The Al-Furqan neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria Syria hasn’t had more than 4 hours of state electricity a day for years, due to civil war and international sanctions. In response people have embraced a reliable electricity source - solar power and batteries!

Orban optimistically claims that high turnout tends to favor governing parties. Seems unlikely in this election. Turnout as of 11am was an extraordinary 38%, up from 26% in 2022. mandiner.hu/kulfold/2026...

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

OK, now do bribes.

The extent to which Netanyahu has detroyed Israel's global reputation is hard to overstate.

EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Sir Ian Cheshire will also take on ultimate responsibility for Ofcom’s response to GB News, which employs multiple current Reform politicians as hosts ✏️ @jamesrball.com

What Israel is doing to Lebanon is obscene, carpet bombing civilians, massacring people in their hundreds, total disregard for human life. Truly plumbing the depths of evil. The single greatest source of violence and instability in the region and it's not even close.

Look at who Nigel Farage has Welcomed into Reform UK Ltd and then Tell Us who has Broken Britain

CARNEY: “.. Many of our former strengths — which rested on our close ties with the United States — have become our weaknesses.” 🇨🇦

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands. Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller,

Last night, Putin's killer drones again hit apartment buildings in Odesa, killing two innocent citizens, damaging a dorm and a kindergarten. Last Monday, they murdered a mother and her 2-year-old daughter in the same city. Those crimes are no outliers in a war "for a few square km"

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

It would be pretty bloody hilarious if a big Brexiter reason for leaving the EU (“We’ll be forced to join an EU army”….in fact we had a veto so another big fat lie) turns out to be a big fact reason for choosing to rejoin.

If you vote for Reform you get the man that lied to us about Brexit costing our country Fortune and our country poorer and you get the Tories. But not the capable ones. The disgrace ones. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧☕️🫖

War is good for business

Continued: “A European army is not a loss of sovereignty; it is the protection of our sovereignty against giants that only understand the language of force — & that only respect those who impose power & real capacity to respond"

Trump made every mistake in the strategy book but also some new ones that aren't in any book because he's so absurd.

'A Vote for Reform UK = a vote for Tories. I love the way this states "current" Once this ship sinks, where else have they got to go?' via Notts Unison Branch #SocialistSunday

Brexiters turn their backs on Donald Trump after Iran chaos www.ft.com/content/385a...

Reform’s racism, corruption and howling uselessness are being exposed every day. And every day, our mainstream media pretty much universally ignores all of it. If they want to give airtime to Reform for their many attention-seeking press conferences, do the same for their fuck-ups. For balance.

Hungary: National parliament election Turnout at 11:00 AM CEST 2010: 24.78% 2014: 23.23% 2018: 29.93% 2022: 25.77% 2026: 37.98% Source: Nemzeti Választási Iroda ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary #Hungary

To all those men asking why these women didn’t file police reports, I direct you to the Epstein files as an example. Despite police reports, in some cases depositions under oath and NO justice has been dispensed from a court of law. The women are re-traumatized and the men are free.

🇭🇺Hungary’s turnout is breaking records: 16.89% by 9am (2022: 10.31%). Areas where the opposition Tisza party did well in last year’s EP vote are overperforming. Urban, strongly anti-Orbán voters—who tend to vote later—are just starting to head to the polls. Follow me for #HungaryElection updates!

It is hilarious in every way but my fingers are still firmly crossed for Hungary today.

The Cardinal of Washington Robert McElroy has called on Catholics to go beyond just prayer in their struggle to protect democracy and end the war in Iran. It's almost as if the Catholic Church has been reborn since Leo took over as Pope. I've seldom seen it so willing to stand up for what's right 🕊

Good luck to my friend Viktor Orban with the election in Hungary. I hope that one day I get the chance to emulate his good work of controlling the media, undermining the independence of courts, rigging the electoral system, politicising the civil service and surveilling political opponents.

Of course, the opposite also true: the USA chose not to accept Iran’s terms. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Reform UK donor linked to sanctioned Iranian conglomerate A churchwarden behind a £200,000 gift to Nigel Farage’s party is the director of a company cited in French intelligence memos

🗓️ The countdown is on: next Sunday, London’s St George’s Day Festival returns to Trafalgar Square. Londoners and visitors can enjoy the best of English live music, dance, workshops, crafts and street food. There’s something for everyone. www.london.gov.uk/events/st-ge...

The MP for Dubai exposed again.

From 2015-18 an international deal saw Iran’s progress towards nuclear weapons halted. Trump tore up the deal & Irans’s nuclear capacity accelerated rapidly. Having lost a war Trump is now trying to resurrect a deal he broke & clear a strait that was open. armscontrolcenter.org/the-iran-dea...

"When a long-awaited rail link opens between northern Finland and Sweden, it will be possible to travel some 5,000km by train from Portugal's Algarve to Kolari in Lapland – Finland's northernmost station." #Trains #ClimateAction 🛤️ yle.fi/a/74-20220038

A superb summary piecing together where the USA as a sinking ship is now. This should scare a few more Americans into action, but it's not enough - what gives, as they say over there? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

Two recent studies have re-examined risk of birds colliding with rotor blades of wind turbines. Research found that there was not a single collision. "The results from Aberdeen Bay show that modern offshore wind farms can be operated with low risk to wildlife." www.euronews.com/2026/04/11/t...

"And major Tory Party Donor and Brexit Supporter" observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Trump is the one with Trump derangement syndrome! #TDS

6/ For those afraid of Magyar I would say, the only hope of toppling Orbán is someone conservative, but anti-corruption and with a firm belief in the unity of the EU and NATO. Many feared what Meloni's election in Italy would mean. She's done well, so I'm hopeful of a similar outcome

This is the Ukraine thread, with all the fact checked news every day. Today is Day 1509, also (hopefully) known as "Orbexit Day" as the Barrel of Russian effluent in Budapest [Orbán] may finally be kicked out of office by voters🤞 Anyway let's get this thing started..

Painting by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ 1885-86. Oil on canvas. 174 x 153.7 cm

Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!

Morning all. Photographer John Bulmer, Lone House Black Country, 1960s.

Could you imagine? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

🔥 I took a couple of days to compile this long analysis. The elections in Hungary tomorrow are seismic, globally. So I cover: - The rise of Orbán - Orbán’s weakening - The emergence of Péter Magyar - The election battle - The JD Vance visit - What it all means for Hungary, the EU, Putin & Trump

The US-Iran peace talks failed. Vance is returning to America empty-handed while Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei says the talks took place in "an atmosphere filled with mistrust, suspicion and doubt".

The port of Antwerp at the Scheldt Gate Albrecht Dürer, 1520. (Albertina, Vienna)

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Calligraphy by Barbara Galińska #StopWar