Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉

So after last spring’s tour down the Loire valley, I’m going to finish off the section Orléans-Tours next year, and this year do the Rhône Valley Avignon-Valence, stopping over in Pont St Esprit, Montelimar, Le Pouzin, and Valence. The route largely follows the river - the broken blue line “EV17”.

Narcissism. Every accusation is a confession.

Well, yes , and ….

“Der Refürmer”. 😂😂😂😂😂

and that’s their ‘big idea’

We should let people drive cars through the middle of Westfield Stratford to boost the economy

Catholic bishops apologize over photo of them praying with Trump

The box. And its contents.

I think it might have been a bunch old men, who we can’t vote for and we can’t get rid of, who defied the will of the Elected House to bury the assisted dying bill under a slag heap of frivolous blocking amemdments and filibusters.

By which I take it you mean the loggers and cattle barons aren’t happy?

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

I am going to add another suggestion - which I think Kingman and Vadera as ex-HMT people miss - add in the costs of compliance with the tax system. Always exempted from any red tape challenge

Oh dear God

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

The whole world is having to deal with the terrifying and expensive chaos caused by this country's temper tantrum, and then we have to hear them mytholigise themselves on top of it all. Just can't be fucking dealing with it.

You guys need to come live in the UK. For all the sneering at our NHS by the “expats” from the USA who chose (sic) to move here, GP and hospital treatments are charged at the same rate. After all the multiple of zero is still zero.

They’d have to be blind with bloodlust, or terrified of Trump, to pursue this case. But as we know, that describes them precisely. trib.al/kyq6aB9

Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

Because we have too much choice?

Just try telling Janis Ian that.

Let’s just hope few Yanks read the WaPo. (Clue - they don’t)

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam opened up a Cheesecake Factory" Obama just spoke to an ELECTRIC audience in Ohio, skewering Trump & Hegseth and making the case that while we may be stuck with the same POTUS until 2029, we are not stuck with a spineless do-nothing Congress Highlights:

I got to think that the Trump’s possibly selling off parts of Alaska to the Russians, will not be wildly popular with Alaska voters.

This is fucking batshit. Fuck the BBC. It's clear this is not an impartial decision. They choose to allow symbols they agree with. www.leicester.news/bbc-edits-ou...

Great. Shame they didn’t turn out to vote against him in sufficient numbers back in November 2024. It wouldn’t have taken that many more of them - trump’s margin or victory was pretty slender.

With this talk of “prepping” ▪️we always keep a good stock of tinned tomatoes, pasta and rice etc ▪️a few torches/powerbanks/box of AA/AAA batteries ▪️we can get a mobile signal 100yds down the drive at our gate, and ▪️this 👇 - I dug out an old battery tranny for listening to radio broadcasts

Why "Colin"? Ah. Lovely detail in this Telegraph obituary.

How can this be real.

Hope many of the people filmed in this brilliant documentary have now had their collars felt ... Will Turning Point UK be proscribed as a terrorist group?

Israel adopts the Millwall fans’ approach to foreign relations: “No-one likes us. We don’t care”.

When are they going to abandon “Making Tax Digital” then?

17, as the numerate will know, is less than 18. So - why all the pearl - clutching about e-scooters when cars are a far, far greater danger to young people, whether driving, as passengers, or as pedestrians/cyclists, and your government, media and society seem totally unwilling to tackle it?

The Times today 👏👏👏👏👏

With friends like that, who needs enemies.

That was then, and……………..this is now

As allegories go, this is a doozy.

GLS. Where hope goes to die.

Exempting large companies from audit. That’ll end well……..

Government gives green light to owners of expensive cars to set up pedestrian trip wires. #UKCarCulture

But let’s get our knickers in a twist about young people and e-scooters why don’t we?

Britain’s growing car crisis: what can we do? Britain’s growing dependence on cars is worsening congestion, pollution, and pressure on public space. So what is to be done? westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/brit...

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

“I introduced you to a contract killer as a joke” suggests that some work is still needed if you’re going to be doing a tight set at Edinburgh.

President Donald Trump warned he’d send “no money” to poisoned veterans if Republicans did not win the House and Senate in November, marking a new low for his shoddy midterms campaign. trib.al/WDmiag6

I'm a committed humanitarian. Humans are all I eat.

Guess which media re orded support for trump? Yeah, you guessed it…….

Vlad the Impaler. A pound-shop Stalin.

Quite a few folks on 🦋 dislike the incontinent use of the term “e-bike” to cover things which aren’t EAPCs: illegally modified or never intended to comply (eg Surrons). And I’m one of them. But on the radio yesterday I heard a neat way of describing those. E-mopeds. Can we get behind this word?