old school friend on today’s marches in London. He sent me some photos from the crowd.

We went to middle school together and grew up on the same Eastern District council estate in Northampton.

I asked him why he was there. He gave me two answers:
1.“The government doesn’t listen to us.”
2.“I want to feel proud of my country again.”

He wore a Union Jack, not a St George’s Cross as he said that one had been hijacked by racists.

He wasn’t there for Hopkins, Musk, or any of the professional ‘grifters’ as he put it. He was there to feel part of something bigger, though he admitted there were a lot of, in his words, “assholes” there.

He’s an electrician. He’s smart. He’s not racist, but he’s not “PC” either. He’s not a fan of Keir Starmer but he also believes Farage would be a disaster.

Oh yes, he’s a bundle of contradictions! But aren’t we all?

I don’t know what ‘box’ we put him or the millions like him in. And I think pretending they’re all racists or fascists would be a massive mistake.

Some were. But not all.

This is about something bigger than immigration slogans or GDP numbers. For decades we’ve hollowed out our national life, underfunding and undermining the very institutions that once brought us together.

Karl Polanyi, writing in The Great Transformation, argued that when markets are “disembodied” from society, when land, labour, and life itself are treated as commodities
society pushes back. He called this the “double movement”: people seeking to protect themselves, to reclaim dignity and meaning when everything solid seems to melt into air.

That’s what I saw in my friend’s photos. Not just anger, but a demand for belonging.

We’ve replaced collective experience with atomisation. Without getting too nostalgic, programmes like the BBC’s Generation Game once pulled in millions every Saturday night, giving us something we could all talk about on Monday morning. Now we watch Netflix, Disney+, Prime, or Paramount, alone, in algorithmic silos.

Football used to be affordable and rooted in community; now it’s millionaires playing for the profitability of billionaires. The NHS, the post office, the railways - all chipped away, run down, sold off or centralised, leaving people feeling powerless and disconnected.

And don’t get me wrong: some kind of “Hovis Labour” nostalgia for the 1950s isn’t the answer. The country back then was often intolerant, grey, and deeply unequal. But what we’ve built since is a society that gives people little to hold in common, no collective story about who we are or what we’re for.

I reckon that’s partly why my mate marched. Not because he wants to turn back the clock. But because he wants to feel pride again. Pride in a country that is inclusive, fair, and offers a role for everyone. Pride in a nation that has a respected place in the world, tackles grotesque inequality, and gives people something real to believe in.

Polanyi warned that when democracies fail to provide a humane alternative, the backlash can turn authoritarian. This is how fascism grew in the 1930s, not because everyone became a true believer, but because millions felt abandoned and looked for strength, identity, and meaning wherever they could find it.

If Labour and progressives don’t offer that story of renewal, if we don’t rebuild our national institutions, restore collective pride, and re-embed markets within society, the far right will do it for us, in their own image.

And by then, it will be too late.

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

Potter can leave now.

#COYI

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

Me and Gary would get on very well.

When a cunt is acting like a cunt, speaking like a cunt and being a cunt in public, the cunt needs calling out.

I agree with Gary, and his use of words.

[Gary Powndland @powndland]

I’m properly fucking sick of the division of the left v right.

I’m sick of people stirring up hate.

I’m sick of the lot.

I’m sick of Tommy Robinson.

Absolutely fucking sick of the idea that he’s supposed to represent me, a white working class bloke.

Continued …

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

Sorry I can't make it tomorrow, would have been a hoot.

We do like a decent flag show.......

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

@JeromeMayhew Blame politicians. Not the police. The police are doing what YOU legislate gor.

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

Perfect. Just perfect

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

You know when you say to yourself 'I'm going to do that one day"?

Well after 22 yrs, a have just set a camera up, on a tripod and set to unlimited hyperlapse.

Due south, long view along the river bank, full moon rising.

The anticipation is killing me!

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

@MrDamianKing Go on then, show us some actual crime report numbers.

I'm here all day.

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

@zarahussain999 @PolitlcsUK He neutralised the threat with a non lethal footswipe.

Personally speaking, I think he was very restrained but it's not the police's job to serve justice.

Their's is to nick bad guys.

And let the courts do the rest.

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

@Miatsf @Ed_Miliband The Sports Action Zones, coupled with P.A.T. 7 did the trick in '98

This win should be the ignition for immediate action. Capitalise on it.

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

@vegastarr Just one question.

Explain the Pyramids?

[Just me, being me. @SecondNatureuk]

@grok @nicfury @onionweigher OK grok, can you examine US military interventions in the last 50 yrs and collolate against sun cycles?

Give it you best shot