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I've been here only a short while and I've reposted depressing stuff about what's happening and opinions on how to respond.
So I thought it was about time I shared something to cheer people up.
This is a blurry photo of a hellebore flower in my garden five days ago.
So I thought it was about time I shared something to cheer people up.
This is a blurry photo of a hellebore flower in my garden five days ago.
January 25, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I've been here only a short while and I've reposted depressing stuff about what's happening and opinions on how to respond.
So I thought it was about time I shared something to cheer people up.
This is a blurry photo of a hellebore flower in my garden five days ago.
So I thought it was about time I shared something to cheer people up.
This is a blurry photo of a hellebore flower in my garden five days ago.
My garden is tiny. I got rid of the pointless lawn in the shadier and therefore moister back garden.
The front garden is sunny so I've added drought-resistant plants.
In both front and back I've added more shrubs and two trees for more protective shade.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The front garden is sunny so I've added drought-resistant plants.
In both front and back I've added more shrubs and two trees for more protective shade.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
RHS unveils plans to protect UK gardens from future water shortages
Environmental charity to prioritise water capture and storage as it urges gardeners to prepare for ‘new normal’
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:09 PM
My garden is tiny. I got rid of the pointless lawn in the shadier and therefore moister back garden.
The front garden is sunny so I've added drought-resistant plants.
In both front and back I've added more shrubs and two trees for more protective shade.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The front garden is sunny so I've added drought-resistant plants.
In both front and back I've added more shrubs and two trees for more protective shade.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Oh dear. The people at the top of the Labour government need to grow up and stop running scared of a possible leadership challenge.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour row erupts after Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race
Allies of Greater Manchester mayor say No 10 has ‘chosen factionalism’ as decision leads to a furious backlash
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Oh dear. The people at the top of the Labour government need to grow up and stop running scared of a possible leadership challenge.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose
January 24, 2026 at 8:31 PM
years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose
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Iran was threatened for killing protesters. After two killings in America, is it ok for Iran to now threaten America for killing protesters?
January 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Iran was threatened for killing protesters. After two killings in America, is it ok for Iran to now threaten America for killing protesters?
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Yep, even the millionaires are saying it.
Last time we checked, we didn’t vote for the super rich to call the shots. ❌
✋ Hands up if you want to see big money taken 𝗢𝗨𝗧 of our politics.
Last time we checked, we didn’t vote for the super rich to call the shots. ❌
✋ Hands up if you want to see big money taken 𝗢𝗨𝗧 of our politics.
January 24, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Yep, even the millionaires are saying it.
Last time we checked, we didn’t vote for the super rich to call the shots. ❌
✋ Hands up if you want to see big money taken 𝗢𝗨𝗧 of our politics.
Last time we checked, we didn’t vote for the super rich to call the shots. ❌
✋ Hands up if you want to see big money taken 𝗢𝗨𝗧 of our politics.
So far on here I've been all doom and gloom because the world's a mess and over the Atlantic an orange mobster is threatening us all.
And it's not as if other living beings aren't also suffering.
But it's still fabulous watching the BBC's Winterwatch.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
And it's not as if other living beings aren't also suffering.
But it's still fabulous watching the BBC's Winterwatch.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Two - Winterwatch
Live coverage as Britain's wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 11:20 PM
So far on here I've been all doom and gloom because the world's a mess and over the Atlantic an orange mobster is threatening us all.
And it's not as if other living beings aren't also suffering.
But it's still fabulous watching the BBC's Winterwatch.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
And it's not as if other living beings aren't also suffering.
But it's still fabulous watching the BBC's Winterwatch.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
'... Hannah Arendt ... wrote: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (and the distinction between true and false) no longer exists.”'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump doesn’t want us to believe our own eyes | Steven Greenhouse
Renee Nicole Good’s killing is the latest example of the president’s outrageous – and blatant – assaults on the truth
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:29 PM
'... Hannah Arendt ... wrote: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (and the distinction between true and false) no longer exists.”'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We’re using more water than nature can replenish, with irreversible consequences.
Lakes shrinking, aquifers declining, wetlands disappearing, glaciers losing ~1/3 of their volume.
4B people face water scarcity at least 1 month/year.
🔗 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#WaterCrisis #ClimateChange #UN
Lakes shrinking, aquifers declining, wetlands disappearing, glaciers losing ~1/3 of their volume.
4B people face water scarcity at least 1 month/year.
🔗 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#WaterCrisis #ClimateChange #UN
January 23, 2026 at 10:37 AM
We’re using more water than nature can replenish, with irreversible consequences.
Lakes shrinking, aquifers declining, wetlands disappearing, glaciers losing ~1/3 of their volume.
4B people face water scarcity at least 1 month/year.
🔗 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#WaterCrisis #ClimateChange #UN
Lakes shrinking, aquifers declining, wetlands disappearing, glaciers losing ~1/3 of their volume.
