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Pro EU, gay, definitely know that trams / light rail can transform our cities 😊 Love travel and photography. Retired Controller for Uk TOC.
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Real rough little sketch of a Japanese Grosbeak, one of my favorite lifers from my trip to Japan earlier this year. That beak!! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt

If a Muslim in the US publicly called for a missile strike on a famous celebrity activist onboard a civilian ship or plane, the FBI would be investigating them for terrorism. But a rich white guy gets to incite violence without any consequences 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

Five years ago Edward Colston's statue got thrown into Bristol Harbour. Despite many arguing that it was cancel culture, I'd suggest that the opposite was true as far more people subsequently learned about Colston's life as a result than had ever done before. An era defining moment either way.

via Wild Bird Scoop

Why should Wales accept a head of state we didn’t choose? If we want democracy, we need to talk about the monarchy ✍️Owen Williams

Didn't take the BBC long to try and put a positive spin on the Hamilton by-election for reform did it! Got a feeling it must have really upset them when all the pre planning for a day of Labour bashing went out of the window.

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

Did you care about Womens rights before you could use them as a stick to beat your skewed idea of a Muslim with? LGBTQ rights - same question. If answer to these questions is ‘no’ then feel free to shut your cake hole.

"What has the ECHR ever done for us?" 🤔 [SOUND ON 🔊]

🚨 Breaking news!!!!!

19% of the country, ok this poll, thinks Farage is working class 19% of the population of this country are off their tits and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a ballet box…

Zia Yusuf, June 3rd: "Only Nigel Farage and Reform can save Britain." Zia Yusuf, June 5th: "I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time." Zia Yusuf, June 7th: "Only Nigel Farage and Reform can save Britain." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Millions of Palestinians are starving. Now a humanitarian ship en route to Gaza is being targeted by Israel. On board: food, medicine & 12 activists. The EU must act now to stop the aid blockade on Gaza! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-6-...

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

just in case you needed to see the bigger picture… these are all galaxies. galaxies with hundreds of BILLIONS of stars and BILLIONS even TRILLIONS of planets and this is just a small portion of the sky. there’s no way we could possibly be alone in this universe.

Dear Mr Eliot I read your novel, The Mill on the Floss, with interest, however at this agency we specialise in giving a voice to female writers. Do you have a sister? Little Point Literary #WritingCommunity

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#photography #Nature #Bird #Birds #Finch #Goldfinch

It’s clear when some wish to divide us. Let’s steer away from scare tactics and undermining human rights - and actually focus on protecting and upholding human rights that help us all. That includes the European Convention on Human Rights. 👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Foliate heads Down Cathedral

Even Zionists admit #ItWasAScam - but they're still playing the antisemitism card, and politicians are pretending to lap it up

Friday’s NY Post cover is pure gold

It's amazing how the same politicians can describe VAT on public school fees as an attack on aspirational parents and then argue that free school meals for poor kids are a waste of money

Kudos to the bird that managed to shit an image of itself onto this bloke's car.

😡 "Labour's Planning and Infrastructure Bill will allow developers to circumvent an EU-derived Habitats Directive which protects animals including otters, salmon and dormice. It will also allow potential development of EU-designated special protection areas and sites of special scientific interest."

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Why would it be the “wrong signal”, @aussenminister.diplo.de? Because it would give starving and maimed children hope? Because it would acknowledge an ethnic group as a people? Never in my lifetime did I expect I’d see Germany backing a govt committing persecution, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

⭐️ 50 YEARS AGO TODAY ⭐️ 17.4 million people voted “Yes” to Europe… …the single largest vote for any single proposition in the UK’s history. This 17.4M was from a pop at the time of just 56M - and represented a massive 67% of all votes cast. Let’s do it again. #RejoinEU

Let's get real.

🔴 Scottish Labour win pivotal Holyrood byelection, beating incumbent SNP and surging Reform UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour wins Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The president of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itnoo announcing a reciprocal travel ban on Americans: "Chad has neither airplanes to offer nor billions of dollars to give, but Chad does have its own dignity and pride."

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors,” writes our columnist David French.

The Burqas question at PMQs was not a mistake, it was a carefully choreographed rhetoric to distract the press and stop them asking embarrassing questions about how Reform will fund their policies ahead of this weeks by-election!

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Ben Habib - gone Rupert Lowe - gone Zia Yusuf - gone If Nigel Farage can't even hold this tiny group together, imagine what a disaster he would be in government.

Superhero pose. #birds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #photography #audubonsociety

“That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists—and that they both individually wield such massive power—is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.” Robert Reich