On the night of 18 May, a Russian Shahed drone struck a Chinese commercial vessel inside Ukrainian territorial waters in the Black Sea Ukraine's Navy called the incident something entirely new, given that China is one of Russia's closest war allies euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/18/r...

All hell breaks lose in Moscow as air defenses fail to stop Ukraine’s largest attack of the war. youtu.be/xbERDO53Bcs?...

🔥 An area bigger than Texas or France, inside Russia, was under attack last night by Ukraine. Over 1,000 drones swarmed - forcing a nationwide emergency and shutdown capital airports. 👉Putin woke up to a disaster he cannot stop. It is about to worsen. youtu.be/AK4kBxAafqE

London delivers #TommyRobinson #NigelFarage have no answer to this. Behind their rhetoric is fragility and grift. #HopeNotHate

The pipe was welded shut behind them, no water, no gas masks, sent as cannon fodder. The Russian group crawled 13+ km to the Orikhiv direction and came out into Ukrainian hands. Three more surrendered near Vovchansk. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/17/a...

As Moscow burns, remember those who fretted about nuclear escalation because Ukr struck an antiradar system. Remember also the Biden admin in 2022 fell for the manipulation that Ru will existentially defend the Ukr territories it included in its constitution. Ukr’s allies should‘ve listened to Ukr.

#Trump Iran International reported May 14th a bill is going through Iranian Parliament offering $50million to individual or entity that assassinates Trump. Astonishig being discussed so openly. www.lranintl.com/en/202605140...

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

I wonder how Europe will respond if Lukashenko is pushed into Russia/Ukraine war. www.kyivpost.com/post/76011 www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Russia's Foreign Intelligence (SVR) warns Russians that Ukraine launched a program last year that's been purchasing big Russian Telegram channels, Ukraine finally doing to Russia what Russia has been doing to the world since 2005. Lets see how Russians like divide and conquer at home.

Ukraine expands strikes across Russia in new campaign. youtu.be/XueZGkU71MY

⚡️ Putin's Transnistria passportization decree likely war recruitment tool, Moldova's president warns "Probably they need more people to send to the war in Ukraine," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said.

History shows what this flag waving does to a nation when it’s high jacked by lunatics on the extreme right @warrenoates1.bsky.social @toekneee.bsky.social @paddyopatrick.bsky.social @ceremonialgeek.substack.com @pudner.bsky.social

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

I can think of at least "5 milllion" reasons why they shouldn't

#DoingTheMediasJob How none of this made the news I have no idea Should have been more important than coups, £5m bungs and the fact someone telling you to vote didn’t vote himself.

We have seen this before

I look at Mark Carney sitting at the table with European leaders, the first non European member to attend the European Summit in Armenia. 44 world leaders. What the fxck is the UK doing?

Ukrainian rescuers are still working through the rubble of a nine-story residential panel building in Kyiv, where 18 apartments were destroyed by a Russian missile strike They are still searching for people. 16 civilians were confirmed dead in the attack 📷

He can't not just say it.

"Global spending on weather disasters, insurance premiums and climate adaptation in the past 12 years has matched Great Recession economic losses." Mitigating future climate damage is cheap compared to the alternative.

“Darling, come down and see this, there is a Russian rocket in our kitchen” Russian terrorists deposit their junk systems into an apartment block in Kyiv. #RussiaIsATerroristState

Staggering

The battlefield. No soldiers, no ordinance, just homes and civilians

Death toll rose to 2 in Kyiv after Russia's strike last night destroyed a section of a high rise The Emergency Service says that 32 people were injured, with 13 of them treated in hospital. 📹 DSNS

Sadiq Khan: "When President Trump got elected in 2016, there was a 2000% increase in the racist hate I received." Full Byline Times interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Gn...

Another week, another attack on a minority in the UK: Masked men firebomb a Muslim prayer room in cafe in Blackburn metro.co.uk/2026/05/12/m...

A Ukrainian FPV drone struck a Russian ammunition depot hidden inside a pipe on the Kupiansk axis, triggering a massive explosion. #Ukraine

A very strong start to 2026 -significantly above forecasts. GDP/capita rose 0.6% in first three months of 2026 (OBR expected gdp/capita to grow by 0.8% in 2026 as a whole) www.ons.gov.uk/economy/gros...

Today, Daily Mirror is the only newspaper that is facing up what has actually happened in this country and what we now have to reckon with, rather than speculating about the future.

Ant Middleton lives in Dubai. Tommy Robinson lives in Spain Pretty much everyone else speaking lives in cloud cuckoo land

EXC from @pippacrerar.bsky.social Angela Rayner has been cleared by HMRC of deliberate wrongdoing or carelessness over her tax affairs, the Guardian can reveal, paving the way for a potential leadership bid as Keir Starmer’s grip on power unravels. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

At least eight civilians were killed after Russia launched around 30 overnight strikes across Dnipropetrovsk region. Homes, cars and critical infrastructure were hit in the barrage, while in Kryvyi Rih the attacks destroyed infrastructure facilities and a gas pipeline.

#energy Just listening to Emma Pinchbeck on The Rest is Money. Blimey, she knows her stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFMP...

A Ukrainian Su-27 struck a Russian position in Rodynske, occupied Donetsk region. #Ukraine

Ukrainian MiG-29s struck positions of Russian drone operators in the occupied part of Kherson region. #Ukraine

A US commentator has just called him 'Nigel Reform' and I'm still laughing!

Russia tried to stage power. It accidentally staged exhaustion. ㅤ The May 9 parade showed old aircraft, WWII-era tanks at regional events, and Russian units reinforced by North Korean personnel. ㅤ For the Kremlin’s myth of self-sufficiency, that image was brutal.

Not to excuse this, & it’s a while since I presented anything on the BBC, but I do recall noting an almost subconscious desire to disprove bogus allegations of bias by being particularly tough on Labour & Lib Dems (Ed Davey once complained!) This is another victory for right wing media gaslighting.

⚡️Pro-Ukrainian partisans set locomotive ablaze in Russia's Lipetsk Oblast, group claims. The sabotage operation is alleged to have destroyed the locomotive, used for transporting military cargo towards Ukraine's Sumy Oblast.

⚡️Russian drone strikes apartment building in Kharkiv less than 24 hours into ceasefire. The drone attack hit a nine-story residential building in the city's Industrial district, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on May 9 — the first day of a three-day truce meant to last until May 11.

The war the Kremlin unleashed on Ukraine is ricocheting back on the aggressor.

The longer this drags on, the more Russia relies on Trump, Western fatigue, and carefully crafted “peace” narratives because, frankly, its battlefield leverage is sinking faster than the Moskva. He will only ever demand more, because anything less is failure.

Record high ocean temperatures continued across the North Pacific in April 2026 relative to the entire rest of the historical record for the month. This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every March from 1854-2026 using NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).

Arctic sea ice volume was at a record low for the time of year on May 9, 2026, as it has been for years. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/05/arct...

Russia's T-72AM is a very old tank with a fresh coat of paint. The first refurbished 50-yo T-72As have reached front-line units near Kostyantynivka. Expect them to stay parked like other tanks—drones have made the gray zone a kill zone for everything on tracks. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/t...

Ukraine’s new trailer-mounted laser system can target Shahed drones from up to 5 km away using AI-assisted tracking and radar integration. The “Tryzub” laser is now in final testing. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/t...

⚡️US falls below Russia in survey of global perceptions. The global perception of the United States has fallen for a third consecutive year, now ranking several spots behind Russia, a survey commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundations revealed on May 7.

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.