Late Gen X. Adopted city Norwich, started out life in Dorset. Juggling twins, hearing aids, politics and climate concerns. Partial to dramatic landscapes, Wes Andersonesque architecture, unsung historical figures and Peanuts cartoons. Do we all get better at juggling or do we acknowledge some balls are just too precious to drop?
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Last Notes npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs I agree. There are hard working councillors from most parties, whose dedication to their local community shouldn’t be judged by the wider national political picture. But the reality seems to be in 2026 that: a) few voters engage with their local councillors b) few know what their local council is responsible for (often confusion between district, county and constituency) c) media not interested in local political issues All of which amplifies the national view. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Seriously…the story of how Richard Nixon almost implemented UBI: https://thecorrespondent.com/4503/the-bizarre-tale-of-president-nixon-and-his-basic-income-bill/173117835-c34d6145 npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs I agree. There are so many assumptions and expectations made of those on low incomes which are completely unfair and entirely based on prejudice. But my favourite story about the concept of a universal basic income, is that the leader who came closest to implementing it wasn’t Jimmy Carter, Harold Wilson or Barack Obama…nope, it was Richard Nixon in 1969. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘New polling suggests that just one in 10 voters believe #Starmer should stay as prime minister after the May elections, if predictions are right that the party will lose more than 1,850 councillors – 75% of the seats it is defending.’ And this is the real reason there are so many column inches about Polanski’s retweet today. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/01/andy-burnham-westminster-return-plan-within-weeks npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs “You have to make a decision in that split moment according to the situation as you understand it to be. And for politicians to wade in, as Zack Polanski did, is disgraceful. He’s not fit to lead any political party.” Keir Starmer #Polanski retweeted a post questioning whether the police kicking a suspect repeatedly in the head when they’ve been tasered to the ground is excessive force. #Starmer picked & announced Mandelson as US ambassador. He set up MI5, MI6 and civil service to fail. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs With a week to go before local elections I see an Establishment terrified of #GreenParty success. That includes the dead two party system, police and mainstream media. A week is a long time in politics and I fear we’re going to see every trick in the book. Question the narrative. Question who stands to benefit from it. Ask yourself what questions are not being publicly asked . npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs What’s that, #Israel committing an act of piracy by kidnapping 180 people in international waters over 600 miles from said state of Israel? And what’s that silence? Ah yes, that ‘sound’ we’ve all come to recognise from #Starmer when it comes to responding to Israel or USA committing international crimes that impact our citizens. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w2nzx30jno npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Does anyone feel ‘relieved’ to have come out of the long shadow of 14 years of #Tory austerity and chaos to now be living under a #Labour government that has no purpose, plan or ability to do anything? British people want to see the change they thought they had elected. But there been a bait and switch. It was carried out by #LabourTogether. People voted for a centre left government, but actually under the plotting of McSweeney, got a bland imitation of #Sunak led by a faceless #Starmer. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘A natural wildfire has broken out at an artillery training range in the Dutch province of #Gelderland, with several fire crews deployed to the scene to contain the blaze. The ‘t Harde artillery range is a military training facility and remains the only location in the #Netherlands where live artillery and mortar fire is permitted.’ Guns and nature rarely mix well… https://caliber.az/en/post/wildfire-breaks-out-at-artillery-training-range-in-netherlands npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs But the Dutch may be retaliating with their own smoke signals… Wildfire smoke from the Netherlands can be seen from space making its way across the North Sea. holland is on fire https://www.reddit.com/r/Norwich/comments/1sz0mrt/heads_up_norwich_that_bbq_smell_isnt_your/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs On my walk to work this morning, the skies were bright vivid blue, which made the dozen contrails all going in one direction very easy to spot, which made me wonder if: A) The UK is now at war B) The Americans were using our airbases for offensive war purposes While #Norwich does have a commercial airport, it’s mostly to get to Schiphol airport in Amsterdam…and we don’t have a dozen flights a day let alone an hour. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/488/581/117/572/440/original/fa6f605a9cfed56d.png npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Being drunk whilst working and being racially abusive doesn’t cost you your job as an MP…. Maybe we need more MPs like #GreenParty’s Hannah Spencer pointing out that this is not normal. