Canada cancels joint bridge-opening celebration with US amid trade tensions The ribbon-cutting celebration of the Gordie Howe International Bridge is no longer taking place after Trump announced a 50% tariff on Canadian goods

Lawyers for @BBC play hardball over Trump’s $10bn lawsuit by demanding information he will not want to give bit.ly/44HCnTO his lawyers have already limited its scope though not changed the damages claimed

Five years ago today, East Anglia Bylines published its first edition. Five years later, we're still exposing stories others miss, still run entirely by volunteers, & still going strong thanks to our writers & you, our readers. Here's to the next 5 years! 🥂

A word seems to be doing some hard lifting

Sea-level rise is a long-tail problem. Numbers worth thinking about: 👉 +20 cm UK sea-level rise over the last century 👉 +40–60 cm projected by 2100 👉 +1.4 million additional people potentially exposed to coastal flooding by 2200, even under current climate pledges www.theguardian.com/environment

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Thames Water joins hosepipe ban as England and Wales approach drought status This month a report found the UK’s climate extremes are becoming increasingly normal, as temperatures are pushed higher by carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

A judge in Florida has ruled Trump must hand over financial records sought by the BBC as it defends itself in his $10bn defamation lawsuit. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

He helped save Neil Armstrong – but few know his name. An Essex engineer played a critical role in a life-or-death NASA crisis. Read how that first message from the moon might have been different. Stuart Burrell has the story.

Also, am taking a break from these for the rest of the summer. But am interested in a) whether I should stop them completely b) if not, how I can improve! so I've designed this short anonymous survey. please take it if you've ever watched one of these! www.surveymonkey.com/r/MLXPT7F

They're gonna have to shoot an extra bit of that 'What has the BBC ever done for me' ad. 'Made Donald Trump turn over his financial records' is a pretty good one.

Just for contrast:

Corporations have been hiring MAGA-world lawyers with ties to Trump to lobby on their behalf. The latest example? Taylor Farms hiring a former Trump White House official as it deals with a cyclospora investigation. This also comes after it donated $1M to Trump's super PAC. See the problem?

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first item on the new PM’s list. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

According to the RMT, EMR has been sending trains into service that are "likely to fail and require a full reset which leaves the train with no active safety systems". The BBC says it has seen an operational briefing that appears to confirm this.

Meat multinational faces legal challenge over green credentials of $6bn global expansion plan Greenpeace petitions Dutch courts to order JBS to disclose how its aims are compatible with responsibilities to climate and human rights

Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. And Ossoff is devastatingly good at this. But who else wanted him to shout out, “Just answer the f*cking question”?

One migrant may stop another. Rare migratory stone curlews could yet derail plans for an asylum seeker camp at RAF Barnham because its breeding habitat is protected by law. An unexpected twist in a controversial story. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Tech companies need to generate huge revenues fast—or the economy could be in trouble, @annielowrey.bsky.social argues:

2 Months Before Voting Begins Trump Is Raising Gas Prices, Levying New Tariffs, Losing His War, And Ensuring Millions Lose Benefits And Care open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

🚨Caught on camera: Ken Paxton PANICS when asked about owning 15 homes worth $9 million on a $153,000 government salary. Paxton dodges, stammers, then says “I’d like to keep today to law enforcement!” Classic Paxton—refuses to answer, cuts the presser short. Texans deserve better.

‚It’s truly hell here’: airstrikes, repression and water shortages become ‘new normal’ for Iranians Iranians describe how daily life is becoming ever harder as conflict continues and human rights crisis worsens

This isn’t about fraud - it’s about cutting your healthcare so that Trump can afford the tax cuts he gave to billionaires. They’re cutting more money in healthcare than they’ve prosecuted for fraud. The math doesn’t add up. www.cbsnews.com/news/medicai...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The Russian Government is freaking out as it tries to manage the fuel crisis: 🔹Authorities are raiding homes for fuel containers 🔹Politicians are calling Russians "offended teenagers" for fuel complaints 🔹Officials are lying about supply line status Worse is yet to come.📉💥

On the nose: Nigel Farage pledges to reduce crime by decriminalising racism and fraud newsthump.com/2026/07/20/n...

"LLMs are designed to make stuff up & I don't know people always remember that. They are designed to sound convincing. They are bullshit machines... saying things with the confidence of someone who believes they are truly right but are just spouting anything they want out of their head" Kate Devlin

Insightful article and accompanying thread from @bylinetimes.bsky.social editor Hardeep Matharu: "LLMs are designed to make stuff up and I don't know people always remember that. …designed to sound convincing… bullshit machines... just spouting anything they want out of their head" - Kate Devlin

Making a disaster worse

Murkowski: "The War Powers Resolution is not ambiguous. It requires the president to terminate hostilities within 60 days absent congressional authorization. Hostilities began on Feb. 28…Is the administration still taking the position about needing no authorization from Congress?:" Hegseth: "We hav

Hegseth: “The Pentagon is no longer run by bureaucrats; instead, it's run by combat-tested veterans and world-class business leaders who are running the department like a business.” Big profit in war.

Hegseth acknowledges that Russia and China are helping Iran

I once went to Vancouver, and asked a pharmacist how much a vial of insulin costs, they said $35. Then I called my pharmacy in the states, and they said $360. Insulin companies extort their customers and people are dying because of it. Prices are getting better, but not by much. Keeping an 👁️ on this

This is (relatively) good news. Brazilian President Lula’s pledge to protect the Amazon appears to have paid off. In 2025 the smallest amount was burned in 40 years. It’s still a tragedy that any of it is getting burned, but this is real progress.

One thing about this: she really does have Trump's ear, at least last I heard.

Since Trump's inauguration, defense tech companies linked to his sons have generated over $3.2B in direct government business and $3.1B in future contract options. Call this what it is: corruption.

JK Rowlings really is a very unpleasant individual. www.out.com/celebs/jk-ro...

France passed a landmark law on Tuesday restricting access to social media for anyone under 15, the first European country to do so, and the latest in a wave of countries acting against what they view as malign effects of such services on minors. nyti.ms/44G4SRS

The United States no longer seems to care about democracy in its backyard. If Nicaragua formally becomes a one-party state and suffers no diplomatic consequences, other countries may follow

Andrew and Tristan Tate were just denied bail. They will be remanded to a Florida detention center while their extradition proceedings continue. #TrumpSwamp

⭕Deux civils #Palestiniens auraient été brûlés au point d’être méconnaissables après qu’une frappe #Israélienne a visé un véhicule civil à l’Ouest du camp de réfugiés #d’Al-Nuseirat, dans le Centre de la bande de #Gaza.

EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, Todd Blanche continues to refuse to turn over unredacted Epstein Files and to comply with the law. I break down Blanche’s latest filing that is tellingly short on content and substance. youtu.be/JzVZxT7ZtJo?...

Millions face long-term coastal flooding risk in UK without climate action, scientists warn A ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ suggests need for large-scale movement of populations away from reshaped coast

Perhaps this advice can be bundled with the advice to shut up about trans rights, immigrant rights, women's rights, and climate so we can develop a marshmallow platform (essentially a bouncy castle in the kingdom of nowhere).

Where is all the water coming from to support AI data centres? There's no plan for reservoir development that I'm aware of....

US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government

The WH regime is testing the limits of the federal court system in preparation for the midterms. It's a gradual attrition that eventually sneaks up on the public as just another day of normalcy. It isn't. Regardless of party affiliation, we must vote regime supporters out & then we deal with policy.

VAT off electricity is a small step, taking it off gas is another - but the big opportunity to bring our bills down is to Break the Link. www.babelfish.news/energy/the-k...