When we cut our emissions we will be delivered from precession, tectonics, vulcanism, cosmic radiation, isostatic rebound, convection and the tyranny of the Laws of Thermodynamics providing we return to the precise CO2 level where none of this happens

Whose bright idea was it to put 12 eggs of different sizes in the same eggbox? Bastards

My son has been asked to wear a Vote Labour t-shirt for 2 weeks as part of a social experiment to see how people react. So far he has been spat on, punched and had a bottle thrown at him. I'm curious to see what's going to happen when he leaves the house.

@metoffice is at it again.... Reporting "record temperatures" from junk sites These sites are so corrupted by their surroundings they are incapable of giving accurate temperature data This one is next to both a heat source and a heat sink. That means heat is being added to and stored around the equipment The Met Office has no business telling people that such corrupted data represent "temperature records" notalotofpeopleknowthat.word…

It is not a "social media ban for under 16s" : government knows that is impossible to enforce as VPNs will bypass it. It is an anonymity ban for over 16s, meaning the real target are whistleblowers & journalists who are in danger of arrest for exposing government corruption.

Ed Miliband unveils his vision of the future washing machine for all British households:-

Mad Ed isn’t making this up as he goes along you know, neither are the EU, Australia or Canada etc .. If you’re wondering where Mad Ed’s getting is heating, appliance banning and energy policies from … look no further than the UN and their PR arm the WEF buildings and energy papers. All laid out nicely in these, all supporting the Agenda 2030 Sustainable development goals (that you didn’t vote for) UNFCCC BEERI UNEP Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction WEF Decarbonising Heating You might agree with it all and that’s fine! The point is that you were never asked have a read of my book … just saying 🔥

David Owen Oooh haven’t posted his work for ages. Based in the Stoke on Trent area and painting urban scenes from the past Watercolours artist Atmospheric with all the black smoke And a couple of gas holders which always pleases me

Georg Achen (1860-1912) Danish painter best known for his silent atmospheric interiors and well observed landscapes. .. The first is called ‘The Dreamer’ No title for second Sorry My sort of art

Geoff Butterworth (1956-2024) ‘Just Chips Grandad’ Watercolours were his speciality. A favourite artist of mine and this is nostalgic. My family loved my dad and this was a gentle reminder for Fish and Chip Friday .

Before Anyone Crowns Burnham, Ask Him About The Cover Up. Andy Burnham arrived in Makerfield this weekend as Labour's saviour. He left Sunday evening having retreated from his own position on Europe within 24 hours and facing a whistleblower's allegation of a cover-up in his own commissioned review. Start with Europe. Last year Burnham said he hoped in his lifetime to see Britain rejoin the European Union. On Saturday his allies confirmed he stood by that view. On Sunday, facing a backlash in a constituency that voted 65 percent to Leave, his spokesman insisted he would not be standing on a national manifesto and would focus on local issues. A position held on Saturday abandoned by Sunday in a seat where Reform will put his own words on their leaflets. The voters of Makerfield will draw their own conclusions about a politician who says what the room wants to hear. Then there is Maggie Oliver. Oliver is not a political opponent. She is a whistleblower who spent sixteen years in Greater Manchester Police, resigned over its handling of the Rochdale abuse ring, and won a judicial review against successive governments for failing to implement the recommendations of the Jay inquiry. Her charge against Burnham is specific and serious. The fourth part of Burnham's own commissioned review into child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester was, in her words, a cover-up. A paper exercise. The two independent reviewers who had spent six years scrutinising Greater Manchester Police resigned because they were blocked from accessing documents and speaking to survivors. The final assurance review, published last year, was instead carried out by HMIC. Oliver says it did not speak to a single victim or survivor from the last seven years. This did not happen before Burnham became Mayor. It happened between 2019 and 2025, under his watch, in his name, with his authority. The review was meant to provide assurance that things had improved. Oliver's verdict is that it provided cover instead. Burnham commissioned the earlier reviews. That credit has been extended to him repeatedly and fairly. But commissioning accountability is not the same as delivering it. The final review, the one that was supposed to confirm whether the recommendations had been implemented and whether victims were safer, is the one Oliver describes as a paper exercise that blocked the people best placed to scrutinise it. The mayoralty has given Burnham something Westminster could not. Distance from scrutiny. Regional media is a shadow of its former self. When things go wrong a Mayor can blame the government. When things go right he takes the credit. The reputation for accountability on child sexual exploitation that Burnham has built over eight years rests almost entirely on the first three reviews. The fourth, the one that was supposed to confirm whether the changes had actually been made, is the one Oliver describes as a cover-up. The reputation and the reality, on the evidence of the person who knows most about both, do not match. Burnham may yet win Makerfield. His personal popularity is real and may carry him over the line against a Reform candidate who won the local wards 50 percent to Labour's 22 percent. He may yet become Labour leader and Prime Minister. But the communities he is asking to send him to Westminster are the same communities where these failures happened. They deserve a straight answer about the cover-up allegation before they cast their votes. Not a local manifesto. Not a focus on bus routes. An answer. Maggie Oliver has asked the question. Burnham has not answered it. "The fourth part of Burnham's own commissioned review into child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester was, in [Oliver's] words, a cover-up."

There’s a person somewhere who still cuts flowers from their garden and puts them in a glass on the kitchen table. Not for guests. Not for social media. Just because life feels better when something beautiful is nearby.

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on. But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there. That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified. There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory. The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.” Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t. That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

Two more of Mike Jeffries lorries. The first is set at Max’s Cafe Lorries today terrify me. Stee used to tell me how much larger they have got over the years. They don’t trundle past anymore they growl down the road like ogres

"Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow Activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ..." Afterwards they went for a beer with Harry Webb, Reg Dwight, and David Paulden

My bum fluff 😀

By growing my own salads fruit and vegetables without PPPs I am supporting fat lazy wildlife and helping to keep commercial growers in business Win! Win!

Mike Jeffries If you love these old transport paintings I think he’s one of best. He gets the look if these vehicles right the dust cart will be a revelation to some Hard work

Bob Russin American ( New York ) Pastels artist known for capturing luminous light and shadow in his pictures He often works with highly textured matte mediums like pumice and rice paper

When Khan & Starmer refuse to answer questions this explains why