This reminds me - if you spot... interesting, outrageous or misleading leaflets for elections near you this May, please get in touch [email protected] @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Heartwarming. BBC News - 'Scared' six-year-old calls ambulance to save mum www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don’t forget to send reform leaflets back. It costs them £2.50 a pop.

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post

FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea 🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation 🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship 🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund www.carbonbrief.org/...

Well worth a read.

Trump himself is the most papery-thin of paper tigers ever to tiger while paper.

The government promised to bring our railway into public ownership. Their Railways Bill leaves huge parts of our railway in the hands of private profiteers. Ask your MP to make sure it delivers for passengers, not profit. weownit.org.uk/rail-tug-of-...

Twice-as-long version now up on #BBCSounds and all other pod outlets. #StrongMessageHere

And support my campaigns - including public ownership of water - here: actionnetwork.org/forms/we-can...

I AM GOING TO BURN DOWN THE SHED UNLESS WE HAVE PIZZA ROLLS FOR DINNER TONIGHT [mom sighs, rolls her eyes, writes "pizza rolls" on the grocery list for next week] I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO BURN DOWN THE SHED

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda: The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

Gift link www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Just mailed HM the King my copy of Roger's Profanisaurus so he can converse with the President in the vernacular

Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer!.

Look at the state of this.

NEW - I got to interview Dominic Cummings earlier this week. Britain's 16-bit Shaman. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Favourites Currencies : Crypto & Rouble’s & anything untraceable

Thames Water's creditors want to set a new low for privatised water by asking Ofwat to sign off on a deal which allows them to break the rules. Ofwat are poised to agree. We can't let them. Email your MP now: weownit.org.uk/act-now/the-...

As we send a Black man and a woman around the moon for the first time, let’s remember the trailblazing Black woman Katherine Johnson, whose brilliant calculations were critical to the initial Apollo 11 mission. Her work spanned 33 years at NASA, including contributions to the Space Shuttle program.

⚡️Ukraine, Russia waging shadow war in Libya, RFI reports. Around 200 Ukrainian troops are based in Libya in cooperation with the government in Tripoli, sources told Radio France Internationale. These forces are allegedly behind the March 3 strike on a Russian tanker in the Mediterranean Sea.

Anyone who looked even only 5 seconds into the future would have foreseen the truth in this post. BZ.

Why do dozens of MPs need second jobs? It‘s a terrible look and it’s eroding trust in our politics. Please sign our letter to the Committee on Standards. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/189498/...

From the CWS ARCHIVE. Good Friday 2024.

Bad vibes. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at how discussion of Brexit and the reset is still saturated with dishonesty, and the latest episodes in the 'vibe politics' that have embedded that dishonesty in British politics: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/bad-...

Captain's Log?

"Dear people of the UK, when you go to vote on May 7th, just before you write the X in the box, count to 10 and think about what's happening in America. A quick recap below:" via The Daily Scar at Facebook

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I want to hire a removal van, but also to show everyone I’m a true patriot. Say no more, Sir. I have just the thing.

Videos of explosions have fueled misunderstanding and misinformation in the conflict with Iran, with munition types incorrectly identified amongst claims of “mystery” weapons. What can types of explosions really tell us? Read @easybakeovensz.bsky.social‘s latest: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

QI.

Excellent.

BBC News - How Russia's threat has seen Germany become Europe's most important army - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If Matt Goodwin wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛

Very good article.

I find it mind-boggling that Keir Starmer is seen as just as unpopular as Liz Truss. I'm no fan of him particularly, but being a bit boring is nowhere near as being as absolutely batshit as Truss was.

They'll be in the middle aisle between the unicycles and the trombones.

BZ.

Brilliant.

Back on the topic: many non-citizens vote legally in the UK despite moaning from Farage. Including, oops, one of his funders. (h/t Private Eye)

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

The Pentagon is cooking up some creative strategies to open the Strait of Hormuz

BZ. This has proper tickled me.