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pauljer.bsky.social
Professional science teacher. Amateur singer and guitarist.
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Do you lock your front door from inside? Can you always find the keys quickly in case there is a fire and you need to get out? Can everybody else find those keys as quickly? Children as well?

For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.

"His Commons appearances are infrequent, his extracurricular activities prolific, his party’s internal culture chaotic and its plans to 'fix' Britain largely theoretical and uncosted". And yet mainstream media consistently give him a free pass. Easy mode, indeed! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

5% of UK land is owned by farmers, 95% by the super rich, we need to tax it all off them in the next few generations.

Footage of the Minnesota assassin Vance Luther Boelter, a life long registered republican and "Christian" nationalist incel that hated women. He's 100% MAGA.

Mass protests against Trump across US as president holds military parade www.bbc.com/news/article...

"The legacy of Grenfell must be justice, and the time for justice is now" - Grenfell United. All the evidence & still no charges. A scandal. Forever in our hearts 💚

More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom. In 2025, we mark 40 years since the Schengen Agreement was signed. This landmark event has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

Britain just had its warmest spring ever (in recorded history) and the driest in over 50 years. Drought is surely coming. We need publicly owned water companies, more green energy, electric travel and to eat less meat. buff.ly/bfoSUks

What happened in Minnesota is a direct consequence of the violent way that Trump talks about his political opponents.

⬇️ With GDP falling and the government needing growth...how was Brexit hurt our high street ?

There's lots of talk about how to deliver growth at the moment. So it's worth remembering that Best for Britain/Frontier Economics research shows that a 'Commin Sense' Deal with the EU would deliver up to 1.5% GDP growth, even with Trump imposing tariffs. commonsensedeal.com

Thinking today (and frankly, always) of Grenfell tower. Of the 72 people who lost their lives, their bereaved families, survivors and all those impacted by the fire. Justice must be served.

A widely shared video claims to show a large number of asylum seekers on a Dover beach. But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.

Says the man who negotiated the biggest act of self-harm in our history, then killed thousands during Covid by being a dithering fool, then threw away his massive majority because he couldn't follow his own rules. Sit down and shut up you useless tit.

The report HHS sent to congress to justify changes in vaccine recommendations for healthy non-elderly & pregnant people has all kinds of misrepresentations/errors as outlined by this report & clearly does not accurately reflect the state of the scientific literature kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Reflectively I want to hate this feature providing an AI summary of the 4,147 comments on this article, but I…quite like this?

Trump has used roughly 2,000 seasonal immigrant workers at Mar-a-Lago and other golf clubs since 2008. His winery has hired 31 this year alone. Even as his administration is working to deport thousands every single day. https://trib.al/h7R8zLt

We don't need monster trucks on our streets

@dobbersw.bsky.social Do you know this one? Portsmouth Pride last week.

100,000 electric vehicle charging points to be installed with £381m funding The new EV charging points come on top of the 80,000 already installed publicly across the UK.

Yes. I live in California. All is calm, the weather is warm, and nobody needs that piece of human garbage around here!

The Spending Review keeps getting better. This time, a funded support package to ensure the poorest children do not go hungry during the school holidays. The £1bn of funding for crisis support through local councils across the whole country includes holiday food funding for children.

Been a full on week for Labour. I’ve gathered just a few highlights. Most important in my view, is Mone. Being held accountable for her failed PPE supply. I hope we get our money back. Daylight robbery under Labour does not pay

Reform play games. They are not committed. They want the power, but don't want to do the work. Reform are letting people down just weeks after their first major success - because they are work-shy.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calls for end to windfall tax on oil/gas companies. They have been making record profits, fuelling inflation & poverty. Tory silence on tackling poverty, no remorse for two child benefit cap, austerity, privatisations, destroying the NHS and public services.

Yet another great Trump deal!

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m proud that the ULEZ scrappage scheme, the biggest in the UK, has supported so many Londoners to switch to cleaner, greener forms of transport. It has made a huge difference to our air quality.

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

London has benefitted massively from ULEZ and you have to salute Sadiq for pushing it through in the face of stiff opposition from the boring old climate change deniers and the right wing media.