John Major resembles a fine wine. He improves with age.

The unconventional spinning dustbin bomb works #explainafilmplotbadly

If you’re lucky, you’re on this earth for maybe, what, 70, 80 years? Is it really too much to ask you to just leave other people alone and let them try to have a nice life without being be an absolute nob head about it?

Wales has long fought for a media landscape that works for Wales. Plaid Cymru has just taken the next step. We are establishing a Shadow Broadcasting Authority to strengthen Welsh media platforms, and prepare for Welsh media to be devolved to Welsh hands.

I’ll take this paragraph! Higher Education and Universities are a success story. The chaotic destruction of the sector is avoidable, undesirable, and self defeating.

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

Reform......unfit for public office.

Concordia, Antarctica has recorded a low of -84.1C, just 0.5C above it's all time low temperature record. Reports suggest this is the lowest temperature recorded on earth since 2012, quite a severe cold spell of weather, even by Antarctica standards.

Cute and silly flag trivia by @civixplorer. Country flags with the highest percentage of each color.

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Trans women are women, trans men are men, trans rights are human rights.

Yes take standing charges off gas but also do it for electricity - in both cases it’s regressive. But don't just reduce VAT, take it away completely. Energy is not a luxury, how often do we hear of this choice between heating and eating - neither are luxuries.

Breaking the Link (worth £5 Billion in a quiet year, madly more in an energy crisis), a CFD for the North Sea (worth £10 Billion a year) and price control of the network operators (worth another £5 Bn a year). Mad sums of money with simple but bold reforms that put People first. buff.ly/12sj9S2

An all time classic here in the print version of John Crace in The Guardian. @privateeyenews.bsky.social you can have this one on me

⚓ Rear Admiral Amy Bauernschmidt came up through the ranks the hard way, graduating from Annapolis, earning her wings, commanding a helo squadron, then a carrier, and now a carrier group. And because Low-T Peter just pulled her promotion, she'll never get her second star. Proud of you, Shipmate 🫡

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO

This is the party currently demanding that I apologise for comparing Nigel Farage to a poo…

On the importance of what we feed AI. That's why companies that do try get their hands on as much information as possible. On the best information possible. And all that once came from our minds. Which shows our brains are cleverer than AI, it's just good at summing us up. #GoodMorning, everyone

Not latent homosexuality. Explicit homosociality. The idea that only other men can be authorities, peers, friends, thinkers, companions. That women are explicitly inferior, to be excluded, to be sanctioned, objects to be owned and used. And we don't talk about the homosocial problem at all enough.

Sneak preview of the World Cup final kick-off.

I see the weather isn't easing up at all, why do the met models always underestimate the strength of warm high pressure systems. At the beginning we were told it would only last about half this long. Same mistake year after year. When it does break it'll be a succession of held up fronts.

Huge congratulations to Sadiq Khan on his well-deserved peerage. From growing up on the Henry Prince Estate to leading our capital city and now a member of the Lords - he's a dedicated public servant.

Breton Woman https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/11973

Barnsley Reform councillors under investigation over claims they climbed onto roof to remove Pride flag

These years of anti-immigration hysteria we're living through right now are going to look utterly incomprehensible in the coming era of closing schools, ageing populations and massively understaffed public services

“When Rachel Reeves was harassed and sworn at during a visit to a petrol station a few months back, Farage’s said he’d like to buy the man a pint. No prizes for guessing what Reform’s reaction would be if a left-wing heckler accosted Richard Tice or Lee Anderson and a Labour MP made a similar offer”

Reform accused of hypocrisy after Yusuf claims extreme criticism of his party is ‘incitement’ to violence www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is summer! 🌊☀️ We chose Dame Laura Knight's A Dark Pool, inspired by the sparkling waters and dramatic cliffs of the Cornish coast she loved to paint.

I blame Starmer

It is pure coincidence that I said I wasn't standing for Parliament because I'd need “a million a year” to cover lost earnings, then I was given £5 million and immediately stood for election.

Norway's Football Federation has donated the entire ticket profit from FIFA World Cup against Israel to humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza, saying it could not remain silent in the face of civilian suffering. the total donation 4.5 million Norwegian kroner, going to Doctors Without Borders

Recommendations please for a forehead tattoo removal 'It's Coming Home'

Anything to say, Reform? How about some pure cold rage at this?

“One night she received more than 600 rape threats. In 2019, a man forced his way into her office.” The idea that Nigel Farage is the most persecuted of politicians is highly debatable. Rank misogyny is more often a factor in threats to MPs than anything else. #JessPhillips #r4today

The New York Times files a motion to quash subpoenas that the Justice Department served on journalists who reported on security concerns involving the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One, teeing up a significant court fight over press freedom.

5 sorties of PLA aircraft, 7 PLAN vessels and 2 official ships operating around Taiwan detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 3 out of 5 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan’s central and southwestern part ADIZ.

Starmer ended his last PMQs with a speech thanking each & every part of parliament, the dispatch box, the public services & states to his wife and children that he loves them. He wished everyone well. What a true gentleman. Future PM’s should be held to the high standard Starmer has set. #PMQs

"Every prime minister knows when they take up the torch that the day will come when they have to pass it on. That day has come for me. This is the end of my political journey." Keir Starmer, PM and thoroughly decent human being. #PMQs

NEW: In June 2023, the Daily Mail ran a piece headlined: “Labour repays £100,000 to sex pest donor” - accompanied by pics of Dale Vince. But Vince was not the donor the headline referred to. Vince sued and won at the Court of Appeal - damages incoming: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Been a quiet news day, given that this news is gonna impact news organisations significantly - or maybe that’s why this story is getting so little coverage…..At least the G have put it out there and we’re trending on X..:). www.theguardian.com/business/202...

That’s called war crimes

“an obvious injustice perpetrated by a wrongdoer who was taking every possible legal point against him”. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.

"Lindsey Graham was on a lot of wanted lists - seven days ago he posted about being targeted by the Iranians. "There were increasing calls for his assassination," says @milestaylor.bsky.social . Is Trump right to say the FBI are "wasting their time" investigating Lindsey Graham’s death?

I've warned about this for years: there won't be a big sweeping law banning contraception (at least not yet) Instead, they're chipping away at access bit by bit & conflating birth control with abortion. In a moment when health disinformation is already rampant! jessica.substack.com/p/the-gops-p...

Reform UK have tabled an amendment to the UK Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using any language except English or Welsh would face up to six months in prison. This is outright discrimination, and we will stand firmly against such prejudice and ignorance.

Obviously, there are other big stories around today. But, as far as I can make out, the Indy is the only paper that splashes this morning on the Covid Inquiry's tale of billions wasted. Can only imagine the field-day the right-wing press would have had had it happened under a different government.