In other Squirrel news. There is a population of approximately 25,000 black squirrels largely concentrated in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Donald Trump lost a $50 million lawsuit yesterday for using Isaac Hayes, music and song “Hold On” at his rallies and refusing to stop doing it for copyright violations. Why wasn’t this a major headline. If Trump had won it would’ve been.

Rishi Sunak has some nerve saying his party will support implementing the Grenfell recommendations in full. He was Chancellor in May 2022 when the Tories rejected half of the phase 1 recommendations: insidehousing.co.uk/news/governmen…

AnnaMaria Lindholm Rogberg (Swedish, b.1972) "Strolls," 2024 Oil 110 x 110 cm

Kaoru Yamada

This brings a tear to my eye every time I see it.

“Am I overreacting?” No. Get out. Now.

Time for my favourite meme, I think...(by artist, Rachel Greenberg)

NEW: CNN has independently confirmed the Russia funded US media company that paid American right-wing social media stars is Tenet Media, based in Tennessee. Some very big names tied up in all of this. Reporting w/ Zachary Cohen Evan Pérez Sean Lyngaas cnn.com/2024/09/04/pol…

Sade is set to release her first song in years as part of a benefit album to support transgender awareness and spotlight trans and non-binary artists. Her song on the album is titled ‘Young Lion’ and will be dedicated to her trans son Izaak.

Things have improved - but what dark dreary days.

Some more misty reeds

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In fairness, this has been the case every year since 2015.

Should we get rid of red tape?

Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (1976) There will never be anyone like Nina again…

It's the Green Party conference this week. The party is looking to “pressure a Labour government elected on what [Carla Denyer] called a “quite timid” platform, which has become no more ambitious in its first weeks of office.” More: theguardian.com/politics/artic…

The man whose business has lost 78% of its value will appoint the man whose business has lost 90% of its value to make things run better. What could go wrong?

BREAKING: Donald Trump just announced if he wins, he will lift sanctions on Russia and Iran. This is why Putin was paying millions to Republican influencers. He’s bought control of Trump’s party. Retweet so all Americans see this alarming announcement.