This is a true statement and we’ve got to get the vote out to stop this madness.

This is yet another consequence of Starmer / Labour's shocking failure to communicate. People complained about Alastair Campbell's stranglehold on messaging, but it worked. People knew what was happening. Labour weren't drowned out by a right wing media.

The Era of the Superlosers open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Today is the private members' bill ballot. Your MP needs to see this message: You voted for choice. For compassion. You listened to dying people and made a promise. An unelected few tried to break your promise. Don’t let them. It’s time to back the bill again. Share and tag your MP.👇

New research shows burning on grouse moors is exposing millions to unsafe air pollution levels raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/05/20/n...

The first time I’be heard him tell some semblance of the truth……

Every person that participated in a BLM protest, ICE protest, were targeted in an ICE raid etc, needs to apply to the bullshit slush fund for payment. Flood the zone. Put muck in the gears of the corruption machine. Make them work for their larceny...

Instead of pedophiles being held accountable for their sickening crimes, we are all fighting for our freedoms and our country. This is the most backwards, grotesque thing I've ever seen. They've twisted this back on innocent people, to save themselves. I don't want to live in a world like this.

Can't thank Stephen Colbert enough for the decades of laughs he's given us. He's been positively therapeutic in these troubled times & I can't wait to see what he does next! 👀 (plus, he let me sit behind his desk) 🙏

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Like I said…

It is a "boost for Burnham", but it's much more a boost for the principle that if you stick to a regional growth strategy for 30+ years you can see productivity and living standard improvements at the end of it. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

They are surely going to take the train-bus… bsky.app/profile/jame...

Interesting to see it branded as a "wealth tax". Hope commentary and coverage doesn't conflate the Streeting plan (workable and good tax reform), with Zack Polanski's (comically unworkable) "wealth tax" pitch. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/wealth-tax...

Maybe I just hate fun but couldn't £300m be better spent on literally anything that would actually help with the energy supply problem at the heart of the Cost of Living Crisis? We could have another solar farm but the government is juicing demand for tickets to the Mandalorian and Grogu instead.

This is a weird analogy as it isn't clear to me why Artemis "should" cost more than HS2 in a sort of cosmic, moral sense. A few single use rockets for a dozen or so people vs a strategic railway covering hundreds of miles that needs to last a century?

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

There are lots of reasons why the EU would let us back*. This is just one. --- * As long as we agree to the rules without exception, which we should.

The most important benefit from the human perspective is free movement, of course. But the most important technical benefit is joining the Euro, which would make it much harder ever to be so childishly stupid again.

Unfortunately, due to a clerical error, all the money we raised was used to purchase a blind dog for the guides.

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Using the data from refukked.lovable.app and a completely arbitrary non-scientific method, I am predicting that at the current exponential rate, all of the local Reform councillors will no longer be councillors by the 12th October. You can bookmark this if you want.

Some of my climate media colleagues are suddenly hating on solar in rural areas without realizing it's the newest fossil fuel disinformation talking point aimed at getting landowners to stop leasing their land to solar developers. Y'all, we need solar EVERYWHERE.

Energy and sin. This is indeed disorienting for the post-communist left, but we need to get our shit together fast (via @wingolog.org). wingolog.org/archives/202...

Is there anyone in Reform who's not under some sort of official investigation?

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I can't believe we turned "Laptop Worker" into a term of derision. We now have the tech and business models to allow millions of people to make a living in ways unthered to a farm plot, assembly line,, or cubicle. That's very cool! Do not project your weird yearning for the mines on to me.

Just seen the footage of Ben Gvir. What a disgusting man. Honestly And all the faux outrage.. kick him out then? Stop tolerating him. A Kahanist.

Wants short term gain, doesn't care about long term pain, as he won't be in Number 10

Throughout government there are people, not bad people, who, when a problem come up, dream up an immediate "Why don't we do X?" solution without any reference to either morality or the wider world. The system then moves that up the chain and it's presented to ministers as, "We should do X."

Bring back Paxo. Even, god help us, Humphrys. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Journalists don't even live by their cynical if-it-bleeds-it-leads principle.

The Iran war has been going for two and a half months. Everyone who is not Trump realised that it was going to drag on and on. So the UK government had that time to formulate a sensible energy policy response. But instead it seems yesterday someone in No. 10 said, "Christ! What shall we do? Quick!"

I am comfortably off. I can afford to install aircon run off our existing solar and batteries. Hell - I could even install it myself if I needed to. What lack of government action on the #ClimateEmergency means is that poor people, not me, suffer. Charge me a bit more tax, for fuck's sake.

I'm not a plumber either (though in the past I have installed two central heating systems). What these plumbers are doing is pointing and smiling at the customer bringing them cups of tea while whispering to each other, "Can you BELIEVE they accepted our quote?"

15.3 GW is about 20% of total UK generating capacity.

Clearly we need to make the late Ken Dodd PM.

Nemesis on Netflix: OK thriller series with a big hole in the middle. The protagonist cop obsessively hunts the antagonist thief. Some way in we discover that their wives are friends and colleagues by chance in the whole population of Los Angeles. Tom Stoppard called coincidence a failure of art.

The more Burnham follows Starmer's policies, the more the only stand-out feature of any candidate becomes Streeting's commitment to rejoining the EU.

As a teacher of English, I can definitively state that yes, this is exactly what happened. Particularly, the curse words. ◡̈

“It’s just common sense!” Bertrand Russell:

You know that you would feel instantly calm and quiet on entering this space. I think that has to do with its geometry, materials and physics, not its spiritual associations. I can't recall any building made in the last 100 years that would have the same effect.

Most areas of human thought are wrong because they assume they're right. Science is mostly right because it assumes it is wrong. Most ways of achieving things fail because they assume they'll work. Engineering mostly works because it assumes things will go wrong.

Pay a fortune to attend matches, but instead end up as a foreigner in ICE detention without trial. Or stay at home for nothing and watch them on TV. That's a pretty simple choice. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

@jonrademacher.bsky.social “It should be explicitly clear from this presidential administration that we can no longer simply rely on decency from politicians and oligarchs. There MUST be laws that force them to be decent or they simply won't be.”

@mrjamesob.bsky.social is very well read. I wonder has he seen this new title?

Let’s listen to the bandura. It’s a traditional Ukrainian string instrument, somewhat similar to a mix of a lute and a harp. This old man often plays on the grounds of St. Sophia in Kyiv.

So, migration is at its lowest point since 2021 (a pretty low year already, because COVID). Does this mean we can stop blaming migrants for long NHS waiting lists, housing shortages, falling wages and a stagnant economy? Oh, no, wait, never mind- looks like we’re still in the crosshairs.