😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 The deliberate, willful, planned demolition of US public health has consequences

To serve as a reminder that the Kremlin lies, often and blatantly, here is the Russian Ministry of Truth confirming that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

Trump - other countries are interfering in US elections. I have no evidence of course. Trump - here is £9m of US tax payer’s money to interfere in UK elections. Evidence in US government documents. Sadly America is no longer an ally of the UK.

Don't get me wrong, everything is still awful but I'm enjoying the confident political commentators from last year saying Nigel Farage will definitely win the next election sounding just a wee bit less confident now.

“Narcissists' desire for attention, affirmation and control makes them more likely to favour in-person work because it ‘offers richer channels for controlling and commanding reverence from employees.’”

So Andy Burnham has repeatedly committed to sticking to Labour's 2024 manifesto, yet we're now told that his first major announcement will be breaking its commitment not to drill for new oil and gas in the North Sea.

This, if true, will be the end of Labour. No one who gives a damn about human security, national security and collective security can support a government that ADDS to climate change. Not when there are cheaper, safer, proven alternatives. @andyburnham.bsky.social

Great extinct animal name: Purgatorius, a mammal* which lived through the apocalyptic purgatory after the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact. The name‘s coincidendal (from Purgatory Hill, where the first specimen was found) but still fits *possibly a proto-primate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgato...

enjoyable account of the eccentric Buckland family in Islip theoxfordsausage.com/buckland-and...

If true, we get 3 things. None good. 1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration. 2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy. 3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.

Back on live news for @politico.eu after a week helping with morning Playbook, so of course the first article to ease myself in was about why Liz Truss thinks Britain needs its own Donald Trump. Apparently Brits want the "same kind of revolution." www.politico.eu/article/liz-...

Reform UK Councillors Gone

We aim to make Europe the world’s first electro-powered continent. Our new plan could cut gas demand by two-thirds, halve oil use, and save €260 billion in fossil fuel imports by 2040. How? ↓🧵

Why? What wouldn’t he like about bringing an MP? He’s not a dodgy grifter with scams and crypto cons that being an MP would interfere with. He could do the job happily. Probably earns more than being a jobbing comedian….

Allegations Jenrick leadership campaign was warned numerous times that taking money from a foreign national was illegal. Police following this up as part of referral from Electoral Commission. Jenrick said it was the Establishment wot did it & they are out to get him.

"Reform UK platformed and celebrated a woman who publicly called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Yet the moment Nigel Farage is on the receiving end of hostile language, we're suddenly told words matter after all." via Truth Against Hate

Unlike those clean cut American Jan 6th Fa.

Liz Truss' bid to lead a 'Trump-style revolution' in Britain fell embarrassingly flat as she struggled to attract an audience at her right-wing conference.

Pathetic…

In yet another demonstration that Westminster bubble think is totally disconnected from public concerns about the climate crisis: over 85% of Brits say climate change responsible for heatwave - meanwhile parties debate drilling for more oil in North Sea bsky.app/profile/luke...

Direct foreign interference in British politics - we have rules against foreign governments funding parliamentary groups, but this is fine?? Seriously?? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Allister Heath warns of “a farrago of nonsense, revisionism and economic illiteracy” with the confidence of a true connoisseur of such things.

I'm old enough to remember when the entire British right had a month long meltdown about "foreign interference" when Obama said something mildly disobliging about Brexit. The Trump administration pouring millions of dollars into far right political groups in the UK? Not a peep

👏 Quite right.

She means this as advice

Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world. Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Nature 15th July 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why Britain’s privatisation experiment is so extraordinary by international standards. www.arguably.uk/p/can-andy-b...

Welcome to CPAC GB, where Liz Truss is trying to Make Britain Great Again. There are about 500 seats, and about two thirds don’t have anyone sitting in them. Also, Young Bob is here.

The most important energy milestone of the 21st century. In 2025, renewables overtook coal to become the world's largest source of electricity generation for the first time in modern history. Coal powered the industrial age. Renewables appear set to define the electric age. #SWB #Bettrification

It's not #ConfederateGrey by any chance?

Unveiled this evening: the 170-year-old, grade ii*-listed, wildly inaccurate Crystal Palace dinosaurs, now restored to their original colours and off the Historic England at-risk register.

Farage did have taxpayer-funded security after accepting £5m gift from billionaire The Reform leader had a six-person protection team and two vehicles And the lies he tells just keep coming. archive.ph/UOkDZ

🇹🇷🇮🇷🇴🇲 Turkish-operated cargo vessel LUNI has broke in half and is now sinking off the coast of Iran, near Bandar Abbas. Cause remains unknown, but likely struck an Iranian sea mine.

“Weren’t they funny?” For the December 10, 1914 cover of LIFE magazine, illustrator Otho Cushing imagined a futuristic couple in 1950 reviewing earlier styles. Fashion Friday.

"Got him!!!" via Against Tories and Tory Austerity

The trouble is, we will get fascism if Burnham does that. Neoliberalism is, and perhaps always was, the mechanism for delivering that.

Demented don never gets anything right. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/inter...

I'm not exactly sure that this is a good idea. This is what all the screens in 1984 did, wasn't it?

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

"After Milei greeted Thiel at his presidential office in April, the president took concrete steps to offer up his nation as an experimental playground for AI billionaires." www.thenerve.news/p/uki-goni-a...

It's interesting how much of this stuff is coming from within Reform. Not a happy ship.

The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, the Arctic island's leading environmental and natural-resource research centre, is halting new collaborations with US partners to protect its data and scientists. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...?

And I’m assuming all the usual free speech warriors will be coming out in Heather’s defence. Toby Young?

A defence procurement story that (for once) might actually be good news. The Ministry of Defence has bought around 200 Toyota Hilux pickups off the shelf, with only light modifications planned, rather than commissioning some bespoke, budget-quadrupling vehicle from scratch.

CEO said a thing!

"Pete Hegseth wants military officers to be muscular, clean-shaven and smooth white men – a US military made up entirely of living Ken dolls. If a Democratic Defense Secretary obsessed over such trivialities, Fox News and the Republican influencer-sphere would make endless insinuations over it."

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Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez celebrating the UK–EU Gibraltar treaty. This now puts Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory under British sovereignty, in the Schengen area for the free movement of people. It also has a Customs Union with the European Union.