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs But Sam Rushworth has some competition it seems from the #Labour MP Neil Coyle who was ‘suspended from Labour in 2022 and the Commons for five days in 2023 after he was found to have drunkenly abused two people in a Commons bar, using “abusive language with racial overtones”’. Coyle still thinks it’s fine for MPs to have a drink at work… https://web.archive.org/web/20260428151219/https://www.thenational.scot/news/26059741.labour-mp-banned-drunken-abuse-defends-westminster-drink-culture/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Of all the MPs to dismiss #Green MP Hannah Spencer’s claims of being shocked by MPs smelling of booze while working, I find #Labour MP, Sam Rushworths response the most insidious. He claims as a teetotaller to never smell booze when he goes through the division lobbies…given the documented incidents in recent years (a certain Mark Reckless springs to mind) this is very hard to believe. A trip to the GP might be needed. https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/04/28/mps-drinking-yougov-survey/ https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/482/931/776/090/509/original/05ed0226be718492.png npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs I genuinely don’t recall having ever had something from a political party with my address on. Even if they get the postage paid, I assume they still have to pay the printing cost. I live in a densely populated ward that historically nearly always returned Labour councillors but in recent years it’s entirely Green for local elections. Leaflets are always hand delivered by activists here, they knock on doors. Election only 2 weeks away and only Green Party leaflet so far npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Is there a reason that #Reform has more dodgy donations from plutocrats than actual activists willing to put leaflets through doors? I’ve never had political leaflets delivered by Royal Mail…even the Tory ones come hand delivered. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/26/royal-mail-investigating-claims-postal-worker-binned-reform-uk-election-leaflets npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Once upon a time there was a gonzo journalist by the name of Hunter S. Thompson who found himself covering the presidential election campaign. He had to daily watch candidate, Edmund Muskie speak. Muskie was so dull and robotic he became convinced pharmaceuticals must be involved…and then he read about the effects of #Ibogaine and decided to write a story suggesting Muskie’s team had got a Brazilian doctor to prescribe it to their candidate. I wish HST could see this… https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/22/health/ibogaine-psychedelics-what-to-know npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs I’m quite sure fuel shortages and extreme price hikes will be played for rightwing gain…but equally watch as the government quickly labels anyone who joins a protest because their livelihood is no longer viable characterised as a rightwing thug. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs And has the UK government learned anything from last week’s Irish fuel protests? Probably not. I predict we are just days away from blockades, panic buying and divisions. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs “Yes, of course we will defend British lives and British interests in the region. We’ll stand by our allies in the Gulf region, but we’re not going to get dragged in. That’s my values, that’s my principles, and that’s what we’ve applied to our decisions, whatever the pressure and whoever it’s coming from.” Keir #Starmer Slightly more strident in his push back against #Trump and #Netanyahu…but still not brave enough to call them out by name. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs “People look at their screens and they’re worried when they see explosions, infrastructure blown up, the rhetoric that goes with it, worried about whether this is going to escalate even further. And therefore it’s really important that I reiterate where I stand and where this government stands, because this is not our war and we are not going to be dragged into it.” UK PM Keir #Starmer, while speaking in relation to #Labour local election activities. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Having worked on a contract for a company desperate to find a way to exercise a break clause, I would agree that there are ways and means for Palantir to make this very difficult, drawn out and costly for the Labour government. They will have the best lawyers money can buy. What will be the price of Starmer’s naive mistake? Remember the services of Palantir were not arranged through a recognised procurement process - this was executive decision making at its most reckless. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs I am someone who is deaf because of rubella. I’ve never met anyone else my age (mid 40’s) who has been disabled due to rubella in the womb. My mum wasn’t vaccinated because she emigrated to Australia and back to the UK in the 60’s and her parents lost track of her vaccinations. It’s heartbreaking to watch RFK Jnr unleashing this health time bomb on USA. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs “#palantir ‘s vice-like grip on our Government, and the role played by disgraced Peter #mandelson in brokering it, must be investigated urgently. All government contracts with this #Trump supporting spy tech company suspended immediately. “The PM has questions to answer about how this military surveillance outfit, with clear ties to Mandelson’s own lobbying firm, has been handed record-breaking multi million pound contracts from public money without competition.” Sian Berry, Green Party MP npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs This was the Good Law Project’s executive director, Jo Maugham in April 2025: “We don’t understand, at all, why Keir #Starmer and Wes #Streeting are banging the drum for this dangerous spytech firm” “But Peter #Mandelson has a clear conflict of interest – and the failure to keep a minute of the meeting he arranged for the PM shows a kind of contempt for the public interest.” #Palantir https://goodlawproject.org/mandelsons-embassy-fixed-starmers-visit-to-spytech-firm/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘On 27/02/25, #mandelson – then UK Ambassador to the US – accompanied Keir #Starmer on a visit to the Washington headquarters of #Palantir. No official record has been published: no minutes, no transcript. At the time, Palantir was a client of Global Counsel, the lobbying firm Mandelson founded. Since then, Palantir has signed a £240 million deal with the Ministry of Defence, on top of its £480 million contract to manage sensitive NHS patient data’ https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/mandelson-palantir/#:~:text=Since%20then%2C%20Palantir%20has%20signed%20a%20£240,unfairly%20benefit%20the%20secretive%20US%20tech%20company. