10 years ago today, the UK voted to leave the EU. I have followed the Brexit process extensively over those 10 years. Today, some thoughts on how I see things 10 years on. hayest.substack.com/p/scribbling...

Here is the first section of the History of Mathematics GCSE (Elizabethan England paper) that I announced yesterday. This is the ‘quickie’ section, with six multiple choice questions. I’ll publish the answers tomorrow morning, along with the meatier Section B. You may now turn over...

And finally, here's Section B for my imagined History of Maths GCSE (Elizabethan England). Remember it's just a thought experiment. There are five questions across two pages. Oh, and the answers to Section A were: 1(c) 2(b). 3(a). 4(d). 5(c). 6(d)

2025 was very, very close to going "All Minerals Are Critical"

Slava Ukraine🇺🇦

Magyar clearly getting off to an early start in Hungary. The source of a lot of far right funding has hopefully had the plug pulled.

The unelected Lords has a history of doing this sort of thing. A stain on democracy. humanists.uk/2026/04/24/a...

Labour MPs need to realise this isn’t about getting rid of Starmer it’s about destabilising the Labour govt and getting rid of all of you .. for Nigel and his mates ! The media have been on overdrive on this since July 24 .. it’s the latest attempt but not the last !

Your next government

Trump.

Spot on.

*Earth is falling out of balance faster than ever* That’s a main takeaway from the WMO State of the Global Climate Report 2025. I want to highlight a figure and to be clear, I annotated it. This figure shows the amount of energy being retained by the Earth system… 1/

Australian Prime Minister Albanese has written to Keir Starmer to propose removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession, and will write to the other Commonwealth realms. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING: Australian PM Anthony Albanese has written to Keir Starmer expressing his government’s support to remove Andrew Mountbatten Windsor from the line of succession

Full accountability from some of the wretched Americans involved would be good too. 🙄

And while they're at it they can ditch Harry, his wife & their offspring, the York girls & their offspring. Let the succession, if it has to pass beyond William's three, pass to Edward's daughter. We changed the rules on the succession in 1701 and we can change them again.

Stop treating the Trump experience as an exceptional state, a blemish on an otherwise clean record of "benign" American domination of the globe, and start looking at it as what it is: the same treatment the US has been delivering all over the world, openly brought onto the homeland for the 1st time

TONIGHT Please join me in a moment of HONOR, LOVE, & RESPECT Two Years Ago Today A HERO DIED ALEXEI NAVALNY 47 Years Old He Died fighting He Died for standing up to Putin His life dedicated to make his country free His life dedicated for the people Heartfelt condolences to his family

Five European nations have determined that Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny. This was a cowardly act from a frightened leader. Russia has long acted as a terrorist state, relying on terrorist methods. 
Poisoning political opponents.
Silencing journalists.
Invading peaceful neighbors.

The subject makes possessive but seemingly conciliatory declarations toward his victim, deploying deception and manipulation tactics to bind the relationship, occasionally showing tenderness when necessary to further his goals.

Left: Keir Starmer, "We are not the Britain of the Brexit years any more" Right: Ursula von der Leyen, "Europe, in particular the UK, should come closer" Anyone else fancy rejoining the EU?

This is everything it should be - meticulously researched, deeply thought out, uncomfortably probing, scrupulously fair, AND ALSO outrageously entertaining. This is how progressives should tell stories. An hour flew by.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Apparently, Christian fundamentalists are confused by news that Streeting has now denied knowing Peter three times. "Jesus Christ!" a spokesperson told the Times...

Given Wes Streeting's links with Mandelson and Palantir, both stronger than Starmer's, the question MPs ought really to be asking themselves is, if we replace Starmer with Streeting are we hopping out of the frying pan and into the fire?

McSweeney is gone. Time for Starmer to try to salvage his government by launching long overdue proper action to address all the flaws in our political system - peerages, patronage, cronyism, party finances, MPs revolving door, appointments, ministerial code, business interests, Leveson, etc etc.

The only thing keeping Keir Starmer in place is the lack of an obvious successor www.independent.co.uk/voices/starm...

“Keir had reckoned that with an amoral slimeball in the White House there was something to be said for having an amoral slimeball as ambassador. A meeting of minds. Peter would have been happy telling Donald Trump how marvellous he was for years. But this had blown up in Starmer’s face.” Quite

EXC: US State dept is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in UK/ Europe to amplify Washington’s policy stances and challenge perceived threats to free speech W/ @annasophiegross.bsky.social, @oilsheppard.bsky.social & Amy McKinnon as.ft.com/r/98452b33-5...

This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

absolutely fuck this sideways so hard a fucking kidney pops out

A story about the amazing viola and two of its most notable performers. Some thoughts after watching Rebecca Albers perform a new work for viola and orchestra.

"the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women"--Noam Chomsky

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#WeRemember: It’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the 6 million Jews and millions of others who died as a result of Nazi persecution during World War II. #NeverAgain, #FckNzs!

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK. Another failed Tory joins Farage. Vote for Reform UK, get the worst of the Tories.

2026: Former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK, "I feel like I've come home" 2024: Suella Braverman, "I'm not going to defect to Reform UK"

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BREAKING: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK Who would have guessed

BBC New's BBC Verify with Ros Atkins Prove that President Trump and Kristi Noem lied When they both claimed that Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist As the video evidence which they present, shows otherwise

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

"Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim. “It’s like Call of Duty,” (a first-person shooter game). "So cool, huh?” This was the scene in Minneapolis after agents wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him dead." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

6 million concentration camp deaths prove, unfortunately, that they will have a very good try.