Dottoressa Maggie

Now I know how to describe my JoJo‘s savvy ways when she wants me to do something: Mum-Hooman-herding! She‘s very good at it. I just never had a term for it.

Gisèle Pelicot and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among Hay Festival 2026 speakers The line-up for this year’s festival includes Emma Thompson, Malala Yousafzai, Ian McEwan and other prominent authors and figures

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Yes. Actually was even before the current energy shock.

Yorkshire Water receives fresh funding despite sewage fines and pay row Private equity group EQT to take 42% stake as supplier faces scrutiny over environmental record and CEO’s pay

www.theguardian.com/business/202....

Outrageous!!!
OR we could do this:

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Oh he is! Greetings from Bas, the cat with the bedroom eyes.

Hola @support.bsky.team, my notification count has gone haywire. The numbers are NEVER even vaguely correct. They used to be fine. What happened?

I predicted a while ago that Deform would self-destruct, if too slowly for my liking.

Reform councillors also doing what they do best, being misogynist abusers and getting kicked out. Hey ho just another day for Reform.
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Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.

That's $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

Thousands of lives lost.

People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

There are parallels with British politics here.

Yes, I remember Habeck being undermined and slaughtered! I haven‘t checked what he‘s up to now. He said something about quitting politics. Or is he back in Schleswig-Holstein?

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦‍♂️
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Labour in ‘deep trouble’ with Black voters, Operation Black Vote chair warns David Weaver says proposed jury reforms and slow progress on equality risk eroding support in marginal seats

Black people are disproportionately stopped and searched, arrested, charged and remanded, we are given longer sentences. Only 1% of judges in England and Wales are Black. So if juries are replaced with judge-only trials, then what happens is overwhelmingly white.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK A new analysis finds that Brexit raised the number of foreign-born workers in the UK by about 200,000, but resulted in a more dramatic shift in the countries of origin.

The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social

Brexit

a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce)
b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%)

www.cer.eu/insights/imp...

This is an aspect of the Kushner and Witless negotiating team that needs more exposure.
These two incompetents link trade deals with peace negotiations all the time.
And the trade deals always seem to benefit the same group of people, them or their families.
But mostly tRump.

The money behind the new Iran War In private calls over the last several weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged President Trump to attack Iran.

So Donald Trump and Jared Kushner are getting Billions from Saudi Arabia to use the U.S. Military to attack Iran?

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It is in this house.😽

Great shame that Greens lost out in federal election.

What a hero Cem Özdemir is. What a long-lived politician!

Coalition?

The SPD in Baden-Württemberg (basically the German Labour Party) has fallen to around 5.5%, only just managing to get returned to the state's parliament. There's a 5% hurdle in Germany to ensure parties who get less than that don't enter parliament.

ARD-Hochrechnung zur Wahl: Grüne in Baden-Württemberg vor CDU Bei der Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg liegen die Grünen laut erster ARD-Hochrechnung vor der CDU. Die AfD holt ihr bisher bestes Ergebnis. Die SPD fällt auf ein historisches Tief, FDP und Linke ba...

🌻 German Greens have won the election in Baden-Württemberg! – holding the state and making Cem Özdemir the first Minister President in Germany with a so-called "migration background" (his parents were both Türkish immigrants). Özdemir describes himself as an "Anatolian Swabian" and "secular Muslim".

Ticey cosplaying a UK government minister.

🤞indeed.

A bit like liberating Gazans from Hamas by withholding food and medicine…

Food Prices Tracker: February 2026 The Food Foundation Food Prices Tracker: February 2026 shows families are cutting back on fresh food and reducing the size of their shopping baskets

The @foodfoundation.bsky.social says climate-driven events like drought, wildfire & floods, along with post-Brexit admin costs on imported foods are already pushing up UK food prices:

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UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

The UK relies heavily on imports of food. Recent events have shown, in an increasingly volatile world, you can't always count on ships being able to move about.

Some countries are stockpiling food to prepare for climate shocks, the UK should too, says Prof Lang:

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