London's isn't ready for extreme heat. But a crop of entrepreneurial air con salesman are, making millions off portable air con units. "When the weather's like this, there is no competition." Full story below.

Recently "some Meta workers have complained about losing access to healthy office snacks, like nuts, which they said had been replaced with less nutritious options such as chips. Whether the animal marauder in Bangkok found anything to its liking couldn’t be learned" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

Back to the Cotswolds with you Nadine www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The danger of using voxpops in place of real analysis. Cameras are a magnet for motivated activists. These two made it into four different reels + a dozen print pieces. The illusion is that we're getting an insight into "Clacton voters". In truth, we just know what Farage Megastans Jim & June think.

I'm on the #CentralLine carriage again. It feels about 32 or 33°. For the past few stops the lights have been off. Before that I was on a #Thameslink that was littered with rubbish and had overflowing bins. One is national neglect, the other is also contempt. Not sure which is worse

Airlines have put on more flights and routes to facilitate fans getting to world cup matches. They increase flights... where there's demand. Don't ever think our choices don't have an impact!

We have just started a Meet Up group for flight-free travellers. The idea is to have casual get-togethers at various times at various points around the UK, to swap stories about flight-free travel. First meet up London 30th July! www.meetup.com/london-viaje...

Russia bans one of its biggest sources of income! youtu.be/HaKZkWnNl48?...

Climate change folks. There’s a fire at Stratford Station.

Brush fire on the tracks near Stratford Station in East London

A bush fire in Stratford and an inferno in Spain. Excess deaths in the heat. Perhaps people could think twice about doing the things that make these more likely. It's easy enough - cut down meat and dairy, aviation, buying extra stuff etc. Saves money too.

Polanski seems hesitant and uncomfortable discussing the climate and ecological crises (too obsessed with Israel), but is still better than most from Labour. Which is hugely frustrating and frightening all round

These are for people unable to physically fan themselves. Because they run on batteries so heat the air around them. And because on aggregate the manufacturing process contributes to emissions and waste. Most of us can flirt with a hand fan. www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

Keep an eye on this emerging story about Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick's alleged links to a convicted fraudster (dating to the time when he was still a Conservative MP). Police are currently investigating the claims. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/28/r...

Reform UK, Farage, Tice and Jenrick may not hold themselves accountable to the rule of law but sadly for them the rule of law doesn't agree www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When a Green Party member (I think Greens are prone to see race through an essentialised lens) called Chuka Umunna a coconut, the Party was pulled the Council candidacy. These current Greens are high on their own supply

A former, better, less populiist @greenparty.org.uk used to expel members like Hau-Yu Tam who call black people 'coconuts' for disagreeing with their views. This Green Party is soft on this egregious and very revealing racial policing.

#River #pollution #Ilford "Aldersbrook offers a pro-activism win-win; either the river stays clean, or he faces consequences for cleaning it, and in doing so both exposes the “stupidity” of inactive regulators and gets the issue itself in front of lawmakers." www.the-londoner.co.uk/paul-powlesl...

The dot matrix display is broken again. On the Central Line we already travel in inhuman conditions, TfL can surely give us this one thing

This is only "lovely weather" to people who haven't informed themselves of the needs of animals and plants. Watch.

The thing about Marine le Pen is that she's a greedy self-serving crim.

The BBC is making Novax fans look very sinister

This was a desperate hail mary. An attempt to paint a conspiratorial picture that distracts from the pressure he’s under: a formal standards investigation over £5m he never declared, and revelations of support from a convicted fraudster. A by-election doesn’t answer any of that.

Nigel Farage just made his statement on his "future in public life." It amounted to this: it’s a conspiracy, and it’s everyone else’s fault. Yet there’s still no answer to the only question that matters: why did someone on the other side of the world give him £5 million?

A flagship Conservative conference being organised by former Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to host Romanian ultranationalist George Simion, a man who leads a political party steeped in antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/06/liz-...

