How many times will we have to keep quoting the direct words of the Trump-Vance team’s mediator? It is insane the low regard these people hold us in

Chris Murphy: "He's not telling the truth. But if you accept even part of the Iranian statement, Donald Trump has agreed to give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz. That is extraordinary and cataclysmic for the world."

off topic for me but just too much ... US VP JD Vance has criticised “disgraceful” foreign interference by EU in Hungarian election, while in Hungary endorsing Viktor Orbán www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Five railwaymen whose jobs disappeared with the end of steam on British Railways on 17 August 1968, photo by Roger Bamber (1944-2022). Carnforth locomotive shed, Lancashire.

Navajo Nation: the fight for cultural survival – photo essay

He is talking about creating a humanitarian disaster, a clear war crime

An Easter message from the president which should really force the VP and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

A different perspective. Always helpful.

Bondi, Bovino, Lewandowski and Noem. They served. They lied. They flailed. And now they’re political roadkill. An in memoriam for those we've lost in Trump 2.0.

Free speech is under attack in Britain … from the religious right ‘The Index on Censorship reported that a school in Salford, subsequently named as the Lowry Academy, had removed books containing "inappropriate content" from its library. It said they included Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell’

Watching Artemis II earlier compelled me to try and find this: my one great shot from when my mom pulled me out of school to go to an overpass by NASA Ames/Moffett Field to watch Endeavor fly by, atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, on its way to its final home in L.A. Unforgettable.

Two Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon have killed three Indonesian UN peacekeepers in the past 48 hours. The UN and Indonesia strongly condemned Israel’s actions and called for investigations.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Accountability brings consequences. And consequences are the only language corruption understands. Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution. They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇

And the New Statesman's look into how more than 100 professional lobbyists were standing at the last general election.

Think about that..

DEL TORO, on A.I: “.. the value of art is not how much it costs or how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.” @realgdt.bsky.social

With oil prices spiking again over the weekend, we are due for another late Sunday/early Monday post from Trump about significant progress with the “peace talks.”

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

John Waters never disappoints

No evidence of 'family voting' in the Gorton & Denton byelection say the Police after Refuk complained. Seems enough voters just hated Matt GPT To my mind the Democracy Volunteers group have some questions to answer on this, not least because they never reported any issues to election officials.

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity", a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FT: Russia is close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran, according to western intelligence reports that detail Moscow’s efforts to keep its embattled partner fighting www.ft.com/content/d5d7...

historic moment with potentially enormous ramifications: Meta and Google found liable in landmark legal case that social media platforms are designed to be addictive to children, opening up the tech giants to penalties in thousands of similar claims filed around the US www.ft.com/content/d3d8...

I wrote a book called 'One Day', superbly illustrated by @benjamindraws that tells the story of Jewish members of the French Resistance who escaped from the train deporting them to Auschwitz. My father's uncle and aunt were on the same train but didn't escape.

Good morning! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $1.9 billion, to $6.2 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day!

Trump and his cronies are disaster capitalists. They require disasters. If none are happening naturally, they can always create them.

NEW The US guided missile attack on a school in Minab in Iran looks like a war crime By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The hardest part of a “three-day war” is the first two years. Surprised Putin didn’t mention that to Trump.

Jeff Bezos, worth $233 billion, wants to raise $100 billion to replace factory workers with robots. That’s a declaration of war against the working class. He must explain to the American people what happens when millions lose their jobs. How will they survive?

Mounted police attacking a female bystander during the miners’ strike, Orgreave, June 1984 by John Harris. The police had just beaten a miner terribly and she had taken a photo so they attacked her. They later claimed this photo was doctored and that it didn’t happen.

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

Is this some sort of joke? £100 billion + cost At least 13 years late 700 wildlife sites - including 100 ancient woodlands - destroyed And now it's set to be a less than High Speed Train Just beggars belief www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Enough is enough. The Hillsborough families and all those they have campaigned alongside deserve so much better than more delays and more obfuscation. The Prime Minister must keep his promise and do it now. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Street art in New Brighton near Liverpool in the UK but it is a message for humankind!!!

Follow the money.

NW Branch Members Lisa, Louise & Shenagh, represented us at the North West TUC Conference over the weekend with Lisa proposing our Motion on Pride superbly. It was seconded brilliantly by Tracy from fellow union PCS and passed UNANIMOUSLY!

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

#StreetArt in #Paris 11th

Cuckoo or bat shit?

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

NEW: Ministers have approved the use of UK bases for the US to launch strikes on Iranian sites targeting the Strait of Hormuz

This insight is often missing in British commentary. Of course Iran and its allies treat Britain as part of the war effort. If a rival power allowed Iran to use its bases to strike the UK, Britain would call it participation without hesitation.

From Life magazine, March 10th, 1921. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...

Jeff Bezos has begun the process of raising $100 billion for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and then use AI to automate production. www.reuters.com/business/ret...