The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly. I wonder how they got to this editorial decision? Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk

Sea ice extent increasing as you'd expect N of Russia/Alaska/Canada ... but just look at the N European sector..some parts actually seeing a decrease in recent weeks ..

Stumbled across this mesmerising small tree at NymansNT today. I believe it is the Japanese alpine cherry (Prunus nipponica). I'm now obsessed with this tidy shrub. Will have to come back in Spring to see the blossom. #prunusnipponica #gardens #autumn

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

Beautiful sunny day on the Hill. Max of 20.0ºC on the dot. Probably the last of the 20ºC days this year. Very little rain for the Southeast forecast for nearly the next two weeks. Not ideal.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

CDC website switches back to monkeypox. The name change is just woke vs anti-woke nonsense, but I've always used both terms. In medical communication, it's confusing to change terminology without a very good reason. www.cdc.gov/monkeypox/in...

Quick search. This is what Reform would have you pay for healthcare under and insurance-based NHS. Who’s in? #healthinsurance #NHS

Danny Kruger MP (defect to Reform) being softly interviewed on the BBC Political Thinking. We learn that society is under grave threat from 'woke' ideology, which is 'a combination of Christian heresy, repudiates inherited associations taking an axe to the root of our country'. 1/3

It's amusing that Sir Sadiq Khan lives rent free in Donald's head. #sharialawnow

Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery

I took a look at Labour's Rulebook to see whether there was a viable pathway for Burnham to displace Starmer. open.substack.com/pub/jolyonma...

This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

A risk of some heavy rainfall in showers and longer outbreaks of rain heading up from France expected in East Sussex and Kent by 08:30 - models showed this feature further East last night.

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Cancelled Disney+ sub in the light of their weakness against censorship of Jimmy Kimmel. Here in the UK we can show support while their leader is on our shores.

Today we publish our new policy briefing for our study examining the feasibility of pharmacy #PrEP delivery - www.bristol.ac.uk/policybristo... It offers a vital opportunity to make #HIV prevention more equitable, less stigmatized & more embedded in people’s everyday lives #STI #STISky 🛟

Funnel cloud spotted this at 10:35 just south of Sitges. Showers expected today but more problematic Northeast of Barcelona. #sitges #funnelcloud

Always great to return to the hospitality and sovereignty of Sitges in Catalonia, Spain.

Possibility of flooding from lively thunderstorms now reaching Southeast Devon and Southern coast of Somerset.

Please, if you are worried about vaccines, chat to an NHS doctor or nurse or look on the NHS website for excellent, evidence-based info: nhs.uk/vaccines. Vaccines stop diseases like mumps, measles & meningitis killing our children. Vaccines save millions of lives every year. 3/4

I’m always saying this. Basics statistics is crucial for everything from understanding political polls to reading economic data to interpreting health news.

We've just published the protocol for our Viral Memories project, exploring how gay men mobilised their memories of HIV to navigate COVID-19. Check it out open access in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods: doi.org/10.1177/1609...

Some impressive CuNimb yesterday over France. Timelapse from 35,000ft.

The ‘London shield’ doing its job. 😉

6mm of rain on Streatham Hill so far this morning. Great for gardens. First significant rainfall in four weeks.

Rain warning is out for the SE - rarer than a pot of gold in recent months

so eloquent, so devastating. Proud of you and your colleagues 💪🏼 @drdemetre.bsky.social, equally 💔 that you’ve had to do this

Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!) Epping: 100-150 London: 20 Birmingham: 30 Stevenage: 30-50 Norwich: ? anything of any scale Manchester: ? anything of any scale Dudley: ? anything of any scale?

One of my favourite things about torcs, is that the word comes from the Latin word torquere (tor-kwe-ray) meaning twist, bend or torture. This is also where we get the word 'queer'. So even in its origin, queer meant twisted and wrong, as well as something shiny and fabulous.

26ºC at 14:00 in SW16. Perfect weather for the holiday weekend. Could we squeeze a 28ºC today and trigger a potential fifth heatwave in London?

Racism, transphobia and homophobia are not protected characteristics; nor should expressing such views be free from consequences If your ‘belief’ relies on denying someone else’s humanity, it’s not a right; it’s a prejudice.

Ban cheap renewable electricity from being set at the price of expensive gas - this will reduce everyone's electricity bills massively petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷 BREAKING NEWS At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR. 🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷

🧵 Polari latest | Controversial Irish author, & anti-trans activist, claims there is ‘no such thing as LGBTQ+ & that there are just individuals. This is historically & factually incorrect. It leans into the false conspiracy that you can separate trans ppl from the rest of the Queer community [1]

The cup plants (silphium perfoliatum) have been covered in bees and hoverflies this Summer and they’ve coped with drought and the heat. A prairie in our small garden! #smallgarden #londongardens

GFS 00z hinting at a fifth heatwave in England next week that would likely make this the hottest Summer on record. Worse, very little rainfall in sight for Southern England before September. #drought #heatwave

How can England possibly be running out of water?

Freya likes a tummy tickle and scratch. #caturday

It's been a week. It is now public fact that this PE teacher assaulted me with a megaphone when I was a child at this school. Child abuse must stop. #mandatenow www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A good demonstration of the urban heat island effect across inner London this morning. Near tropical night in Central London close to 20°C with a minimum of 15.2°C on Streatham Hill, only six miles South of the River Thames. H/T Wundermap & Weatherobs

The slow and steady progress to meteorology continues 👀

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

Time lapse from 15:10 to 15:40 as first cell arrived with rain core evident to the right and West of Streatham Hill. It’s good cloud porn if nothing else.

Observationally there is unstable air above us now in Streatham with a fine display of altocumulus castellanus. #cloudappreciation

This looks interesting. Some thunderstorms have crossed the Channel and are in the Solent heading NNE ish. My arrows are awful but it does look like London and the Southeast could see some intense downpours later this afternoon. ETA 15:30 ish? H/T netweather.tv

25.5ºC with wet bulb of nearly 22ºC. Hardly any wind either. It's a sticky one today.🥵

Cluck off! Why we’re protesting Chick-fil-A’s UK invasion Anti-LGBTQ American fast food giant preparing test openings in Britain https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/08/11/cluck-off-why-were-protesting-chick-fil-as-uk-invasion/ #StopFeedingHate #BoycottChickFilA #RuCluck