According to this op-ed, Keir Starmer has simply been biding his time, and is about to spring into action and show us his true colours. Genuinely one of the funniest articles I have read this year. 10/10

"The Department of War displayed a deep respect for safety" is something only someone as clinically delusional as Sam Altman could say.

Al Jazeera and Reuters reporting explosions in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain, all sites that host major U.S. bases. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

When your own MPs are openly calling your response to the Green win an embarrassment then you've got problems

Strangely familiar if you're British.

Called it. But then, so did everyone else.

Labour is adopting Reform's completely batshit line of attack against the Greens. This is truly stupendous stuff.

Or - and hear me out - maybe we need less focus on Reform across the board? We've tried giving them 24/7 rolling coverage across all media and, astonishingly, it's only made them more popular.

"More than 200 employees from Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter stating their solidarity with Anthropic in limiting the use of advanced AI for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous warfare."

In case you missed another of today's most significant stories: a tech CEO saying no to Trump.

An uplifting speech? In this economy?

Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC: with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting. with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions. Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.

Can't wait for nobody to learn anything from this except 'maybe if we insult traditional labour voters who are switching to green EVEN MORE, they'll know their place this time'

The UK's useless media are going to focus on this solely as a Labour loss - but the more significant story is that Reform got their Trumpian hides absolutely handed to them.

It was also a humiliating blow for The Sun's favoured candidate, an overt racist.

The Green Party win Gorton & Denton by-election by a very significant margin. You'll see a lot of spluttering from Reform and Labour about it being a one-off. But it has meaning. Greens campaigned on inclusive, progressive policies. It shows that voters respond best to not chasing the right.

There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

Chat, is it good that three companies now own all communications and entertainment?

This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.

🔴Reform’s Plans to Import Trump’s Authoritarian ‘Project 2025’ Blueprint to the UK Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints – and cash – from a global network of American hardliners bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

That is not what happened to horses.

If you're in the UK, read the following and ask yourself: exactly how far away from this are we?

If this does happen, I will put a fat stack of cash on Labour concluding that they simply weren't racist enough.

As the US President celebrates misogyny, here's Flavor Flav backing women's sports with his whole voice and his money.

‘Elect us, we’re the sort of people who struggle to get through the day without accidentally calling for our opponents to be murdered’ is the *best* case for Reform apparently.

Scotland's Community Wealth Building Bill is a potentially world-changing strategic economic law with the power to end billionaire domination. Little wonder that *zero* English media outlets have covered it.

In a world dominated by insecure, mindlessly violent failuremen, Eileen Gu is a study in human excellence. In just about every field of endeavour, from sports to academia to sense of self, this is a real-life superhero.

NPR follows @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social in finding Trump’s DOJ has omitted or pulled Epstein pages related to accusations against the president, including regarding sexual assault of a child

And that image choice 🤌

What "AI" cheerleaders don't understand, because they've never experienced it, is that art *is the process*. Whether it's painting or music or writing, creativity is not a product but a practice. And that's where life, and joy, are found.

With its fawning, wall-to-wall pandering to Reform, the BBC is now promoting the violent ethnic cleansing of the United Kingdom.

🚨The political effects of X's feed algorithm, in Nature: " .. initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."

“it turns out that the engine of Musk’s X — its algorithmic ‘For You’ page — is an ideological ratchet.” - @jwherrman.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...

Growing evidence that "AI" isn't impacting employment and productivity in the way that its boosters claim. As @graceblakeley.substack.com has pointed out, it's more likely that this is just a rebranded recession.

If you want concentration camps in the UK, people being grabbed off the streets, or murdered on them, five year olds being separated from their parents and locked up #VoteReform

In the UK, powerful men are looking at what's happening in the United States and saying "that's good - we should be doing that."

Our food systems are absurdly fragile and fundamental to the entire economy - yet astonishingly, climate risk assessments don't take into account their collapse.

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

“This feat is a clear signal that electric mobility in Nigeria is practical, scalable and ready for adoption,” Falaye said. It is simple economics.... "EV charging costs average about $3 for up to 200 kilometers (123 miles), compared with more than $15 in petrol costs for similar distances."

This awesome thread w AI/energy/politics counterfactual drew in none other than @jigarshahdc.bsky.social who is COOKING a thread here. @davidrvetter.bsky.social @adambell.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co @amyjaffeenergy.bsky.social @edwardluce.bsky.social #energysky

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

Folks,

Some excellent writing right here about lakes and mussels and humans who are learning that there are better ways to protect yourself from big waves than building a fortress of rocks along the beach. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/s...

I know I am approximately the 4343th person to say this but why are these people so whiny about flatly factual descriptions of their politics? Going on about how ancestry is what matters then having an attack of the vapours about people saying 'sounds like racism'.

Elon Musk is v invested in Rupert Lowe's political project - to reverse ethnic change {white "race extinction"] in Britain "Our ancestral land must not fall" "there has been unrelenting hate and poisonous propaganda in the West against anyone White, straight or male over the past decade or more!"

Exactly right @sianberry.bsky.social: UK has “sleepwalked into a situation that carries enormous risk” by relying on U.S. tech companies" www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Leeches cure everything, says Dr Hoffmann of Stuttgart, owner of the largest leech farm in Europe

I just saw video of the moment Farage berated FT journalist Anna Gross in front of a roomful of braying goons, and it was pure, stomach-turning Trump.

@evanhalper.bsky.social on one of the most important developments in the US power sector: the tech industry's push to power data centers without a grid connection. The effect of this fossil gas buildout is massive damage to the climate & local air and water w minimal regulatory or public input.