BBC news is utter bollocks. So much inequality, injustice and corruption in the world. So much time reporting on a possible kick-off time change for England's world cup match and Taylor Swift's wedding. This isn't news it's nonsense to distract us.

@nedboulting.bsky.social Hi Ned I think I *may* have mentioned before, how much I like your writing. I was just wondering if you've ever considered (or even heard of) doing the Faversham Literary Festival? (Every February.) I'd love to see you there.

It's weird when Americans refer to blue/red in politics because, in MOST democracies, red is progressive and blue is conservative. The US is a bit of an outlier.

🚨🚨🚨PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE YOUR PETS OUTSIDE TODAY OR WALK THEM ON HOT PAVEMENT!!! If you must have them outdoors they need shelter and access to water at ALL times. One day of no exercise may drive you nuts, but it could kill them. 🚨🚨🚨

Pramila Jayapal: "They're winning on platforms like Medicare for All, universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage - the reason Donald Trump has to pivot from saying socialism to communism is that socialism is actually quite popular."

Dog rescued in Venezuela after 6 days in rubble! Such goodness all around 😍

We called this "joined up thinking" when i was younger. More of this please.

Police stop an Ambulance with flashing lights so a VIP can pass. One video that shows everything wrong with the UK. We need to stop letting the rich piss all over us.

Israel is deliberately killing Palestinian children. Not by accident. Not recklessly. On purpose. The evidence is absolutely overwhelming 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...

This is vomit inducing 👑 Gong seeking sycophants at ‘The Independent’ helping Slumlord Willie’s PR Team concoct a BS narrative to put out to the Great Unwashed #NotMyKing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

The impacts were particularly severe in major urban areas, with deaths jumping by 33% in Greater London and 28% in southeast England during the peak of the heat. The crisis strained hospitals and saw emergency admissions soar between late June and early July.

During the historic summer heatwave of 1976, an estimated 250 people died each day from heat-related causes. Overall mortality rates surged significantly, with experts calculating that the intense weather caused a 20% to 30% increase in excess deaths across the country.....

Being in a standard classroom with windows that don't fully open on an exceedingly hot day, with 30+ teenagers, makes you feel incredibly unwell. Learning grinds to a halt, tempers flare, misery ensues. Any journalist writing that schools are making a fuss over nothing should spend a day in one 🥵

As if nearly always the case, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is hammering nails with unerring accuracy. I took y A levels as a 17 year old in 1976 and my privileged Public School took measures to ensure that examination rooms were cooled as far as possible that summer. 1/3

🎯 UK billionaire press against the real people. Here @georgemonbiot.bsky.social documents our education v the class system. Ditto for: NHS v private care if you can afford it. Higher education if you have £30,000 spare. Housing, same. Opportunity only for those within the £ circle. 😒🧐🤔

Cricket, warm beer and excess mortality are the markers of national character. This week's column is about the ignorance, snobbery and cruelty in the billionaire press, triggered by last week's heatwave. And about the grim condtions children now face in schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Royal Mail boss’s pay package triples to £6.9m. Cost of postage stamps rocketing RM hasn't hit delivery target for 1st-class post since 2017, 2nd-class mail since 2020. Ofcom continues to reduce targets. Bosses rewarded for fleecing people.

What a question… Who would make a better PM: Farage or Burnham?! I guess that depends on whether you’re a crypto billionaire, or not…

Marina Purkiss, "Nigel Farage said 'up the Ra' for £86, What do you think he's willing to do for £5,000,000?

"There's no shortage of ideas about what to do if AI hollows out large swaths of work: universal basic income, benefits that don't depend on employers, lifelong retraining, a shorter workweek." UBI is economic infrastructure for technological transition.

Your regular reminder that not a single new reservoir has been built in England since privatisation. Water companies have increased our bills above the rate of inflation and made 10s of billions in profit.

This is a brilliant thread. Share it with the nostalgia gammon in your life.

I switched from boiling my testicles to deep frying them. It was the biggest mistake of my life.

Fossil fuel giants and their billionaire backers are boiling Britain. We need action to reduce emissions - but we also need emergency safety measures too. Cool spaces in every community and a maximum working temperature. It's time for Government to step in.

THIS is more like it. THIS is the England football I'm used to. Dull as ditchwater. #ENGvGHA

Sam Matterface and Lee Dixon seem to be surprised that adding an extra 16 teams (including ones ranked as low as 85th) and an extra 40 matches, will result in more goals conceded and more own goals scored. #WorldCupCommentators

Every time I see Christiano Ronaldo's neck I think of Crazylegs Crane.

Several months ago I predicted that the only current UK party leader to stand in the 2029 election would be Ed Davey. Since then Greens have a new leader and now labour will. Only Conservative and Reform to go.

None of this is any surprise. #Starmer promised very little and delivered even less. Nobody voted for him because of what he stood for (nobody knows what he stands for) they just wanted to get the Tories out.

They aren't building data centers to solve the world's problems, they are building them with the hope of consolidating all the world's wealth in their hands.

The Keir Starmer legacy is simple. Lied to win Labour leadership. Won the easiest General Election in history. Promised change & delivered none. Targeted pensioners/disabled/Trans ppl. Involved the UK in the Iran war & pretended not to. Clear, unequivocal & continuing support for a Genocidal state.

If you banned #WirldCupCommetators from using the words 'energy,' 'quality,' and 'high-press'' they'd struggle to say anything at all.

Alan Shearer seems surprised that the Netherlands football team have a lot of energy. #WorldCupCommentators

Can we ban football commentators from using the word 'quality'?

Age yourself with a childhood crush

Also works with Reform/Farage.

I tell you what... you don't get football commentators/pundits of the calibre of this! Can you imagine Wayne Rooney writing as eloquently about his sport as Ned Boulting does about the Tour de France?

Morning everyone. Here's a little hymn of praise about the moment before the Tour de France starts. I've knocked out the paywall on this one, and offer it up for free, to everyone. Please spread it far and wide if you enjoy what I have written. open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...

@mark-carney.bsky.social “Israel poisoned the land in Lebanon, just as it did with the water wells in Palestine, violating the Chemical Weapons Convention. Israel sprayed toxic and carcinogenic chemicals all over Lebanese agricultural land. This is a war crime and an act of genocide.” M. Safa

Parapraxis corner. Reform councillors let the truth slip in Makerfield.

Who's the most annoying #commentator #pundit #presenter of the #worldcup? At the moment I'm thinking Alan Shearer.

Shirt and tie + baseball cap is worse than socks and sandals.

If they're having a three minute hydration break, why don't they stop the clock for three minutes? Why add three minutes on at the end - as if they weren't expecting it? #worldcup

Unpopular opinions: #1 Stephen Fry's voice is actually quite annoying. (Specifically, his advertising voiceover voice.) #2 Football is boring. (I didn't used to find it boring but there's too much directionless tip-tapping the ball back and forth.)

And you know, just for reference, here's how our welfare spending compares. It's not like we're doing a great job of that, viewed against our peers. (Granted this is '23 data)

And then! This! A lovely graph, showing the UK at the bottom of NATO countries for defence spending. We're on 2.3% - on a perfect par with Türkiye. But look at the 2nd image. Why is OUR 2.3% set back a little? As if it's magically smaller than Türkiye's identical sum? What the FUCK, #BBC?

Daily Mail posts lies about the Greens that are spread far and wide. I wish half the number of people saw their apologies. Solidarity with Kamel.

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali. The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup are suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa) Just silence.