"Syeda Khatun, 39, was found guilty at Stratford Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 3 July, over the attack, which happened outside a school in Stamford Hill on 10 May." It's getting worse. Palestine is only the pretext.

Montreal police’s hate crimes unit is investigating alleged antisemitic attacks targeting Hasidic Jews in Outremont. Community leaders say several men were harassed walking home from Shabbat services, with at least three shtreimels stolen. Read more: thecjn.ca/news/montrea...

Decent sketch in The Times. Farage’s Gettysburg Address. “Government of Nigel by Nigel and for Nigel shall not perish from the Earth”

No, French and UK law isn't obliged to go soft on popular delinquents

Celebrating Clacton's holiday from Farage with this very easy vegan frittata. 1.5 cups of chickpea (gram) flour, same of water, seasoning, thin sliced veg stirred in, all into heavy oiled pan, onto heat covered for 15 min, under grill, cover again for 5 min. Farage is corrupt and despises us all

Five Labour reasons to stop Rosebank www.sera.org.uk/5-reasons-to...

T is for Trump. B is for blackmail, browbeating and Balogun

After the awful atrocities of El Fasher, the world cannot allow a repeat at El Obeid #HumanRights #RuleofLaw www.independent.co.uk/news/sudan-r...

In the Gramscian sense, Zohran Mamdani has become a monster in his decision to harness the widespread fixation with AIPAC and Israel. AIPAC spends less than other lobbies and has less influence. The fixation is weird, singular and servicable to monsters.

Of for heaven's sake Robert Jenrick, I WANT Andy Burnham to raise your taxes. You're rolling in it. I also want him to raise mine because I'm beyond comfortable compared to other hard - harder - workers. That doesn't mean he's going to raise everyone's taxes

Robert Jenrick is one of the ugliest characters in politics. What crime wouldn't he defend? Of course social media for Farage and free accommodation in Westminster is political. Reform UK would definitely screw over this country, as they are screwing over their Councils

Which may be layers of chewing gum. We can't say for sure. That's the Central Line. Yet we pay the same as anyone else. It's quite the travesty.

Normal conditions on Central Line. It smells because we seem to be limited to two seat re-upholsteries per carriage per year. Some seats mercifully have lost their nap entirely so smell less. You sit on an indeterminate substance with a congealed texture

The Central Line is like a sort of coercive control. You have to use it, it controls quite a lot of your precious money, treats your time as cheap and your body as stackable, heat resistant cargo

The Central Line is what you use if you want to be treated badly by TfL. You will be delayed, disrupted, compromised, and dehydrated. You will be charged for these hazards

Regional devolution depends on - implies - proportional representation, does it not?

The problem with Today is not the race of the presenters. It's that they are chronically under-briefed. The advantage of having Mishal Husain was not that she was brown. It was that she was well-briefed. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Adult gaming centres - harmful, parasites, yet thanks to Tony Blair we're saddled with them www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-high-str...

Strawberries are cheap at the moment. Opportunities for ice cream and preserves

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Just one possible outcome... but the GFS weather forecast model is suggesting 40-41°C is possible in the UK around 7th July. This is a long-range forecast with significant uncertainty, but the fact that we are even seeing such values fairly regularly in the forecasts is extraordinary.

Take back control from algorithm-pushing digital tech companies. They created negative externalities, so they owe us. Meta, Alphabet, Tiktok, WeChat, and the rest

If Andy Burnham doesn't recognise the threat he faces, and act upon it, his honeymoon period will last as long as Keir Starrmer's. Here's what he can do for starters. medium.com/@pauliewauli...

still waiting for AI to solve climate change

'A soup of toxic waste': E.coli levels in Thames '30x higher than usual' after sewage discharges during heatwave. Execs are rewarded for endangering biodiversity, human and marine life. Sewage dumping the result of decades of infrastructure neglect. Customers fleeced to pay dividends.