NEW WATER BILL The @LibDems do not think that the proposed water bill goes far enough to stop these water companies from sewage dumping.

It is frankly embarrassing that a sitting U.S. Vice President is unaware of one of the most elementary facts of World War II. Nazi Germany did not negotiate an end to World War II. The war in Europe ended with Germany’s unconditional surrender after total military defeat and the collapse of the regime in May 1945.

A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children. He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own. In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone. “It was the end of the world. The end of the world.” “I felt imprisoned.” “They took my freedom.” “They took my livelihood.” “They took my land.”

Reagan picked up the phone. The bombing stopped. Remember that whenever someone says the U.S. has no leverage over Israel. #FreePalestine #Lebanon #History #EpsteinFiles...

In the USA in 1943 they produced a film 'Don't be a Sucker' about fascism. It perfectly explains Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the entire Right.

Even as he wrote the most tender pages of #Praeterita, #Ruskin lived with the tormenting belief that he had failed utterly, squandered his genius, and in doing so had disappointed not only his parents, his friends, and his fellow travellers on this earth, but God Himself.

More than one in five councillors have had to report abuse to the police. @markpack, Lib Dem Cabinet Office spokesperson, says the government must stop cycling through consultations and promises and finally act to protect people in public life.

Ruskin held that engineering becomes architecture when it keeps its dignity & proportion. He condemned the scarring of the landscape, but praised structures that rose above it. The London Road Viaduct is one of the few that qualifies. #OnThisDay #Brighton #Ruskin

Ruskin, 1898 - “I have always held, and am prepared against all comers to maintain, that the Cathedral of Lincoln is out‑and‑out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Islands, and roughly speaking, worth any two other cathedrals we have got.” #Ruskin

Lisa Nandy tells @Peston the PM is frustrated at the pace of change ‼️ @lisanandy - so are the 5 million leaseholders TRAPPED in the #LeaseholdScandal #Peston

I’m not comparing him to Hitler, but I want to remind people of something. When the generals told Hitler there wouldn’t be a thousand-year Reich, but he didn’t accept defeat gracefully. He told them to flood the coal mines and bring down the electrical grid around Berlin. His rationale was: If I can’t have it, nobody gets it. That’s Donald Trump’s psychology with the Republican Party. He doesn’t quietly want them to win after he’s gone. His whole identity is built on the narrative that you were nothing before I got here and you’ll be nothing when I leave. He’s not going to campaign for his successor. It’s not in his personality. It never will be. Watch what happens.

Spot on.

IDIOT

This is Israel, world Two children—aged 4 and 5—abducted by Israeli soldiers. Repost this. Please I beg you

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying. Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating. Welker: Do you have evidence? Trump: All I have to do is look. Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

Thomas Mann was born today. His novels carry the same moral gravity and attention to inner life that John Ruskin brought to art and landscape. Two very different voices, but a shared seriousness about what shapes a human being.

“In Wales, all new profit-making in this sector was stopped in April, and the practice is being phased out altogether. But in England, the government seeks only to tweak this immoral and dysfunctional system.” Profits are being put before children’s lives in England. Add your name our petition to demand an end to profiteering from children’s social care: vist.ly/56uek

If the Labour Party is not dead, Starmer’s leasehold betrayal will dominate the leadership election. With its second-biggest majority, real Labour would unleash hell on rent-seeking Big Freehold, freeing people from modern serfdom and driving growth. thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

A good point raised by Chris Hinchliff MP. “Absurdly for a country as wet as ours, we are hurtling towards a future where we are 6 billion litres of water short every year and the huge demands of tech companies AI data centres will only make that worse.”