plashmar

You are making a cheap point. Rather than look at the cause of the difference MT.

Britain has paid Norway over £100 billion for gas since 2021. For gas they’re drilling in the North Sea, the same sea Ed Miliband has banned new drilling in on the British side. Madness.

Is British farming needed for food security or to be broken up to pay to run the NHS for half day a year?

Love him or loathe him, Peter is right on this.

French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC: • Visa and Mastercard have blocked all my cards • I cannot make any purchases • I am a judge, yet treated like a criminal • Judges, lawyers, and politicians are being intimidated • A colleague told me my name won’t be removed from the blacklist until Trump’s term ends • Despite intervention by the French president, U.S. authorities have not responded

@Escartefigue777 As with much of early KC it seems more relevant now than then. 21stC schzoid man?

@plashmar I can remember where I was when I first played that. One of the very few recordings I have actually thrown away. I mean we can't agree on everything. Hope all well..

Guy Garvey on BBC's Radio6 Music just played King Crimson's 'I Talk to the Wind'. What an amazing tune from their first album (1969). Lyrics: "What do I see? Much confusion, disillusion. All around me. I talk to the wind. My words are all carried away."

@IhabHassane Zionist settler on Israeli TV: The Torah gives us permission to erase anyone who disobeys Israel. "The land must be cleared of every Arab who refuses to bow down to us." ❗️

INSANE: CCTV footage shows hundreds of Israeli settlers storming the village of Jalud in the West Bank before launching their pogrom, attacking Palestinian homes and setting them on fire in an attempt to burn people alive.

I continue to follow the situation in the Middle East with dismay. Like other regions of the world, it is torn apart by war and violence. We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of so many defenseless victims of these conflicts. What wounds them wounds all of humanity. The death and pain caused by these wars is a scandal for the entire human family and a cry that rises to God!

Israel is wiping out critical bridge after critical bridge in South Lebanon. Civilians can’t flee. Ambulances can’t reach the wounded. Entire communities are cut off from food, medicine, and essential supplies. This is intentional. This is a crime against humanity.

Reform and crypto: how close is too close? In my essay for today's Times, I follow the money and look at... - The 'crypto army' that took DC, now targeting London - The new, stunning conflicts of interest - The £9m bonus scheme Farage didn't mention times-comment.com/nfc

✅ Max Hastings is bang on. The Iran war is reckless, irrational, and not in Britain’s interest. The UK should stay out, even if the US is involved. Supporting it risks dragging Britain into a long, unwinnable conflict. Air strikes won’t solve Iran. You can’t bomb your way to stability. Escalation leads to deeper involvement. That directly challenges the current narrative of “limited”, “targeted”, “defensive”.

Worth remembering where Nathan Gill, Farage’s close aide and Welsh Reform leader, was heading when arrested for bribery by Putin’s pal Medvedchuk — to a crypto and politics event in Moscow sponsored by the Kremlin ➡️ bylinetimes.com/2025/10/17/wha…

Israel slaughtered 15 aid workers in Gaza, buried their bodies so nobody would know, lied about it, and only got caught because they forget to steal one of the victims' cell phones, and he recorded the entire massacre. Israel also did this:

If (as Andrew Neil says) GB News has become Reform TV then maybe there’s a case for the @ElectoralCommUK to start taking an interest independent.co.uk/voices/reform-…

“Body after body, tiny little bodies are being carried to their graves” CNN documented the funeral of four young Lebanese children buried together by their mother, the oldest is 13 and the youngest is only 6 years old, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike while playing together in their family home. The strike wiped out almost the entire family. Since March 2, at least 110 children have been killed by Israeli attacks in Lebanon

Bishop of Willesden on the Iftar : "The public iftar in Trafalgar Square was not an act of cultural imposition, nor a signal of division. It was, rather, a moment of hospitality: an invitation to share in the breaking of the fast during Ramadan, extended by one community to the wider public. It was open, generous and peaceful. It reflected something profoundly British; the instinct to gather, to mark significant moments together, and to make space in our common life for the traditions that shape our neighbours. "To suggest that such an event is somehow threatening risks misunderstanding both the nature of religious expression and the character of our national life. Religious freedom in this country has never meant the privatisation of belief. It has meant the opposite: the right of individuals and communities to live out their faith openly, visibly and without fear. That principle applies as much to Muslims observing Ramadan as it does to Christians celebrating Easter, Jews marking Passover, Hindus celebrating Diwali, or Sikhs observing Vaisakhi." churchofengland.org/media/news-and…