Brilliant: I thought Lego would be On It. 💚❤️

I am less keen on Die Grünen but at least the Greens did not tell their supporters that they were "white liberals" and that they should "fuck off". Mahmood must be the Green Party's most powerful recruiter.

Yet for all those mentions, Reform doesn't actually get held to account. Dodgy £5m gifts? Constant tax evasion? Running the party from Dubai? Inexplicable house purchases? Jailed for kicking your wife? Wall-to-wall racism? Backing Iran war? Scrapping the NHS? Literal concentration camps? Silence.

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Labour are, to my knowledge, the only government of the 21st century to oversee a fall in immigration of the magnitude we're seeing currently - yet voters hate them more than ever.

So what happens next with the cruise ship MV Hondius and its passengers and crew? My story about how little we know about Andes virus transmission and deciding what to do now.“Honestly, I feel lucky that I am not in a situation that I need to make any decision,” says virologist Gustavo Palacios. 🧪

Regrettably substack but sent via a friend

Update: At this time she’s negative for Hanta but they said she still could potentially have contracted it.

Hantavirus Probably Not Airborne, Say Experts, Though Not In The Same Sense Covid Was Not Airborne

First results in from Reform's big London target of Bexley aren't quite going to plan so far

“Oh. Mum. You didn’t.” That sort of thing.

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Imagine having a populist right wing party with pro-Russian sympathies and hostility to immigration and Net Zero leading the polls. That would never happen in Germany.

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

I'll be keeping this in mind today and also remember the Blair government lost a lot of LE seats in its first term and still won the next two GE's. Something to remember during the incoming media frenzy.

Panicking Everyone Not Required During Initial Inaction Period, Says WHO

The department told @apnews.com that the revocations would begin Friday and be focused on those who owe $100,000 or more. That would apply to about 2,700 American passport holders, according to figures supplied to the State Department by the Department of Health and Human Services.

French prosecutors are summoning Elon Musk to the French capital again—this time to face preliminary criminal charges in a sprawling investigation into his social-media platform, X. on.wsj.com/4wgu0Lf

Iran is at it again.

By dumping cheap solar panels on Asia and starting a catastrophic war in the Gulf, the president has started a headlong rush for cleantech that no eco-activism could match, writes author @doctorow.pluralistic.net in the first of a new monthly column for the Nerve www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Hantavirus Only A Risk To Those At Risk From Hantavirus, Says CDC

📌 ICYMI — Reform UK Treasurer and Donors Share London Address with Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs Reform UK’s Treasurer and three other donors have handed £1.55 million to Nigel Farage from Britain’s most expensive apartment block which is home to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and massive…

Officials Clarify That Mandatory Hantavirus Quarantine Will Be Voluntary

Authorities are making a serious mistake tracing only symptomatic cases of hantavirus. People are infectious days before symptoms start. Mark my words.

@thev.bsky.social is both quick off the mark and on the button after that @who.int briefing today 🎯

Get in!! www.ramblers.org.uk/news/rambler...

We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he never articulated, without a strategy for how to respond if Iran did the expected, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender. Trump is cornered — and the rest of us are paying the price.

This is stunning reporting: Donald Trump’s so-called “Project Freedom” reportedly collapsed after Saudi Arabia blocked the U.S. military from using key Saudi bases and airspace for the operation, according to new reporting from NBC News. Link to the article in the reply.

"Why aren't kids playing outside anymore"

Ofcom-regulated (GB News) TV presenter latest

And yet another post: "Let's Talk About Hantavirus" blog.deonandan.com/wordpress/20...

What a complete mess... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-nigel-farage-councillors-quit-local-elections-b2971185.html

I’m not sure how many Brits are even aware of this punitive policy. Absolutely disgusting.

We will not go quiet. Thank you for standing with us. Help us keep fighting 👇 reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/donate

Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind + solar Now that's flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels

Men refusing to ask for directions since ancient times 🤷‍♀️

How does the prolonged incububation period change things? Almost certainly means that contact/tracing, self-isolation of contacts is a useless strategy. May mean that univerisal respirator use will need to be prolonged, if implemented. 4/

Hantavirus doesn't usually spread person to person, except for the Andes strain. RFK Jr. (virus fantasist, toilet seat sniffer, addict, and Trumper) doesn't "believe" in illness. That other guy doesn't believe in WHO. Trump is repeating his act with COVID passengers www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

‘The union said it was “continuing to oppose a ban on puberty blockers for several reasons, not least because it is a threat to the autonomy of a doctor. We spend decades training on how to use drugs, and to have a political decision affecting the way we prescribe is wrong.” ‘

Another problem with cruises - they can seed infectious diseases into tiny, remote communities with few resources Passengers reportedly disembarked on Tristan da Cunha (~200 residents) after a hantavirus death onboard. Is anyone checking on these islanders? www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

Hantavirus cases now suspected in 5 countries www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/w...

Up to 6 weeks incubation… isolation just for symptomatic patients, active monitoring got up to 6 weeks for other contacts … mortality rate high (not specified) disembarked passengers / crew onward travel guidance still being formulated.

Saudi Arabia will restrict US access to bases and airspace until it “provides proper protection” from Iran’s attacks, Saudi sources tell i24.

@charles-ex.bsky.social @ginger146.bsky.social

Long COVID is not pale poets dying beautifully. It is unread emails, shower stools, heart-rate alerts, brain fog, canceled plans, disability forms, compression socks, and people who "look fine".

Hear me out, set up an airport themed pub in a British city. Get the early morning stag do crowd - expensive drinks. After a while our name gets put on a screen and you move to the plywood fuselage seating section, where even more expensive drinks are served on a trolley.

Those who vote Reform today are not ‘sticking it to the establishment’ or ‘owning the libs’, they’re sticking it to themselves. They’re voting for people who’ll oppose for the hell of it, not prepare for/attend meetings, be uncooperative & disruptive. Five years of local services down the toilet.