Sed Vitae

Nigel Farage, Daniel Hannan, Aaron Banks: the remaining Brexiters look so stale and dated and old. Listening to them is like eating mouldy bread from the back of the cupboard open.substack.com/pub/arguably...

“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 👇👇👇

Leaky Sue strikes again.

John Peel passed away on this day in 2004 in memory of him here’s a link to Dave Strickson’s archive with over a thousand Peel Sessions each with accompanying YouTube clips Enjoy davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john...

Queen Wasp with her unfortunate drone consort. Not something you see every day. She flew off with him still attached.

Old railway line near Kirkby Stephen. Acrylic.

"Gwylym" oil and acyllic

"Tali at Skirsgill" oil and pastel

Shocking how an obviously vulnerable neuro diverse man could be hounded and driven to his early death by the academic establishment and ghouls in the press. Rip Jason Arday.

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

the International Criminal Court was created to ensure that no one is above the law: no president, no prime minister, no general. It draws from one of the core lessons of the Second World War, as formulated in Nuremberg: Crimes are committed by men, not by abstract entities (states). Think about it

With the huge increase in numbers of people relying on unmoderated and inaccurate social media channels for their news, the last thing the BBC should be doing right now is downgrading its output.

The evolution from two party america

Itv have just put a woman in a kitchen explaining football strategy with a blackboard ! Wtf.

I’m old enough to remember some rightwingers calling out Obama for having an opinion on Brexit, presumably they’ll be shocked by this

Bleakly ironic that the "Blairite" proposals i set out here - more "liberal", open, market-friendly policies on EU, migration and tax - are rejected by 2026 Blair. www.ft.com/content/7235...

Columbine has to be one of favourite weeds.

Parliamentary standards committee protocols, procedures and reports were formulated to deal with misbehaving individuals and limited scale corruption by members. Is it up to the job of dealing appropriately with international interference in our democracy and financial incentivisation of treason?

Everyone is rightly interested in Harborne’s monetary support for Nigel Farage. But GB News provides him with an annualised salary of over a million pounds a year, 500,000 shares and unaccounted for millions in terms of free political advertising for Farage’s Party

Before Nigel Farage and Reform UK tell you he is now Prime Minister, note there are 650 MPs in Parliament and 20,000 councillors in the UK. Today’s results will likely end with Reform UK having 2500-3000/20,000 councillors and still just 8/650 MPs.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

Spring on Inner Farne. My happy place.

The ruins at Paphos. Acryllic.

A foreign funded party with an autocratic structure, bound by racist, bigoted ideology and with seemingly unlimited access to dark money is clearly a threat to our national security. When will Parliament act against Farage and Reform?

Your next government

#C4News last night reported on the wholesale targeting of ambulances & paramedics in Lebanon by Israel, including the recent 'triple hit', when Israel attacked an ambulance, then attacked paramedics who went to help, and then attacked further paramedics also trying to help.

I'm not quite sure why the BBC are still talking up Reform's chances in Scotland. We know what happened in Wales, the liability that Trump has now become and we've seen Farage's mate in Hungary humiliated in their election. I suspect the Scottish elections will show Reform's star to be fading.

A true Statesman doesn't go into a conference or armistice meeting spouting messages for their base or self vanity. Vance is a pezzente self promoting gobshite.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

April Fool's Day is officially cancelled this year. Donald Trump as US President...nothing could be sillier, the joke is on all of us.

In Israel, volksgerichtshof next? Irony unbound as Netanyahu goes full nazi.

Stunning light and clouds this evening.

Dawn in Eden.

Oh. Stage an assassination attempt, you say? Interesting.

Let’s put an unhinged malignant narcissist sundowning into dementia in control of the most powerful military force in the history of mankind because what could go wrong.

More alarm bells around President Trump's continued mental decine. Anyone listening? There is a nation to be run (and a not insignificant one at that)...get your fingers out Vance and Cabinet members, self interest should come second here.

Keir Starmer gives Zelenskyy a hug as he arrives at Downing Street The Ukrainian leader is visiting as the government announces a new UK-Ukraine drone deal

The bully in the playground realises no one will join in any more.

Death, pollution, destruction and massive expenditure. War...what is it good for? Spoiler alert, it's Shareholders and corrupt, amoral politicians.

Starmer has gained some political credibility and the appearance of authenticity with his principled stance on Trump and Netanyahu's assault on Iran . He should probably think carefully before changing tack...

Are there any "good guys" any more?

So "the bell jar" is to come to the big screen with Billy Eilish. Uplifting.

👉 On the left, Dan Hannan lamenting Bank of England's decision to put animals and plants on currency. 👉 On the right, Dan Hannan ... a month ago... demanding a return to coinage - much of which - featured er... animals... and plants.

Fully *one year later*, the Telegraph has been forced (by @ipso.co.uk) to admit that it was lying about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

The United States killed all these children last Saturday. 170 of them. Every. Single. One.

For all these critical voices saying Britain should have gone in at the start, it is worth keeping in mind that if you find yourself on the same side as Netanyahu and/or Trump then you are almost certainly on the wrong side of history. Criminals both.