“Go on, say you thought it was crap.”

Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.

If we’re going to have a Minister for AI can we also have a Minister for Where’s All The Fucking Water Gone?

“Someone should invent a high tech self-replicating machine that uses solar energy to remove carbon from the air and turn it into a sustainable building material. Oh wait, that’s what trees are.” (Surveee) Alaska is home to two of the nation’s largest national forests: the Chugach and Tongass :-)}

England & Wales water firms lose 2.87bn litres a day, 20% of all water pumped through network. Hosepipe ban would save 577m(4%) litres a day. Violating hosepipe ban is a criminal offence, potential penalty of £1,000. No water execs fined or prosecuted. No new reservoirs built since privatisation

When my parents said “I’ll give you something to cry about” I never imagined it would be a devastating climate crisis, hoarded generational wealth, and voting away our rights to broader European freedoms.

Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"

A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs

Data centers are a threat to everyone. Period.

Scarborough to Spineless Speaker Johnson: “I’m not gonna mock you, Mike, I’m just gonna call you a liar. Because that’s what you are. You know EXACTLY what happened in Maine.” #AbolishICE

The shamelessness of a political party which is led by a man who just weeks ago called for "pure cold rage" on the streets, shortly before migrants were literally burnt out of their homes, now accusing their opponents of "stochastic terrorism" against them, is quite something

After Zia Yusuf accuses critics of endangering Reform politicians with violent language, he is read a list of quotes where he called Reform's opponents "lunatics who deserve extinction", "sick arsonists" and "traitors" who will face a "reckoning". He says these are in "a totally different category"

Hosepipe ban map: Where restrictions are in place as UK heatwave continues. Hosepipe bans as water companies lose trillion litres of water to leaks. No new reservoir since 1989. No national water grid. Yet govts talk about resilient infrastructure and persist with water privatisation.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... "Labour must provide more job support instead" says McFadden "Job Support", where people with physical or mental disability are concerned, means forcing people to work who are unable either temporarily or permanently to do so under thhreat of losing benefits 1/2

Tory govt wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds. Its “VIP lane” gave high priority for PPE contracts to companies with connections to the Tories. Baroness Mone's PPE Medpro was one example of crony contracts. Most of the money won't be recovered.

Johnson failed the UK just like Trump is failing the US. Both cut from the same cloth.

You'd think the intelligence services having to raise the national terror threat level because of a surge in Nazi terrorism might have been a bigger story

Reform and their supporters now trying to reframe all journalistic scrutiny of them as being dangerous political attacks, bordering on terrorism. A preview of what we could expect from a Reform government

Telling your followers to burn down hotels with asylum seekers in them is "hurty words". But Dan Hodges doing a few tweets is grounds to call the police.

"A white, British man has been arrested..." When our police routinely begin announcements with the skin colour and nationality of suspects, you know the right wing xenophobes and racists are winning.

Reporting like this is why I stopped paying the licence fee. Life expectancy has fallen, because we allow preventable illnesses to run rampant through society, & limit sick pay! BBC News - We are living fewer years in good health: Is the NHS part of the problem? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has died after a "brief and sudden illness"

Me examining a new follower

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

‘Like a sauna’: London tube travellers swelter in temperatures higher than legal limit for cattle

We are forced to exist in a world where the same people who believe a man built a boat big enough for every animal don't believe in climate science because it’s “unproven.”

‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms

To those who argued with me that ‘wet bulb conditions’ couldn’t exist indoors and that the term itself was ridiculous FUCK YOU Kids are left unprotected at school again; first with Covid, now with heatstroke caused by governments inaction on ventilation. Fucking criminal neglect. #DontLookUp

Let's take this bit at a time. The editor of The Spectator, defender of the working class, and protector against immigrants is privately educated former Tory minister Baron Gove of Torry, formerly in relationships with an American, another American, and then a woman raised in Rome. 1/

I didn't know she'd died. The news was totally eclipsed by the news of Bonnie Tyler's death.

Superbe I still speak appalling French! Allez les blues Baissez Mon cou Etcetera

The point which Fox misses is that Farage's behaviour shows contempt for standards of parliamentary accountability.

“At one stage I even flew to Australia to get him to answer my questions” Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on her loooong decade investigating Nigel Farage* *including first raising questions about George Cottrell in 2018 🤔

Some crucial points here on the great Carbon Capture and Storage con by @sioldridge.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Here’s the weather report for the foreseeable future. #DontLookUp www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

One Earth Solar Farm has been approved, and will be the 2nd largest solar farm in the UK The decision comes a week after approving the mega Peartree Hill and Dean Moor solar farms It's the 30th nationally significant clean energy project approved by Govt since July 2024. Enough to power 19m homes.

TL;DR: “Look, these morons in Clacton don’t care if I’m a crim, they’ll still vote for me.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That’s quite a take! Farage is still somehow the victim of the thing he himself decided to do! 😂😂😂

It is *not* "special treatment" to apply to legal migrants the rules that were in force when they came What is "special" [ie vindictive & politically/economically counterproductive] is to retrospectively change the rules for those migrants to fulfil a deportation agenda inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Many govt ministers, advisers and half the parliamentary party have just not yet clocked that Mahmood's could see 750k people (about three-quarters of those on the 15 year route) lose their legal status by 2029. Mostly black/Asian Commonwealth migrants (eligible to vote!) bsky.app/profile/jame...

Again, I beg MPs and the government to actually look at the policy they may or may not be implementing and think through both the human consequences and their willingness to have 1/6 of all care staff be deported.

Looking forward to making my second ever visit to Clacton.

Farage announced the by-election within an hour of the deadline he was given by the Guardian for responding to the story

Nigel Farage £5 million 'gift' from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it was money laundering. The whistleblowers alerted the NCA as they were "not satisfied they could trace the ultimate origin of the funds."

"I said Nigel Farage is very principled calling a by-election. What did I say Roy?" "You said he's an attention seeking gobshite who's playing the victim in a desperate attempt to avoid scrutiny"