Today, the Chancellor named Brexit as one of the main reasons for expected tax rises and lower productivity. Wasn't Brexit supposed to put £350 million a week into the economy? 🤔 One of just many lies it seems...

Musk's Grok was asked to verify if a tweet featuring a graphic image of the attack on the LNER train was real. I'm not sharing the whole image but here is part of it and the text. 1/3

#20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 1979 The Knack - My Sharona

🎶🎶…Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder Thunder, thunder…🎶🎶 #Rock #HeavyMetal #AcDc

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Paris II

PS (to last post) ... And the INXS self-titled debut, of course. Gave this album an absolute thrashing in 1981 when I was 16 and in Year 11. Still like it!

Paris today.

As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform once more during this general election campaign, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with

Thoughts ?

Farage: epic grifter

Everything about his body language whenever a question is asked about the Russian bribes speaks of panic. Farage is vulnerable on this.

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?

Ed Davey, "I know members opposite are relieved, they're finally allowed to say the Conservative's Brexit deal is a disaster" "Will the Prime Minister act now to repair the Brexit damage by negotiating a new UK-EU Customs Union to boost Britain's trade and grow our economy?" Keir Starmer, "No"

As his landmark Brexit has proved, Farage is a fraud. Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BDO chief pledges fight over ‘falsehoods’ on First Brands work on.ft.com/47m0S9V

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Mollie O’Callaghan 200m freestyle short course world record, swimming World Cup, time, latest news, video https://www.newsbeep.com/195022/ Australian Mollie O’Callaghan clocked a short course world record of 1min 49.77sec to win the 200m freestyle at…

Grasmere - Done strava.app.link/mwF6VD0ssXb

More like @laylamoran.bsky.social in our national discourse and a shit loud less from Reform and Farage and his sycophants @reformexposed.bsky.social

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Energy firms complete UK’s first ‘hydrogen blending’ trial to power grid

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

New polling by YouGov, commissioned by Best for Britain, shows: 46% of potential Conservative voters consider Brexit a failure. Of those voters, 51% say that Brexit has damaged the economy, and 50% say it has damaged our ability to trade with the EU. Full research here: https://bit.ly/46LZq1G

The death of truth and accuracy in the mainstream media Politicians and the media are distorting the truth; how can we avoid being duped? | Gary Gilligan @centralbylines.co.uk @garygilligan.bsky.social

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians. Ta.

Farage insists Reform isn’t racist. I’ve got 20 documented cases that say otherwise. When the fringe and the manifesto sing the same tune, you don’t have a crank problem - you have a culture problem.

Wallabies look to end Rugby Championship on high with turbulent times ahead | Jack Snape

Farage Boats

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

FARAGE: “.. I’d love to sit here with you in two years’ time and we both say: ‘Wow. That WORKED.’” 🤡

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt. Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

Here is Nathan Gill in 2014 blaming the EU for Russia advancing on Ukraine Nathan Gill pled guilty to accepting bribes from Russia to promote a pro Russia anti EU position He started in UKIP, joined the Brexit Party, then Reform UK Here's what he said at the European Parliament

Netanyahu avoids Europe. “Shorter, more fuel-efficient routes may have flown across France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and the UK. Those countries have all signed the ICC statute and would be legally required to arrest and surrender Netanyahu to The Hague-based court if he entered their territory.”

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘A proper gent‘: people share memories of cricket umpire Dickie Bird

Legendary cricket umpire Dickie Bird dies aged 92

Maria Ressa, "By design, social media platforms spread lies six times faster. If laced with fear, anger, hate, it goes viral. They change the way we vote" This is how they got Brexit over the line in 2016

Access to swimming is a huge gap between the richest and the poorest. With 30% from the poorest communities having access compared to 80%. Everyone, including nature, should have clean, healthy rivers. My report at the London Assembly: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

#BBCNews stranded waiting for a plane to land from the US. What a waste of the license fee. 🤦‍♂️