Yeah I really do not think people should be able to get millions of dollars if a fire starts

Well I’m Loving this for sure👏🔥

Pay Up Rapist!!!! ============ www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...

It was the speech you'd expect a man who had spent 9 years as a mayor of a City to give. It wasn't outside of his comfort zone and didn't reflect any thinking about anything other than what he has spent 9 years doing.

At what point are Americans (republicans) finally going to question Trump's claim of being a good businessman who knows about buildings?

Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Burnham's big devolution speech should be taking place in a city not called Manchester (Leicester, Wolverhampton, Coventry, you take your pick) and I would have thought it was obvious why.

Really, though. This is absolutely perfect bsky.app/profile/notu...

Everyone’s pulling out all the memes – Fyre Festival, Willy Wonka experience, Spinal Tap’s Trumphenge – but as someone who loves both home reno & cosmetic surgery subreddits, I can tell you this is exactly what happens when you get AI to “design” something & then try to make it happen on the cheap

Biden: By the way, have you noticed that Americans today are saying the economy under the Biden administration was a hell of a lot better than under Trump?

NYC Pride hits different with a new mayor in the mix! 🏳️‍🌈 Zohran Mamdani took to the streets of New York — and the city showed up, loud and proud. This is what leadership looks like. Welcome to the parade, Mayor. 🗽

A friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding at the Great American State Fair bc he knows no one is there.

Disgusting

The U.S. government legally had to release the Epstein files 191 days ago. They did not.

Can we like maybe win the war against the fascists before starting a war with other Democrats?

Europe, the last few days: 🇫🇷 France: Hottest day ever — 43.8°C 🇪🇸 Spain: Hottest June day — 42.7°C 🇩🇪 Germany: Hottest day ever — 41.5°C 🇨🇿 Czechia: Hottest day ever — 40.9°C 🇨🇭 Switzerland: Hottest June day — 38.8°C 🇩🇰 Denmark: Hottest day ever — 37°C 🇬🇧 UK: Hottest June day — 36.7°C #climatecrisis

The Folklife Festival was planned by the Smithsonian, funded by private donors and would have happened this week, but Trump shut it down.

As Trump announced his whimsy war in Iran, I was reading about another imperial campaign, long ago, against an Iranian people. I found a perspective on the wars of today, & a sense of why, beyond his obvious incompetence in military matters, Trump had to lose his. snyder.substack.com/p/of-stoicis...

To fall into a stupor of self-absorption, as Trump has done, is to flee from reality. Few wars are worth fighting; those that are fought can only be won in the world, and not within the tortured confines of estranged minds.

Really good. But the broader point is not just Reform, it's that our democracies suffer if women are abused, marginalised and threatened out of public discourse. It's up to all of us, incl. men, to make the space safe.

⚡️Biden accuses Trump of 'destroying NATO,' 'choosing Putin over American allies'. Donald Trump "diminished our standing in the eyes of the world more than any president in history has," former U.S. President Joe Biden said in one of his rare public speeches since leaving office in 2025.

This is a national scandal. It is so obvious that the only aim is to save build costs for developers. And deprive us of the benefits of shade and cheaper power generation. It’s not even a lack of vision it’s inimical dislike of progress and reduction in quick profits.

Speculation about "England's path to the final" already? Do me a favour! #worldcup

France has these everywhere. WTF Labour?

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal. New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve.news. 🔗 below 1/

Today's Wordle. Come off it!

Brexit ten years on: unsettled and unsettling. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on the connections between Starmer’s resignation & the referendum anniversary, and why that anniversary isn’t a commemoration but an episode within the ongoing saga: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/brex...

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

This is the new talking point from Reform supporters over on X. In other news, Nigel Farage has yet to hold a single in-person MP surgery in his constituency in the almost two years since he was elected

Today, the Sandbach Music Festival has broken out at the rugby club next door. I'd like to thank the participants for bravely having a go, despite clearly having never played any of their instruments before. And it's a bold artistic choice to depart so radically from established melodic norms.

It isn't that hard though. Kick out Blue Labour and their immigration rubbish, stick Miliband in to sort out a more pragmatic treasury view and just lead. Pick some quick wins while fixing Ofcom and tackling racist thuggery. Try to deal with random bad stuff.

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

“Our societies are not built to withstand what’s coming, and by any rational thinking, all countries should be uniting in a last ditch battle to save the world.”

Holy fuckng shit!

Trump claimed that he was going to personally pay for the new polished African granite walkway carved in Italy he had installed at the WH. But in fact taxpayers paid all $689,232 for Trump’s vanity project.

This is a really horrifice article in so many ways. It smells of neo-colonialism and a frankly arrogant and exceptionalist attitude towards Europe and towards Spain in particular. Let's count some of the ways. (warning: may contain unparliamentary language) A 🧵

I’m not sure this is the vote winning gambit Mr Johnson thinks it is. “I run the protection programme.”

A thousand times this. The BBC would also benefit from not giving a shit what the Daily Mail has to say about anything.

The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".

Can't help but feel that Burnham is like the affable neighbour who says he can fix your lawnmower, proceeds to dismantle the engine and lay it out neatly on bits of newspaper before confessing that he's got no idea how to put it back together again...

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

Oh what do we have here

Hell yes!

If you (or someone you know), left Gary Bonsor's ashes in a burger van at Newbury Racecourse in July 2024, the local church would like to hear from you. www.ecclesiasticallawassociation.org.uk/judgments/gr...

Exclusive to all right-wing papers: It’s clear that Andy Burnham has been a complete failure as Prime Minister, although he hasn’t technically taken up the role yet. From the new Private Eye, out now.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

I think we underrate how much damage the misinformation did for Starmer. Not because the average person believes Keir Starmer was protecting Muslim grooming gangs, but because people who *did* chanted "Keir Starmer's a wanker" at the football and did things that ramped up the ambient level of hate