In addition, literal stacks of M4000 chemical bombs, used by the Assad regime to drop sarin on civilians in 3 recorded incidents, were found and photographed. Yet more evidence everything we published at Bellingcat based on our open source investigations of chemical attacks was accurate.

Psst: I’ve got an alternative suggestion for how to reduce late-stage cancer diagnoses: STRENGTHEN PRIMARY CARE. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Israel bombed a Roman Fort in Lebanon, over 2000 years old, one of the finest examples of Roman Architecture left on the planet, stood isolated on a hill. But Israel bombed it anyway. They are terrorists, and they destroy everything. Stolen like Palestine 🇵🇸 Reuters

THREAD: I AM NOT GOING QUIETLY: The EHRC’s New Draft Code is erasing my human rights. I am 74 years old, and I am watching my human rights being stripped away in real time. 1/17

Watch out UK, because under Keir Starmer, his AI Growth Zones, launched in January 2025, are the deregulated digital foundations for Data centres in England, Scotland, and Wales. Read my Substack and find out about the zonification of the UK.

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Invest! INVEST! BUY! BUY!

The govt: 1 in 6 young people is out of work! Also the govt: let's bring in AI to eliminate entry level jobs to help the economy! What the govt hasn't mentioned: there are only about 700k jobs available in the UK right now. Over 1m young people. Lots of those jobs won't be entry level.

As some of us are talking about that so-called "UK's first cycle street" in Cambridge. This is my grumping about it.

The Democracy for Sale newsletter uncovered how campaign group Labour Together had hired a PR firm to build dossiers on reputable journalists with the intent to discredit them.

An energy price cap that follows the market isn’t a cap it’s a tracker!😡

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness

The ultimate of modern day Colosseum and gladiatorial spectacle and at the same level of exploitation of humans. It’s morally unacceptable imho. #marriageatfirstsight #industrialisationofhatesnddivision podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

We can't do 'good' in the economy, without a theory of what 'good' looks like. The how matters as much as the what. How we relate to each other, how we value each other, how we work together, how we govern our economy are not secondary questions. They define if we actually reach collective goals.

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Tony Blair on my radio doing full AI Silicon Valley boosterism Unrelatedly…. Tony Blair’s personal think tank has had or been pledged $350 million from Oracle boss Larry Ellison democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

97,659 signatures on the petition to Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK I don't believe that these petitions are very effective in achieving policy change but it is important to have a public record of support for sanity petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

💥 97,500!💥 This Rejoin petition is so close to completion. Let’s tip it over the 100,000 mark to force the government to respond. Given the party in power now realises they need the pro-EU base - are they really going to refuse a debate in parliament on this? Let’s find out! Sign and share!

Rowling, Forstater, Davies and your ilk; take a fucking bow you absolute dangers metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...

All hail the Butlerian Jihad

I am really stumped as to why it is so difficult to make that argument. It’s the reality.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve.news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

I just want to be able to cycle to the supermarket and back and not get killed by impatient drivers. I caught them up approx 20 m ahead as they came to a near stop while negotiating the roundabout junction ahead.

At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken. While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality israel imposes daily

At @hayfestival today with @zannymb discussing my new book, The Common Good Economy. Today | 14:30 | Discovery Stage | Hay Festival | Pre-order the book: www.penguin.co.uk/books/464576...

No one will game this system I tell you, no one. Just look how well this works in say schools-ofsted Healthcare-CQC And indeed Education-SATS Labour seem not to understand vision, outcomes or human nature. We’re fucked.

As a human being this will never be in my name 😡

Most importantly: as a cis woman; a feminist; a historian - this will *never* be in my name. Then: an equalities body that chooses to exclude a specific group; chooses to limit human rights of one community - it is an equalities body that has already dismantled itself and any legitimacy with it.

We can't do good in the economy without a new economic theory of what good is. Everything else follows from this. In the old economics, doing good is a correction. In an economics of the common good, it is an objective we design and work on together.

📉 "We were grossly misled by the 2016 Brexit campaigners, who failed to advise voters of the potential negative consequences which have subsequently arisen. The EU is the only economic zone close to the UK."

London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir

This cannot be shared widely enough.

It's genuinely distressing how much we have lurched to the far right in Britain since Brexit You can see the change by 2017 standards - so many of these British Army warning signs of extreme right wing views are now viewed as legitimate concerns or promoted

😸🍎😸🍎😸🍎😸🍎 As I lurch towards my final destination, I have decided to draw up a BUCKET LIST. Only one item on it: P U N C H Nigel Farage I will be dead* before it comes to court. * But I will die happy.

Perhaps an unpopular opinion but if you’re complaining about the cost of public transport or petrol or diesel affecting your 5 mile travel to work you probably deserve it. Either walk or get a bike.

Want to support the travelling public? OK, but *has* to be equitable. So, where are the plans to reduce bus and train fares? Why not also provide bungs to pedestrians, and pay cyclists? Why just motorists?

A timely and brilliant initiative 👇

Them : "Solar panels and windmills are so unsightly!" Also them : "Ooh... gas powered datacentres" An array of gas powered generators used to generate 20MW of power at a data centre: #GlobalBoiling

I’m so here for this. Boo them off stage whenever and wherever they are.

Now we just need to start booing these people off stage at tech and education conferences. Mock them on LinkedIn and when they talk in person. Make them embarrassed to be saying agentic. Or prompt. Or calling themselves ai experts at all.

Laura Kuenssberg, "Rejoining the EU.. Which Streeting and Burnham have mentioned" Wil Self, "I think the public would be much happier if Streeting stood up and said we have a problem with governmental legitimacy, because of the way the vote on Europe is still perceived"

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

Protests today at Tynemouth against pollution and the failure of water privatisation. It was great to talk to fellow protesters and was heartening to see so many young people and their families speaking out. surfers against sewage #nationalisewater

Crikey, this is significant. All about Orban's regime showering money on populism abroad including the UK. David Frost mentioned as an alleged recipient, plus Unherd and The Spectator. So much for pushing back against foreign interference. H/t @guystall.bsky.social

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