Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated Daniel Devaney has resigned

16 years of Orbán. And on day one, his successor looked the Fidesz-backed president in the eye and said: "It's time to leave — while you still can." Democracy doesn't always die quietly. Sometimes it fights back.

To regulate the papers: Anything you publish breaching beefed-up rules must be redressed with the same amount of column inches, on the same pages, for the same number of days

Péter “Don’t fuck with me” Magyar

How fantastic then that Cameron and Osborne made keeping university humanities departments open so unattractive

In Sunderland, Reform stood David Barker. Who beat his girlfriend “black and blue”. He also neglected and burnt his child with cigarettes. He was handed a suspended sentence. It comes up when you Google him. He won in the council election. A vicious domestic abuser is now a Reform Councillor.

Leveson II - kneecap the RW press and improve society Rejoin the EU - give the people that would vote for you some reason Fixed that for you.

Here’s a list of subjects on which your Reform councillor should, on your behalf, intervene: Adult Social Care Children’s Services Education Public Health Refuse Collection Street Cleaning Public Conveniences Cemeteries and Crematoria Building Regulations Strategic Planning Conservation

This may light up, but here goes: We need to have a single term Reform government. Long enough for Farage to embezzle all that he needs for the rest of his life and long enough for the damage to the systems that his voters in particular rely upon to become apparent, but not irreversible

This is what can be expected under a Reform government

This may be the only way of saving Britain from Farage as PM. Make it the flagship policy. Talk about nothing else but how Brexit has isolated and impoverished us

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...

I think this is just as close to beautiful as any social media post can get

Sky News projecting a national vote share for Reform of 27%, based on results so far. That’s four points down on what they achieved in local elections last year. Somewhat of a counter to the prevailing narrative. More evidence that Reform appears to have peaked.

I spoke to a Head of Comms for Europe of a multinational that’s you’ll have heard of, who said how she wished she could get senior leaders of her company to communicate like Zack Polanski

See also @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Never before have the results of local government elections been suggested to correlate in any way to a General Election outcome. You are being managed. news.sky.com/story/politi...

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

So, if you are in a ward with a Reform councillor, here’s what you do: Wait until they have their council email address and then report every council service that disappoints you to them. Note in each email how many times you’ve emailed about that subject, ask for an action plan from them etc

'Let's defeat them by doing what they want' is almost always a tricky strategy to get right

THIS. ⬇️

Reform voters; you’ve made your bed, now lie in it. No bleating when your council goes bankrupt.

Same in Britain

Reform: go back to your constituencies and prepare for incompetence

Reform have fielded candidates in every East Surrey ward. Prepared to bet not one of them has any council experience

#LostLyric not an easy one today - no googling “Closer than a cat to the child that she'll smother”

Ten hours on, I’m still speechless about this: bsky.app/profile/pick...

Ladies and gentlemen, here it is: the funniest poll in the world

What the heck? @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy live coverage of the local elections, with not one, not two, but THREE paid adverts telling people to vote Reform. How is that permitted?

An important point to remember for today's elections in Scotland, Wales and England:

Request pls - "algorithms" are a thing that authors sadly have to feed. If you've got my book "Up -A scientist's guide to the magic above us" (any version) - I'd really appreciate it if you could make some time to put a review of it on Amazon pls? Even if you didn't get it from there. Thanks x

Doctor! Doctor! I keep thinking I’m Tom Jones. Is this normal?

perhaps the most curious fact from our long read today on the Mandelson scandal www.ft.com/content/a829...

‘We had people come just to see where their gig economy jobs went’

This is admirably compassionate from Sunderland ❤️ The club's crest of a black cat has been turned into a black dog—a common metaphor to describe a state of depression—to mark Mental Health Awareness Week. A change shared by the club chaplin 👏

If it didn't affect so many people's lives, it'd be grimly amusing to watch all these Reform councils collapsing as they slowly realise that they can't actually save millions, deliver tax cuts AND fix potholes by sacking a Diversity Officer and banning rainbow lanyards.

Ok so, let’s test a theory. I’ve had no leaflets for Reform and no door knocks from candidates. On Thursday I’ll make note of how many votes the local candidate gets. *That* will be the number of ‘shy’ racists. Please do the same for your wards

Evening ORChestra, how is everyone?

This is obviously great news. But what we must always ask is, “why didn’t this happen before?”

The overwhelming majority of society does not understand progressive taxation

All software used by government must be open source. If it's not already open source, the publisher should have to publish the code in order to get the contract.

Guessing that the drone company CEOs don’t get massive bonuses, share options etc too

Somebody, who owns some Playmobil perhaps, should explain asymmetric warfare to Trump

If your constituency voted for Brexit, your constituency should pay 100% of the cost of Brexit. That town down the road that voted against it, but still lost 8% of its income anyway? We’re adding an extra 8% to your taxes to compensate them. Because apparently that's "democratic consent" now.

I can definitely see this ending well. news.sky.com/story/iran-w...

The most disappointing thing about billionaires (and there are many, many things) is that they invariably use their billions to - make more billions - only. Notable exceptions; Taylor Swift, JK Rowling, MacKenzie Scott. Notice anything?

SHAFT

So if I wrote a book, "engineering luck - how to succeed when the system says no", With a clear method for controlling how your work is evaluated With examples from my career & others (academia, politics, industry etc) who would be interested??

I don’t have to go to work tomorrow and I could not be happier