So. That's it. With regret, I have decided to close down here on "X".
It's been good, but the direction of travel of this place's ownership is clear.
Find me on similar platforms if you want, but in a few days I will be closing down here.
Govt deletes EU regs which require it to prepare & implement plan to reduce air pollution. Ignores its own regulators advice.
The dirty man of Europe. Via @horton_official
UK government ‘ignoring green watchdog’ over air quality rules https://t.co/1RYCQzGrbJ
"I asked a senior American official the other day how much less important Britain was to the US because of Brexit. His instant, emphatic answer: 'Much less important'...In continental Europe the U.K. is hardly talked about" @fromTGA
I was listening to Kate Bush this morning when I was running up that hill (well I was actually walking). I knew a bit of cloudbusting would do the trick. This morning on Glastonbury Tor at sunrise.
A super-super injunction
is the injunction
that you can't even say is an injunction.
A super-super-super injunction
is the injunction
to say that you can't say
that there is such a thing
as a super-super-super injunction.
This poem
has just been arrested.
@Conservatives Tory Mayor introduced scheme, Tory transport Minister told current Mayor to expand it - Tory liars always omit that information and that similar schemes are being considered in developments all over the country under Natural England under Tory rule
We know almost nothing about her, her political views, or what she’s done to get there. But now she’s in the House of Lords, she can make laws for the rest of us for life. Thank heaven Boris Johnson took us out of the unaccountable EU!
Overjoyed to share this news at last!
BREATHTAKING is coming to @ITV. A 3-part drama based on my Covid memoir & co-written by me, Prasanna Puwanarajah & the great @jed_mercurio.
There's been so much misinformation & rewriting of history... (1/3)
https://t.co/xr3CB6Lx8n
You can’t claim asylum in the UK without coming here illegally, ergo you can’t claim asylum in the UK.
You can’t claim to be a human rights victim or victim of modern slavery even if you are one.
Ergo Britain withdraws from the international asylum and human rights system.
Brilliant Reece Dinsdale has been locked out of his account with over 100,000 followers for weeks now by Twitter. No explanation given for not returning access to him so he’s started a new account @ReeceDinsd45561. He needs our help to build his new account so please RT & follow
Indian newspaper says, “The UK seems a country in accelerated terminal decline. Long been a fading power with outsized place on global stage. But, like a boulder gathering speed as it rolls down a slope, even that trajectory has speeded up after #Brexit.”
https://t.co/NHl8VuGRvH
"I want to ask you about the tactics of Just Stop Oil.. I read that you now think their tactics... are counter productive. Is that true?"
Chris Packham: "No" #GMB
The red areas on the map ( #Spain#Italy#Greece ) are likely to become desertified once global temperatures exceed 2C, & we are currently at 1.3C annually with temporary spikes up to 1.5C due to El Nino. The next few days are a precursor of long-term trends. Time is running out
“It’s OK to close ticket offices as 88% are sold online,” say rail bosses.
Two things.
1. Do they really have no regard whatsoever for the passengers who buy the 12%?
2. Don’t they realise their brilliant ticket office staff do a lot more than sell tickets?
#SaveTicketOffices