Turns out that ORCs are a wonderfully nostalgic group

I need some help; I could be misremembering/making stuff up entirely. In 1976, the hot summer, I think I recall water tankers/bowsers on the corner of the road that I grew up on. Periodically refreshed, I think my mum would get water & we'd store it in the bath? Is this nonsense? I was quite young

In these heatwave conditions, please consider our dumb friends - climate change deniers www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scotland will do just enough to make me suffer

Why does a newly-elected constituency MP require a Chief of Staff? Entitled prick. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Followed by quiet repatriation when it proves to be a disaster www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Anybody read Bronnie Ware’s Top 5 Regrets of the Dying?

39 degrees in the car

Grotty colonial

On the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, let us check in on how it's going...

About 400,000 UK children supported by baby banks, up 11% on previous year

At a guess: zero

To gauge the impact Burnham will actually make with the electorate beyond Manchester and the news rooms, just substitute ‘Islington’ for ‘the North’

Poor Nigel, you didn't like the result of a vote and so you want another one. But you spent many many years telling us all it doesn't work like that. So fuck off, #FiveMillionFarage

Wow! Iran left a thank you note in their locker room thanking LA for its hospitality during the World Cup. Be sure you read the last line: “May peace, respect, and friendship prevail among all nations.” (Source: Reuters)

I will hold Burnham and Streeting wholly responsible if we get a Reform government next

Watch the hatchet job start on Burnham

Starmer is resigning. An honourable man.

I like a bit of loyalty myself.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

I am SO sick & tired. Burnham did some busses. Is all this nonsense just because he's "northern"? He can f**k right off. I didn't vote Labour. But I'm grateful for what Starmer appears to be. There have been mistakes. But dear God, people should be careful.

This is a stroke of genius. Ukraine is making all of Russia’s military technology secrets public through displaying and reverse engineering captured assets. Now any adversary can start with the upper hand. My admiration for Ukraine and Ukrainians knows no bounds. trophylab.mod.gov.ua

I love this. Unmute.

Anyone who believes that replacing someone having had two glittering careers with a transport manager, will make billionaires suddenly welcome a (allegedly more left-leaning) Labour government, is going to deserve what we’re all about to get

The UK electorate will never, ever learn.

Prepare for worse. www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

Asking children aged 9 what they think they'll be like when they're 40.

Selfies with repulsive, elderly paedophiles has to be one of the more niche hobbies news.sky.com/story/trump-...

And who is more believable? news.sky.com/story/trump-...

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

How long will it take BBC to realise that the voters do not share their infatuation with Farage?

Morning ORCs - apologies that I’ve not been around much, a mixture of being more busy than ever, more tired than ever and more questioning than ever. Not abandoning the community

This has been a week for some major reflection and reappraisal

Refugees are created because some fucker made fleeing their homes a safer option than staying in them. Remember that 🖤 #WorldRefugeeDay

Polling is as much about how you ask the questions as it is about the questions

Tribute at the #WorldCup to the 168 innocent girls MURDERED by US forces under the command of #TrumpThePaedo.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

The single biggest attraction towards Burnham is that he’s not Wes Streeting. A bit like being syphilis, not Ebola

When next we are faced with going into an incredibly ill-advised war in the Middle East, or facing discreet economic sanctions, we’ll at least know that the PM got parochial transport services running on time

Burnham, the ‘King of the North’ beats a misogynistic plumber by 9,000 votes. Not exactly the mandate that London, and other cities, voters can get behind

He can’t even win a fight against algae

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social has done more than almost anyone in the country to try to protect democracy and deserves support

Evening ORCs

Plug-in solar panels to go on sale in UK after it passed safety checks About time, given there are over 1mn kits already on sale in Germany There, they sell for between £200 and £2,000, deliver 5-25% of a homes energy needs, typical payback between 2 & 6 years www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...