All MPs' outside earnings by party: The Conservatives come out top at 66% of total earnings from second jobs, while Reform (with just eight MPs) account for 20%, and Labour (with 400+) just 7%. But taking into account their size, Reform has by far the highest outside earnings per MP of any party.

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy quits TwitterX. This should be the first of many.

This is what it looks like to take wildlife collisions seriously. There are >40 wildlife overpasses and underpasses with fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, Alberta. They’ve reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by 80%, saving human & animal lives while promoting connected ecosystems.

🚨 Google continues to lobby the UK government to hand the work of the country's creatives to big tech companies for free. 🧵 1/3

🥵Why are so many Europeans/Britons unnecessarily sweating through a heatwave without cooling? Why are portable AC units so crap? The answers are both interesting and maddening. My latest on air conditioning👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-missin...

The life and legacy of Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan is being explored in an exhibition in Leeds. "Genghis Khan: How the Mongols Changed the World" opened at the Royal Armouries on 26 June and runs until November. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sat 4th July at HPBC Leeds join us, Admiral Drowsy, Cloud Studies, @formingsound.bsky.social, Fig by Four, Hinata, Pete Greenwood, Shoddy Merchant, Silverlode, The New Mysteries, Zandra, in assoc. with @dlf-tm.bsky.social #dreampop #shoegaze #davidlynch #twinpeaks

I especially love this diagram.

Two men, same job, same age, same company (Amazon). One earns more... and is more likely to die young. He's the American. A rich American and a poor German now have roughly the same odds of reaching 75. So tell me again which continent is "in decline." open.substack.com/pub/shehuand...

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations... eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

A targeted guarantee of decumulation pooling for older defined contribution savers who have run out of time A targeted guarantee of decumulation pooling for older defined contribution savers who have run out of… https://henrytapper.com/2026/06/26/retirement-pooling-for-the-cohort-that-cannot-wait/

BREAKING: Parliament votes for the UK's seventh carbon budget, targeting an 87% cut in emissions by 2040 332 in favour 94 against

Hilarious chart shows who's suing whom in AI. Source: buff.ly/lkHKHU3

Climate emergency cancels Reform's "cancel the climate emergency" meeting - council members were due to vote on Thurs on a Reform motion to rescind the climate emergency.

A reminder that Brexit's architects admitted in parliament that their key argument for Brexit was entirely invented. (From The Decade In Tory)

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Fund science, not ballrooms

my body is a machine that transports authentication codes from my screen to my phone and some other supporting auxiliary functions

The US government said it will stop its President's Emergency Fund for Aids Relief (Pepfar) funding programmes in South Africa, tying the decision to allegations that South Africa failed to protect its white-minority Afrikaner community. TAT: [Foreign policy | Attacking science]

A new tool allowing artists to check whether their music is potentially being used by AI companies has launched online A cursory search of AI Watchdog will reveal that 175 songs by #TheFall show up across the four datasets used by AI companies buff.ly/oId9AKp

🏷️ AI content is getting labels. Just like energy ratings or safety certifications help you make informed choices. From 2 August 2026, EU law will require clear labelling on: 🔹 deepfakes 🔹 AI-generated content 🔹 chatbots

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

A lot of people say that they don't understand how Starmer managed this given his huge majority. Well: His majority was an anti-Tory majority; what he then did as PM was continuity Tory or *worse*. This is how we got here. A man with no principles of his own was elected on a relatively ... 🧵

"Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion." #RestoreNature for #Defence www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Running the 55-mile Comrades ultramarathon is so normal in South Africa that it's hard to find someone who doesn't know a finisher. Covering the 12-hour race was one of the most life-affirming experiences of my career. Read my story here, with beautiful photos by James Oatway.

So if we can't easily bring back growth and manufacturing, other than doing lots of the basics right over time, what can be done. With a bit of help from the next generation I cobbled together a few ideas - not all entirely within my expertise --->

This is very sweet from @roberthutton.co.uk - how the Abbey National ended up writing back to correspondence for Sherlock Holmes after they moved into 221B Baker Street www.ft.com/content/004c...

New app: do you want to enable notifications? Me: I don't even want to have this phone

"She used to talk about the beach like it was a person. Her bond to the sunset, her bond to the water and the turtles….she was really into conservation, and into the soul, the spirit of conservation." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What gigs is this miserable prick going to? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tobacco use in India has halved this century. At the turn of the millennium, one-in-five adults in India smoked tobacco, and almost half of all adults were using any form of tobacco, including products that are chewed or sniffed. But over the past two decades, rates of both have roughly halved.

Happy news for some residents of the general Downing Street vicinity, anyway. (Who knew pelican chicks were that colour?) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world

More 10-year-olds say they want puppies than parents do. What's behind the divide?

Forgot this one for Leeds and the updated tour poster

Wowsers. Opens in November. www.cntraveller.com/article/the-...

41% voting for the far right is pretty depressing though.

folks when we find a guy who's saying a bunch of dumbass shit can we get back to blocking them instead of screenshotting them and talking about their dumbass shit? these losers are not worth our time & when we let them waste it we insult the revolution

🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum 1/…

A lovely story www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Millions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof Suno and rivals are being sued for $150k per song. A sum that would bankrupt these companies and set an important precedent.

Who says there’s no good news around these days? 🥳🎉🍾

Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.

Click on the @louderthanwar.bsky.social link in the comments to read my review for The Ghosts at the Show by @thewindupbirds.bsky.social. The first album in six years from West Yorkshire's finest indie punks! ❤️

RIP ABDULLAH IBRAHIM no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/a...

Solar nerds! We have some movement on plug-in solar. DESNZ's consultation on plug-in solar (panels on balconies and gardens, good for renters) has just launched, and it closes 30 June. Suggesting they want to move fast on this. www.gov.uk/government/c...

The River Gipping has carried Roman travellers, trading barges and industrial cargo. Today it's at the centre of an ambitious environmental restoration project that could make conservation history.