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I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

I've always been a fan of @thomholbrook.bsky.social and @5thstudio.bsky.social's thinking at this scale.

I came here to post this as I can't believe it doesn't already have 10,000 signatures - please sign and share! So vital and so utterly crazy that this has to be petitioned for. #climatesky

In this map of greenhouse gas emissions per hectare of peat, the Fens in the UK stand out as an angry red blob. The Fens are a carbon bomb. To defuse it, we need to pressure its landowners, like the Church Commissioners. (Via @annieleymarie.bsky.social) Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My father would have been tickled to receive George Orwell Studies, featuring 3 chapters from his unpublished novel ‘The Inevitable Price’ – an account of visiting Orwell on Jura in 1946. While there, he peaked at the evolving manuscript of 1984, which he described as ‘pretty depressing stuff’.

Taps roof – ‘you can fit a hell of a lot more right wing media into this bad boy’

In an uncertain world, it is important to find moments of truth and stability – this is an every-morning dead cert:

The deregulation myth persists – David Cameron 2012: "We're determined to cut through the bureaucracy that holds us back. That starts with getting the planners off our backs”

The RFK, jr effect.

Now the Trump administration is bullying the UK to pay more to big pharma – despite much of their IP coming from public research.

Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds

Call it nazi

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

“The current US government believes that its national security is best served by the destruction of liberal democracy in Europe” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds

I can only imagine Margeret Calvert’s wince at this – absolutely inept. A neurotic country hamstrung by its nationalistic anxieties. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

That Great British Railways branding – I’m getting big GCSE Design & Technology project vibes. Why can’t we ever do anything cool?

This seems a wholly unnecessary divisive impact – we know wind farms can coexist and even improve the environment for crustacea & molluscs, by creating artificial reefs. Relax the exclusion zones for fishermen? At the very least, communicate!

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Can you see what it is yet?

Brilliant piece of writing @jamesmeek.bsky.social

Trumpism, with all its hate and chaos, is coming to a European country near you. Farage's Reform is the local franchisee

Ukraine was not told what happened. "Our task now is to obtain complete information about what has been said in Russia and what other reasons Putin has found to prolong the war and to pressure Ukraine, to pressure us, our independence," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address from Kyiv"

It’s all going a bit Saddam’s palace over at the White House

While millions of families struggle to put food on the table Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos & Mark Zuckerberg own more wealth than the bottom HALF of Americans. That’s what oligarchy is about. That’s what a rigged economy is about. Is it any wonder that people in this country are angry?

FT Exclusive: The Reform UK leader told donors he expects a deal or merger between his party and the Conservatives ahead of the next general election, suggesting he does not believe he can sweep to power alone. on.ft.com/44xlHi0

That must be my 6th or 7th trip with my bike London – Barcelona by train. It’s a great trip, get lots done, comfortable and productive. 12 hours door to door. Great to see heaps of @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social in BCN!

Quite bizarre the way the high speed Paris– Barcelona train becomes a local service between Montpelier and Perpignan – you could shave some serious time off without these little stops @sncf-voyageurs.bsky.social

Oh my gosh this is good. Thanks @jamesmeek.bsky.social for a tour de force.

A quiz question. What links these seven countries: Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Uruguay? It may surprise you....

“Steve Witkoff… representing the US on the world stage …has admitted he knows little history, telling the Atlantic in May that he had been watching some Netflix documentaries to rectify this.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say. “An eye for an eye.” Other times he’d snap at his staff: “You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Oh.

Oooh, is this the line that claims that Trump is: “the most openly corrupt president in American history” ?

This is inspiring www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Back on the charmingly designed e320

Leaked transcripts unveil Trump envoy's closeness to Russians: 'I have the utmost respect for President Putin'

It’s gone full Buster Keaton in the White House

This story is as mad as a sack full of badgers

Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal

Here we go – this is ‘balance’

That Oz moment when GOP realise that all they have is a tin can full of farts, corruption and hate.

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

Why not just sack toxic vandal Robbie Gibb? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

WTF?

One desultory poorly stocked veg stall on #Cambridge market today – a unique 7-day market ground down by neglect & tourist pressure. I’m in the middle of the Fens and I have to buy Kenyan broccoli from M&S.

NEW: Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed at the Old Bailey for 10 and a half years for taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia when he was an MEP. Full story 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...