Turns out "cattle catch TB from other cattle **15 times** more often than from badgers." Yet the slaughter of innocent badger families goes on. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Trump is bad at reaching meaningful agreements with autocrats. He failed in his first term with Kim Jong Un. He played chicken with Xi & backed down. He got nothing from Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Negotiations with Iran aren't going well either. He's better at coercing democratic allies.

Ana Navarro: “JD Vance is scheduled to be on ‘The View’ next Tuesday — If you could ask a question, what would it be?” Rep Robert Garcia: “Why are you holding meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein investigation & why are you trying to protect the President? What do you know?”

Standing ovation for Rep. Beatty, who sued Trump over the renaming of the Kennedy Center, took him to court, and won!

Even the removal of Trump’s name needed a cover-up

"More than 200 people are dead just nine months into this illegal operation. We have no transparency. No accountability. And a general who doesn’t even defend the efficacy of it."

Actually, Brexit was a bad idea from the start. You were not betrayed. You just didn't bother to think through the consequences of your choices.

Defence against the grabbers’ coalition.

This says it all. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage-dismisses-reform-candidates-sexist-comments_uk_6a2a6abde4b02d9edc7fc468

The key question isn't "How low can migration go?" It's "What level of migration best supports the economy, public services and an ageing society?" That's the debate we're not having. Stephen McNair reports on research by Jonathan Portes and Lauren Gilbert.

Rubio congratulated Russians on Russia Day 💩 He is wishing a “more prosperous future for Russian people” at the very moment when they are slaughtering thousands of Ukrainians under occupation, across the front line, and behind it with missiles and drones. What a disgrace!

Absolutely huge crowds in Belfast to reject the far-right, paramilitarism, racism and border violence. A loud message to the politicians who pandered to violent paramilitary groups this week

BBC Guest: “I think Gianni Infantino and FIFA are a bunch of greedy fucks.” BBC: “Apologies for the language.”

One of the secrets about the FT is that if you buy the paper they sometimes tell you what they really really think before some subeditor spots it. Compare the print and digital copy about SpaceX www.ft.com/content/1638...

Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions

This could happen with your phone. This could happen with your laptop. This could happen with your credit card. It's a long list. Some of us have been working on this, but most large players, public and private, have stayed in fantasyland. Care to join us? www.euractiv.com/news/anthrop...

How can the Spectator write an article about Palantir, without revealing that its owner, Paul Marshall, has a major stake in the company? Just complete self-interested deception

Palantir loses legal challenge to force Swiss magazine to publish responses

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

Really important win for journalism but it’s the last paragraph that really struck me Palantir has to pay 95% of the Swiss magazine’s costs - which are $11,000 A case like this in the U.K. would cost *millions* in legal fees. Why it’s so easy for rich to suppress criticism

Investment firms join Donald Trump’s $100bn race for Venezuelan oil ft.trib.al/vAquI0e

Option 1: Force all tech companies to install spyware on everyone's phones "so that kids can't take nude pictures". Option 2: Make it so parents can disable the camera of their kids' smartphone, or buy one without a camera. I just don't know which one we should go for!!

Trump’s name ripped off the Kennedy Center — but not before they put up scaffolding AND a massive curtain to shield the public from watching. Peak petty. Peak fragile. Peak humiliation. #FragileTrump #KennedyCenter

It’s a country with only a passing interest in “soccer” that’s currently locking away and deporting people en masse, often at random. There’s no guarantee of being let in or coming home. Hardly a compelling proposition given the cost.

This is very dangerous: voter registration group being treated as criminal www.ms.now/news/ohio-pr...

It's obvious that this dip shit knows nothing about the history of Northern Ireland and people's tendency to riot over almost anything. That is unless a woman is murdered by a white man, then there is radio silence. Only those who value women hold vigils which aren't attended by right leaning pricks

BREAKING: DOJ inexcusably blows deadline, begs court for 12 more hours, says name will be off by "early morning hours" They had weeks! But they swear the name is coming off

We simply need to rejoin with all the normal rules of the club. We’re losing £100 billion pounds a year because of Brexit, according to Bloomberg.

Worse than I thought. I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster. The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I'm not sure who was more curious, me or the Longhorn Cowfish. 😆 #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #marinelife #cowfish #fish #eastcoastkin #photography

JOHN CANDY was only available for one day and shot his scenes in one 23 hour period as a favour to his friend, the movie’s writer & producer John Hughes. Hughes allowed Candy to go off-script and improvise all his scenes, and he did all this for just $414. HOME ALONE (1990)

Farage stood EIGHT times for Parliament. Rejected seven times before he finally won a seat. Today he is having a go at Burnham for being a career politiician 😂

The BBC breaking news report of Hockney's death concludes with the words: 'Stay with us as we bring you the latest developments.' I am genuinely curious as to what, in the circumstances, those developments might be.

As Albania PM says the project will not be stopped Albania’s Protests Against Jared And Ivanka’s Resort Plans Are Getting Bigger A vast swathe of untouched nature will be concreted for a vast luxury apartment complex Flamingo birds and wild life threatened www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Albania not for sale? It has already been sold. kaitjustice.substack.com/p/ivanka-tru... "That single decree gave Kushner’s company the power to take private Albanian land from citizens who don’t want to sell, exclusive private use of public Albanian coastline...

…”To our horror, we walked straight into a vast new construction site in the very heart of the protected area. We saw excavators tearing up the beach.”… www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

"The PSNI has been contacted for comment." Good luck with that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...

In order to get England's immigrant population down to Belfast's level you would need to deport millions. Something that rarely happens outside of fullscale war. The whole article is insane.

Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress. It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress.

Jesus. This is unbelievably awful. Two teenage boys on a moped (e-motor-cycle?) pushed a man cycling off his bike. He's now in a life threatening condition in hospital. I hope he makes a full recovery. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

“A driver overtook us with a really close pass. His passenger threw a cup of McDonald’s Coke out the window, totally unprovoked. How dare we be on his road and hold him up for two seconds. People just seem to be so angry with cyclists all the time, any excuse to cut them up and they’ll take it”

Of all the cynical, money-grubbing stunts the Tories pulled, was privatisation of water the worst? And is it time to be cynical in return? Force them to fully catch up the backlog of infrastructure investment, and then nationalise when they go bankrupt? Simples... 👍 www.mirror.co.uk/news/feargal...

So this is the BBC’s neat way to watch overnight World Cup highlights with no spoilers… bbc.co.uk/nospoilers This will take you to a World Cup highlights page on BBC iPlayer, which will have highlights for every match without telling you who has won.

Stubborn and stupid from Rachel Reeves. 10 years of data confirming Brexit has damaged the UK economy and yet Reeves and Starmer stick their heads in the sand. Unbelievable

UK Chancellor to Lower Taxes for Wealthy US Expats. Lower taxes for those who hold govts to ransom. Higher for the rest. Income tax personal allowance frozen since 2021, not risen in line with inflation. Basic rate tax payers paying £700 more in this year alone. archive.ph/JZmY9

It's "just resting" in that account. In Qatar... "Marco Rubio told Congress that the U.S. was using a “short-term” account in Qatar" Letters from an American heathercoxrichardson.substack.com?utm_source=n...

When SpaceX stock loses 50% of its value after Musk and his cronies cash out and ordinary investors and savers lose hundreds of billions, will #r4today still be doing puff pieces about his engineering genius?

Dragging out the Defence Investment Plan process for months – with multiple huge defence crises ongoing – is bad enough. But taking this long over it and then getting an outcome this catastrophic really speaks to Starmer's unique approach to politics.