12% of Crown Estate's profits pay for the Royal Family (so the UK taxpayer pays nothing).
88% of Crown Estate's profits go to the UK Treasury, so the income directly reduces the burden on UK taxpayers.
Defending Greenpeace's case will *cost* UK taxpayers millions.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

(I still do that)

We didn't even have a landline at home and I really don't know how my parents found holidays to go on as a family. As for me meeting up with friends, we just did it on regular days at a more or less fixed time.

Although I was a dual qualified nurse, (gen and psych), I did lots of Earth Sciences modules over 10yrs, got my Hons and still browse the site occasionally to see if there's any new interesting courses to do...avoiding Santorini basalts though...

The latest hasbara false narrative on X is a claim that there were no female hostages released today because Hamas killed them all.

It is even being spread by Katie Miller, the wife of White House CoS Stephen Miller.

The reality is female hostages were released under previous ceasefire agreements.

Anything to remain in the "news".

"Why is the UK increasing defence spending?"

The Ministry of Defence has put out a short video explaining in detail why defence budgets are increasing, placing it in a global and historic context.

It's a 3min long but it's a good, clear and thorough explanation.

www.instagram.com/p/DPvuCyijJ8P/

I saw them once...in a little club in Dudley...

When I was studying Earth Sciences with the OU (admin centre is Milton Keynes), our group joked amongst ourselves whilst doing oceanography and learning about AMOC slowing that glaciers might one day reach as far down as Milton Keynes and preserve everything in ice. I'm not laughing now.

I'm watching #Channel4 #Dispatches on Ambulance waiting times.
I feel utterly sick. Angry.
Labour were given an NHS in danger of collapse.
Stop making fatuous comments about "Labour wanting to privatise NHS".

Focus your efforts on preventing Tories *ever* getting back into power.

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

Richard Dawkins explains why the gamete-based sex concept not only applies universally, but lists 14 phenomena that can't be understood without it. Thus the concept is not just universal, but utilitarian: no other concept can explain those phenomena.

whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/10/13/v...

Sorry, should have thought to do this straight away!

I'll do a group pic tomorrow once Ghislaine Maxwell's finished.

"We, the people, will never be defeated." Often used in big demos over here in the UK.

Hope you like the doll when I've finished it...might be done by tomorrow afternoon. Have you seen my Trump, Farage, Michelle Mone and Stephen Miller yet? Pix on timeline.

Georgia Meloni, Italian PM. Not known for hiding her reactions very well...has been seen rolling her eyes during previous Trump speeches then whispering behind her hand to Macron and laughing...

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

With the dead serious face...it was hilarious.

For Ghislaine Maxwell it'll mainly be her with the short hairstyle, long black thin strap shift dress and a gold chain round the neck. I'll draw the eyes after some practise.

She enabled the selfish to blossom in the "me me me" generation, and socially that too has been devastating. It's eaten away at the roots of real community and doing stuff that benefits the most number of people, "for the common good".

They charge the RNLI for use of bits of coast for their lifeboat stations too...

Greenpeace UK says high fees for offshore wind developers to lease the seabed is an abuse of monopoly power by Crown Estate

High fees push up the price of offshore wind & will act as a tax on energy bills, to fund the monarchy & lower taxes

It's time it stopped

www.ft.com/content/c29c...