Formal Prime Minister? Dear oh dear.

It is 1996. The president was born in 1946. It is 2006. The president was born in 1946. It is 2026. The president was born in 1946. (2016 was an outlier and should be disregarded.)

I do love gate bracing, particularly adjustable ones like this, but I think it’s the wrong way round…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy capital growth come, thy riches be won, on Earth, that it become Hell. Lead us not into rewilding, but generate asset growth, for we desire money, power and glory, forever and ever, Amen.

#KCSIE2026 still does not name #ClimateChange. But heat, flooding, water disruption, climate distress and misinformation are already shaping pupils’ welfare, attendance, behaviour and learning. I’ve created a free climate-literate safeguarding INSET resource for DSLs. Please share with school leads

Here’s Herr Trump’s stock as of Friday. This shows the past 2 years. The all-time high Trump Media & Technology Group stock closing price was 97.54 on March 04, 2022. As of Friday it closed at 8.54. Thoughts an prayers 😁🤣😁

Up, up and away!

This is incredible!

Virgin Media fined £28m for repeatedly preventing customers from cancelling contracts. "Deliberate call-dropping" tactics, customers put on hold "for no reason". Commission scheme "effectively encouraged" and rewarded abuses. No exec fined/charged for carefully designed scam to fleece customers.

8pm BST today…

Education is the most important thing in the world. We should invest in it. Everywhere.

Hmm. This doesn’t end well.

"Farage was given a deadline of 1pm on Tuesday to respond to the Guardian about this article. He gave a video address at 2pm announcing he would force a byelection in his seat of Clacton-on-Sea."

Just needs an anti-sleaze independent candidate to stand and win — like Martin Bell — how about it @carolvorders.bsky.social ?

Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.

Has FIFA told us what the final score in Monday’s USA v Belgium game is going to be yet?

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

www.maptap.gg July 4 100🎯 100🎯 93🏆 81🌟 87🎓 Final score: 890

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

Teachers! The TPS is being made more affordable, with cut to employer contributions… assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a4514...

Excellent piece by Jonathan Freedland on the idiocy of climate denial - and media distraction from the crisis -in the midst of an unprecedented heatwave that climate scientists have firmly attributed to global heating. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brexit ten years on: unsettled and unsettling. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on the connections between Starmer’s resignation & the referendum anniversary, and why that anniversary isn’t a commemoration but an episode within the ongoing saga: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/brex...

Surface transport is central to Carbon Budget 7. It is currently the UK’s largest emitting sector by a large margin🧵

Looks like the laser guide star from an epic telescope!

Great panel led by @lucysiegle.bsky.social @octopus.energy #OctopusETS26 — all inspiring stories! 🫶🏻

John Kerry just admitted the COP process has failed and won’t be the way we solve the climate crisis. And that Physics is in charge! @octopus.energy #OctopusETS26

Trying not to despair while people all around me claim the hot weather is “lovely” rather than a sign of how we've fucked up the climate.

This is great news, and was always going to happen with scaling up production scale.

I need you to know that the shipping container into which the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was packed for transport to the launchpad is called the Chariot, and the barge pulling the container to Cape Kennedy is called the Pegasus. So yes, this is a picture of a Pegasus pulling a Roman Chariot.

Great photo. That mist!

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The Met Office is forecasting 39°C for London on Wednesday. It's very possible somewhere will see 40°C, equalling the national record max temperature set just four years ago. It's about time we began taking climate change seriously.

Albania is bringing that real energy ✊

The complete loss of cold years in the Arctic since the 1980s is astounding. The last "blue" stripe was 1992, following the Pinatubo Volcano eruption in the summer of 1991. #ShowYourStripes #Climate #Arctic

Lesser-known-fact: the summer #solstice is a moment in time that delivers the longest day/shortest night in the North. At 9:24am (BST) the North Pole will be at its most-tilted towards the Sun. Me & the druids will be on #BBCR4 Broadcasting House later on to celebrate 🤗🔭🧪 📷: National Maritime Museum

I will never understand a woman voting for a Republican. Don’t you understand they would literally sign your death warrant to force you to deliver a pregnancy? They stand with rapists. They stand with domestic abusers. They stand with pedophiles.  Women are second class citizens to Republicans.

The Strait of Hormuz just closed again, there's a worldwide affordability crisis, AI is either going to destroy our jobs, or destroy the economy when the bubble bursts. The world faces demographic collapse, multiple wars, and catastrophic global heating. And this is the leader of the free world.

We await the condemnation from Farage, Lowe etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good grief, the records could be hit for 6!

Who could have predicted this? 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's only Algae if it comes from the L'Algae region of France, otherwise it's Sparkling Slime

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Teachers! What are we doing wrong? Exponential button used. @casiojapan.bsky.social

What a world.

Absolutely, what a feeling... #BookSky

Important.

☀️ Air conditioning likely needed in parts of UK in medium term. ⚡️ Until then, cut foil blankets to window size & blue tac to frames. 😎 Incredibly effective to keep indoors cool.

We have to stop burning stuff. www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/coal-po...

So clear.