We can all agree that I'd look fantastic on a £5 note

I’m really quite bored with podcasters and commentators trying to rationalise Trump… Trying to unpick his degenerate ramblings as if he’s some kind of 4D chess playing war strategist He’s a pillock surrounded by pillocks If you’re bored too - you need The Trawl podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

People in Wales will have their personal data better protected after the Senedd approved regulations on 10 March abolishing the open electoral register

Bill Bramhall

We live in an era of perpetual outrage. The right are so at war with everything that I reckon that if you were to put the late Queen and Churchill on every bank note, coin, credit card and forehead in this country they'd still be screaming and beating their chests over it.

Nigel Farage keeps ranting against Net Zero, saying renewables are more expensive, This articles nails that lie. 'Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.' www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

"Ministers want to make it harder for inquests to pass verdicts of unlawful killing, which have been crucial in getting justice for women who committed suicide after suffering abuse." I don't think anyone expected Labour would change course after its electoral drubbing but this is 🤯

The Green Party's Mothin Ali on the importance of community spaces and how the Green Party has a plan to invest £5 billion to revive them #C4News "People are angry, our country is divided. And I get it" "One of the main reasons is the loss of our country's social infrastructure"

I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups. But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you

note that it's the right-wing parties, who have complained that UK should have joined US strikes on Iran, who are now also demanding the Labour government steps up household help with energy bills

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

A gradual northward shift in the Gulf Stream has provided more evidence that the system of currents keeping Europe warm is weakening. And modelling suggests that abrupt shift in the Gulf Stream could signal an imminent, catastrophic collapse in the ocean current. www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

We can throw another $500,000,000,000 at the Pentagon this year and spend $1,000,000,000/day on a wholly useless war, but we can't afford to hire doctors and nurses to take care of our veterans? The United States is such an irresponsible, messed up country right now.

This story still isn’t going away.

The Trump DOJ FINALLY releases missing files directly alleging sexual abuse of a minor by Trump that DOJ claims were “offline” but then suddenly came online after Pamela Jo was subpoenaed by House Oversight. I review the allegations, including specific details about Trump. youtu.be/JVFEwLg1_-U?...

It just keeps getting worse for Krusti Gnome. Senator Blumenthal is going to pursue a criminal investigation for perjury since she flat out lied in her congressional hearings. Love it! #SheShed

Oddly enough my dog has been flagged an allergic to chicken. Vet advised responsibly sourced free range organic. Speaks volumes.

We are beyond excited about this - what a line up! - and still a few tickets available for Wednesday.

GSK CEO got 50% pay rise to £15.6m. Did you? Neoliberals moan about rise in minimum wage. Govts preach pay restraint to workers. Silence on profiteering, hikes in exec pay/perks, dividends, share buybacks. The state devoted to welfare of the super rich.

Senior Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry says her party has “ended up in the wrong place” when it comes to transgender people

I don't understand how anyone can be this greedy.

We don't want MAGA policies here in Europe but a growing right-wing network is trying to make it happen. That's deeply worrying. https://www.politico.eu/article/maga-embrace-europes-nationalists-head-to-washington/

This is what Badenoch, Farage, the Murdoch press, and Paul Marshall's stable of GB News weirdos want us to get behind, and you know what I'm good, thanks...

Water companies have a cheek, they fail miserably to perform their jobs, take our money and use it for dividends to foreign owners while neglecting our water systems - often poisoning us and in thankfully rare cases, causing death (allegedly). www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.

A cluster of fungus, Panellus stipticus. #Newfoundland, Canada. Cluster is approx 8 to 10cm, left to right. #fungi #fungifriends

Exactly - Europe can't rely on the US. George Monbiot: "What we see here is Donald Trump acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator."

A few square inches of tree trunk. At least 4 species of lichens (Parmelia, two Physcia species and Caloplaca) plus Red Tree Brain Fungus. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends.

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing". Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

Farage has said he will only allow people who live in Wales to get social housing - you already have to live in Wales to get social housing here. The BBC reported Farage but made no correction.

Well would you look at that

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

If you're worried about Starmer's Labour refusing to #TaxTheRich and instead targeting the incomes of disabled people be assured that Reform UK Ltd are a whole lot worse ... meme via Michelle Lane

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Labour's Chris Curtis MP in last night's elections bill debate: “The Government should look at a National Commission to look at our voting system. "We no longer live in a two-party electoral system" - but FPTP acts as if we do (via Make Votes Matter)

I hate to say it, but the worst violence from Iran is yet to come. The regime has a long history of targeting the softest possible targets, particularly civilian sites. We are about to see some truly ugly events across the Middle East and beyond. Brace yourselves, but don't give up on humanity.

Polling holds too much sway over our democracy and governance. But the G&D by-election does show that Reform’s dominance is inflated by foreign/rightwing interests, irresponsible media support and Farage’s ego. If progressives can win despite all that, then hatred really is overpriced. Hope can win.

Green MP Ellie Chowns on the elections bill last night: "It is really quite extraordinary that the Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne has been allowed to donate £9 million to Reform UK. I notice that its Members are still not here" (2/3rds of the way into the debate)

⚖️ WE’VE FILED ⚖️ Global heating is all around us and the government isn’t doing enough – so we’re taking them to court https://goodlaw.social/x8nd

“We all know it’s fracking, so treat it as such. It’s banned; therefore, it should not be approved" says Councillor Steve Mason. Fossil fuel firms claim a 'proppant squeeze' is different from fracking & therefore not banned in the UK. share.google/mIoqwLXTO3sX... 🧵 1/5

Gavin Newsom: “Review the tape — Trump spent more time talking about the curtains & his ballroom than of the 4 service members that died bc of his operation & his declaration of war without congressional consent — He still has not articulated clear vision of what the end game is. Period. Full stop”

No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers. They have a legitimate grievance against governments.

"I want a change of regime in Iran. But what’s happening isn’t about freeing the Iranian people. It’s an imperialist, capitalist war started by bullies who take whatever they want & murder whomever gets in their way, including humanitarian and health workers" via Maggie Chapman