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The Prime Minister is hoping that a state visit from a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein will dial down the furore surrounding the Prime Minister’s decision to promote a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s probably the best chance he’s got.

The silence is deafening. A lot of people are feeling anxious and scared tonight. For their loved ones. For themselves. For their community. For their country. For our country. Those who lead us must use their voices, unequivocally, now.

⛽️🚫 The consequences of systematic attacks on Russian refineries.

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This week @fullfact.org has heard *three* claims from ministers about immigration which appear to be incorrect. The stats in this area are complicated, and fiddly, and easy to confuse. But clearly it’s crucial they’re discussed accurately. So what have ministers got wrong? A 🧵 (1/5)

NEWS: I’ve set up an independent anti-racist reporting and monitoring organisation. We’ll document racist attacks, support victims, pressure authorities to act, and amplify the voices of smaller, more isolated Black and Asian communities across Britain.🧵

To a large degree, the collapse of American power is driven by the stupidity of its leaders.

Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...

The PNG Courier returns. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

the juxtaposition of 'let's enjoy Paddington bear!' and 'let's deport human migrants to the Taliban!' is too perfect

I have written to Nigel Farage in response to his visit to my constituency of Bicester and Woodstock today.

Kharkiv right now ❤️‍🩹 I’m almost crying. We’re banned from organizing celebrations. Warned against crowds and gatherings due to constant russian bombings. But we’re alive, and we’ll keep living. That’s our collective "fuck you" to russia.

Happy 34th Independence Day Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini

This little parable is a nice illustration of why it is important for mainstream parties to set and uphold clear, bright line anti-prejudice norms, and of why the failure of senior Conservatives to do so risks doing great harm to their party

We're launching a series highlighting the positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland 📰 You can read our series "Refugees Are Welcome Here" in print and online, Monday to Friday next week

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

Starmer is endlessly fascinating. A live-action character from Yes, Minister. A too-on-the-nose parody of someone who believes in absolutely nothing. A man who seems capable of starving to death in a busy pizzeria while waiting for someone to tell him which toppings poll well. Generational talent.

Some very interesting points in here from Andy Burnham - including this on the Westminster bubble:

Left: Steve Reed, "Nationalising water companies would cost £100 billion, we'd have to take it from the NHS and Education, and it would take years of legal wrangling" Right: Feargal Sharkey explains how to nationalise water companies without costing the taxpayer a penny

all the angles of the Ann-Katrin Berger save are unreal #WEuro2025

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

Wow! Scientists engineered E. coli to convert plastic waste (PET) into pain medicine paracetamol (acetaminophen or Tylenol) in under 24 hours with up to 92% yield. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #medsky #pharmsky 🧪

Fair play to the schedulers here.

At least 78.7% of the UK grid right now - potentially as high as 85.9% if we assume France is nuclear - is generated without carbon emissions. 🔥

British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

Rotation periods & speeds of the planets www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

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What’s actually worth doing to make a climate difference, according to data? informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

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Professor Ed Hawkins is the creator of the climate stripes Here are the #ShowYourStripes for Birmingham, UK #GlobalBoiling

In normal times, the drop in UK exports since the pandemic and Brexit — and how they’ve been holding back GDP growth — would have been a major economic story.

That’s utterly amazing 🤩 🫡

Our response to this government white paper on immigration

This is a really fascinating read. There's a similar/complementary podcast on BBC Sounds called "Birmingham - the city they couldn't kill," which is well worth a listen too.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

The Velvet Underground and Nico performing at Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable, New York City, 1966

1️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ Birmingham 2024/25* 1️⃣0️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ Reading 2005/06 1️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ Sunderland 1998/99 1️⃣0️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣3️⃣ Wolves 2013/14 Birmingham have set a new record for the most points in a single EFL season… and they still have one game remaining! 😅 #BCFC #EFL

Tremendous opportunity for Britain here. Let's see if we can swap our riot-inciters for their cancer researchers.