Russell England
@russellengland.bsky.social
Moodle/Totara developer
Love travelling (41 countries so far), silly jokes, Marmite
Brummie, Remoaner, bit of a nomad, fact finder
Mostly post about climate, Brexit, health, poverty, UK politics and comedy
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Love travelling (41 countries so far), silly jokes, Marmite
Brummie, Remoaner, bit of a nomad, fact finder
Mostly post about climate, Brexit, health, poverty, UK politics and comedy
🌍💉💙🇪🇺🧳🌻🇺🇦🍉🗿🐧
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime"
- "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain, 1869
- "Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain, 1869
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
"Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise."
#Gullis
#Gullis
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
"Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise."
#Gullis
#Gullis
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"Can we have our bomb back please?"
So Israel tried to blow up Lebanon
And the US is demanding that Lebanon return the missile?
And the US is demanding that Lebanon return the missile?
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Can we have our bomb back please?"
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Might the Telegraph now consider an apology to ‘the Brexit mutineers’ and consider what it is that constitutes patriotism?
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Might the Telegraph now consider an apology to ‘the Brexit mutineers’ and consider what it is that constitutes patriotism?
Also making the point that if Russia is demanding that Ukraine reduces their army, then so should Russia
This week could be pivotal for diplomacy.
It is clear that Russia does not want peace, and therefore we need to make Ukraine as strong as possible.
My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council on Defence ↓
It is clear that Russia does not want peace, and therefore we need to make Ukraine as strong as possible.
My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council on Defence ↓
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Also making the point that if Russia is demanding that Ukraine reduces their army, then so should Russia
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What a freakin tragedy and yet all I can hear in my head is that narcissistic twat shouting Drill baby drill www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand – latest updates
Hundreds remain missing in Indonesia and Sri Lanka as rescue efforts continue after Cyclone Ditwah
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
What a freakin tragedy and yet all I can hear in my head is that narcissistic twat shouting Drill baby drill www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
So Israel tried to blow up Lebanon
And the US is demanding that Lebanon return the missile?
And the US is demanding that Lebanon return the missile?
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So Israel tried to blow up Lebanon
And the US is demanding that Lebanon return the missile?
And the US is demanding that Lebanon return the missile?
$10 - 700% = minus $60
10 × (1 - (700 / 100)) = -60
I can see why Trump managed to bankrupt 4 casinos
10 × (1 - (700 / 100)) = -60
I can see why Trump managed to bankrupt 4 casinos
Dem leaders should just call him a lying sack of shit.
First, it’s memorable.
Second, it’s true
First, it’s memorable.
Second, it’s true
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
$10 - 700% = minus $60
10 × (1 - (700 / 100)) = -60
I can see why Trump managed to bankrupt 4 casinos
10 × (1 - (700 / 100)) = -60
I can see why Trump managed to bankrupt 4 casinos
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UK weather: Danger to life warning for parts of UK as 'month's worth of rain' to fall in 24 hours
UK weather: Danger to life warning for parts of UK as 'month's worth of rain' to fall in 24 hours
There could be a "danger to life" from heavy rain and flooding across much of Wales until Tuesday, with up to a month's worth falling within 24 hours, forecasters have warned.
news.sky.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
UK weather: Danger to life warning for parts of UK as 'month's worth of rain' to fall in 24 hours
In no surprise to anyone
Israel has state sponsored torture
- UN Commission
Israel has state sponsored torture
- UN Commission
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In no surprise to anyone
Israel has state sponsored torture
- UN Commission
Israel has state sponsored torture
- UN Commission
"It's just the weather"
Water drying up will affect food supplies and increase food prices
#GlobalBoiling
Water drying up will affect food supplies and increase food prices
#GlobalBoiling
Meanwhile, water shortage in countries like Spain could affect food supplies in the many countries they produce food for.
5/6
5/6
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"It's just the weather"
Water drying up will affect food supplies and increase food prices
#GlobalBoiling
Water drying up will affect food supplies and increase food prices
#GlobalBoiling
Well, well, well...
Ryan Bourne, part of the "Economists for Brexit" campaign group and an economist at the Cato Institute
Admitting, 9 years later, that Brexit is bad for our economy
"We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe"
Ryan Bourne, part of the "Economists for Brexit" campaign group and an economist at the Cato Institute
Admitting, 9 years later, that Brexit is bad for our economy
"We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe"
We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe
Breaking free from the EU has undoubtedly deepened the UK’s malaise, and it’s no use denying it
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Well, well, well...
Ryan Bourne, part of the "Economists for Brexit" campaign group and an economist at the Cato Institute
Admitting, 9 years later, that Brexit is bad for our economy
"We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe"
Ryan Bourne, part of the "Economists for Brexit" campaign group and an economist at the Cato Institute
Admitting, 9 years later, that Brexit is bad for our economy
"We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe"
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Some odd double standards on antisemitism going on from the Jewish Chronicle’s Stephen Pollard…
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
The man who took down Corbyn over antisemitism gives Farage a free pass
Former Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard seems to have changed his tune despite revelations about Reform’s leader
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Some odd double standards on antisemitism going on from the Jewish Chronicle’s Stephen Pollard…
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
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The country is losing £90 billion a year in tax revenue because of Brexit
Which Sunak campaigned for
He can shut the F up about powering the country's economy
Which Sunak campaigned for
He can shut the F up about powering the country's economy
So much winning...
Brexit is costing the average Briton £2,700 to £3,700 a year
Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenue
Analysis from the House of Commons Library
Brexit is costing the average Briton £2,700 to £3,700 a year
Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenue
Analysis from the House of Commons Library
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The country is losing £90 billion a year in tax revenue because of Brexit
Which Sunak campaigned for
He can shut the F up about powering the country's economy
Which Sunak campaigned for
He can shut the F up about powering the country's economy
Can't see any action being taken by the Trump administration though
Ummmm, seems like whiskey Pete maybe shouldn’t have tweet about the war crimes.
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Can't see any action being taken by the Trump administration though
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A fact being ignored even more than usual: 70% of the money from abolishing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work (via @ippr.org).
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A fact being ignored even more than usual: 70% of the money from abolishing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work (via @ippr.org).
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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Long shot Bluesky, left this on the 144 Worcester to Catshill last Friday.
Small reward if found.
Small reward if found.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Long shot Bluesky, left this on the 144 Worcester to Catshill last Friday.
Small reward if found.
Small reward if found.
"Trump’s United States can no longer be considered an ally of Europe, which is not even consulted on matters affecting its own security. Europe must acknowledge this shift in US policy and respond accordingly.”
- Josep Borrell, former VP of the EC and former Foreign Affairs Representative of the EU
- Josep Borrell, former VP of the EC and former Foreign Affairs Representative of the EU
The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism
Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"Trump’s United States can no longer be considered an ally of Europe, which is not even consulted on matters affecting its own security. Europe must acknowledge this shift in US policy and respond accordingly.”
- Josep Borrell, former VP of the EC and former Foreign Affairs Representative of the EU
- Josep Borrell, former VP of the EC and former Foreign Affairs Representative of the EU
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
"An order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime"
2 of the occupants survived the first missile, Hegseth gave the order to kill them all
2 of the occupants survived the first missile, Hegseth gave the order to kill them all
Sounds to me like someone has just booked themselves a place in court.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all — The Washington Post
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
apple.news
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"An order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime"
2 of the occupants survived the first missile, Hegseth gave the order to kill them all
2 of the occupants survived the first missile, Hegseth gave the order to kill them all