This is of course bullshit - viable nuclear fusion power has been "ten years away" for decades www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our great Mayor - telling it like it is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So ... turns out AI is not completely useless... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A middle-aged man living in Sussex hacking & demanding ransoms I hope they throw the book at him & take him for every asset he owns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asked to comment on Trump's claims about Sir Sadiq Khan trying to impose Sharia Law in London, a spokesperson said: "We are not going to dignify his appalling & bigoted comments with a response" Tell it like it is - the yanks have a gibbering fool in charge [16:23] www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

"One asylum seeker had taken a 250-mile journey to visit a GP - driver told him the cost to the Home Office was £600" "Some asylum seekers say they had no choice but to work illegally for as little as £20/day to pay off debts to people smugglers" This is fucked up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quite how a senile idiot with his own version of reality that includes him personally stopping 10 wars can have a "vision for the world" that anyone can understand - let alone agree with - is as beyond me as simple arithmetic appears to be beyond the Orange Idiot www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

A cricket era ends.... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

If the UK elects a Right Populist grifter to power, the same will happen here...it is what they do www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The nasty, senile old arsehole is having his best life... a living illustration of why humans cling to the comfort of religion to preserve the delusion of moral justice www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Paul Mason will of course get a social media pasting for this “We will find a way; we always do” Anyone thinking it a good idea to put Corbyn in charge of the country – without the guard-rails that existed when he was Labour leader – is off their rocker. htsf.substack.com/p/jeremy-mud...

Looking forward to The Hack - a reminder that the Tories let criminally-run media organisations off the hook for no good reason other than fear.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

France advances the positive international response a significant step forward....the UN must intervene or there is no prospect of preventing the completion of the evil Israeli project to eliminate Palestine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

About bloody time! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There is an Anglo-German family (already split, I suspect due to the ego of the frog-eyed patriarch) that no doubt will have no problem with the restrictions Reform seek to impose on the powerless www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I am sure we are all looking forward to this address to the UN from the Orange Idiot... (sarcasm!!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some inflation rates in populist autocracies admired by Trump Argentina 33.6% Turkey 32.95% Russia 8.1% www.imf.org/external/dat...

I reckon this is not a Corbyn vs Sultana thing - there are other players, and there is a lot of money involved www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Foreign Secretary says she warned Israel not to annex parts of the West Bank in retaliation for UK's recognition of Palestinian statehood" Mmm - and what exactly will reinforce that "warning"? Will the UK lift a finger, stop one Israeli business deal with Brits? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The thing about running a bandit regime - all those with money end up being bandits..... This looks desperate

At what point do the Russians take pain for their acts of aggression? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"Security expert & writer Edward Lucas proudly showed off his Estonian identity card... "My experience is that people's scepticism about digital ID tends to evaporate when they go and see it in operation first hand." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What is Putin playing at? He had the Orange Idiot in his corner and with a modicum of sense could have made a "deal" over Ukrainian dominance But this is queering his chances www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another dodgy company funding Pop-Eyes Populist "Party" (sole prop: N Farage) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Some people seem to reject the idea that to make a city tolerable, we all have to conform to some rules For those of us in Central London, ULEZ has been transformative www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham says his "full intention" is to remain Mayor till May 2028 at least, adding "If events change, I'm not necessarily going to be stuck religiously in one way of thinking," that the UK was in "a reasonably turbulent place" Another classless BBC headline results www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thank your gods that's over.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who knew a bunch of nativist thickos might struggle to deliver on the ludicrous fantasy promises they made to get elected? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sanity from HMG in rejecting MAGA madness from the Orange Idiot www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The mood lightens across the UK.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Trouble in paradise? Looks like this putative new [Utopia*] party may provide more unintended hilarity than even I expected... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Zack on ITV this morning reinforced my unease about him - he comes across as a standard supercilious lefty who knows better than anyone else, and not as a serious leader of a party whose central mission is environmental

Not really a surprise, this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump: UK & USA are joined by a number of things including history, language and transcendent ties of culture, tradition, ancestry and destiny Nort my view - the US is a totally alien and malevolent society we should have as little to do with as possible [21:19] www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

A little warning to those who think Reform get all their support from disaffected Tories - significant numbers of former Labour supporters have turned rat too.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump & "starmerism" (which don't exist) in one post? People do realise that there is the Atlantic between us Brits & the alien Yanks, don't they? There is no equivalence here

It seems to me Labour is better off with an elected deputy leader outside the Cabinet, and free to publicly speak truth to power from her own mandate. Ms Powell seems to be a good option www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Arsenal doing the business in Spain.... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

More political leadership from our mayor, Sadiq Khan, who tells it like it is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Of course he does - anyone ever heard of a rat that opted to not rat? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was wondering why I was feeling vaguely nauseous this evening... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Maybe read the article before condemning this out of hand? IMO there is no real threat to liberty in yet another form of ID (which might be represented by your existing driving licence/passport) Whether it can do the job intended is another matter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

...except nobody much outside their number listens to the Left The UK we have is the real UK - nativists, misogynists and all The Left fantasy is it is perfectible in their image. It ain't

Symbolic of the modern world "Multiple water tankers have been filmed both day and night by local residents filling up from standpipes in part of neighbouring Hampshire where a drought order is in place" Mr Schwarzman is (natch) a financial backer of Donald Trump www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well done Spain for showing backbone! Israel lost its place among civilised nations as surely as Apartheid South Africa did in an earlier era We should cut off cultural & sporting ties with official representation of Israeli state until they elect their Mandela eurovisionworld.com/esc/spain-wi...

Good to see the new Home Secretary is not afraid to react to the racist South African immigrant to Yankland, poking his ketamine-addled nose into UK affairs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Now the UN has established this, could the UK possibly accept these findings? (Maybe wait till the orange idiot is out the country first) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More of this over the next few days please, Sadiq - defending & boosting one of the great cities of the world in the face of right-wing racist-based criticism is a great way to respond to such idiocy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It says something not entirely complimentary - but sadly proven true - about the UK establishment, that this bill is necessary... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gordon Brown plugging away at 74, confronting one of the real issues in the UK - child poverty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...