We need to reduce the influence donations have over politics. Preferably remove it. A cap is the only way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot #Climate

When the UK switched from °F to °C, we didn't know what 18°C or 4°C felt like. "Do I need to wear a coat today? A jumper?" We needed a rhyme like 30 days hath September, etc. and so they came up with: Five and ten and twenty-one, Winter, spring and summer sun. Look at us now. #ClimateChange

We all forecast this with Brexit. Brexit was about deregulation for big money in every single way. Banking, trading Money hiding, & of course Big health. I don't hate to tell you I TOLD YOU SO. I NEED to tell you it's your last chance. ACT NOW. Not for me. My health care is in Spain, For all of YOU.

Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #WesStreetingLied #TrumpScrewedUs

Last year, Govt won a £122m judgment against Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company PPE Medpro, for supplying defective PPE The company had been emptied of cash and collapsed Now its liquidators are suing Barrowman, Mone and associated companies personally Short 🧵

Hope lies in building a society that is kinder and more united, both within our borders and beyond them, so everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive. Read more➡️ www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-...

Traders make money on movement. They don't care which way the movement goes.

I am taking a friend punting tomorrow to beat the heat; would you all like to enjoy some Choice Excerpts from the Magdalen College punting handbook?* *these may only be funny to me idk

He should do his first post as Labour leader on here and close down his twitter account.

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

One thing has led to another, and now I have a folder full of news headlines about people getting beaten off. I offer no apology at all.

Commodore gets into the phone biz with Sailfish-powered retro 'Callback'

Connections Puzzle #1102 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Yes?

The company that puts a thin red thread down the edge of each moist towelette will outsell all others within months.

Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing ‘unnecessary’ Pip reassessments

And just like that, it completely VANISHED from the media. But a sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Don't trust me... listen to him 👇

Ooh, ooh, ooh! I'm going to have to redo my banner photo again 'cos I've just acquired another missing book from my Joan Butler collection - "Lost Property" published in 1938. It's quite a tatty Toucan paperback, but perfectly readable. Photo to come soon. So, it's 36 down and only 6 to go! 😁

Bloody hell. I saw Anthony Head doing Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror in the West End in 1990, when he was still (to me) just that guy from the coffee advert, and he was wonderful. Fuck’s sake, Death. Look at the list we sent

Senate passed one 2 weeks ago.

Our democracy broke when too many refused to vote for Hillary and/or Kamala. Since 2016 Trump showed everyone who & what he is. And then they voted for him... TWICE!

Bingo!

Bottom line: Trump has no clue how to conduct negotiations with Iran He fired all the people with war experience in the middle east in favor of shit-for-brains Hegseth’s illegal fucked up plan… and He fucked up President Obama’s deal with Iran… Because he’s a jealous racist moron

This is Copo. He firmly believes this cow statue is his new best friend. 13/10 super happy for them both (IG: copodenievebullterrier)

"He just doesn't want to lose the House because he doesn't want to get impeached." trib.al/X0BP7j7

“I want to kill someone today & it might be you" "They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers" "Other people had guns inserted inside them" "My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"

This 👇👇👇 #covid #covidvaccine #vaccine

It wasn’t a failure because it didn’t do what you wanted it to do. It helped reduce the transmission and that is not what in science is called a failure. Also it didn’t really bypassed anything. Mainly things moved faster including funds and approvals because of the emergency.

You need big signs over your clinic: "Closed By Trump!"

Relations with Israel?! I wouldn't trust Israel further than I could throw Bibi (not his real name) one-handed, uphill, against the wind.

It's been a hot day and we've been digging and planting, and tending to the dog, so, despite the fact that the sun has already set, it's time for pasta and an Aperol Spritz. Or, in Siân's case, a Sloe Royale.

Girl was raped by boys, who also raped another girl, and videoed the rapes and shared them online. Judge Nicholas Rowland refused to jail rapists, he wanted to avoid "criminalising" the "very young" boys. Girl tells BBC decision was like 'rock in my face' www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is fucking great

Show me the backstory. open.substack.com/pub/insidebr...

"In 2024, 22.7 kilograms of Canada-sourced fentanyl were seized at the U.S.-Canada border, compared to 9,354 kilograms seized in the U.S.-Mexico border."

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

Do try to keep up! youtu.be/n9kMcfnr09M?...

The man's a menace to... well, the world, really.

Labour to introduce the Small Business Protections Bill to Parliament! This bill is going to be HUGE for small businesses! It may sound simple - to end late payments - but will save a lot of time & effort & will prevent countless businesses from going under each year from delayed payments.

Strands is a word search with a unique twist. Can you uncover the theme? Play here: nyti.ms/48VAi9f

Bingo!

I’m tired of making allowances. It’s all we’ve done for 18 years while politicians have pandered to the whims of people who don’t want a better world, they just want a shittier place for someone else, cost them what it may.

This is the speech. realmedia.press/the-filton-t...

What a nice chap. Very much full of himself. Well, full of something anyway.

Quote. ‘All over England today, hundreds of new councillors with remits that cover potholes, bins and adult social care are going to be meeting to figure out how to stop the boats.’ 😞

The defining factor for the Reform vote and the Brexit vote is very low educational attainment. Same with MAGA, same with AfD, same with Rassemblement National. Should be enough for all serious parties to put education at the heart of their agenda.

All power to Rajiv Menon. He's going to go down in the history books as someone who fought a corrupt court system backed by a corrupt government. #israeligenocide #filton6 #LabourFriendsOfIsrael