Javier Bardem "The illegal war against Iran created by Trump and Netanyahu. With another Weapons of Mass Destruction lie."

Over on the FT they are wondering why gas demand in the US is not shrinking much in the face of a price that has nearly doubled. I would posit that it is because all the discretionary gas use has already gone - people are driving to work and you can't just stop doing that.

I saw about 4-5 teneral Common Clubtail dragonflies on the River Severn at Shrewsbury today (they are not common at all and are near threatened). I struggled to get any photos on the steep banks. Plus a male and female Beautiful Demoiselle. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Any deal with Israel must include guarantees, Lebanon’s parliament speaker says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/any-deal-israel-must-include-guarantees-lebanons-parliament-speaker-says

Anyone voting Reform is knowingly voting for corrupt racists who’ll make all of us poorer and less protected, remove our rights, privatise our NHS, increase fossil fuel dependency, shove children into poverty and threaten our communities… Don’t expect to be forgiven. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

You know what to do tomorrow... right?

So of you are pensioner who holds a sign protesting against genocide you get criminally prosecuted If you are a millionaire director of a British water company & have responsibility for repeatedly discharging sewage into our seas and rivers - make a donation to charity and prosecution is ended

Labour not only has forgotten who the enemy is, they have become the enemy.

He thinks he is hysterically funny and a natural at making people laugh. And the best possible proof that there is no such thing as right wing comedy.

Exclusive poll: Half of Labour's general election voters set to abandon the party in the English local elections as Starmer's 'London Wall' sets to crumble. Both Labour and Conservative support set to fall severely on Thursday according to the Omnisis poll for Byline Times

Source says Israel was prepping for escalation, unaware of possible US-Iran deal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/source-says-israel-was-prepping-escalation-unaware-possible-us-iran-deal

This week we had an antisemitic attack where a Muslim was the first person attacked, they completely ignored it for 2 days, then finally mentioned it right at the end of their stories. Now they are ignoring it again. Islamophobia/Anti Black & Asian racism is the biggest problem

🔴Reform UK Candidate Shared Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Posts And Campaigned for Far-Right Restore Britain Nigel Farage’s party says it has now expelled Caspar Thomas following inquiries by Byline Times and @hopenothate.org.uk bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/r...

Raccoon roof train on time. Sorry about your 17:36 stopping service via Redhill.

With the UAE having pulled out of OPEC and the Iran war enhancing the divisions among Gulf countries, I was fortunate to be able to speak to @rusi.bsky.social Senior Associate Fellow @mikerstephens.bsky.social about where we're at and where it's headed. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

"These whiskers ain't gonna froth themselves."

In South Korea Inheritance Tax isn't optional. One of their richest billionaires was just forced to pay $4bn of his $8bn Inheritance. If he didn't South Korea would have seized it all. You can tax the rich, they just don't want to.

The Trump cult are finally losing the plot.

What's worse than a smear campaign, is an orchestrated establishment smear campaign, using false accusations of anti-Semitism against the only Jewish party leader.

No prosecutions because they're all rich white men that paid off millions to the Epstein survivors in settlements. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room. 😃 www.wired.com/story/a-libr...

NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

Do you want private companies out of the NHS? Water in public hands & an end to illegal pollution? Do you think public transport & Royal Mail should be publicly owned? If you've answered yes, you're in the majority. But are politicians listening to you? Find out with our party political scorecard.

🧵 In a concerted move, the German left-wing parties SPD (Social Democrats, currently a govt party), Greens, & Linke have left X. This includes the parties themselves, their parliamentary parties, & selected politician accounts.

Here they go doing exactly that… bsky.app/profile/bebs...

Food shortages risk civil unrest. Lt General Richard Nugee, at the #NationalEmergencyBriefing: "we're facing the potential of an ungovernable state unless Government takes this seriously". Can you help by hosting a screening of our film and inviting your MP? www.nebriefing.org/host-the-film

The games up for neoliberalism, it's time for change. Not the Starmer kind where nothing changes, real change. 💚💚

“Steve Bannon spoke of ‘Flooding the Zone with Shit’ as a serious strategy” This is what they’re going to try and do to the Green Party’s message of hope… Dont let them drown out that hope!! youtu.be/UyNxLSlVr3k?...