4B people face water scarcity at least 1 month/year.
🔗 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
#WaterCrisis #ClimateChange #UN
... Trump’s Greenland moves prompted ... serious economic counter-threats from Europe. Europeans stood up and Trump backed down.
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friends ... cannot be in ... such dependency on the US – whether economic or military – that they have to give in to its demands.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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friends ... cannot be in ... such dependency on the US – whether economic or military – that they have to give in to its demands.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland
The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the good, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:14 PM
... Trump’s Greenland moves prompted ... serious economic counter-threats from Europe. Europeans stood up and Trump backed down.
...
friends ... cannot be in ... such dependency on the US – whether economic or military – that they have to give in to its demands.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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friends ... cannot be in ... such dependency on the US – whether economic or military – that they have to give in to its demands.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hundreds and hundreds of people have joined the Green Party since this was broadcast.
Together - we are growing this movement.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Together - we are growing this movement.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Hundreds and hundreds of people have joined the Green Party since this was broadcast.
Together - we are growing this movement.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Together - we are growing this movement.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Jack Dromey's mistaken to attack excellent Green Party policies as 'unicorns'.
But he's utterly right that the Labour Party need to do far more to improve so-called 'social care', which is just a label for all care that isn't done by people paid by the NHS.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But he's utterly right that the Labour Party need to do far more to improve so-called 'social care', which is just a label for all care that isn't done by people paid by the NHS.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Jack Dromey's mistaken to attack excellent Green Party policies as 'unicorns'.
But he's utterly right that the Labour Party need to do far more to improve so-called 'social care', which is just a label for all care that isn't done by people paid by the NHS.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But he's utterly right that the Labour Party need to do far more to improve so-called 'social care', which is just a label for all care that isn't done by people paid by the NHS.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Richard Burgon MP talks sense about what's good about Green Party policy on wealth taxes and tackling inequality, and why the Labour Party ought to be following that example (as the Labour Party has done in the past).
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It’s unwise for Labour to attack the Green party and its wealth tax proposal | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to the Fabian Society’s leader, Joe Dromey, describing the Green party as a threat to be countered alongside Reform
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Richard Burgon MP talks sense about what's good about Green Party policy on wealth taxes and tackling inequality, and why the Labour Party ought to be following that example (as the Labour Party has done in the past).
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It bothers me that Zack Polanski says things that are just his personal opinions. I don't know whether we should leave NATO, but it's not (yet?) been agreed by members as party policy.
But he's right to say we need to become independent of US 'defence'.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But he's right to say we need to become independent of US 'defence'.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK should consider expelling US forces from British bases, says Zack Polanski
Exclusive: Green party leader advocates leaving Nato and says Britain should wean itself off its reliance on the US
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:03 AM
It bothers me that Zack Polanski says things that are just his personal opinions. I don't know whether we should leave NATO, but it's not (yet?) been agreed by members as party policy.
But he's right to say we need to become independent of US 'defence'.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But he's right to say we need to become independent of US 'defence'.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
'... since an angry man will find excuses to be angry ... the only answer is to leave. Yet to get away safely ... takes some planning.
All those ... reliant on the US ... need time to build alternative structures before burning down the old ones.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
All those ... reliant on the US ... need time to build alternative structures before burning down the old ones.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If it wasn’t clear before, it is now: Britain needs an escape plan from the Trump world order | Gaby Hinsliff
The US president’s trade war for Greenland tells us that the time for fence-sitting or wishful thinking is over, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:47 AM
'... since an angry man will find excuses to be angry ... the only answer is to leave. Yet to get away safely ... takes some planning.
All those ... reliant on the US ... need time to build alternative structures before burning down the old ones.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
All those ... reliant on the US ... need time to build alternative structures before burning down the old ones.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I reckon Owen Jones sometimes overstates things, but on this I reckon he's spot on.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump needs helpers for his appalling neocolonialist project. What else is this ‘board of peace’? | Owen Jones
Blair, Putin, Erdoğan, Orbán: the names of those invited to serve say it all. And it’s about so much more than Gaza, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I reckon Owen Jones sometimes overstates things, but on this I reckon he's spot on.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Well said Gordon Brown.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown
The idea that the liberal rules-based order can survive his presidency now seems complacent. This is a historic moment – and a time to act, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Well said Gordon Brown.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We have to assume that the orange king baby is indeed a sentient being. But he's far less grown-up than any baby I've ever met. Quite what we can do I don't know. But I suspect we need to all stand up to such bullying together.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer’s calm diplomacy makes mistake of assuming Trump is a sentient being | John Crace
PM’s effort to take heat out of Greenland situation is yet another humiliation in his relationship with The Donald
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:26 AM
We have to assume that the orange king baby is indeed a sentient being. But he's far less grown-up than any baby I've ever met. Quite what we can do I don't know. But I suspect we need to all stand up to such bullying together.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
