I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

There will be a party like this in the U.S. one day

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Initial results from the Big Survey of >5000 pwME are deeply disturbing… disbelief by NHS healthcare professionals, made to feel their ME was their fault, traumatic encounters with clinicians. This can not continue. More on 11 May👇🏽. Thanks @kacheston.bsky.social and @actionforme.bsky.social.

12.7 million battery electric vehicles were sold globally in 2025. In 2010, the number was barely 10,000. In China, 1 in 2 new cars sold last year was electric. The transition is happening faster than almost anyone predicted.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Trump just openly stating his intention to commit genocide at this point: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

And let’s be clear: even if this doesn’t matter for Americans it matters a great deal to former American allies as it telegraphs very clearly that Congress is not an institutional player capable of keeping foreign policy trajectory stable across presidential administrations.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

Trillions of dollars have been spent to create an artificial workforce composed of the kind of employees who if they were human would probably be fired within a year or two of being hired. Imagine if that money had been spent getting humanity off fossil fuels instead.

"Archbishop Timothy Broglio went on CBS’s Face the Nation to state unequivocally that Trump’s war on Iran is wrong and that American Catholic soldiers, sailors and air crew have the duty to refuse immoral orders." Read the whole piece: charlieangus.substack.com/p/church-sen...

If only there had been a way of knowing that Trump was completely unsuited to high office.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Ironic and tragic that America, the self proclaimed champion of global order, rights, values, liberty, justice, rule of law, non-aggression, free trade, science, progress, is now destroying everything it once stood for and what made it great, under a corrupt, deranged leader, backed by zealots.

As an antitrust lawyer, I get the sentiment. But it’s not down to a lack of laws. Trust me, we have all the tools we need to dismantle the monopolies and oligopolies. What’s long been lacking is the political and regulatory will.

not sure this is a mid-terms winning slogan

“the food security case for intensive poultry is “illusory” because the sector “depends on imports for feed and vitamins, while making us more vulnerable to disease outbreaks like avian flu”

This is why the old NATO is gone and Europeans (plus Canada), need to develop a new security framework to replace it. It's frightening, difficult, and expensive, but that doesn't make it less necessary or urgent.

If Pamela Jo Bondi won't disseminate evidence of Donald Trump's horrible crimes, we can. Below is the declaration of one of his victims. She alleges that when she was 13 years old, Trump repeatedly raped and beat her. Trump also threatened her and her family with death if she told anyone.

New York’s public hospitals dropped Palantir. It can be done. It's time the NHS did the same. Join us 👇 https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media

Why are the Democrats so ambivalent on whether it is ok to kill the government of another state, without any Congressional approval? Is it because it might look unpatriotic? Is there anyone saying international law is a good thing and should be abided by? /1

I am finding it increasingly difficult to tell which side people are talking about.

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared. Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR

That UK government ever considers asserting its contractual rights against a major supplier is rare and welcome. And here, this is especially welcome. This will not be easy but it can be done, but it is good it is being seriously considered at all. www.ft.com/content/2d2b...

This is great news: an immediate ban on political donations in cryptocurrency & a £100k cap on donations from UK citizens abroad. Yes, there's more that needs doing, & the door is left open to crypto in future. But we should celebrate (& applaud) the wins when they come. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Reform’s Mr Tice running into difficulties with floods and his net zero opposition in his constituency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Stable genius.

Finally some stirring of opposition to this terrible, dangerous and immoral entanglement.

i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people

What’s that hissing sound? It’s the soft power vacuum filling up.

By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: 2025: solar 6.5% of UK electricity supply Crucially it’s rising: 13% uptick in the space of a year. End of Jan 2026: 21.8 GW of solar capacity across 1,951,000 installations. For context, a lot more than nuclear capacity which is 6.5GW.

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

The city’s transition away from the car, though fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/CWZvaG8

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

Wouldn't it be kinda funny if we all just collectively decided that the right response to this was urgently building and installing way more of those "windmills" he hates to cover energy demands, economies and environment would thank us also

Two points: 1. They’re not “expats” they’re “migrants.” 2. Them abandoning their pets will hopefully give each and every one of these people just a little bit of insight into the incredibly hard decisions refugees have to make when they’re fleeing war zones.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”. Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.

Other countries are streets ahead of the UK on childhood obesity. Here’s what they’re doing differently | Devi Sridhar

Flooded all the small shops downstream. It appears that the cause is yet another failure of Victorian mains breaking, and the privatised @thameswater.bsky.social have not got round to replacing them over the last 30 years, too busy expanding the company’s debt and paying shareholders.

There is something very ugly about saying lower earners - for example the people who care for our families - are contributing less than high earners.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?