Iranians abroad are a strange species. I get that they're enthusiastic the Ayatollah has been removed, but they're also cheering on the war on their home country that the military-industrial complex is waging and literally want the crown prince to be their king. So utterly stupid.

"reigns of monarchs" are the British equivalent of "number of football fields" in the US

NASA just be messing with the conspiracists now

hear me out: an online service where people pay £5 a month to show political ads to their parents/grandparents so they don't drift so much to the right

This represents 1.5 billion people who are still on the bottom rung when it comes to per capita emissions. For India's carbon emissions to decelerate so rapidly means a HUGE future risk is being removed. This is very significant & positive signal for climate change mitigation efforts worldwide.

On the same day as the bombing of the girls' school in Minab that killed over 100 children, the US used a newly-developed missile to bomb another school & sports hall. This missile detonates above the target, shooting out tiny tungsten pellets designed to cause maximum human damage. (free to read)

You can't tell me America isn't a joke country

People on the march today in Canada, Australia, and London, calling it No Tyrants instead of No Kings "He's just a figurehead" Oh yeah? Then you're either ignorant or just hypocrites.

Israel, USA and Argentina voted against. The UK and EU abstained citing legal reasons (tldr: they dont want to ever pay reparations) The rest of the world voted a strong Yes and agreed that enslavement and trafficking of Africans was the gravest crime against humanity ever committed.

New OECD report on economic outlook. The UK will suffer the most, now only 0.7% growth est for 2026. The absolute hit in $ terms is bigger for the rest of the world. In summary, Trump's tariffs and wars will cost us at least $1 trillion, that's around $120 for every person on this planet.

Joffrey.

This is a wonderful video from the same filmmaker who made the viral Zack Polanski intro. This video should change minds, but it will not. The Greens are relying purely on organic reach, when it should be run as an ad and shown to target audiences around the country. A missed opportunity, sadly.

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

It costs Indians £100 to get a visa just to come by for a holiday. That's around £400 in PPP terms, roughly adjusting for difference in income & cost of living. If the British Museum starts charging for entry, expect the calls to return art to become louder and central to our future relationship.

Just going to put it out here to say that all these intellectual reviews of Matt Goodwin's book are only pushing it further up on google and perversely make the book sell more.

Most people tend to miss that renewables in India are growing at the same pace as China, it's just 6-8 years behind. Within a decade, RE in India will surpass both the US and Europe, and China will continue to surpass Europe, US and India combined.

In case you'd missed this, Elon Musk has a plan to put 1 million data centers in Space. ONE MILLION. FYI, he already has more satellites than all countries combined.

I expect the manosphere and broligarchs to fully support climate action now 🔗 www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

Israeli strikes have killed 850 people and wounded 2,105 in Lebanon over the last 12 days. - 107 children killed - 66 women killed - 32 medical workers killed Per the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

War has unintended consequences, and it is always the poorest who suffer most. Nearly all households in India and Nepal use LPG (gas) for cooking, and the blockade in Strait of Hormuz is putting the food security of over a billion people at risk.

Won't someone please think of the trauma that young IDF soldiers are being subjected to?

Just pulling everyone's attention to Lebanon. There are now as many as 800,000 internally displaced people, who have been forced to evacuate & rendered homeless. A shocking figure for a country of only 5.3 million people.

jesus CHRIST. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Me on Marie's timeline today 🤣

Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour - suggesting Iran becomes a monarchy and joins the British Commonwealth alongside Ukraine. And people listening... like this is normal..

The news that stunned me most last week was that the US struck an UNARMED Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka, killing 100 sailors and leaving the rest to drown. The very definition of a war crime and so horrific.

Bloody immigrants, coming over here, performing groundbreaking surgeries. UK's first remote robotic surgery. Performed by Professor Prokar Dasgupta, born in Odisha, trained in Kolkata, then moved to London where he trained further.

"If you have the integrity to protect the oppressed, you do it wherever that happens, not wherever it happens alongside oil" - George Michael, speaking about the Iraq War in 2003

The home office needs to fuck off into the distance. And then fuck off some more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Nearly 100,000 Brits live and work in India. Whereas nearly a million Indians live and work in Britain. So as a proportion of population, twice as many Brits move to India than vice versa. And yet the narrative is "their country must be terrible, which is why they're moving here".

An op-ed worth reading on Al-Arabiya, a Saudi Arabian news service. "What is perhaps most insulting is not that Hezbollah joined the inferno – but how it did so. Three rockets. Symbolic. Militarily trivial. Strategically disastrous. Lebanon was not defended; it was volunteered."

Simply outstanding read in the LRB. "‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination. Once the blaze begins, distinctions collapse: between the combustible and the damp, the guilty and the innocent, perpetrators and victims."

he ate and left no crumbs

Everyone: let's move away OpenAI/Chatgpt because it supports use of AI in war *2.5 million users switch to Anthropic/Claude* Anthropic, few days later:

What could go wrong?

If any of you were feeling a hint of optimism today, don't. Instead, there's every reason to be very worried. NATO, Turkey, China, Pakistan. The risks of a widened conflict are getting more serious.

Trump: "This war is for regime change in Iran" The regime change:

What a novel idea.

Are we living in an episode of The Simpsons?

The groups of people advocating for wars in the Gulf & West Asia and those against asylum seekers are often the same. Someone please educate them that the two are linked?

Slow clap for the government who saw the election in Gorton & Denton and thought they need to lurch even more to the right.

Apologies to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social for crossposting her tweets from the nasty place, but I felt this deserves airtime on bluesky because of how emphatically they prove the nasty, immoral, opportunistic politics of Reform.

One day before the bombing of Iran, its regime had completely capitulated to Trump's demands on nuclear but Trump & Netanyahu just wanted war anyway. thehill.com/policy/inter...

I did not expect to see a long-read in an Israeli newspaper confirming the murder, rape, and forced displacement of Palestinians, validating the Nakba narrative the rest of the world knows to be true. Kudos to The Ha'aretz for this bold piece.

War never ends well. And it's even less likely that this one will, particularly because it's led by a child rapist and a war criminal on one side, and a brutal Islamic authoritarian on the other.

All of Britain today 💪🏽

The latest immigration statistics are OUT Immigration is once again DOWN … but I don’t know who exactly is going to be happy about it🤷‍♀️

A side effect of this Gibraltar deal with Spain is that many immigrants in the UK will now need a Schengen visa to enter Gibraltar. It was previously governed by British entry rules, i.e. if you have a visa in UK, you could go to Gibraltar. Not anymore. That's around 6 million British residents.

Left: The Labour Party is running this misleading ad on the Green Party's drug policy, targeting a million people in Manchester and surrounding areas, including Gorton and Denton Right: Zack Polanski explaining the Green Part's drugs policy

The Labour Party is running an attack ad on Zack Polanski, targeting a million people in Manchester and surrounding areas, including Gorton & Denton.