Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt. Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

Guardian excelling itself with this one www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

GIGA POLL is here: 45,335 Brits. 80 questions. About time someone asked the public. The media loves telling us what to worry about and who to blame, but the real verdict comes straight from the people.

#BBCNews - Swiss voters narrowly approve plan for electronic ID cards www.bbc.com/news/article...

This woman is everything to me

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

This is an important thread by @colinyeo.bsky.social that both explains how the current system works and why he supports ID cards as an anti-discrimination, pro-migrant measure.

200 years ago today LOCOMOTION pulled a train between Darlington and Stockton and everything changed.

Hey Bluepals. Today I launched a Crowdfunder with the amazing @gracequantock.bsky.social The aim is to get Grace's book "Living Well with Chronic Illness" into health centres across the UK. Please share / support this. I'd really appreciate this. Ta. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/86e1e73e29...

I will be pleased to have a card that I can use when I’m asked to prove my identity. Last time was when I joined the library, I had to show my driving licence but that won’t be valid next year. I present my senior railcard on my phone and I order repeat prescriptions on the NHS app.

This is a excellent intiative from @hopenothate.org.uk - I've signed up to do my area and would strongly encourage everyone else to do so as well

National Rejoin March, scheduled for October, has been pushed back to June 2026. It's critically important as a focus to push back against plastic patriotism. www.gofundme.com/f/national-r...

I hope not... I have a lot of kale planted up in the veggie plot!

Another job done on the #allotment this weekend. Finally cleared the last of the brambles (before and after photos). It's been untended for 6 years, so they were thick. Now, I have to dig up the roots!

The previous #allotment holder decided to bury a synthetic weed suppressing membrane 20cm down. So as well as clearing brambles I have to dig that up. Hard work!

Big pharma firms have paused nearly £2bn in UK investments this year

Absolute bargain!

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Nigel Farage wants to scrap the NHS as we know it and bring in an insurance system where “if you can afford it, you pay.” We want to know if you're concerned about his plans. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Sign the LibDem petition on this www.libdems.org.uk/bbc

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson. It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

He didn't "misspeak". He lied. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Commentary *like this* about a deputy Prime Minister felt politically unsurvivable" - Chris Mason, BBC ten o'cıock news. This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate

This interview with Spinal Tap is pitch perfect www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

What a great campaign. Just donated.

You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?

This is my flag.

Darling we're almost out of inflatable yaks. 🐂

I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.

Sure, you could use AI to summarize papers and explain them at a level anyone could understand... or you can turn the abstracts into music videos for no reason. The tools are obviously not perfect yet, but the disparate elements (consistent characters, lip syncing, etc.) are evolving fast

Library campaigners win backing from MP

This paper is bonkers. When you study eco-driving, people generally look at a small chunk of traffic which can hide bad side effects at the edge of the network. Cathy's group said "hey, what if we looked at the total city scale" and clearly established eco-driving as an effective intervention

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Kenya's child sex trade: BBC Africa Eye's secret filming exposes the 'madams' of Maai Mahiu

Day 245 of #GeorgiaProtests It got very hot and people drenched each other with water. 📷 MOSE

Motherfucking wind farms…

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. 
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

Enough. Gaza is starving. Ceasefire now. We must save as many lives as we can – and we have a plan. My update to UN Member States on the steps necessary to stop this horror👇 t.co/VYrZUTHthP

We're celebrating 10,000 Slow Ways routes with this stunning and electric mapping of our network by @urbangood.bsky.social. The full map shows 5,790 routes rated 3+. A massive congratulations and thanks to all of our volunteers. See the map in full here buildstories.slowways.org/celebrating-...

"[video game] as a community theater production" may be one of the most delightful Veo 3 Fast prompts Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding. The whole prompt was the one above. And the glitches add to it

IMO the question of votes at 16 is largely a normative one, but arguments focused on competency are very problematic (surely nobody would argue we should take away the vote as people age and cognitively decline?!).

🚀Meet INVICTUS – Europe’s new hypersonic test platform. We have joined forces with UK-based Frazer-Nash to kick off INVICTUS, a research programme with the goal of developing hypersonic technologies applicable to future reusable vehicles capable of horizontal launch. ▶️ esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

🚨 Gmail ads aren’t just annoying - they may be illegal. 🚨 Google could pay €525M for breaking privacy laws. 👉 tuta.com/blog/gmail-a... This is a BIG WIN for #privacy 🔒💥 What's your reason for having switched to Tuta?

Same phenomenon in the UK. Lots of media noise about millionaires leaving, no evidence they actually do taxjustice.uk/blog/debunki...

What a hollowed-out fucked-up corporate “local news industry” we’ve got, reliant on disillusioned poverty pay graduates rewriting dodgy press releases that are gamed for SEO by a casino, all enabled by Google pushing this shit through its Discover tab. pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-pr-...

📣Speaker announcement! Rail timetabling expert Jonathan Tyler will be speaking at our event tonight. Sign up for our Make Great British Railways Great event to find out how we can make sure public ownership of rail delivers for all. Register at https://vist.ly/3n7k95x