How long do we have before Trump threatens Belgium with 100% tariffs if they don’t throw the match? Imagine the embarrassment of being in the squad? #USA/BEL.

Nigel Farage failed to declare staff, security and housing gifted to him by a convicted fraudster and crypto gambler who was charged for his role in a “dark web” money laundering plot www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Oh do chump off – what kind of platform is your ‘island of strangers’ and your disdain for and betrayal of progressive supporters? You are totally forgettable Keith. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Look, I know nothing on this, but the altitude handicap – maybe 10° reduction in physical performance – seems to present a crazy advantage? Essentially a man down. MEX/ENG

Cambridge station shut all day today. Imagine the cost in lost ticket revenue, bus and taxi fees! Add lost productivity & we’re into millions. Some say we can’t afford better infrastructure – I say the lack of resilience in public transport is unsupportable.

A great project

The loss is so clear when you travel to countries that dont farm so intensively, spray the hell out of everything: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Judge hands down 50-year sentence to defendant Ines Soto, whose wife Elizabeth was sentenced to same prison term

Ugh I could do without the cameras finding the baleful John Terry at these England matches.

Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

The Crapture

Fascinating to see sectarian choices being offered around defence – particularly around cutting energy to pay for #DIP – my dudes, energy IS defence: if you don’t want to fight the next war, get energy independence through renewables, otherwise you are a bunch of bald men fighting over a comb.

This is good – we learnt so much about how to integrate licensing, urban design and the public realm coming out of Lockdown – it's good to hang on to what was successful. Here's our work in Westminster: www.5thstudio.co.uk/projects/hos...

Absolutely brilliant that Andy Burnham is promising a huge Council Housing programme – at bloody last! – but concerning that Mahmood’s Home Office, at precisely the same time, is making sure that would be impossible to implement, with crazily punitive immigration controls. #builders?

No representation without taxation!

There’s a lot of chatter, including from @instituteforgovernment.org.uk about whether the experience of being a city mayor makes a better national leader.

Burnham “…a more cooperative win Westminster…” Kemi “Miliband is a Nigerian dictator… gestapo…”

Mel Brooks is 100 and can I find Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein on my telly? No.

Good news that the great London markets of Smithfield and Billingsgate are moving to a secure home in the Royal Docks – but a city’s markets are a fundamental part of its culture, and it is critical that the new location is integrated, public, attractive, and sewn into the communities around it.

GB News gives its take on climate change. This is what a propaganda campaign looks like. Who'd have guessed that the GB News co-owner runs a hedge fund with massive investments in oil and gas? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

What Alf says: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

* gestures at closed schools, cancelled trains, over-run hospitals, massive productivity hit * Tell me again about how the UK can’t afford net zero? #drillbabydrill

So @gmb.org.uk and @unitetheunion.bsky.social would prefer Tory Wes to someone as pinkly radical as Ed? Have a word @unitesharon.bsky.social – you’re way out of whack www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Being the studio climate custodian is bloody non stop – morning cool purging left too long, and now the whole south side of the ship is code red. HAL, isolate the command module and err shut the window in the workshop…

It’s not the bond markets Andy Burnham should be afraid of. It’s his own MPs | Aditya Chakrabortty

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero

Has anyone seen Ed Gein and the late, great Donald J Trump, affectionately known as 'Old Leatherface', in the same room?

You have so much wrong on this topic @unitesharon.bsky.social – there are better jobs in the net zero economy than there are in carbon, and climate collapse will kill your members!

It’s a game of four halves these days #hydration #advertising

Norfolk Turkeys say “We love Christmas” 🤡 🤡

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

‘They’ve cut a 250ft gash in the Reichstag’

Humanise this

As we are constantly told – privatisation leads to such remarkable efficiencies through the market: filling your river with shit, or here, chucking your post straight into a recycling bin.

Read our report A Mission-Oriented Approach to School Meals, and three case studies: Brazil, Scotland, Sweden: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

If Weasley Wes has been offered anything more than Custodian of Larry the Downing St Cat’s litter tray, that’s a bad sign.

Drain the swamp! But of course, they are the swamp. #AmericanCarnage

There’s always a grift

Whirr, click, as BBC producers search for new reasons to continuously platform Reform, now that their ‘popularity’ is on the slide.

What an offer! C’mon l, let’s just pretend this right-wing delusional self-destruction never happened and never speak about it again. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“We used to be able to go outside, but since the killer robots took over, we have changed our societal norms to cower in our basements.”

Nurse! Nurse! It’s time for his lie down www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

"Influential Labour Lord Secretly Met With German Far-Right Politician Who Said Not All Nazi SS Members Were Criminals" Lord Glasman held a private meeting in Parliament last week with the AfD's Maximilian Krah, reports Zeteo UK's new political editor Shehab Khan:

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every day this week I have been let down by the rail service between London Kings Cross and Cambridge – what is going on?