Bryan Smith #RejoinEU

Giving up smoking? Here's how I did it: Most cigarettes are "habit" (you have them at set times or stuations), ~10% are "addiction" (you need the nicotine). Start by cutting out "habit" cigs, 1 or 2 each day, over about 3wks. So, dont smoke at every tea break, or when you get to the lights etc. 1/2

Zack pretending he doesn't know 18-21yr olds minimum wage is lower than 22+yr olds, that Labour Manifesto pledges to remove the difference over 5yrs, & that Labour raised 18-21yr old wages by more than for 22+yr olds in the 1st 2 budgets to bring them closer, & will give both 3.9% this time.

There really needs to be something we (& the EU) can do about this behaviour... #Russia

Lets hope the (said to be 2000-6000) starving civilian residents of Oleshky will be permitted to leave & cross the river to Ukraine insted of being used tby RUssia as human shields in a modern genocide...

Banks can afford an increase in the ‘windfall tax’ aka bank levy - they say so privately. But why are we still talking about this - we pay them 4% interest on their deposits, their cash piles, built of our deposits….then charge a 3% levy on their profits…..profits we boost by ~£30 Billion a year.

Wait until they find their 12cm dicks are now only 5 inches long...

I remember those days, when "breaking the ice" had very little to do with a party...

This is just dreadful stuff from Kuenssberg: "What has the government done to cut the national debt?" ONS: "Public sector net debt was provisionally estimated at 94.0% of GDP, 0.7 percentage points lower than a year earlier"

When I was growing up, *nobody* spat in the street - something I find totally unacceptable, unnecessary & disgusting - & that was due to a post WW1 edict issuing a fine for it, to restrict transmission of Tuberculosis (now rising again...) Every lampost had a fine notice affixed.

Science remains amazing, and vaccines particularly so. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

if one of the weekend supps doesn't do a '10 recipes to make with all the tins you've just stockpiled, preferably on a camping stove that's been in the loft for ten years and doesn't really work' then frankly what are the food pages for

Excellent points - hot summers affect gas, coal & nuclear power stations more than dark winters affect solar & wind power. The answer is a good mix of all, *with battery storage* (which can be low-tech, such as pumping water back up into hydropower reservoirs when power is excess to needs).

Sad times for those racist Refukkers who downloaded the 'Small Boats Scramble' app...

Pensioner poverty has halved in the past 30 years, as the shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately claimed. But how much of this was down to the Conservatives? Almost all the fall she’s talking about happened under Labour.

We put up an interactive graph re: X conversations re: the (discovered to be fake) Wedgewood polls. Several "rigged election" narratives are emerging around this case. We're working on an analysis, but making this graph available for folks who want to explore faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...

The "unsaid part" being that its not "chicken livers, feet & other parts we dont eat" that will be fed to salmon, like tasty tidbits (as #C4News suggested the other night while reporting)... It will be guts, lungs, heads & feathers, ground up & used as "protein supplement". Fine if you're a fox🙄

15 people had their honours stripped from them in 2026... I seem to remember this was something very unusual, 20 or 30 years ago. Maybe - just maybe - we need a bit more scrutiny & care* in how they are handed out? *Not just for "poor " or "brown" people... many of those in disgrace are "posh"

Worth watching this emerging story: Wedgewood Polls alleged to be fake; has been picked up & amplified/integrated by established sources & other pollsters; may be tied to prediction market trading; is likely to throw doubt upon current poll numbers (which will feed "rigged election" rumors later).

Good Afternoon... Please remember that here in the United Kingdom, this time of year is called Autumn. Never Fall. Thank you. *doffs bowler hat* Mr Benn @grrlysquirrel.bsky.social 😆 🤣 😂 😹

I have questions

I see the positive in this - that we will miss the 1.5 degree target has been clear for some time - that we can get back on track (if we try harder) - is the good news. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Check again. The Jackdaw gas field will supply 1.6%-3% of total projected UK gas demand (or up to 6% of peak domestic gas production) over its 11yr lifespan, producing 10billion cubic metres of gas—enough energy to heat around 1.4 million homes - that would otherwise come by ship...

Actually, Zack's wrong. The Jackdaw gas field will supply 1.6%-3% of total projected UK gas demand (or up to 6% of peak domestic gas production) over its 11yr lifespan, producing 10billion cubic metres of gas—enough energy to heat around 1.4 million homes - that would otherwise come by ship.

Jackdaw is a tiny field that was already licensed by a previous government, and it's been allowed to go ahead. It really won't make much of a difference either way.

We were coldly, cynically, systematically lied to Tories, particularly Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock, will forever have the blood of the elderly on their hands. A reminder that Hancock got a lucrative TV gig. And Johnson still rakes cash in for his newspaper column. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Jeremy Hunt on who spent 6 years as Health Secretary underfunding the NHS and social care Says that a lack of resources in the NHS and social care is why we had so many covid deaths in social care

This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.

43,000 old people died in the Care Homes Matt ancock lied about "protecting"... In fact, he *insisted on* (not merely "authorised") the release of NHS patients into Care Homes without testing them first or any requirement for isolation or quarantine. #LetTheBodiesPileHigh, chuckled Boris Johnson.

I suspect the baker is trying to protect his business with a bit of disinformation... I *always* keep my bread in the fridge. I buy cut crusty loaves (eg tiger) & keep them for *5-6wks* in the fridge (in their twist-tied paper bag) with no staleness or mold www.theguardian.com/food/2026/oc...

Dude. We all knew they were racist from the first day. Even Reform knew they were racist. It's why they formed. It's a club for racists and they only want racists to join.

I have never really understood this... (see also paintings from the time of cattle & pigs, similarly deformed). Clearly, the artist had a good eye & the skill to commit observation to canvas accurately - look at the trees! How could he look even at the pencil sketch & think "Yeah, that's perfect!"?

Water Companies: "Southern England is in a severe drought situation! Water restrictions must remain in force!" British Weather: "Normal service has been resumed. Sorry for the delay." 🙄⛈️

It *wasn't* an "oversight". It was *100% deliberate*. It was warned about at the time, undreds of experts told them *daily* what was needed & what would happen - & Boris Johnson's reaction was "Let the bodies pile high!" There should be prosecutions for murder. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

Only a Russian, or someone employed by Russia, would hold this political position. To even *suggest* that the victim of invasion can't be allowed to negotiate its own terms (even of surrender) is ridiculous.

Britain's lunatic fringe (Far Right & Far Left) have been trying all Summer to generate riots across the UK, using every excuse they could think of. None of it worked. Even putting hooded militia on the streets didn't work. Britain is never going to riot in the Winter, its too cold & wet here.

Where are the Newcastle Reform UK 'protect women and girls' Councillors calling out these thugs - oh sorry, I didn't notice, they're all white ... "The vile North East thugs who subjected women to unthinkable degrading behaviour" via Newcastle Chronicle www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Russian military satellite Kosmos 2612 is now closely shadowing ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite supporting Ukraine, after maneuvering into nearly the same orbit. Such proximity could allow Russia to monitor or interfere with transmissions and potentially position itself for an anti-satellite operation

To those who say: “Just surrender” You can’t win this War Would you surrender If a killer broke into your home Murdered your child And told you to be grateful? This is not stubbornness. This is pain.

It might be "well said" if there was any truth in it... But given that there's no Green council at risk of not emptying bins, running social services or keeping libraries open due to *any* Labour Government action, its actually "empty #whataboutery Zack". Plus - Labour aren't arming any genocides.