It is 2014, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election It is 2017, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election It is 2024, MPs have postponed a decision on Parliament's restoration until after the election It is 2028, MPs

Fundamental issue here is that countries are neither safe or unsafe. It is people who are safe or unsafe in countries. Simply declaring a country safe is not logical, at least until we know all people in it will be safe.

2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood

Two decades of uncertainty for people who are fleeing danger. Could this policy be any more barbaric?

Research on this is clear: the uncertainty created by this policy will lead to people integrate less into British society. It is trading-off the reasonable policy goal of integration for the useless symbolism of immigration numbers. Bad policy to appease the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour

It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly

Delighted to see TfL confirm today they are making changes that will let them increase the congestion charge in the same way as transport fares. The extra revenue helps fund alternatives but the principle is the most important bit - why freeze charges but not fares? tfl.gov.uk/info-for/med...

Archive-based teaching this afternoon, on the post-war reconstruction of central Coventry.

Indeed. Labour should learn from the (repeatedly) successful approach of the SNP using a former leader as a safe pair of hands.

This is a great line: "Lords reform is always like watching a turtle do gymnastics: incredibly slow and baffling to everyone but at the same time fascinating to those who care willing it on to succeed”

Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.

Replace the government of London with the penguins. Everyone wins.

Not only should we get the penguins out of the old LCC County Hall, we should get the government of London back in there too. www.mylondon.news/whats-on/wha...

Good piece by @desmog.com on the Telegraph’s record of having to issue ‘corrections’ on its stories about climate change (and yes, there’s some quotes from me) www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/t...

Like why would the bbc need to ‘balance’ its cover of the US in this way? When the BBC covers, say, Xi critically should it also run a programme dedicated to the CCP’s achievements?

Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’ More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

The dire situation of TfL workers expecting to transition from graduate visas to skilled worker visas but facing deportation due to cruel and abrupt government visa changes is picked up in the Sunday Times. I raised this with the Mayor last month so am glad to see he has ⏱️ now written to Mike Tapp.

Well this is fun. @tmbg.bsky.social

‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points’ Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are on.ft.com/4qMMkJd

These Doctor Who budget cuts are out of control.

What a banger

It’s baffling that both conservatives and Labour keep up this rhetoric about the SNP. They’ve been a government for longer than either of them in this century. And this stuff is so easy to use in Scotland to say that Westminster doesn’t respect it as a result.

The UK Labour Party defines itself as a "democratic socialist" part in the first sentence of Clause IV. And has since the 1990s. That's how woeful the BBC claiming it's a term with no definition is. Good grief.

As a long suffering cycling fan it’s kind of reassuring to see bigger sports do far more embarrassing things. But also - urgh - this era of hyper-commercial sport bowing to some of the worst regimes in the world will not be remembered well. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor

Just one more decade bro, I swear it’ll fix the economy.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross. The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular! The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.

More information coming out now on this. Looks like a Cabinet Office scheme led by Georgia Gould… planned savings of £10m-£30m a year (back up lower Premier League full-back price) don’t really seem worth the candle if this the result IMO.

Twitter (and then X) was never 'representative' in the sense that its user base skewed to the liberal-left, but the content that is now amplified on there has swung to the far right. This is giving a distorted signal of public opinion. See this fascinating recent study from the US ->

The fun thing about having a small team working with you is you can say "hey you're spending this week digging for stolen mobile phones in London flowerbeds, I promise you it's a thing". www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

She’s right. She *deliberately* hacked into Harriet Harman’s website, whereas Rachel Reeves is accused of obtaining a license late by accident. I assume that’s what she means, given Badenoch is widely known for her thoughtfulness and her self-awareness.

Classic case of private capital privileging its consumers at huge cost to everyone else, while government fails to regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle... "On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.” Absolutely. Please get on with it.

reality is very upsetting to the right wing so they are spending a ton of time and money building an alternate reality safe space to delude themselves into believing they aren't unpopular assholes

EXCITING NEWS! As part of the 200th anniversary of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures they’ve been uploading old ones onto YouTube. youtube.com/playlist?lis... (I hope they’ll sort the rights issue with Channel 4 and include the one I’m on!)

This is missing the most crucial part - did he try the city hall canteen?

Terrified to discover that: 1) the Wikipedia app on my phone has tabs; and 2) I appear to have 197 tabs open in it. I only got this phone a few weeks ago!

I sort of miss the days when I could look at stupid memes on Instagram without the comments being a detailed explanation of Green Party policy.

This is why I wouldn’t put too much stock in current MRP results showing reform majority - voters can and do tactically co-ordinate as we saw last July with anti-Con tactical voting. Indeed, strong MRP results for Reform may help inform and encourage anti-Farage tactical voting.

We have to be the grown ups and we have to make the hard choices. Now.

Remarkable graph showing how renewable have cut need to important fossil fuels in many countries, improving their budgets and global climate. www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

Those beads are people. Families. Friends. Neighbours. Children. Doctors and nurses. Teachers and carers. Millions of them.

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

Strange. The car companies lied about diesel and now, here they are lying about hybrids. Still, I’m sure we can trust them on driverless cars. What could possibly go wrong?

why did this take two fucking days though? did the Prime Minister have his notifications switched off? was he stuck in the bath? why, exactly, is this obviously true thing something that apparently needs running past the boss anyway? what is *wrong* with their comms operation?