HAMLET! In the glorious setting of Reading Abbey Ruins opens tonight! Tickets at readingopenair.com

I couldn’t have put it better myself

To any would-be assassins. Please don’t make a martyr of Nigel Farage. Much better to leave him as he is: a 🤡 clown.

Happy Semiquincentennial to all rational citizens 🇺🇸

Stop burning 🔥 fuel ⛽️ to stop burning 🔥 people www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Unlike many of the people who think they remember 1976, I was actually an adult that summer. It was hot, but now every summer is hotter. Emma Monk gives us the numbers

Abandon Net Zero? Drill in the North Sea? No thanks, mate. theconversation.com/heatwaves-an...

Information for Mr Trump and other oil and gas advocates. Between 2010 and 2024, the UK government granted hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences across seven licensing rounds, which resulted in just 20 new and re-licensed fields being taken up and moving into development or production.

Anyone get ear worms that stick with you for days? My current one is Ballad of a Thin Man by Mr Bob Dylan youtu.be/we37yX3zpKA?...

Remember ‘Sleepy Joe’?

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

The climate has ALREADY changed. This is no longer about climate change. It's about climate crisis.

Our energy costs for May 2026: Gas £27.1 Electricity £18.30 Earned from electricity exported from our solar panels: £61.23 Cost of fuelling our electric car: £0.00

Someone on Question Time just said that future prediction was very difficult. As distinct from all the other kinds of prediction, I suppose.

Idiot endorsement of an idiot

🐦‍⬛ on poles

Crows 🐦‍⬛ on poles.

This is a win-win. Either they’ll quit, or they’ll actually fix your problem

I suppose it’s possible that some Reform candidates are well organised and capable people. But we do seem to hear a lot about the ones who are ill informed clueless bigots. I wonder how they’ll cope with the mundane business of planning decisions, parks and gardens, and social care provision.

This sounds like a fun read from Mr Tchaikovsky. Pixar does Bioforms. Can’t wait.

The super rich are the problem ##eattherich ##billionaireparasites

Imagine no misogyny…

That’s what I think too

Search suggestions from Google (facepalm)

These ReformUK election leaflets would be more useful if they were printed on absorbent paper

Heatwaves, floods and wildfires pose rising threat to democracy, report finds: Research shows natural hazards linked to climate crisis disrupted 23 elections in 18 countries in 2024 Democracy is under mounting threat from the climate crisis, with new analysis documenting how elections are...

Certain kinds of people should not be allowed access to to guns. Americans, for example.

It’s a mystery to me why the people of the US are not protesting more vocally. Their media is largely supine in the face of this unprecedented assault on US institutions and values. Wake up! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This idiot Is trying to drag us all back to a bygone age, mindless of catastrophic environmental consequences. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s a fantasy that the North Sea can provide us with cheap, limitless energy. Renewable energy is our only choice. Please take note Ms Bad Enoch and Mr Garage www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It’s infuriating that those who govern are trying to deal with the wrong emergency

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

It’s a dark day for shady foreign oligarchs and tax dodging ex-pats who want to influence politics in this country even though they can’t be arsed to live here.

EMERGENCY!

As we head into another wildfire season: "We find that the observed increase in extreme fire weather bears a clear externally forced signal, detectable at 99% confidence above natural variability and attributable to human-induced climate change." www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

I assume he’s not giving it back and that therefore the World Cup will be a legitimate bloodbath www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

This review got my goat: www.wsws.org/en/articles/... There’s nothing wrong with attributing relatable emotions to historical persons. Shakespeare did it all the time. Macbeth historically accurate? Richard III a hunchbacked psychopath? Are witches, ghosts real? They’re just telling a story FFS! 🤦‍♂️

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Three people I would not mind if I never heard of again: Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Mandelson, and the Andrew formerly known as Prince

I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.

Why I’m not planning to visit the USA, #1

Do both. And if solar parks are built near villages or towns, then offer the people who are potentially affected free electricity to offset their concerns. Solar panels are not nuclear power stations. They can be removed with little environmental impact and can actually benefit biodiversity.

Graceless, insensitive, unfounded. President Trump demonstrates, with this, exactly why Rob Reiner called him unfit for office.

This

What a person does or says or thinks is infinitely more important than their ancestry. You’d have to be a lousy human being to disagree with that.

If you happen to be in Reading with a free evening this week, come and see me in the joyous bloodfest that is Titus Andronicus at Progress Theatre. Unspeakable violence and some banging tunes, just as Shakespeare intended. www.ticketsource.co.uk/progressthea...

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.