As yes British football in the 1980s. Well known for its good-natured fun. He's a ridiculous person.

What are they playing at? Is there anyone apart from the government that thinks this is a bad idea? This sucks - if only politicians had morals and stuck to what they promised...

Whilst the immediate future looks bleak, have the kids got this?

The Orange Idiot doing his worst to leave a legacy of more planetary damage behind.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@lukecharters.bsky.social This is such an important issue bsky.app/profile/siol...

🌹From early years to education, Labour is making sure every child gets the best start in life. Great to speak with Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education about the difference our government is already making for families in York and across the country!

The National Emergency Briefing will feature Prof Tim Lenton who'll cover the grave threat posed by #AMOC collapse.

Watch this video. "it was Maccabi [Tel Aviv] fans attacking Amsterdam citizens and starting a riot... Maccabi fans were seen picking up metal poles" These guys will not be missed on our streets. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London. I said: "No. It'll be ULEZ." (The low emissions zone)

I live on the 12th floor in a tower block with some pretty epic views of London. And can definitely say since ULEZ we have massively seen less ‘brown days’ - when it looked like an experimental filmmaker had been playing around with filters.

“Why would children be interested in our ‘Bubble Gum Minty Mint Pops’, ‘Spongebob Squarepants Strawberry Breeze’ or ‘Triple Cola Fuzzy Bears’ flavours, which are all clearly aimed at adults?” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Started Going

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense". Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

A mammoth day for the Patriotic Millionaires yesterday! 1⃣ 20 of our members headed to Westminster to lobby their local MPs and share our Urgent Memo on fair taxation.

Millionaires are actively campaigning for greater taxes on the super rich. They share our vision of a fairer society where all our communities can thrive. They're happy to pay and here to stay. Take a look at what they've been up to ⬇️

📣 Big news for safer, fairer streets in Cardiff! 🚙 Cardiff Council has voted to introduce fairer parking charges for the heaviest vehicles in the city 🙌 #carspreading www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

We hope that other cities across the UK will learn from Cardiff’s leadership and take action on #carspreading. cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/

A special thanks to Helen Edwards, whose story shows the real impact of oversized SUVs, and to our partners who helped make this change possible 💚 @cardiffcyclecity.bsky.social @bemoresquirrel.bsky.social @livingstreets.bsky.social @transportaction.bsky.social @healthyaircymru.bsky.social

"Hamburg voters have backed a citizen-led referendum that obliges Germany’s second largest city to step up climate action and reach climate neutrality by 2040, five years earlier than previously planned." #ClimateAction www.cleanenergywire.org/news/hamburg...

Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.

Jet Zero bets on future tech to solve aviation emissions — but flights are growing now. Without limits & penalties, there’s no reason to invest in clean solutions. Tech isn't coming to save us. But action can. Read our report with NEF to find out how 👉 https://bit.ly/48Ie2Ag

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Banks make $26bn in a decade of financing deforesting companies. Destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level - agricultural expansion, mining, infrastructure, logging. Profits before climate change, human lives and the planet. The cult of deregulation will make matters worse.

If nature's carbon sinks are failing already, and planetary feedbacks are underway, then 1.5C never was a 'safe level' of climate change

Hope he wins

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

92% of Reform's funding between the 2019 and 2024 elections came from climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests. We need that recoil.

Back on twitter I estimated that the proposed Rosebank oil field, west of Shetland, would result in 150 million tonnes of CO₂ being emitted. The developers, Equinor, have now admitted it would put 250 million tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere! Needless to say, it must not be permitted

Pure BS No mention here that £400+ of your bill is traight profit Any rises are solely to maintain the profit margin www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Utterly heartbreaking. How can we be so comfortably numb to the death of ancient, megadiverse ecosystems, full of life and colour?

We see you Zack Polanski 👀

🔴 NEW - At the same time that Nathan Gill was taking Russian bribes, the British far-right was travelling regularly to Moscow. Paul Golding even met “Vladimir Putin”…

The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕

Letter to the editor | East Anglia Bylines

What taxes will they increase at the Budget next month?

We have a chancellor who is both ignorant and stupid And already hugely impoverished UK nature will suffer as a consequence Despicable www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Developers of Rosebank oil field said nearly 250 million tonnes of [CO2] would be released from using oil products from the field" "developer said emissions were "not significant" considering the UK's international climate commitments" Bollox www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Superb book by @samfr.bsky.social - lots of familiar stories marshalled together in a compelling narrative that explains our current predicament. Hard recommend

granting new licenses is most definitely Inconsistent with climate targets #stoprosebank www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

All of this is being put out to placate the right wing press... In the meantime, it's causing fear & confusion. As I understand it: ● this only applies to some people on skilled visas ● it's not "A level English" it's something called SELT ● much the same requirement exists elsewhere in EU

None of that detail is in the announcement and required some digging. I'm happy to be corrected by anyone if I've got it wrong but in fact from what I've read it's not that unreasonable... and isn't that different to what already existed. Why this government wants to make enemies is another issue

Fraser Nelson: “NHS Hospital records are the most reliable indicator of knife attacks. They show a trend rather different to the social-media narrative about London...”

Digital ID This is Adam - a dual UK-Estonia national. He has been using digital ID in Estonia for almost a quarter of a century. He tells us about some of the benefits of digital ID. Great video of someone's personal experiences with it, put out by the government via the DSIT.

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive. People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.

I wrote something in one of my books about how Dutch patriotism seems less fraught than UK patriotism, because the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 flag has become a symbol of the far right. But sadly that’s changing -here’s a council taking down 🇳🇱 flags which “are a symbol of division rather than unity” bsky.app/profile/nrc....

BREAKING: “There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting” says Chancellor Rachel Reeves It’s about time!

UK media. Ask Labour about the Chinese, don't ask Farage about Russian bribes, or mysterious bankrolling of Leave. If you do minimise it, laugh it off. Repeat the process for Russian money swilling through the Tory party. The majority of the British media stinks. It's as bent as a corkscrew.