Laurence Pilfold
@laurencepilfold.bsky.social
walking, green, left, Icknield Way, Corfu, agiorgitiko, China, indie
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
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Together with my Green New Deal colleagues, Colin Hines and Larry Elliott we have published a document of hope and possibility in advance of the Rachel Reeves event on Wednesday:
A Popular Budget to Fund a Social and Green New Deal.
Please read and share….
greennewdealgroup.org/press-releas...
A Popular Budget to Fund a Social and Green New Deal.
Please read and share….
greennewdealgroup.org/press-releas...
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: AT LAST, A POPULAR BUDGET FOR RACHEL REEVES — The Green New Deal Group
greennewdealgroup.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Together with my Green New Deal colleagues, Colin Hines and Larry Elliott we have published a document of hope and possibility in advance of the Rachel Reeves event on Wednesday:
A Popular Budget to Fund a Social and Green New Deal.
Please read and share….
greennewdealgroup.org/press-releas...
A Popular Budget to Fund a Social and Green New Deal.
Please read and share….
greennewdealgroup.org/press-releas...
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Personally, I'm going to need more evidence that the racist Russian asset and friend to child sex traffickers Nigel Farage was already a racist back when his school report called him a racist.
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Personally, I'm going to need more evidence that the racist Russian asset and friend to child sex traffickers Nigel Farage was already a racist back when his school report called him a racist.
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Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".
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At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.
The remains of Runway 1 on the former RAF North Creake Airfield.
Today we remember all those who took off from this runway and did not return.
#armisticeday #wewillrememberthem #TimetoRemember #RAFNorthCreake
The remains of Runway 1 on the former RAF North Creake Airfield.
Today we remember all those who took off from this runway and did not return.
#armisticeday #wewillrememberthem #TimetoRemember #RAFNorthCreake
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.
The remains of Runway 1 on the former RAF North Creake Airfield.
Today we remember all those who took off from this runway and did not return.
#armisticeday #wewillrememberthem #TimetoRemember #RAFNorthCreake
The remains of Runway 1 on the former RAF North Creake Airfield.
Today we remember all those who took off from this runway and did not return.
#armisticeday #wewillrememberthem #TimetoRemember #RAFNorthCreake
Another win for neo-liberalism - “When I started working in homelessness, the average age of death [for a homeless male] was 47. It’s now gone down to 44. We’ve started to see the first cases of children on our streets. That doesn’t seem to shock people enough.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Crisis charity to become a landlord in attempt to rectify ‘catastrophic’ housing in UK
Exclusive: Homelessness charity planning to buy properties as it can no longer rely on access to social housing
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Another win for neo-liberalism - “When I started working in homelessness, the average age of death [for a homeless male] was 47. It’s now gone down to 44. We’ve started to see the first cases of children on our streets. That doesn’t seem to shock people enough.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Do you remember when the White House had good taste?
Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.
Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Do you remember when the White House had good taste?
Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.
Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.
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ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky
The talks focus on ITV's Media and Entertainment division, which include its TV channels as well as its streaming service, ITV X.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
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If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it.
Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.
Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it.
Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.
Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.
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This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
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Yes, they were just as smart, innovative and creative as we are.
It is only those who cling to outdated ideas of progress who can't grasp that
We need to #Unlearn so many ideas like that
www.earth.com/news/ancient...
It is only those who cling to outdated ideas of progress who can't grasp that
We need to #Unlearn so many ideas like that
www.earth.com/news/ancient...
Ancient humans used plants to build sturdy seafaring boats over 40,000 years ago
Ancient humans living across Southeast Asian islands over 40,000 years ago were building sturdy, seafaring boats with plant fibers.
www.earth.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Yes, they were just as smart, innovative and creative as we are.
It is only those who cling to outdated ideas of progress who can't grasp that
We need to #Unlearn so many ideas like that
www.earth.com/news/ancient...
It is only those who cling to outdated ideas of progress who can't grasp that
We need to #Unlearn so many ideas like that
www.earth.com/news/ancient...
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Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
October 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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Tory MP Katie Lam demands that legally settled families be deported.
Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities.
A line in political discourse has been crossed.
Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?
Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities.
A line in political discourse has been crossed.
Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Tory MP Katie Lam demands that legally settled families be deported.
Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities.
A line in political discourse has been crossed.
Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?
Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities.
A line in political discourse has been crossed.
Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?
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Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."