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They executed him. Most media outlets ignored this. Please speak up for the tens of thousands of Iranians currently on death row.

@stellastafford @RachelReevesMP @mhclg @DefraGovUK @EnvAgency @Ofwat Plus concreting the greenbelt and countryside means the chalk aquifers in London and Home Counties can’t replenish.

Wasn’t this obvious from the start @RachelReevesMP @mhclg @DefraGovUK @EnvAgency @Ofwat ? The Home Counties is already severely #water stressed..building new towns and businesses, hundreds of thousands of new homes and 57 AI data centres with no new reservoirs until 2050?? Not hard to work out the problem here. inews.co.uk/news/36-areas-…?

My annual pilgrimage to this beautiful Dorset churchyard and its naturalised population of Snake’s Head Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris). #wildflower #dorset

BREAKING: Thousands of Muslim jihadis are on their way to the Christian town of Al-Suqaylabiyah, Syria, following yesterday’s pogrom. They are hunting for Christian blood and want to commit a massacre. It’s crazy how little the world cares about Christians in the Middle East.

Now ,this is one of the reasons we fight ! A red squirrel collecting moss to line their drey. How could anyone say it doesn’t matter? they don’t matter nor do any other living being here just destroy their habitat for a tiny minority to get rich ! We want to make it a #safehaven for all wildlife we want to help these red squirrels thrive along with all our other wildlife we want to #SavePenrhos #AchubPenrhos !#wildlifephotography #Sundaythoughts #RedSquirrels #wildlifematters #AONB 📸by DavidJones

Had to send a parcel today so went to @PostOffice and put it on the scales. That's £17. But it said £6 online I said. That's if you buy online. So I left the queue, bought online, then waited in line, showed my QR code on the phone and paid £6. Why make it so difficult?

🚨 "Allowing lower standard imports to undercut UK egg producers is not protectionism, it risks undermining consumer safety, public confidence in eggs and the resilience of our domestic food supply" READ MORE: farminguk.com/news/60-rise-i…

Labour, Green Party and Lib Dem councillors in Darlington have joined forces to defeat a Conservative and Reform motion that women's public spaces must be for women only. The three parties said this interpretation of the law was "anti trans" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

They belong here! Lady’s smock! So easy to propagate from the leaves & what a delight next to our wildlife pond.

“The reason they hate Zack Polanski is that they can’t Corbynize him because he is a Jewish politician who criticizes Israel.” Mehdi Hasan is right: that is exactly why the islamists have co-opted Polanski’s Greens as their lightening rod (& Trojan Horse). They know he provides an effective camouflage. And they know he is sufficiently craven and opportunistic to indulge them.  That is why today we see ‘Greens’ madly lining up to defend a regime that tortures and kills young girls for showing their hair or dancing, executes gays, worships death over life, and murders tens of thousands of young people simply for disagreeing with them.  Did anyone notice the new Green MP’s Maiden speech to Parliament had nothing to do with the environment? Or that only 5% or so of the motions currently being debated by Green Members have anything to do with the environment? So yes, the radical Islamists have played an absolute blinder.

There’s neuroscientific evidence that looking at beautiful things, esp. plants & pausing to take in the details can alleviate stress & lift mood. Found these in the garden just now-they’re in a pale blue Victorian ink bottle. Pause to give your brain a small rest 🧠🌿

In case you had stopped thinking about #Ukraine

WATCH: Labour's plans to erode our Jury Trial rights demolished by barristers that work in the Crown Court every day. These plans won't help victims - they will make things worse @TheCriminalBar @thebarcouncil

The idea that any football supporter who attends matches regularly and listens to the ‘banter’ from the crowd is ‘hurt’ by the visit of a potential future Prime Minister is so laughable it almost seemed like a comedy sketch Mr Ashton needs to grow a backbone !

Mark Ashton, Chairman of Ipswich Town FC, has just delivered a masterclass in institutional cowardice. Unreservedly apologising for the “hurt, pain and distress” caused by hosting an elected Member of Parliament, Nigel Farage? Not for some scandal, but for the unpardonable sin of allowing democracy to set foot in a football stadium. This is not compassion. It is the snivelling capitulation of a man who mistakes the shrieking of a Twitter minority for moral authority. One watches such a spectacle with horror: another British institution folding before the mob, reviewing its “policy on engaging with politicians” as though free association were now a hate crime. Pathetic, spineless, and beneath contempt. Britain deserves leaders with spines, not this grovelling.

This isn’t good!

SYRIA: A group of young Muslims entered the Christian town of Al-Suqaylabiyah in Hama and tried to rape Christian girls. Brave Christian men fought them and kicked them out. They later returned with a government-backed mob, looted homes and properties, opened fire, and arrested several Christian men who they plan to execute. This is daily life for Christians living under Islamic rule.

We are called "the elderly." But that quiet label hides something most people rarely stop to consider. We are the last living witnesses of a world that no longer exists. Look at us and you might see gray hair, slower steps, and the patience that time teaches. But listen to our story — really listen — and you'll realize something extraordinary. We are the only generation in human history to have lived a fully analog childhood and a fully digital adulthood. That's not a small thing. That's one of the most breathtaking journeys a human being has ever been asked to make. We were born in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, into a world still rebuilding from the rubble of World War II. Our toys were marbles and hopscotch and card games at kitchen tables. When the streetlights flickered on, that was it — childhood adventures were over, and it was time to go home. No smartphones. No streaming. No endless scroll. We built our memories in the real world. With scraped knees and laughter echoing down streets and friendships formed face to face. In 1969, we sat in living rooms staring at black-and-white televisions as Neil Armstrong took humanity's first steps on the Moon. Hundreds of thousands of us stood in muddy fields at Woodstock believing — really believing — that music and community could reshape the future. We fell in love to vinyl records spinning on turntables. We waited days, sometimes weeks, for handwritten letters to arrive. We learned patience because information didn't come instantly. Mistakes were fixed with erasers — not a delete button. Then the world transformed. Machines that once filled entire rooms shrank to devices lighter than a paperback. We went from rotary phones and party lines to seeing the face of someone we love on the other side of the ocean — instantly, on something that fits in a pocket. We watched the birth of the personal computer. The arrival of the internet. The smartphone. Artificial intelligence. And through every single shift — we adapted. Not because it was easy. Because that's what our generation does. We also carry the weight of history in our bodies. We grew up afraid of polio and tuberculosis. We watched science defeat them. We witnessed the discovery of the structure of DNA, the decoding of the human genome, the transformation of medicine itself. We survived pandemics across decades — and kept going. Few generations have been asked to absorb so much change in a single lifetime. And through all of it, certain things never changed. We still know the joy of a cold glass of lemonade on a hot afternoon. The taste of vegetables picked straight from a garden. The value of a long conversation that unfolds slowly, without a screen interrupting it. We have celebrated births and mourned losses. Carried the stories of friends who are gone. Watched the world become something our younger selves couldn't have imagined — and found ways to belong in it anyway. We are not relics. We are living bridges between two entirely different worlds. Our memory carries something the modern world needs — proof that progress doesn't have to erase wisdom. That speed doesn't have to replace patience, kindness, or reflection. So when someone calls us elderly, we can smile. Because behind that word is something remarkable. We crossed two centuries. Witnessed eight decades of transformation. Walked from handwritten letters to artificial intelligence — and never lost our sense of what actually matters.

Listen to Labour MPs sigh and moan as I bring up the rape gangs in Parliament. Are we supposed to believe they want to get to the truth?