Just had Palantir’s comms person call me an ‘anti Palantir campaigner’ The classic 2026 populist move ‘I don’t like what you’ve said. You must be a campaigner against me’ Anyway read the pieces and judge for yourself….

2700+ people in England & Wales died from heat-related causes during May and June. Most likely to be the poor, old. Yet there are climate change deniers who relentlessly push fossil fuels. Earth will be cinders by the time last drop of oil/gas is burnt.

Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, South Korea, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark all have mail-in voting and it works well in those countries. Authoritarian states generally don’t do mail-in voting.

The British electorate voted to get a £200m polar research vessel named “Boaty McBoatface” - the chances of them voting for a man with a bin on his head just for a laugh are surprisingly high.

What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

The supposed free speech absolutist censors checkable facts from being shared.

Count Binface’s manifesto says he’d make water company bosses swim in their polluted rivers. A winner.

Number crunching: “Reform is now the party of workers” From the new Private Eye, out now.

A political gamble looks like it has spectacularly backfired. https://cnn.it/3RuKKyV

One time Biden said "billions" before immediately correcting himself to say "millions." The media went wall-to-wall coverage to say this showed his dementia.

This is all still totally fine.

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.

Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.

It's not 'just another heatwave' it's climate chaos and catastrophe www.theguardian.com/world/galler...

Trump increasingly confused at everyone getting upset at him doing a corruption.

Two headlines about the same story reveal how the BBC relentlessly launders Farage's reputation, even as the corporate media steps up. In-your-face malfeasance by the national broadcaster.

A lot of people are discovering how corrupt fifa is for the first time

On FIFA’s corruption, I’d really recommend my interview with @ncgeehan.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale recently youtu.be/nFHsu0GxIxg?...

The entire consumer-facing "A.i." industry is a fucking scam. Ban it from all your businesses and institutions.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office. High office is now the key to personal and family riches. Former US President Harry Truman once said: "Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook."

BBC lawyers playing Trump at his own game and he's too lazy to have read the rules.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

But please, tell us again how arbitrary and joyless Net Zero is

No one cares that I was given a £5m bribe 🤣

This is great. He's getting absolutely hammered on this and every answer he invents is worse than the one which preceded it

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Oh good, the Strait of Hormuz is closed again. Ceasefire lasted less than a Scaramucci

Tram at entrance to the newly opened Rouken Glen Park, Glasgow. (1906)

Why does Scotland suddenly need 24 mega data centres. What the fuck is going on? This has to be stopped in its tracks. No compromises, just no.

Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, says Bank of England. Other studies suggest 8% hit. After the 2007-08 banking crash, the UK was growing fast and could have at least partially kept up with the US without the disruption. Now scavenges for trade deals. Relationship with the EU needs to be recalibrated

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

You could hardly ask for a better example of investing in vibes over value than shutting down *real* cancer research to free up money for teaching more words to the word-guessing machine because it's about to become God and cure cancer. 11/

[turning on a world cup match] oh wow, cape verde, i wonder where that is [55 minutes later] if cape verde wins it will be the greatest day of my life

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

The 50 richest families own more wealth than 34 million people. A handful have everything. Millions are struggling. End Rip Off Britain. Wealth tax. Now.

There is literally nothing Musk can do that will shake Starmer out of his torpor.

Just stop printing anything this demented compromised fool says. Wait until it actually happens.

This is so depressing. These were not community protests, they were pogroms led by thugs, enabled by reckless racist politicians in NI and London.

You can't "legitimate concerns" a pogrom.

Only one in 10 Europeans now see US as an ally, survey suggests www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Wired - European governments, companies and other organizations begin to end their reliance on US Big Tech. www.wired.com/story/all-the-w...

Like clockwork

Nothing to see here, just the Vice President of the United States colluding with Nigel Farage to interfere in UK elections, and inciting racial hatred and violence - special relationship, indeed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...