NEW: A corrections officer told the FBI the government was SHREDDING mountains of documents at the prison in the week following Jeffrey Epstein's death. I'll go over the details from The Miami Herald on The Breakdown in 90 minutes here: www.youtube.com/live/bXDROBe...

Sadiq Khan has said Labour should run for the next election on a pledge to rejoin the EU leftfootforward.org/2026/03/sadi...

🇺🇸 Bad faith in talks with Iranians Bad faith in talks with Ukrainians Generally Trump’s USA v Europe? Bad faith.

The best time to have invested in renewables, walkable cities and transit to avoid the oil crisis shock was twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

Brexit: So much work. So much time. So many resources. So much red tape. And yet so little progress. In fact, just relentless loss, risk and failure. It’s so mind-numbingly tedious. And no one who did this damage is ever held to account. But god they make a fuss about fixing it.

The Peston show asked me to update my back-of-the-envelope estimates of the benefits of the UK-EU reset. Take a look

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Crispin “Odious” Odey has gone to court in the hope of overturning a £1.8m fine levied on him by the FCA and a lifetime ban from the finance sector. The FCA found that Odey deliberately sought to frustrate internal disciplinary processes at Odey Asset Management regarding “sex pest” allegations.

An American kestrel perches on an "IMPORTANT BIRD AREA" sign in the Montrose Beach Dunes.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa... Dodgy bastards.

Trump's war on Iran appears the greatest bluder in US foreign policy after World War II: 1. No clear aim: regime change, nukes or disarming Iran? 2. No US agency: Just following Israel. 3. No strategy. 4. Ignoring intelligence. 5. No understanding that Iran could block the Strait of Hormuz... /1

British Jew's powerful protest against Israel's death penalty law goes viral Jews in Hastings took to the streets on 21 March to protest the planned execution law currently going through the Israeli parliament www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children. The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.

And another BIG win for the left: LYON. This means the left has won the 3 biggest cities of the country. For months, polls showed the right heavily favored win in this city, but the Green incumbent (here, in an alliance with LFI) prevailed over the conservative challenger by about 6%.

⚡️Russia attempting new offensives as weather warms, Zelensky says. "The only tangible outcome for the Russian army has been an increase in their losses...In just these seven days, there have already been more than 8,000 killed and seriously wounded Russian soldiers."

Seems a real missed opportunity for the Greens not to have used Iran to reframe the energy transition as a national security and cost of living issue, instead of just an 'environmental' one. Big chance to put that front and centre.

Zack Polanski has just brilliantly answered his critics “I’m not an ideologue,” said @zackpolanski.bsky.social, “I’m a pragmatist" - and he proved this with ease in his latest speech says Jamie Driscoll www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...

Clean information and clean elections are as important as clean water. But are the regulators up to the job? The way GB News has quietly been allowed to become Reform TV should alarm us all app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...

Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it.

The strike killed at least 175 people, most of them children.

the goal here is to stigmatize sex workers by suggesting they're a danger to children. so, it's not about solving a problem, but about targeting a marginalized group.

In a word, Mandelson. He still calls the shots.

Cuba is being devastated by Donald Trump's siege. The world needs to know the catastrophic consequences. So please help @bellyofthebeastcuba.com get the word out. Support these brilliant journalists here 👇 www.patreon.com/cw/Bellyofth...

#OnThisDay 20 years ago ... Gordon Brown announced free bus travel for pensioners and disabled people anywhere in England. Great policy that has stood the test of time.

“This is abject humiliation for Trump. Iran got a younger supreme leader, proved that it can hold the world hostage with a few mortar launchers, exposed NATO disunity and the US's comical lack of strategy, and helped Russia on sanctions and oil price. It is really very hard to find a single upside.”

Left: That time Conservative Boris Johnson lost 5,000 messages from the early days of Covid - no backup Right: Labour’s Morgan McSweeney lost his messages to Peter Mandelson - no backup exists. Convenient amnesia strikes across the Conservatives and Labour when accountability is at stake

Donations... under £500 do not fall under the scope of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 so do not need to be reported or recorded. However, Electoral Commission guidance states that parties “must be alert to situations where it appears a donor is attempting to evade PPERA”

Americans opposing concentration camps. We are deciding now whether we want to be a country with concentration camps and ethnic cleansing.

Next Saturday, March 28th, I will join millions of Americans taking part in No Kings protests throughout the country. I hope you will join in. Everything is at stake. snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

Everybody and their mothers waiting for the development of cheap and effective directed energy systems:

Trump pushes Iran war to new phase of escalation ft.trib.al/SVsBwXq

During a nighttime russian drone attack on the Odesa railway, 19‑year‑old train attendant Ilona Vovk was killed. She was evacuating passengers when an oncoming train, also heading to the evacuation stop, fatally struck her.

Who would have thought that Baron Lebedev of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation, would treat his lawmaking duties so casually? 🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society." -Joni Askola

The Greens are doing well in urban areas with insufficient incomes and poor access to housing. They have gained traction among the growing cohort who have gone to university and moved to the city but are struggling to keep up. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... By @tomcalver.bsky.social

The Iran war is going to boost all our bills. Hopefully it impresses on people: 1) what reckless idiots Trump & Netanyahu are 2) why we need to get away from fossil fuels

“There is no specific assessment that the Iranians are targeting the UK or even could if they wanted to” Housing Secretary Steve Reed responds to a report from the Israeli Defence Forces that the Iranian regime has “missiles that can reach London, Paris or Berlin”

Green support is rising under Zack Polanski. Who are its new voters? The party's new voter base is younger, student-y, more female, and less financially comfortable than their 2024 voters. They are the heirs of Corbynism: 39% of current supporters backed Labour in 2019 1/2

There is a particular absurdity to Donald Trump—a man who avoided Vietnam due to “bone spurs”—dancing on the grave of Robert Mueller, a decorated combat veteran, @JonLemire.bsky.social argues.

Much better analysis than "Oh Trump usually gets away with these things." In fact, Greg is absolutely correct: Trump is constantly damaging himself, and it all adds up even if it's not immediately evident.

So the Iranian school killing over 120 - mostly school kids … an 🇺🇸 mistake. 3 USA fighter planes downed by mistake by 🇺🇸 allies The Bahrainian strike a USA missile. And other things King Stupid didn’t see coming.

And in more King Stupid News (via Reuters this time) another home goal. That 9 March strike on Bahrain that tore through homes in Bahrain, killing 32 people including children that USA and Bahrain blamed on an Iran now looks like it was a 🇺🇸 interceptor missile wot did it.

War can have big environmental impacts, in addition to the human and economic impacts. An analysis reported in the Guardian found that the first 14 days of the Iran war caused 5 million tons of additional carbon emissions, about the same as a mid-size fossil fuel-using country emits in a full year.

‘She gave her life to protect the richness of Congo’: inside the deadly assault on Upemba wildlife park

⚠️ Russian intelligence considered staging an assassination attempt against Hungarian Prime Minister Orban to sway the upcoming election in his favor. (www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...)

This week both the Kremlin and the White House will ramp up their coordinated efforts to tamper in Hungary’s election to try and keep Putin’s puppet Viktor Orban in power.

Cleethorpes urged to rethink ‘high-risk’ salmon farm proposal A new report on the proposed on-land RAS salmon farm in Cleethorpes explains why planning permission should be revoked By Natalie Bennett

More ominous Trump, Musk, Thiel connections for the new German owner of the Telegraph, Mathias Döpfner and his son The climate change denying hard right are everywhere in media these days open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...