What an excellent article (linked to below). Brexit really is at the core of the country’s problems. Impossible that the Labour leadership don’t know this - they are clever, experienced politicians. What is astonishing is these leading figures in the UK government don’t do anything to change it.

The best PR team in the country: Buckingham Palace announces that king has paid tax. My guess is his effective tax rate is lower than I pay on my 24k annual income as a pensioner

Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...

10th anniversary of the Brexit vote Big Red Bus of Brexit Truths tour marks the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum | Mark Cunliffe

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

"ignore the wild-eyed polemics about bond investors recoiling from this change of personnel in Number 10. The bulk of the problem was never Burnham. It was the war in Iran." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... By @katie0martin.ft.com

Obama lives rent free in this draft dodging coward’s mind

When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed…  Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org.

Mamdani just showed up at Penn Station, wristbands in hand, helping World Cup fans find their trains like it was nothing. Panama vs England, MetLife bound, and the mayor was just out there in the crowd. No big deal. Very big deal.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

the punchline here is that this GB News opinion piece headline ... is written by Kwasi Kwarteng. utterly shameless:

Weird how the right both believe Thatcher's council house sale is the best policy in history and that anyone who benefitted from it is bad and wrong.

So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story

I will not rest until every politician is held to account for what their mother did 36 years ago

Yep Starmer lost 30% of Labour's vote to the Greens and Lib Dems because he was just too nice to migrants and those on welfare.

The parasite economy, we get poorer, our services get poorer yet people sitting on their arses get richer… www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Amazon made £55 MILLION in profit in the UK last year, but only paid a fraction of what they should in tax. Jeff Bezos is rubbing his hands together, avoiding tax, while we pay our dues. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now.

This is what imperialists always do. They claim to love their country. They feed its people into the machine.

New York City residents are celebrating the reopening of public pools — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who jumped into the water while wearing a suit at an East Harlem pool on Saturday. Outdoor public pools will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day through Sept. 13.

Glorious

Are they green like the reflecting pool? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

High-end house builders include A/C & Solar in properties. Private schools have air-con in every classroom. There is no Govt programme to roll out any of that for YOU. When ppl call u a "net zero zealot" what they really mean is "i'd quite like climate protections to be a new layer of classism."

I’m fed up with politicians saying we need to “respect” the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum. A decision by a narrow majority 10yrs ago, that turned out to be a costly mistake, does not have to be “respected”. If a democracy cannot change its mind it ceases to be a democracy.

Hope on housing… www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...

I just did a gig at the Royal Festival Hall for refugee week and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan opened the festival. I have been thinking so much about this because we have been living in such difficult times. It’s so lovely that two of the biggest cities in the world, are led by two such kind men.

I think we just passed oops.

Why does the shit drift to the top in the British media… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The axis of evil… www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...

Opportunities taken away generation by generation… www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Zack Polanski at the British Chambers of Commerce conference asks, If we can always find money for wars Why can't we always find money to end inequality

The sums involved in the MPs expenses scandal were chicken feed compared to the Farage £5m. HIs reaction - mind your own business - suggests he may not be cut out for this democracy thing app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73952/...

A tattered, sinking flag ship, like BBC News in general, lost its allure a long time ago, there are far better places to get news. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Another Saudi FIFA sponsor. Do not recall this one being announced. But present at the World Cup stadiums. Presumably the people they’ve turned to after losing and not replacing the $120m annual income from EA. (Which has since too been sold to Saudi Arabia).

Like at other games 15 mins in volunteers being allowed to fill in the empty seats at Egypt-Iran. Probably a good result in the end, but what perhaps should have happened is the prices should have dynamically come down. But FIFA would get refund requests so…

Trump thinks that foreigners need American passports to get into America. Maybe someone should check his IQ again

Good! www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Going mainstream… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s not often I listen to a political podcast that is so astute, so insightful and so brilliant in its analysis that I feel compelled to share it but you must all listen to this ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @quietriotpod.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Things you love to see: the Home Secretary's authority visibly slipping away

It can be tempting to respond to this sort of stuff with the pikachu gasp gif – but (1) it's harder to confirm, and harder to report than you'd imagine, and (2) for so long as Russia keeps doing this stuff we do need to keep banging the drum that they're doing it

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave