Nicholas Ripley

At least none of my 12 websites had old php!

some autumnal colours for you.

Bridestones in mist. #yorkshire #monochrome

If its true that the UK requires 120% rainfall for the next 7 months for all areas to be out of drought, then surely the quickest win is to legislate for all water companies to stop leakage with immediate effect.

So this time it's Said found dead in dubious circumstances, like all associates of Epstein's.Another coincidence?

Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/TlR4Ovg

Three priorities for any new government. 1.Renationalise water monopolies. 2.Invest in green energies to end over reliance on carbon and fuel new employment. 3. Start to dismantle the authoritarian tendencies of governance significantly. There are other priorities, but this is a start

Hockney, a giant of an artist. Rest in power.

Obviously, the Grenfell investigation was always going to be complex. But it's taken *9 years* for the police to reach this point, and the CPS doesn't expect to actually bring charges for another year! "Justice delayed is justice denied."

ICE again detained an Egyptian family which had been released from a 10-month detention, less than 48 hours after their release following a court order TAT: [Nationalism]

· #NeuroScience · #Neuroplasticity · “Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. 👇🏻

What the Spycops Inquiry tells us about state authoritarianism today

The Crime & Policing Bill which along with the Planning & Infrastructure Bill will take away the right to Protest unless it is deemed an acceptable protest by the government and/or the police. I’m not going to bother adding alt text to Kate’s letter (no equality here!) as it is the usual suspects

An hour ago bright sun, now it's nearly as dark as night and snow is forecast

The disjuncture between even mainstream/liberal US media and practically ever other open society’s news media has become a yawning chasm Grimly fascinating to watch in real time. But no wonder so many in US don’t feel the sense of urgency most of rest of world does

UPDATED – Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

They don’t get more  “ideologically motivated” than Palantir – but this is great news. They’re scared. Keep going. And this isn’t only aobut the NHS contract – Palantir should be nowhere near *any* government contract.   www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK currently generating 112% of its electricity demand (with the extra 12% being transferred or stored) Gas is generating < 12% So UK is currently meeting 100% of its electricity needs via renewables ❤️ ☀️ 💨 🌳

Direct from the Undercover Policing Inquiry in the monring break of the 2nd day questioning #spycops officer HN18 Robery Hastings, where he's being grilled about his profound misogyny and sexual violation of 'Maya'. youtu.be/eupOfFo7vjA

OFCOM the most useless organisation in the UK? Hard to think of worse.

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This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

👉 NEW -- Met Police failed to follow internal guidelines on policing Palestine protests by Amaar Chowdhury Internal guidances also show the force cracking down on Arabic words in a way that ‘smacks’ of racism, say pro-Palestinian advocates www.declassifieduk.org/met-police-f...

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Near Pen-Y-Pass yesterday, phone photo, no fx or post processing

Phone shot, swallow falls, Wales

Fleeting glimpse with the phone

Urging the US and Israel to abide by international law is like being King Canute urging the tide to stop.

"Anti‑fascists were treated as a threat to be contained, not as groups responding to a genuine threat of far‑right violence." What the recent Undercover Policing Inquiry hearings tell us - #spycops were effectively fascist enablers. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/how-...

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Recollections of life working on UK trade when ministers or whoever would say how wonderful it was that a member of the royal family was taking such an interest and officials having to deal with said individual worked hard to merely raise half an eyebrow

Met had ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, says spycop who tricked women into sexual relationships

This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing

People aren’t afraid of the Prince of Darkness anymore.

Just out - our long-read report on #spycops officer James Thomson at the Undercover Policing Inquiry. He not only deceived women into relationships, he deceived bosses too. His deviousness is matched by his cruelty & inability to feel remorse campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/02/05/u...

Absolutely

📺"Yet again, an example of particularly those with money and wealth, often internationally, being able to get close access and privilege to those at the seat of power". @danieljbruce.bsky.social spoke with @vinnymcav.bsky.social for @globalnews.ca on the latest Mandelson revelations.

FT exclusive Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor discussed ways round restrictions on his making investments while an official UK trade representative and shared official documents from the role with Jeffrey Epstein, files released by the US Department of Justice show www.ft.com/content/6b2f...

Trump, Trump's son and Elon Musk allegedly present at an event at Mar-a-Lago where children were auctioned off, and forced to have sex with Trump at the age of 13. Again, this appears to be an entirely separate account by a different accuser. They all seem very similar.

This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How is the global US economic boycott doing... USA is looked at in disgust around the world now. MAGA huh!

Who would buy dollars now?

The Emperor of the US has just had it pointed out to him that he wears no clothes, so in reaction he puts 100% tarrifs on to all the clothes Canada exports to him. Such is the logic of "making America great again".

Journalists, reporters, commentators, how ever you want to describe yourselves, your one job now is not to appease, or apologise for fascism, but to expose it.

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The government is living in an alternate reality. During WW2, Michael Foot and others wrote Guilty Men about the disastrous failure of the British elite’s appeasement policy: their inability to grasp the world they were living in. He’d have a field day with this lot.