Excellent thread by Sunder as always.

Leavers: "Brexit will mean the UK can get closer to the Commonwealth" Meanwhile, the Commonwealth:

Discovered something very strange. An influencer in India has spent £12K running political ads in the run up to local elections that are deliberitely obfuscated, linking to Amazon shopping but a variant with that links to a now-offline website cc: @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social @tbij.bsky.social

I am a fan of @jburnmurdoch.ft.com but this front-page article in the FT is a perfect and frustrating example of WEIRD bias. Many sociological theories that attempt to explain the world are often incomplete and downright wrong if they do not heed research from the Global South.

What is Burnham's take on Brexit and EU relations anyway? I see all sorts of varying opinions and none of it is consistent.

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Hear me out. Pinning hopes on Andy Burnham is like living in Westeros and hoping Daenerys Targaryen will cross the ocean and smash the wheel and save you. Plot twist: everyone becomes a villain in the end unless you're Bran the Broken.

Not only does this man achieve quietly what every elected representative in the world would love to do, he communicates it with such emphatic confidence and panache. He is undoubtedly one of the most superb humans in the world today.

I know we made fun of Rishi Sunak's trousers, but I think we have a new contender. Wes Streeting's suit.

to expand your statement to be future-proof, lets say that *journeys* shorter than 4 hours should always be train rides, and the goal should be to make trains go faster and faster so planes are only eventually used for transoceanic travel.

movin on up

Reform have spent £250K on ads on Facebook and Instagram in the last few weeks. The Green Party? Only £25K - and only on 6 ads, 2 of which got deleted for not complying with Meta's policies. I don't want Reform to win because the Greens don't know how to reach people beyond their social bubble.

I don't have a blog, a substack and don't write for a newspaper, so I thought I'd treat you instead to an essay as a thread (1/n) ---- I was speaking to a friend about how the King's speech to the US Congress last week made me deeply uncomfortable as a republican and an anti-monarchist.

Banning protests, policing speech, fawning over a King, celebrating a princess's birthday. Look, I love Britain but let's be honest. If there was a dystopian country where most people couldn't care less as long as they got their football and celebrity and royal gossip, it would be us.

We are living in a bizarre world

I think Zoe might be my favourite person I've never met in real life and I am so grateful that she is making these points and saying things that deserve to be examined. This video is spot on.

Imagine defending women’s rights by saying, “we need women because they cook and clean for us.” The argument that we need immigrants to come here as carers or nurses or to do the jobs locals won't do, is equally reductive. Agree? So stop saying that.

Thread: ignore the triggering headline because the underlying data and visualisation is actually quite interesting.

Delighted that our work @bestforbritain.org has made the splash #tomorrowspaperstoday

News about the bottom 50% of the world. The Iran War has caused a serious cooking gas (LPG) shortage in India, where migrant labourers (interstate) are facing extreme economic hardship. Income has fallen from £10 to now £2 / day - while prices have shot up. 🔗 ruralindiaonline.org/article/in-b...

ladies and gentlemen, the manosphere.

Woke up, opened MarineTraffic, what a sight. Finally some good news.

The Islamabad Talks were so successful that USA is now joining Iran in blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump is mad that Iran is making money. In his mind, if anyone else makes money, he's losing. I've highlighted the bits from Trump's utterly unhinged rant that shows how he is treated the US armed forces as his personal vendetta machine.

Budapest ❤️

While we're all focused on Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, and Ukraine China is significantly expanding its nuclear capability ...

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 🤣