If this is true then Burnham and Labour are a lost cause. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Norwegians tried to get a European boycott of FIFA going but nobody else joined them because nobody wants to miss out on the gravy train. Football is secondary to money and self interest

Heard Lineker refer to him as ‘Sycofantino’ which gave me the only laugh of the whole competition.

Like him or not, I don't expect any lovers of that sport (or even those of us who aren't) who want fairness in the game would disagree with Ed on this.

You'd have thought the government would have been more concerned about digital security after the Horizon case. The opposite appears to be the case here

Whatever happened to Tories like him?

Let’s talk about election interference.

Mark it: the Perseids officially begin tonight 🌠 The year's most-loved meteor shower is switching on — and 2026 is a great one. The Aug 12–13 peak falls on a moonless night: dark skies, potentially dozens of meteors an hour. Join us on Slooh to watch!

**SUNDAY** Doors 19:00 Come along to see the new line-up of The Far Meadow on Sunday with the talented Dominic Sanderson band at air conditioned 1865 venue. Bring cash to buy tickets for Solent area prog 10th anniversary festival and get them at face value! It's quicker to check in with them too!

I’ve joined Oxfam in setting out five tests for the new Prime Minister’s first 100 days. These first decisions will set the direction for years to come. Words are easy, but the real test is the choices made in the weeks ahead. www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

Tomorrow is the last day she will be treated with equality & respect at school. Tomorrow is the last day she will be safe at school. Trans kids are bearing the sharp end of aggressive state persecution that is hitting all trans people. No wonder the UK's on our 2nd genocide warning.

Hope to all, says @andyburnham.bsky.social Except trans people, who his party has brutally booted beyond society’s margins. He didn’t even need to specify that exception. As things stand, we can’t possibly be included in any positive vision. Until that changes he’s presiding over an apartheid.

R.I.P. The Right Excellent Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, NH, AO, OCC 😞 starcomnetwork.net/blog/2026/07...

Someone has been asking silly questions. Who is that idiot? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/c...

Put another way, the entire adult userbase is going to have to upload their IDs to sketchy third-party companies and link their identities to their online activity to stop a few dozen kids from accessing a platform that is mainly left-leaning news and commentary. What problem is this solving?

With FPTP governments will reckon on being ousted after a term or two so it's always up to the next one to sort out

Ha ha yes, but also, if we're not allowed to call this agency then what really is the point of the word

The waters grew Ira's peoples' crops 'Til the white man stole their water rights & the sparkling water stopped Now, Ira's folks were hungry & their land grew crops of weeds When war came Ira volunteered & forgot the white man's greed No water, no home, no chance At home nobody cared what Ira'd done

This 👇

Weird thing is most testing will show you that one of the most vote losing positions Labour could adopt is explicit anti-Net Zero signalling. This is because climate still disproportionately matters to Lab/Green voters while Lab/Reform voters don’t care either way...

The problem is that the Block List Project is defunct. The bots can get us on the blocklist, but there's no human to take us off. This is a brilliant new solution for people with something to hide, who want to censor the internet.

Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Dear bad winners, Argentina. This is how the Indian women acted after they won the T20 World cup. Watch and learn how grown-ups behave www.instagram.com/reels/DawvBU...

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

On the BBC news channel the banner across the bottom seems to be a collection of random words and letters. SpaceX slide tests appetite for AI IPOs

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Trump will be praising them

I'm sure nobody here needs it, but just in case I'm wrong...

This was seven years ago. Has England paid their copyright arrears for using the Genoa flag yet? www.theguardian.com/world/2018/j...

They are OK with #Farageriots ?

Facism at work in West Northamptonshire as reported by a local councilor

Whoever does the subtitles for BBC's Tech Now needs sacking. The man said "we are 16.4 milli-centigrade above that (absolute zero) temperature" The subtitles said 16.4 million. They need someome who at least has a minimal grasp of phyics IMHO.

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Maybe if the government weren't locking people up for peacefully protesting they would have room to detain the likes of him for longer?

Unsurprisingly, a number of people asked me to look at this story doing the rounds on all the right-wing media 🧐 So let's take a look at who is exempt from the ban and why, and when this "two-tier" situation came about (spoiler - it's nothing new!) 1/20

"....𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦........ 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦:....... 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥-𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯"

Appalling: Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030 @wildcard.land have run a noble campaign trying to get the CofE to see sense But this demonstrates exactly why Ministers can't rely on landowners to voluntarily support 30by30: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This report made me sick to the pit of my stomach. No pretence there that reform aren't anti democracy. They have already started their war against minorities.

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

...anyway, maybe a good time to remember Russia's failed staged "assassination attempt" on Viktor Orban, intended to help him get re-elected. Of course, Orban was worth much more to Putin alive than dead. This may not be the case with minor politicians of far-right parties Putin sees as useful.

"Have you got my best side? It's important this is all about my me and my image!"

It won't make the headlines like The Beatles' find did but great to hear this type of thing is still being found

Unnecessary waste of energy by big tec Cecilia Rikap, economics professor at University College - "Governments should remember these expanding carbon footprints when the very same companies offer addressing the ecological crisis with AI solutions". #Greensky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Louis Mosley is a distant cousin of mine and I wouldn't let him in lol. Never met him and never want to. 🤮

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

R.I.P. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...