It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him. The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

Tim Berners-Lee dreamed of a World Wide Web for everyone. Nick Clegg and Meta had different ideas. In new books, both ignore how profit undermined the internet.

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

The whole of the HMRC Board got me to present to them about the opportunities and risks of AI about 18 months ago and my main messages were be very careful with high stakes decision making and remember the Horizon Post Office scandal which was about governance and accountability…

What is is about the insatiable desire of pathetic old men to sacrifice the lives of young men? Putin is just the last in a long line. My granddad, who survived 4 years in WWI, saw pretty much all the friends he'd started out with killed. His anger at the waste never abated. #Remembranceday2025

Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Time to reshare this piece on the pitfalls of following the road Denmark has taken on immigration: ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...

"Quartz Solar has halved forecasting errors, according to Open Climate Fix, equivalent to saving at least £30 million in imbalance cost per year, with potential to increase to £150 million per year in 2035 if government solar capacity targets are met." www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/07/a...

«The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google … have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout. They have chased growth and scale at all costs …»

It's "Let's copy Denmark" season again. With politicians and journalists making claims about a country they very clearly know absolutely nothing about. Did you know the Danish People's Party isn't the only radical right party in Denmark? No? Maybe you should not use the country as a reference point

“So what do you want to do when you grow up Christopher” “Well, I’d like to support a genocidal state while also destroying the planet. How about you?”

Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release

‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders - From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are introducing their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperatures #C40 #COP30 #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

New post just out: Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list". No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks. It desperately needs a new approach. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday outlined plans to tax commercial flights and private jets, an initiative meant to combat planet-warming pollution from aviation that could hike the cost of business travel.

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

I am grateful for the strong commitment to lawful free speech here, but in the spirit of free speech and open disagreement, I don’t think that the position of institutional neutrality outlined by President Kramer in this interview is the right one: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat... (1)

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

lol

This more Musk as oligarchic vapourware bsky.app/profile/twll...

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

‘Animal spirits’ 🤔 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In normal circumstances the attempt by the US to extort an allied country directly and via large companies would be a major political scandal. It isn't because the US is using such mob tactics on all other countries. We all lose out. www.politico.eu/article/us-p...

I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.

“Yes, but what does he really want…?”

In addition to everything Dylan says in this thread, it’s just a bit tragic for *a government four years from an election* to be saying “they hate him more than us“. That just shouldn’t be your focus four years out!

VIDEO: 🇵🇭 At least 40 killed, hundreds of thousands displaced by typhoon flooding in Philippines Entire towns on the island of Cebu have been inundated, while cars, trucks and even massive shipping containers could be seen being swept along by muddy floodwaters

Also notable that the Tories are on 7% with people under-50. In fifth place. And only 4 points above the SNP in sixth (who obviously only stand in Scotland).

Osborne deserves a lot more condemnation, for not just doing austerity but doing it so cackhandedly: 1. Not borrowing to invest when borrowing costs were at essentially zero 2. Cutting spending by salami slicing every part of the public sector with no real analysis of where could take it

Funny how when people talk about ‘reforming’ the ECHR, they always mean removing rights from people they don’t like.

The next part of my book proposal covers the transition from the analogue to the digital state - from a constitutional and process perspective - how we make state administration in digital systems digitalpolicy.substack.com/p/the-metamo...

Spot on.

Sources for the drinking water of 6 million people in England so contaminated with PFAS forever chemicals, the Drinking Water Inspectorate has ordered water companies to act. Our story featured on @BBCr4today this morning + here on BBC Online: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This seems like a suboptimal development.

Having a stressful Monday? Need to get that off your chest? Behold! The miraculous Lea Desandre….! 🙌🌻💐 youtu.be/U5yaQlkYw7M?...

1/3 🧵🧵 Details are emerging of intimidation tactics used by USA delegation to derail climate action on shipping at the International Maritime Organisation “It’s like dealing with the Mob” said one veteran of the talks www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

A shocking illustration of the extent to which UK universities’ dependency on China for students paying overseas fees exposes them to Chinese state pressure to restrict academic freedom.

When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.

Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt. There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.

New post just out: "Who might replace Starmer?" With pressure growing on the PM, there are a lot of conversations going on in Westminster about who could take over. Who are the contenders? Who's best placed to win? Would it make any difference? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...

“Poor people need better lobbyists….” 🌻👇👌 youtu.be/qJOdqLjNrf8?...

Private capital zombie firms will pile up in next decade, says EQT chief - on.ft.com/4oRW9nv #privatecrapital

“Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?” …

Every single Reform policy is stupid, unworkable & would be counterproductive. In government they would’ve given everyone Ivermectin rather than investing in vaccines. They don’t believe/understand climate science. Yet, for some reason they are treated as potential stewards of the national interest.

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament They were crooks and shysters to a man They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...