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Is now the right time to remind people that it was #Mandelson who recommended #Palantir to #Starmer and #Streeting and those contracts on defence and NHS systems were made in a very non-standard executive heavy way…basically no procurement process. Just a couple of highly sensitive data projects handed over to a company run by misogynistic fascists. https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Last week I assumed (wrongly) that there was no way British tax dodgers in #Dubai would leave their beloved pets behind…that it would be the like the last flight out of Kabul. But the type of people who see income tax as ‘unfair’ when all they want to do is make a living ‘influencing’ others are quite happy to get on taxpayer funded emergency flights with no plans in place for their kitties. #Iran https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/pets-abandoned-dubai-expat-owners-flee-iran-war npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs The need to ween ourselves off #FossilFuels just got real for many people with the unlawful US/Israeli attacks on #Iran resulting in the closure of the #StraitsOfHormuz. These folks just waking up may have been in denial or agnostic to #ClimateChange…but when inflation hits every area of the economy particularly the petrol/gas in your car, then suddenly ‘Houston, we have a problem’. We need to seize this opportunity. Our Environment Ministers everywhere should make the case for #Renewables. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘#Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter said that the reason why #LGBTQ+ plot elements were removed from the company’s 2025 film Elio was that Pixar is “not [making] therapy”’ And yet by removing any potential gay/trans elements in recent movies to appease #Disney, these Pixar offerings have also still flopped at the box office. Movie audiences are not same folks trying to get books banned https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/pixar-chief-lgbtq-plot-cut-elio-not-therapy-pete-docter npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs I remember reading John Lanchester’s Whoops! in 2010 and thinking this guy actually gets what the financial crash was really about. Reading his piece today about inter generational conflict, I find him a slightly defensive boomer (mostly around gender) but otherwise he’s spot on again. He skewers: - house prices - pensions - quantitative easing - Brexit https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2026/mar/08/did-baby-boomers-eat-all-pies-john-lanchester-truth-generation-gap npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Most recent update I could find on last night’s arrests for conspiracy to shoplift at a Quaker Meeting House: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/03/06/quaker-meeting-raided-by-metropolitan-police/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs What’s this…the Met finally interviewing enablers of apex sexual predator, Mohamed Al Fayed (long time owner of #Harrods). Better late than never I guess.More action again than the US have managed on those engaged in #Epstein ‘s web of depravity. But I’m pretty sure when I watched a documentary about this last year, there was much talk of current and ex-coppers enabling him too? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/06/met-interviews-three-women-mohamed-al-fayed-alleged-sexual-assaults npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Gentleman’s clubs have actually been belatedly acknowledged as crime scenes. Chris Pincher’s sexual assaults at the Carlton Club brought down the Tory government, but no criminal proceedings. Former Tory MP, Patrick Spencer also allegedly carried out sexual assaults at the Groucho club…but we’re still waiting for justice to be served and he still sits in Parliament. Does the Met serve the interests of gay and female victims of crime? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7g1858rpo npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs "We cannot get into a situation where groups planning criminal acts can escape police action simply by booking rooms in certain venues” Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman I refer you to my previous point. https://news.sky.com/story/15-activists-arrested-over-mass-shoplifting-campaign-plot-13515889 npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Will historians look back and wonder why the police focused their efforts on Quaker Meeting Houses and never Tufton Street or the private clubs of Mayfair? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyk3gprdj3o npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘Actor Michael Sheen narrates a new film that aims to improve the way climate change is discussed in schools. You Told Us To Talk About the Weather, launching nationwide today, was shot on a rewilded farm at the Westacre Estate, external near King's Lynn in #Norfolk. It was written in collaboration with young farmers and it questions why discussions about the weather are so common, in contrast to discussions about #climatechange.’