'Abhorrent and grotesque': Reform has been slammed over its proposal to put migrant detention centres in areas that vote Green leftfootforward.org/2026/05/zia-...

DON’T VOTE #Reform (if you’ve any sense at all, would have done). But especially not if you’re in a care home or know someone who is, or care about your human rights. newsletters.e.mirror.co.uk/5f-SeQ9xskoJ...

Rory Challands reports on the challenges facing children in Lebanon trying to do their exams when Israel has forced 1 million people from their homes

Highly protected muddy seabeds are home to twice as many species than those exposed to damaging fishing, a study off Scotland’s coast suggests.

@jackabbott.bsky.social @soclablaw.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social What are you doing about this? Anything at all? No you're bleating about a crazy man who attacked jews and muslims. You are unprincipled. This is a large part of why I won't vote Labour. See also Covid, pandering to PLCs etc

George Monbiot is a co-founder of the Earth Rover Program, which is a long-term good news story in itself - website here: www.earthroverprogram.org The article George has linked to below is a good news hit right now if you could do with one. ⏬

Funny how a wildly provocative, nearly cartoonishly cruel policy lands just as questions about £5m donations and tax affairs start getting uncomfortable. Pure coincidence, I’m sure.

With food price inflation in the news, here is a warning everyone should hear - #NEB food systems expert @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social speaking at the #NationalEmergencyBriefing. Full talks here: www.nebriefing.org/expert-brief... #PEBuk #FoodSecurity

US again uses force to try to resolve the Strait of Hormuz crisis Brent crude rises to $113.60

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social 1: It's a war crime. 2: They're your colleagues 3: suppressing this information is a betrayal of journalistic principles. 4: Are you prevented from reporting this? 5: Where does your editorial control come from?

What will Reform propose next to distract from Nigel's dodgy donations? Let's not get side tracked. Let's talk about his crypto donations or the bung from JCB to promote their pot hole repair machine. Or the £5m donation before he became an MP. Or why he pulled out of Kunessberg on Sunday.

If Labour change their leader they'll have a choice of: * Rayner; I personally like and support her but she'd be given such a rough ride by the press and broadcast media it would make her untenable * Streeting; a Starmer clone with a tiny majority of 528; Doubtful whether he'd even win his seat 1/2

Her over-fondness for photo opportunities. By far the most dangerous place to stand in Manchester Central is between our MP and a camera. She has the annoying habit of turning up at the climax of other people's good works to get photographed taking credit for it.

I think most politicians do that don't they? The worst example I can think of was the great and much missed Mo Mowlam doing all the hard yards to get the Belfast Agreement in place and then Blair taking all the credit for her amazing work.

One looks forward to all the "patriots" criticising her for "offending our most important ally".

Farage, the crooked rules breaker is unfit to be a rules maker. Don't let him win. open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

As I’ve always said the worst part of Brexit isn’t the damage to the economy it’s the harm done to the people.

Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missile last night hit the VNIIR-Progress military electronics plant in Cheboksary, 1000 km from the frontline. The plant supplies critical electronics for air defence missile systems, the T-90M and Armata tanks and Russian naval vessels and submarines. #explodey

Kemi Badenoch: "the problem is welfare, we need to get people back to work" UK unemployment rate for the period December 2025 to February 2026 was 4.9%. While higher than the record lows of 3.6% in 2022, it is still moderate compared to the high of 8% after the 2008 financial crash. #r4today

Trump threatens to blow Iranian troops ‘off face of the earth’ if they target US ships www.irishtimes.com/world/middle... Dear God- this was all completely unnecessary!

The UK media are the pits. However, Keir Starmer has not been able to adequately articulate values of hope over the media amplified cacophony of hate from ReFUK.

I would partly agree with this. Our media does us no favours…..quite the opposite.

Irritating Jargon Klaxon: Caine: “We are still at low level kinetics at this time.”