They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

Admittedly my only real sources for what life was like in the 70s are my parents’ childhood memories and Life on Mars, but how can anyone be nostalgic for them? It seems like such a grim time

[Recap:] Mock The Week is doing well on TLC. An extended-length series has been ordered for the autumn. www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8662...

I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week

I still feel like Labour is the party most closely aligned with my views and beliefs but if the Greens become the default anti-Reform party they get my vote in a heartbeat

Repeated nationally (which it won’t be but it’s fun to do the numbers), the Gorton result would give the Greens the largest majority in history at 447 seats. Reform would be the Opposition with 136, and Labour would be reduced to just 15 The McSweeney strategy has completely failed

Just woke up and checked the result in Gorton Huge sigh of relief that Goodwin isn’t going to Westminster

The problem both Labour and the Greens are having in Gorton is that it is simply not clear which of them is best-placed to beat Reform. If this by-election were happening after the locals I suspect there’d be a lot more clarity on that point

So faced with a winnable election in a previously safe Labour seat Nigel Farage picked: - A Tommy Robinson-backed oddball, with a history of racism and alleged sexual harassment - A holocaust-denying campaign manager who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman" Reform is not a serious operation

Morgan McSweeney has resigned

Personal prediction: McSweeney will be gone soon, probably within weeks, and Starmer will follow him after the locals No idea who becomes Labour leader since it can’t be Andy Burnham (who would definitely have won any contest had he been able to stand)

Labour’s selection of a Greek candidate to contest the Gorton by-election really is bringing out all the racists

Austria started World War One Germany started World War Two (or Japan for our East Asian viewers) Who will start World War Three?

Nigel Farage once recorded a message for £87 celebrating the IRA I can’t believe this doesn’t get talked about more

Brave of a party polling at 17% to say it wants even fewer voters But that’s the line Kemi’s taking and it’s the line she’s sticking to

Compulsory voting would end political strategies designed around getting the vote out/suppressing the other side’s, it would force the young to actually engage so the old don’t just get what they want every time, and it would mean less “I’ll show them” voting Overall a good thing

Matt Goodwin?! Reform really are sending the dregs to parliament now - and that’s saying a lot considering who’s already among their parliamentary party

But…former Tories should?

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

If ten rounds of lead into a nurse who treated veterans won’t galvanise the Democrats into actually fucking DOING something then nothing will

Whatever happened to “country before party” Keir? Or even “party before job”?

Andy Burnham *has* applied to be the Labour candidate in the Denton by-election No other candidate could win it for Labour, I think. But it does open the door to a mayoral vacancy that Labour might not win again

Labour need to be hammering Farage’s connections to Trump. I suspect his insult about UK troops will be the thing that finally flips Reform voters to not liking him

Andy Burnham is the only candidate who could possibly win the seat for Labour. It would still be far from a sure thing with Labour doing so badly in the polls, but Burnham is still very popular here in Manchester and *could* do it. No one else has a prayer

Rewatching Years and Years and realising it could, in fact, be worse. Trump hasn’t actually nuked China yet

God I miss President Bartlett

Not of course a problem limited to Martin or to series with a plethora of POV characters. It’s been 13 years since the last Gentleman Bastards book, and that has - at most - 4 POV characters and is mostly confined to just 1 Not entirely sure what’s taking Lynch so long on that one

“You didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize so I’m invading a NATO ally” is just the sort of shit-for-brains thinking some of us always knew Trump was capable of

“Brexit will be fine, we can rely on the US” How’s that working out?

How long until Kemi Badenoch has fewer than 100 MPs left?

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all. They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America. They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

Honestly one of the things I find most offensive about Trump is that he plainly has no idea how to use a comma

If Trump is going to slap 10% tariffs on us even when Starmer has done everything short of cut his toenails for him I say we take 500% tariffs and have Starmer just kick him in the nuts

Me: Not really into football but it’s always good to know what everyone at work is talking about so let’s see how much City won by and - JESUS I wasn’t expecting that!

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Reform are just the Tory loft extension at this point

That didn’t take long did it Robert

Presumably Jenrick will now actually join Reform And in doing so make it just that little bit harder for Farage to act like his party is “a break from the establishment”

By and large, a u-turn is not that big of a deal for any government IF: 1. It’s done early - indicates listening rather than being pressured 2. It’s a rare occurrence - the government has to still appear like it knows what it wants to do Labour has done nearly 20 u-turns, all of them far too late

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Not until Jensen Huang can promise me personally that AI won’t take anyone’s job off them

Nadhim Zahawi: I would be frightened to live in Reform’s Britain Also Nadhim Zahawi: Nigel Farage should be Prime Minister

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK" The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"

Speaking as someone who very much emphasises the “centre” in centre-left I think Akehurst is dead wrong here. Ref voters will not be drawn back to Lab, but there is still a chance that those currently saying they’ll vote Grn might be. There are also more ‘24 Lab voters moving to Grn than to Ref

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Here’s my list of things the public doesn’t seem to know, but historians broadly agree upon 👇

Keir Starmer is getting ready to monitor the situation so hard if Trump does annex Greenland