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g5570lqp9o npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘You Told Us To Talk About The Weather’ new short 5 min film narrated by one of our finest revolutionary actors, Michael Sheen about the need for the UK to really put it’s greatest icebreaker - talking about the weather - up a gear. #ClimateBreakdown #Environment #ExtremeWeather #FossilFuel #ClimateMajorityProject youtu.be/pozDsTv1smw npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs These are the statistics that I found most troubling: ‘More than half (59%) of #GenZ men said men were expected to do too much to support equality, compared with 45% of #babyboomer men. For women, the proportions were 41% and 30% respectively.’ We don’t yet live in a world of sexual equality. We don’t even have equality of pay that legislation set out should take place in 1970’s. And yet many men and women of all ages think we’re expecting ‘too much’ of men. That’s worrying. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs So according to latest research #GenZ men are much less progressive than their #Boomer grandfathers when it comes to their opinions on women’s rights. But how many Gen Z men have actually been in long term relationships with women? We’re talking 14 to 29 year olds. A fair chunk won’t have left home yet. Their opinions just haven’t collided with reality yet. Let’s not be quite so hasty to write them off. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/gen-z-men-baby-boomers-wives-should-obey-husbands npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs With #Trump and #Netanyahu trying to bring on the Rapture / capture a second oil state by force in 2026, I think journalistic integrity over the UK’s position on #Iran matters. This #Guardian piece citing just ‘western officials’ as sources is really shockingly bad. Are we talking members of the UK Cabinet, the Mayor of Torquay or perhaps one of Trump’s mouthpieces??? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/04/britain-not-ruling-out-future-strikes-iran-missile-sites npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Hmmm….by the time I’d got the responses here about what to do and gone back to the post, they’d deleted their reply which had the details on. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Can someone please advise who I need to report this to? Picture of chain lettery spam I just received. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/167/006/751/169/650/original/d3d677ac4da77807.png npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs The lack of agreed definable objectives is troubling. It’s notionally about: 1) preventing Iran from developing a nuclear bomb (Trump already claimed he’s done this with strikes last year) 2) removing existing leadership (done over the weekend) 3) bringing about regime change (there is no opposition party that Trump + Netanyahu are backing - just fanciful idea it will happen in complete historical and current vacuum of opportunity) 4) or is this all just about oil? npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs #Starmer is about to spend tens of millions of taxpayers money on getting a lot of very rich folk back to the UK from the Gulf states, mostly the #UAE. This will be up there with Covid and when Monarch airlines and Thomas Cook went bust. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/more-than-100000-britons-stranded-in-gulf-with-airspace-closed-to-most-flights npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs I was glad to see Ed Davey point this out in his response to Starmer’s address to the Commons this afternoon…’British people living in the Middle East’ is code for tax exiles living in Dubai. These ‘clever’ people who thought they could get away from paying UK high taxes and that they were safer in the Middle East than on the supposedly crime ridden streets of London. These folks can afford to make their own way ‘home’ or to whatever other global bolthole they possess npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs #Trump has launched another war to remind us of the danger and insanity of being reliant on #FossilFuels being delivered through geographical bottlenecks. How thoughtful of him. Never been a better time for decarbonising your home and life. #Renewables #SolarPV #EV #WindTurbines #Retrofit https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-markets-global-markets-2026-03-01/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs It’s really clear that the unprovoked joint Israeli US attack on #Iran breaks international law. #Starmer refuses to admit this fact…and lets US use UK airbases. He’s trying to claim as Ed Davey rightly points out that offensive actions are defensive. He’s avoided Parliamentary and media scrutiny by making a pre-recorded announcement…so far so very #Trump. Where next? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/01/uk-to-allow-us-to-use-british-bases-for-defensive-strikes-against-iran npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Just read that many are assuming part of the reason for Trump posting pre-recorded about attacks on Iran to Truth Social is because its share price has absolutely tanked this week. He’s deliberately using the Presidency to drive traffic to his platform. He equally circumvented Congress by going to war without consulting it…but is his communication of it not via official government channels a way of shutting out even close Republican colleagues? npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘ITV News has seen a classified government intelligence report which appears to show some of the most worrying potential impacts of nature loss weren't disclosed to the public.’ Some of you may remember that while #Trump was threatening to invade #Greenland in January, #Starmer quietly and without fanfare published an intelligence report on impact of #biodiversity loss and #climatechange. Many suspected it had been summarised with key bits missing. They weren’t wrong. https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-27/nature-loss-could-cost-twice-as-much-as-financial-crash-leaked-report-reveals npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work in 2025, and two-thirds of them were killed by #Israel the Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) has said. It was the second straight year that killings set a record and the second straight year that Israel was responsible for two-thirds of them’ The wholesale slaughter of the #Press in #Gaza is unprecedented. Israel is deliberately silencing news on the #genocide it perpetrated. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/25/record-number-journalists-killed-2025-israel-gaza-war npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs When you haven’t flown for over 10 years and you sometimes think would there ever be a justification that could convince you to hop on a plane…and then you read a story like this and think, nope: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/23/ex-dj-jailed-london-fake-parts-airlines npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Love it…Reuter’s photographer, Phil Noble has his iconic photo of #Andrew leaving Aylsham police station hung up in the Louvre in Paris… https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/23/activists-hang-andrew-photo-louvre-everyone-hates-elon npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘The percentage of the countryside literally under water up here, especially in Yorkshire and the north-east, is extraordinary. As I write on 20 February, the UK government has issued 60 flood warnings and 144 possible flood alerts across England.’ And now scientists have revealed new research that shows the amount of rainfall we’re getting is around 20 years ahead of climate models.’ We must adopt #ClimateAdaptation NOW! #climatebreakdown https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/our-new-climate-adapting-to-survive-and-thrive/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘Professor Omar Yaghi, who grew up in a refugee community in Jordan, said he was inspired by the hardships he endured in a home with no running water or electricity. Giving his Nobel prize banquet speech, he recalled water arriving to his desert community from the government once every week or two.’ Genius exists everywhere. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/21/nobel-laureate-omar-yaghi-invents-machine-that-harvests-water-from-dry-air npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Zia Yusuf’s script has obviously been sent in advance to the media - all the better to help the simmering pot come to the boil ahead of the forthcoming by-election. And in having these racist words put in his mouth, he follows: Priti Patel Suella Braverman Kemi Badenoch Shabana Mahmood The parties involved think this makes their racist policies somehow acceptable. It doesn’t. ICE and ‘stop and search’ operate on prejudice regarding skin colour. It’s that simple and that wrong. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘#Reform UK would create an #ICE style agency dedicated to deporting hundreds of thousands of people, as well as terminating the status of those with indefinite leave to remain (ILR), the party will say.’ It should come as no surprise that these words won’t be uttered by the white aging #Farage…no, because Reform, just like Tories and Labour like a person of colour to deliver racist policy https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/22/reform-uk-ice-style-agency-end-leave-to-remain-zia-yusuf npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs But equally #Trump and #Vance may be trying to prevent the world realising it was actually the Danish who came to the rescue of an American submarine crew on Saturday: ‘#Danish Arctic Command evacuates US submariner Trump's post on Saturday came after Denmark's Joint Arctic Command said it had evacuated a US submarine crew member who required urgent medical attention. The submarine was in #Greenland's waters, seven nautical miles outside of #Nuuk.’ https://amp.dw.com/en/trump-says-sending-great-hospital-boat-to-greenland/a-76076414 npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Free Greenland/Danish healthcare vs. US insurance based healthcare? The latter leaves between 44,000 and 90,000 dead a year because they don’t have cover. It also leaves 550,000 families bankrupt a year from medical bills. This is classic ‘photo op going over the heads of leaders direct diplomacy’ from #Trump but smells of #Vance. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/22/greenland-does-not-need-us-hospital-boat-sent-by-trump-says-denmark npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs In 2002 I dated a guy who had served alongside #Andrew in the Navy. I remember only 2 things about the guy: - he left Navy as he suffered from sea sickness - he hated ‘Andrew formally known as Prince’ with a passion. It boiled down to Andrew being a complete arrogant snob who was extremely condescending and inappropriate. He lacked civility to those under him. This didn’t interest me at all at the time. But I think back often now about how many people knew but said nothing. #Epstein npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Phil Noble of Reuters you have taken the photo of the year…Andrew realising finally the law will catch up with him. Priceless. #DownWithTheMonarchy #Epstein #Andrew https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/099/127/941/609/610/original/9a32ec828fc8bd48.png npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs “If the #Trump administration is alleging that they’re gonna be bypassing content bans, what they’re gonna be helping users access in #Europe is essentially hate speech, pornography, and child sexual abuse material,” said Nina Jankowicz, a former US official and disinformation expert. Am I very tired or is the latest subversion of a tool for democracy essentially Trump’s confession on #Epstein ? He’s giving the green light globally to everything redacted. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/19/us-builds-website-that-will-allow-europeans-to-view-blocked-content npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Bring it on…”shame must change sides” #GiselePelicot. Meanwhile #Andrew must be made to Testify on his actions and knowledge around #Epstein https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/feb/15/nicola-jennings-on-andrew-mountbatten-windsors-move-to-sandringham-cartoon npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs #silentsunday as snow falls somewhat unexpectedly in #Norwich https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/074/817/064/267/191/original/40f7036522d4d501.png npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs I was just watching the Newsagents podcast interview Natalie Fleet, a Labour MP whose life’s mission is for rape survivors to be heard and the perpetrators receive full force of the law. She’s also a massive fan of Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown. She thinks they will do the ‘right thing’ now in relation to #Epstein victims. At the same time she talks of UK’s Epstein - Mohammed Al Fayed. A monster whom I can’t help but think these men know a lot about and did very little https://sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/the-warnings-britain-ignored-how-power-protected-mohamed-al-fayed-pt-1/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs So I discovered #BartonBroad in #Norfolk this afternoon. I’d been a few times to the lovely pub, the White Horse Inn, in the nearby village of Neatishead before, but always in the dark. I was blown away by how clear the water was. The reflection of the clouds on the broad was so crisp and clear. I also found walking around the boardwalk on the edge of the broad was very reminiscent of the swamps I saw in Louisiana years ago…but thankfully there wasn’t the frisson of alligators and moonshine. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/071/911/645/899/116/original/9984499291a2a10c.png npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Just over 6 months ago I left a job because I didn’t want to work for a company that was owned by a private equity firm. My colleagues didn’t understand why it made me queasy. But just now I caught up on this piece of news…Cap10 who was the private equity firm in question, are one of the big three screwing councils on foster care. The cost has doubled since private equity got involved. Imagine my surprise… https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/02/03/foster-care-sector-private-equity/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘Britain’s construction quality crisis isn’t a mystery, but the logical outcome of political choices. It’s the result of deregulation, privatisation and allowing the primacy of cost-cutting profiteers to supplant quality control and craft. When you rob building of its dignity, you don’t get efficiency; you get mould, leaks and devastating repair bills at every rung of the social ladder.’ I see this daily in the poor quality of new build social housing…but it’s everywhere https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/11/uk-housing-building-standards-one-hyde-park npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘There were nearly 130,000 vehicles stolen in the UK between April 2023 and March 2024 and more than half of household incidents involved the thief manipulating a signal from a car key without ever having to get their hands on it.’ And this was the reason my partner bought me the romantic gift of two Faraday pouches to keep my EV keys in today…he said all would be revealed if I read link below: #CarSafety #CarTheft https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/thieves-steal-cars-without-keys npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs The irony continues that Britain is on the brink of loosing its PM, Kier #Starmer to the #Epstein scandal because he in piss poor judgement employed one of Epstein’s close mates…and yet #Trump mentioned thousands of times in Epstein files is treating this whole event like a walk in the park. That should tell you the difference between what is fundamentally acceptable in political life in the UK vs USA. Shows you the level of corruption that is receiving wholesale indifference in the US. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Ok…so dark showering. I don’t care how many TikToks say this is a great way to unwind and relax, unless you have the window open or the latest continuous extractor fan going (regardless of whether light is on/off) you will be filling your bathroom with water vapour. That’s going to quickly condense and lead to sone serious mould problems. That will be the dark side of dark showering. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/04/dark-showering-best-way-wash-bathroom-lights-off-sleep npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Well I didn’t catch Newsnight, but my friend did and he reckons things are looking very bad for Starmer. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs The fallout from #Mandelson and #Epstein relating to just #Palantir could bring down not only #Starmer, but #Streeting and #Healey too. Who will be the beneficiary? #Rayner ? npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘#Palantir’s contracts with the UK government have caused controversy. The British Medical Association said last week that doctors could refuse to use Palantir’s £340m #NHS federated data platform in some cases, in protest over the tech company’s role in facilitating #ICE activity in the US.’ I think there will soon be a political appetite for saying the way in which Palentir government contracts were awarded was if not illegal then definitely highly egregious. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘#Starmer’s meeting with #Palantir did not appear in the prime minister’s register of visits and was acknowledged only in subsequent disclosures, Burghart said. He said Palantir’s #MoD contract “was granted by direct award” – without competition – and asked that the cabinet secretary check there were “no other such contracts, no other such undisclosed meetings”.’ Starmer is a dead man walking https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/04/peter-mandelson-palantir-jeffrey-epstein-government npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Even now, the attention from most of the media is not on the life long impact of #Epstein and his elite perverted cronies sex crimes against young female victims…most of us don’t give a monkeys about the fate of Mandelson, Andrew or Fergie. Please tell us though that the law in every jurisdiction possible is catching up with Epstein’s elite perverted contacts from his email inbox. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/jeffrey-epstein-powerful-men-women-girls npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs He’s icky and financially dodgy… https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/01/31/mandelson-epstein-panama-tax-emails/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs This was true…but I think the current and former #Labour PMs of the time need to go on record as to just how much they knew about what the ‘dark arts’ entailed if it involved getting bunged considerable sums of money, while appearing to be doing the bidding of #Epstein on banker’s bonuses? npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs #Mandelson has been trying for weeks to maintain his political visibility. Resigning from the #Labour Party will have been a terrible wrench for him. I doubt many in the current party will be shedding tears for him. But the integrity of Blair, Brown and Starmer in enabling this man to have such a high profile career must be brought into question tonight. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/01/mandelson-should-testify-before-us-congress-about-his-links-to-epstein-uk-minister-says npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Glimpses that spring will soon be here in Sheringham Park, #Norfolk today… https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/991/639/129/795/800/original/1ad01cb7110413e5.png https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/991/639/405/625/803/original/17ebf6123085a5c6.png https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/991/639/681/835/159/original/5085e3306d830bfa.png https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/991/639/928/368/319/original/8202f344b584a819.png npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs My assumption given the MSM coverage vs. posts about the contents of the #Epstein files is that #Trump ‘s damage limitation thinking went something like this: - simply too many mentions of Trump to have a hope of redacting all - they were best mates for 10 yrs after all - leave in enough details to identify victims so MSM won’t want to be accused of outing victims - sue MSM and IRS for $10 billion times a time in lead up to release to make them too scared to report in detail on Trump cases npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs No PM ever gets thanked at home for what they do on foreign policy…but #Starmer is perceived to have sucked up to #Trump in a way that has gone way beyond what is necessary…medicine and tech/AI. People notice #Davey and #Polanski making the right calls on Trump, while Starmer dithers, stumbles and fudges. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs People voted #Labour to get rid of Tories…and discovered they elected #Tory Lite. There may be an assumption that Labour is an established party and therefore has the structure and apparatus to govern in a way that #Greens couldn’t…but again, Labour haven’t delivered anything. All Labour have succeeded in doing since 2024 is turning their core, young to middle aged, metropolitan vote against them because they don’t care about rents or climate. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Women spend their lives pretending for the sake of others that they are ok. Instead of saying that 2/3 of menopausal women have mental health problems and 9/10 do not seek help, maybe we should ask what are the structural issues causing stress, anxiety and depression here…because it’s not just hormonal. - career development and fulfilment less likely than for men of their age - lower wages than men - carrying family ‘mental load’ - caring sandwich duties https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/29/women-uk-50-plus-midlife-menopause-struggle-mental-health npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs If only we were all self-interested, ‘rational’ beings who knew the rules to the ‘game’ we’re being made to play…I think it’s why I found those working in behavioural and political economics the most fun to talk to! npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs “I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of #Minneapolis our innocent #immigrant neighbors and in memory of #alexpretti and #reneegood” Bruce Springsteen https://brucespringsteen.net/news/2026/streets-of-minneapolis/ npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs #Facebook is surely the ultimate go to example of #enshittification . Why would any rational government accept small change from #Zuckerburg to give him access to prized datasets with a view to allowing #Meta to build the UK #AI systems for defence, national security and transport? Do #Starmer ‘s expensive donor paid spectacles allow him to see the optics of this? Honestly… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/27/uk-ministers-accept-1m-from-meta-amid-social-media-ban-consultation npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs The most important document published by the UK government since the general election emerged last week only through a freedom of information request. The national security assessment on #biodiversity loss and #ecosystem collapse was supposed to have been published in Oct 2025, but the apparatchiks in Downing Street sought to make it disappear. Apparently there were two reasons: because its conclusions were “too negative”, and because it would draw attention to the government’s failure to act. