An absolute pleasure to talk to @privateeyenews.bsky.social about Democracy for Sale's investigation into Labour Together hiring a PR firm to target journalists who were reporting on the undeclared political funding that powered Starmer's rise to power The Paul Foot awards really are the best

The results are in... ✊ 98% of current West End workers voted YES to supporting strike action on an 89% turnout in Equity’s indicative ballot. ✊ 99% of all West End workers from the past three years voted YES to back Equity’s claim. www.equity.org.uk/news/2026/we...

"The big story right now is oil. The next story is food." ⁣ ⁣ That's the transmission channel people miss: if fertilizer is "caught on the wrong side of the Strait of Hormuz," food prices can be next.

The party of free speech everybody...

As a casual observer of our neighbours politics this is very surprising. From all the breathless coverage you'd swear they had swept all before them

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

Hokey Cokey #ceasefire from an oke doke President.

As the King is speaking on Capitol Hill….this.

"There's no suggestion that the King knew what was going on" says presenter on #r4today Curious assertion. No British journalist has ever possessed the curiosity to ask him what he knew and when he knew it.

Thanks @vrsimility.bsky.social for comment and excellent blog on the subject. Re the 1830 warehouse - revision certainly, but discussion board attached.

We recently had a visit from BBC Radio Merseyside. Celebrating the upcoming 30th Anivarssary of FoWT. You can listen online now... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We have done a lot of work on our map of structures on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

Explanatory key for the Wapping Goods Station reconstruction - see previous post.

Karoline Leavitt being interviewed by FoxNews: “There will be shots fired” tonight.

Unelected peer commenting on corrupt little Britain. Surreal. #newsnight

"If your local bakery loses one of its ovens, the whole neighborhood ends up having to get by with less bread." That's the whole game. Markets can calm fast; physical production can't.

The Royal Daffodil out on the Mersey this morning for sea trials @yoliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social @merseyferries.bsky.social #RoyalDaffodil #MerseyFerries #Liverpool

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction. We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s. We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third. And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.

Guest: How are things going for the Trump administration right now? A war that has bumped the Epstein investigation to the back page is going so badly that the First Lady makes an impromptu statement about the Epstein investigations.

Happy 50th anniversary to “All the President’s Men” — a film that owes its existence to Redford, who bought the film rights, developed the script and cajoled a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein. I thought it was “a great character study,” he said later. But, for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”

We were in the Edge Hill cutting again today, helping @networkrail.bsky.social plan to LIDAR scan the cutting.

Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.

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...