Paddy Fraser

Care about democracy, early music, overseas development and the preservation of archive material

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Media covering Musk trillion without any real regard to broader issues of inequality, tech bro abuses of power, his extreme politics. Glad to have been in a primary school this morning where the views on Musk were a lot wiser and less flattering.

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

This. All of this.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"La razón por la que Israel sobrevive a las guerras, no es por razones militares, sino porque dios los eligió hace 3.800 años, les entregó un lugar elegido y les dio una misión, dios puso su mano sobre la tierra para elegirlos para que sepamos que él es Israel".

Mike Huckabee, embajador de EEUU en "Israel", volvió con sus delirios frenopáticos asegurando que "dios" ha bajado de la tierra para elegir a los sionistas como su representante y proteger sus genocidios contra los niños palestinos.

Este perturbado sionista en una sociedad sana debería estar bajo tratamiento y con camisa de fuerza, no siendo un embajador nada menos que de EEUU.

[Cucumberman @BersekEv]

El político sionista Moshe Feiglin en el programa de noticias más visto de Israel:

"Como dijo Hitler: 'No puedo vivir si queda un solo judío', no podemos vivir aquí si queda un solo palestino en Gaza".

Lo admiten sin pudor alguno, el Sionismo es el nuevo Nazismo.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

You are allowed to feel lucky to be British. People seem to forget this.

The accent that somehow gets you served first abroad. Countryside that looks like it was painted by someone quietly showing off. A proper pub at the end of a wet walk. The shipping forecast read out every night to a nation that is, for the most part, not at sea.

But there is one blessing that never makes the list, and it never makes the list because the people compiling the list have spent a decade being told it is a problem to be managed rather than a gift to be counted.

British livestock farming.

Start with welfare. Britain sits near the very top of the global table for animal welfare law, level with Sweden and Austria, and ahead of every other major economy on earth. No country scores full marks, but nobody scores higher than we do. The animal that becomes your Sunday roast was made insensible before it knew a single thing was wrong, on a holding you could trace by the number printed on the label. There are corners of the world where none of that is true. We are not one of them.

Then the self-sufficiency, which is the part the net zero crowd would prefer you never sat down and worked out.

Britain is over 100% self-sufficient in lamb. We grow more than we eat and sell the surplus abroad. We are around 80% self-sufficient in beef, and very nearly self-sufficient in the milk in your tea. Now look at fresh vegetables, where we manage barely half of what we get through, the lowest figure since records began. The most resilient, most homegrown, least import-dependent food this entire country produces is the exact food we are being lectured to give up.

Sit with that one. It does not get any less strange the longer you stare at it.

And none of it is luck of the draw. It is the land itself. Britain was built, by rain and rock and ten thousand years of weather, to grow grass and very little else across most of its surface. You cannot put wheat on a Welsh hillside or a Cumbrian fell. You can put a cow on it, or a sheep, and stand back, and in return some of the most marginal farmland in Europe quietly turns out some of the finest red meat and dairy on the planet. The climate that ruins your barbecue is the same climate that grows the grass that feeds the herd that feeds you.

So here is the bit they leave out of the documentary.

You live in a country with the highest welfare standards, the shortest supply chains, the most suitable land, and a thousand-year head start, and you are being asked to feel guilty about eating the produce of all of it while you wait for an avocado to be flown in from a drained valley in Mexico.

So don't feel guilty. Feel lucky, and then go and put your money where your good fortune already is.

Eat British.

[🅿🄴🅰🄲🅴 🆃🅅 @TvTvpeace]

🇵🇸 - En visionnant cette vidéo, il est encore plus évident de savoir pourquoi Israël refuse fermement aux délégués du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR), le droit de visiter le docteur Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.

Regardez ses bras.....

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been exposed.

This video shows three young men trying to help an injured person, but Israel bombs them with a missile, killing them all.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

This could be interesting.

[charlie mackesy @charliemackesy]

❤️

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨DONALD TRUMP IS ASLEEP IN THE OVAL OFFICE.

Today Trump is sleepy, angry, drowsy, and dopey.

Trump HATES when he’s caught on camera sleeping. You know what to do.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You can pick up a baby bird and put it back in the nest. The parents won't smell your hands and abandon it. Songbirds barely smell anything, and that old "the mother will reject it" line is one of the most worst wildlife myths going.

If you find a naked or barely feathered chick on the ground, it fell early and needs to go back. Find the nest, set it back in, walk away. The parents will come back.

Call a licensed wildlife rehabber if you can't find the nest, the bird's bleeding or cold, or a cat got it. Don't feed it yourself. Find one through your state wildlife agency.

If it's fully feathered and hopping around, that's a fledgling, and it's supposed to be there. Mom and dad are watching from a branch and feeding it on a schedule. You can leave it be.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

In 1290 all Jews were driven out of England. In 1306 they were expelled from France. In 1430 exiled from Germany, followed by Spain and Portugal. Boycotted in Italy, and time after time tossed out of every major European city.

After the centuries of expulsions, in 1492, Muslims (The Ottoman Empire) opened their doors for the Jewish. in the late 17th and 18th centuries, as the Ottoman Empire became less stable, Jews were finally allowed back into England after 366 years of total banishment.

After 1848, hundreds of thousands of Jews left Central Europe to escape rising nationalism and "pogroms" (anti-Jewish riots).

After WWI, Britain took control of Palestine from the Ottomans. From 1917 to 1939, Muslims (Palestine) opened their doors for the Jewish as usual.

In 2026, some Western politicians lecturing us (Muslims) on how to live peacefully with Jews!

Read some history.

[Kamelia @Elissamaiss]

En 1985, ce simple technicien de la centrale de Dimona prend 57 photos clandestines de l'arsenal nucléaire israélien... et change l'histoire. MORDECHAI VANUNU révèle tout au Sunday Times : Israël possède secrètement jusqu'à 200 bombes atomiques, faisant du pays la 6ème puissance nucléaire mondiale.
Mais le mossad l'attire dans un piège tendu par une agente à Rome, il est drogué, kidnappé et ramené de force en Israël.
Son procès se tient à huis clos.
Résultat :
18 ans de prison, dont 11 en isolement total.
Lors de son transfert au tribunal, il inscrit sur sa paume le récit de son enlèvement et le plaque contre la vitre du fourgon pour alerter la presse. Cette image fera le tour du monde.
Libéré en 2004, il reste surveillé, interdit de quitter Israël et de parler à des étrangers. Il sera encore emprisonné en 2007 puis 2010 pour avoir... parlé à des journalistes.
Traître pour Israël.
Héros pour le monde.
Amnesty International le considère prisonnier de conscience.
Une histoire que les États préfèrent oublier.
#Vanunu #LanceurDAlerte #Nucléaire #histoirevraie

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

Hello, I’m Julia - today, the National Park has handed their socials over to me to talk about my experience of bags of rubbish, broken glass, and empty cans left scattered where I live. This is damaging, dangerous, and avoidable. If you're visiting, please respect the Dales 🙏

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[Lemma’s Animal Desk @DoctorLemma]

Arsenal, one of England’s big football clubs, just donated a pile of their players’ old socks to a horse and donkey sanctuary, and the rescued animals are now wearing them.

It works because modern football socks are footless. Players wear separate grip socks on their feet, so the long sleeves get thrown out. That shape turns out to be perfect for sliding onto an animal’s leg, where they keep flies off sore skin, hold bandages in place, and cover the leg while hooves are trimmed.

The sanctuary, the biggest of its kind in Britain, says the bright red socks have already cut down on vet visits. The donkeys have also decided they make good toys, and have taken to pulling bananas out of them.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Somos los mejores del mundo negociando con bombas con otros países, somos muy buenos bombardeando mientras negociamos, nadie nos iguala. A Cuba les digo que mejor no se metan con EEUU o les irá mal".

Pete Hegseth, Ministro de Genocidios de EEUU, amenazó hoy a Cuba y se vanaglorió de bombardear países mientras negocian con ellos, como hacen con Irán, algo que es de tener muy poco honor y ser un criminal cobarde.

Increíble que estos psicópatas sean quienes dirigen el mundo, es un milagro que no nos hayamos extinguido ya.

[Alpha100 @100_alpha]

“We are the only people in history expected to witness our own genocide—and then censor ourselves so we don’t hurt the feelings of those responsible.” — #SusanAbulhawa
The world is watching. History is being written in real time.
#Gaza #HumanRights
#DontStopTalkingAboutPalestine

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Richard Tice’s “Bullets not Benefits, Warfare not Welfare” line is genuinely disgusting.

It’s a cynical, callous false choice that deliberately pits support for disabled people, pensioners and struggling families against our armed forces.

A serious country funds both. This isn’t clever politics, it’s lazy, divisive scapegoating.

Stop treating the vulnerable as the enemy of national security. #ReformUK #Welfare

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

We have stated, repeatedly, on the record, that Margot is a colleague. A visiting professional. A fellow surveyor of boundaries who shares Keith's exact line of work and nothing more. We wish to issue a correction.

We were under-reporting.

The evidence has become difficult to file under "colleagues," and in the interest of accuracy, here it is.

Keith comes off the barn roof for her in record time, and the record keeps falling. Four minutes on the first visit, which had only ever matched the insurance assessor. Then three forty. Then three twelve. Dave has been timing it, and has stopped pretending he is timing the lichen.

He opens the yard gate for her, deliberately, then stands back and waits, which he has done for no other living creature alive. He also closes it behind her, which is the part Dave cannot get over.

He let her find the flex in the corner post. Fourteen months Keith walked that boundary and missed a four-millimetre fault. Margot found it in forty-eight hours, and Keith stood beside her and let himself be out-surveyed without complaint, which, for the most ungovernable animal in Devon, is roughly a sonnet.

He also showed her the barn roof route a second time. She had climbed it in under a minute on the Tuesday. He showed her again anyway. No reason has been offered.

And when she leaves, he stands on the south bank looking down the empty lane for exactly four minutes, then goes back to the knotweed until the next trailer.

We have called this a working relationship. We have, frankly, been protecting their privacy and our own composure.

Keith needs no one, and proved it by opening the last gate only to walk back through. Of all the things a free creature could choose, he has chosen the goat who out-surveyed him. The cousin is bringing her back in May.

The colleagues were never only colleagues. We regret the error. We do not, on reflection, regret it very much.