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs And the Electoral Commission are toothless. With a compliant MSM Reform are already running rings around the democratic process. You have to get to end of this article to find the glib truth: "It has been concluded that this report falls outside of the stated statutory time limit, and no investigation can take place," https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2dv17g0r3o npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Will there be any attempt to monitor social media corruption in this by-election? Is the assumption that things have been miraculously cleaned up since Cambridge Analytica? My friend was last night explaining and showing me the far right horrors that greeted him as a gay, leftwing progressive man when he logged onto X for first time in ages…and this was content their algorithm deemed ‘for you’. Also #Reform habitually break electoral spending rules and will again. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs I like it…you’re experiencing that twin parent desire for extra limbs that happens constantly in the early days. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs This image appears from time to time in my #twins feeds. We twin humour with reality… Let me know when you spot it. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/958/251/764/528/008/original/09306804d01bfb1d.png npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Private Equity company Modella Capital is who bought #WHSmiths in a deal worth £76 million. They also bought Hobbycraft, who I read earlier have been selling kids playsand with asbestos in it but refuse to issue a recall: (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/24/childrens-play-sand-hobbycraft-asbestos-removed-recall) Three things the public loathe and fear : Private Equity, Fascism and Asbestos. Why do we have to put up with this? npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs So today I popped in to that well known high street newsagent and stationers that has recently changed its name for no apparent reason. As I hadn’t been for ages, I scanned the current affairs magazines…and well, was somewhat surprised to see Hungarian Conservative alongside the Spectator and Private Eye. Not many copies sold it seemed… https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/956/875/190/231/707/original/49c5523a7c3a4972.png npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs Brilliant #TedX talk by Gael Hannan about the dirty secret that all of us who have #HearingLoss or are #deaf are guilty of frequently doing…we bluff. But why? We want people to think we understand them, we don’t want to be rude…but in doing so we let them and our selves down. Good communication requires honesty. We have to advocate for our selves and explain when we need help. Easier said than done. But this was the nudge I needed to continue working on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk2WGDXyKRI npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘House burping’? Not heard it called that before…purge ventilation was the phrase I was taught. Basically just open all your windows for about 10 to 15 mins - Germans do it all year round. Does it work? Yes. Gets rid of stale air and water vapour. Are other methods available? Trickle vents in windows, air bricks and extractor fans all help too. #Ventilation #HouseBurping https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jan/21/house-burping-german-habit-luften-trend-explained-airing-home npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs “Europe is a regulatory morass that is built on bureaucracy, and the layering and layering of rules that constrain economic activity.” Scott Bessant, US Treasury Secretary To which Europeans say: Flint, Michigan East Palestine, Ohio Uniontown, Alabama These places are global bywords for the poisoning of people and nature when you have no regulatory oversight of business and you prioritise ‘economic activity’ at all costs over health and safety. #Davos npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs In a week of high political drama over #Greenland and the world’s media trooping off to #Davos …Ed Miliband has finally been allowed to announce the detail of his ‘#WarmHomes plan’…£17.5 billion over this Parliament. Is it enough? No, needs to be closer to £10 billion a year for next decade to make a proper dent in all the homes that need upgrading. Is it focusing on right stuff? Kind of. Heat pumps need more take up, but at the expense of insulation, not sure. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/20/uk-warm-homes-plan-gas-boilers-billions-heat-pumps npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs ‘Global #ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity. The world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation and intensify with collapse. Without major intervention to reverse the current trend, this is highly likely to continue to 2050 and beyond.’ These are not the words of #Climate activists, this is national security experts speaking. npub165wrxe0rdf55qy5gzt4ht7tukj48wr0aq2rsajr8gvwdeu5rqp3ssalfr7 Juggling With Eggs In the middle of an international crisis over #Greenland, #Starmer has quietly without fanfare released the Joint Intelligence Committee / Defra report on 'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY' that his government suppressed last October. Don’t let it be buried. Please share! ‘Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse.’ #biodiversity #ecosystem #nationalsecurity https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf