Explore how the number of deaths and births is changing in your own country: ourworldindata.org/grapher/birt...

#ASongOrMovieForHeavyMachines 🎶 Oops Upside Your Hedge

Raging Bulldozer #ASongOrMovieForHeavyMachines

#ASongOrMovieForHeavyMachines 🎶 I Can't Get No Tractor Action

Christopher is loooooong boy.

One of Anthony Head's lesser-known roles was a guest role on the BBC Radio comedy Cabin Pressure, where he played smooth-talking airline pilot Hercules Shipwright. I highly recommend checking out this show. Here's a clip from the episode "Rotterdam". youtu.be/pvNtxmcqyFc

Dawa Sherpa's family had begun last rites. 'A true self-rescue', heroic. I hope he makes a full recovery and gets to tell his story in person www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Protests in #Albania grow over Jared #Kushner-backed luxury resort - www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... "some of them brandishing inflatable flamingos in a nod to feared environmental damage, amid mounting calls for the project to be blocked." go go go albanians #greed

DfE pupil data is out today and shows that the number of private school pupils has dropped 5.6% since VAT was introduced. Not 25% like the independent schools council predicted. Or the 50% we saw in some right-wing papers. 5.6%.

I’m writing a novel where we are on our way to achieving this - it pushes me to believe that we can do it.

Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

“Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life” Hard news to see this early in the morning. 😔

I mean, the UK government barred me from speaking to a conference that they literally invited me to speak at and tried to ruin my career because I retweeted SuperTanskii, called Nadine Dorries a car crash, and called Rees Mogg a haunted pencil. Bit nobody can ban Farage from inciting violence?

On this week’s More or Less. Good news: still officially being described as “a friend of the programme”. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

MP sues Elon Musk’s xAI in UK test case over fake sexual images www.ft.com/content/2f5d...

PELLEY: “For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.“

Back to birding a few weeks ago around North Bull Island, Dublin Bay. We went with expert Jonathan, so we saw one wonder we'd never have identified, and enjoyed the silence of the dunes.

Ach so Roman excavations aren't so bad! Look at this fab little lion face spout that turned up this afternoon at our villa excavations:

I've read it, jaw dropping.

Why Tony Blair’s ideas of scrapping net zero will lead us to rat barbecues; and what to do about the heatwaves. Me on the Guardian’s Today in Focus podcast www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Winner!

#SongsMoviesForChurch All quiet on the western font

#SongsMoviesForChurch No country for old amen

#SongsMoviesForChurch Psalm enchanted evening

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons

Goodnight from David Mason, working out how much he can win at Brighthaven Casino before its bosses discover he’s using his psychic powers. Goodnight from Raven Butcher, trying to remember all of the moves in the dance said to summon the Blood Maiden. Goodnight from Hookland.

I Scream #ÀSongOrMovieForFridgeFood

#ÀSongOrMovieForFridgeFood 🎶Are We Hummus or Are We Dancer

Yay!

Lmao the collapse hasn't even started yet. The best prepping is community resilience. We are everything to each other. futurism.com/future-socie...

BREAKING: I'm suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to STOP the $1.8B slush fund. The Justice Department violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it established the fund, and it must be set aside. You can read my complaint here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

Recent events appear to confirm my conspiracy theory that Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder are in a competition to be Europe's least popular former social democratic head of government

I feel like Prescott, Brown, Cook, Campbell and Mowlam tempered Blair and made that Labour a good government. Without them, they wouldn't have been as successful. Blair left to run unchecked would have been quite different.

the tony blair of today would describe the tony blair of 30 years ago as a loony lefty, woke, commie marxist.

Just putting this here while we're still discussing Tony Blair's essay. Why a return to North Sea drilling won't solve our energy crisis www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ni...

I appreciate this spider diligently defending my mailbox from junk mail and bills. #Invertebrates

If you spend all your time around very wealthy people you're going to start to mistake their views for something with wider support I guess.

From Tony Blair’s interventions, to the bond market’s reaction or privatised utilities warning of doom, the pattern is the same. When anyone suggests progressive change, those with wealth and power push back. Me for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Once again, predictably, we are being screwed. The UK is controlled by corporations not government. The anger and frustration this creates fuels fascist Reform. #BrokenBritain #Neoliberalism

Net-zero-related industries are supporting more than 105,000 jobs in Scotland and contributing £10.2bn to the economy, according to industry research. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On hottest May day recorded, reanimated corpse funded by fossil fuel interests recommends abandoning efforts to tackle climate crisis www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ha ha ha ha Tony Blair. I mean, just no. Not at all. None of that. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... (also what must it be like for your inner circle to be unable to look you in the eye and tell you to stop embarrassing yourself)

Blair is full of 💩, and in-hock to Trump-supporting Larry Ellison and Middle-East fossil fuel interests. www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

And I say he must stfu

Was once at a pub quiz with the question "What is Tony Blair's middle name?" One team's answer - "Iraq" - got a bonus point and everyone was fine with that.

You’re delirious from heat. You haven’t had a break from it in days. You haven’t slept. You can’t remember how much water you’ve drunk. Your clothes cling to your skin in a sweaty melange. You don’t know what is real and what is delusion. Tony Blair drops a long read.

Deeply pathetic that BBC is reporting this as a Reform power struggle rather than explaining that Reform's policies would require deporting people -including pensioners - who have lived and worked here legally for decades. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...