The six steps I would take to transform the UK economy youtu.be/GonO5dEpnL8?...

Just had a little rant about false equivalence. And electric diggers, And trucks, And trains, That go downhill, and generate electricity.

Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk #R4Today

Prince Harry arrived in Kyiv unannounced this morning — his third visit to Ukraine. "It's good to be back," he told ITV News, saying he came to remind the world what Ukraine faces every hour of every day. 📹 X/Chris Ship

If someone you know is worried about battery life in a car, or that the technology isn't 'there yet,' it might be worth sending them this link. Elliot Richards reporting from China, where CATL, the biggest battery company on earth, has revealed some new batteries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T75L...

I'm just relieved nobody is talking about how I said I bought a house in Clacton, then admitted it was in the name of my girlfriend, Laure Ferrari, even though she couldn't afford £885,000, which conveniently meant I avoided £44,000 in tax. Please don't share.

🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄 We now have an entire media who would rather see a Farage govt, leading to the demise of the NHS and an alliance with the far right US Christian Nationalist fuckers than support the govt we elected And its drift towards EU alignment Putin must be laughing his head off.

The Job Guarantee and MMT: A Conversation with William Thompson youtu.be/L_3Q6Q_hTio?... #modernmonetarytheory #MMT

WE DON'T LIKE HIM EITHER DUDES POINT THAT SHIT AT X OKAY

McSweeney was chief of staff at No 10 from October 2024. Mandelson was put in post in December 2024, replacing the existing ambassador, in part as a response to Trump's election. I remember that. Mc Sweeney was apparently an ally of Mandelson, and although Robbins didn't say where "pressure" ...

Must be a nice calm, relatively sunny day over #Kernow. The sky is full of PPLs VFRing.... 🙃

Trail hunting is a smokescreen. It has been used time and again to mask the continued chasing and killing of wild animals. The law was meant to protect them, but loopholes are still being exploited. The government is consulting on the future of hunting laws. Respond: https://leagueacs.co.uk/IKMI9

Your opponents' best arguments are actually just rewording mainstream myths. That's why prep works: once you see the pattern, you can dismantle anything they throw at you. #MMT #MediaLiteracy

Polecat! I know there are #polecats in Cornwall, and my wildlife camera snapped one a year or so back, but there it is... Going through the gate to the footbridge across the stream. Or is it?

The far right of politics is stoking hate when we need freedom from fear youtu.be/UxbcWmlRruQ?... What can we do about it?

Britain's real enemy is not Iran - it's failed defence thinking youtu.be/89VMb7_LuOw?... Lord George Roberston's claim that social security costs are the enemy of defence of the UK reveals his total failure to understand the meaning of defence.

“He cheated on the golf course. He cheated on his taxes. He cheated on his wives. He cheated the business contractors he stiffed. He tried to cheat in the 2020 election. And now he’s trying to cheat on the 2026 midterms - because he knows he can’t win.”

New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊 AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The same people who argue with climate scientists about who knows more about climate are naturally going to argue with the Pope about who knows more about Jesus.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Wut? No. Think I'll pass, thanks. I have standards.

A far-right hero has been beaten, and everything changes now youtu.be/m_AplrUQN18?... Is this a tipping point?

A little something I wrote that's in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

This time next week, Oxford Street, London, come and see Imogen Bhogal talk to 2 incredibly intelligent men and 1 old bloke who's driven some electric cars. Greg Jackson (Octopus Energy) Rory Sutherland (Alchemist and Behavioural Science Impresario) and me. www.eventbrite.com/e/everything...?

Look at this old fvcker! Who does he think he is? Mincing around in…oh hang on! Is that one of those Limited Edition Tshirts? NOICE! Oh w…wait a minute! THAT’S not Mike Bealing! He’s never had arms THAT size! That’s CRAP. AI, that is! Oh well, at least his shirts are authentic. Tees by Sillytees.

To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds. See our website for the latest guidance: brnw.ch/21x1t4w

Just met an Oil #beetle on the path through my woods. It was munching on a yellow Celandine flower. Volume up, you can hear it munching.

Fuck Israel. Fuck Netanyahu. And if you support either, fuck you too.

@ukhousemartins.bsky.social First HMs of the year have arrived here in Cornwall. At least one chattery nest so far. Balmy southerlies meant this was bound to happen. Summer is here already!

Next month: the US strikes Greenland and it somehow ends with Trump giving Alaska to Denmark.

Got given a small beech hedge. Only proviso is that I have to dig it up. They don't like being dug up. Here's one in the #bluebell woods in its new career as a proper beech tree. I use the postfix method of setting them. A trug of manure, soil from the hole and a lid of topsoil with plants intact.

Has Trump surrendered? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04... Trump threatened genocide yesterday, before backing down last night in a humiliating indication of perhaps the biggest US military defeat in its history if this peace deal does last and is confirmed.

Are we going backwards? Why that seems to be the case in politics youtu.be/lKldbhCt5Hc?...

If Trump follows through with his wilder and increasingly concerning threats, Keir Starmer must immediately recall Parliament. The Prime Minister must also withdraw US access to UK bases now. This is a grave and era-defining moment for the world.

Trump is threatening genocide and King Charles is still planning a state visit to see him. Why, oh why, oh why? Has he really got such low self worth that he won’t tell Starmer where to get off? It’s time to refuse to obey orders.

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE History is about to be rewritten in Europe with an extraordinary April warm spell which will smash hundreds of records in Spain,France,Germany,Switzerland,Austria. Starting from Today we will see >30C in France. It will be historic.

Thank you to Sarah Hird for some fox drama this morning , your #FoxOfTheDay !

England’s ancient churches are vital sanctuaries for rare and endangered bats. www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10...

“Records for early spring occurrences are being smashed as 2026 looks to be the earliest this century for frogspawn laying, Blackbirds nesting, Brimstone butterflies emerging and Hazel flowering, according to Nature’s Calendar, which has logged citizen science records of seasonal change since 2000”.

UK state pension age starts rising to 67. France, 62. Millions will struggle to work, may get derisory benefits. Poor have shorter life, receive pension for fewer yrs. Rich retire whenever they want, have longer lives, receive pension for longer period Huge wealth transfer from poor to the rich

The #bat portal is now also a #barnSwallow portal again, thanks to a swift (geddit?) widening job. #spring

Perfect!

🦇Hello April! Bats have mainly come out of hibernation and are hungry and active, feeding on most nights. They may move between several roost sites and can become torpid (cool and inactive) again when cold.

"Within moments of the meeting starting, the DEFRA Minister said something we were all waiting to hear: this government will end the culling of badgers once the final Cumbria licence has played out. " protectthewild.substack.com/p/brilliant-...

“That famous ideological warrior, once again, deciding she doesn’t want to talk to anyone who disagrees with her”. Liz Truss refuses to speak to Lewis Goodall at MAGA conference, despite taking to the stage to warn America about the rise of islamism - and Sharia Law - in the UK

🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19

Orban is blocking a €90 billion loan to Ukraine - money that it urgently needs for its defence against Russia. To damage the EU even more and to appease his friend Putin, Trump has expressed his unconditional support for Orbán. This is no coincidence, as there are soon elections in Hungary. 1/2