Stuart Baldwin 🇺🇦

I'm in the middle of this dark moody landscape same clouds but closer

Depressing to hear the BBC propagating the non-story started by the Tories about the possibility of power cuts because of renewables A classic fossil fuel lie being given credibility by our public service broadcaster #BBCR4Today

Coverage of the troubled relationship between the King and his youngest son dominates front pages at the expense of 43,000, mostly needless, deaths. Hancock and Johnson should be in prison.

Her: "OK I'll go out but I'm not drinking" Also her, two hours later:

The Rock’n’Roll Doctor is IN via @twonks.bsky.social

1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...

Wordle 1,932 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 More of a puddle of greens

Well, at least it's one of the few areas she has any expertise in.

Agricultural destruction is an active part of ethnic cleansing which is a crime against humanity. No country doing this deserves the support of any other country.

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a fucking horse

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

Bring UK state pensions in line with say France, Germany or Belgium, then by all means remove the triple lock.

When everyone has got, or might have, a gun, how could it be anything else?

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

Dysfunctional council to be abolished after years of controversy and "all out civil war" 🏆 #LiberalEnglandHeadlineOfTheDay

“Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” These words weren't spoken by a modern activist. They were written by Gustave Gilbert, the American military psychologist who spent months interviewing Nazi war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials. Let’s look at a dangerous pattern.

Chinook over #ChurchStretton!

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

Many years ago I thought mixing cream into a setting strawberry jelly would make a nice creamy desert for the then toddlers. And meat-baby was born. For the same toddlers 17th birthday, they’ve asked that I make another one…

The right of photographers to take pictures in public has become a hot topic again, following the UK government’s release of a booklet and poster aimed at asylum seekers amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo...

"We recognized that sometimes [the United State's] signature was written in pencil." — Mark Carney

That's a lot of bowls of porridge!

Don't panic!

Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.

She was talking about Barnsley but she could have been talking about Clacton or anywhere really.

Pleasingly symmetrical Wordle 1,876 3/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Can't stop! #wordle

Stripping EU citizens of pre-settled status years later claiming administrative error is legally dubious and morally bankrupt. Threatening NHS workers and residents who built lives in good faith undermines trust entirely. Are we underestimating this hostility? 🏛️ #Brexit

Crumbling infrastructure & lack of water jeopardising govt plans for new homes. Privatisation of England's water prioritised shareholder returns. No new reservoirs, desalination plants, or national grid of water. Companies don't do national planning. Yet govts intoxicated with privatisation

I still love this one... 😄

Interesting statement from Avon & Somerset police about how not only did Zack Polanski not commit an offence in posting a pic of a man in a T-shirt showing a guillotine and a reference to Nigel Farage, but that the "satirical" T-shirt was itself also not an offence.

BBC News 'n Current Affairs has just burst into tears, ran up the stairs, slammed the door and are now playing The Smiths very loudly.

Describe yourself in three characters

Phew indeed! Wordle 1,858 6/6* 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Just off to rescue yet another hummingbird hawk #moth from our kitchen window. It seems to be moth season here in South #Shropshire at the moment!

I must confess to a little luck here Wordle 1,855 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It's hard to believe that there was once a time when we had to decide what to wear to keep warm when we went out.

Putin's war is still raging. Ukrainians are still being killed. Russia should be nowhere near the Olympics. The IOC must reverse this shameful decision. @tomgordonld.bsky.social

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...

In our kitchen just now, just in time for tea. Largest British fly species and the stuff of nightmares.

I can't find this photo anywhere but X and BlueSky. Is it real?