Boris Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff here, worried that secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as ‘think tanks’ might finally be held to account. Because of course she bloody is.

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

A popular press recap of all the cool stuff that @schmidtocean.bsky.social recently found off the coast of Argentina Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...

On the other hand…

This seems significant. Compromising the investigation into Mandelson tomorrow would be a stupid price to pay for humiliating Starmer today.

The kids are alright. (Imagine attacking a high school girl and then getting your ass kicked by high schoolers all because you're a bigoted old asshole.)

Mine earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on the UK's @lbc.co.uk as Trump doubles down on his threats to undermine the midterm elections in November. 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/885683... #Trump #midterms #USElections #usnews #news #Democrats #Constitution #lbc #simonmarks

We walk past people like this every day. Terrifying

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it fucks underage ducks, is mentioned 5000 times in secret documents about fucking underage ducks, is best friends with other underage duck fuckers & holds a competition to find the prettiest underage ducks, it's Donald the Duck Fucker. 🐤🦆

Such a trustworthy chap. Who are the buffoons that support this wretched person. Ffs

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This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: Emily Thornberry, Labour chair of foreign affairs committee, says police should investigate emails. "Surely this is not a matter of whether Mandelson should be in the Lords [but]... of whether the police should be involved." SNP, Lib Dems and PC have all already called for police involvement

Such a pathetic human.

Humane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a MASSIVE CROWD peacefully protesting and marching down the streets of Minneapolis to protest the Trump administration and lCE 📍Minneapolis, Minnesota

They've just arrested a journalist, so this isn't as outlandish as it seems. bsky.app/profile/did:...

~ chasing a beautiful supercell thunderstorm across south-central Nebraska on July 1st of 2024 ~

China, featuring an extraordinary lesson in what a ‘fan’ of totalitarianism sounds like. And Kemi Badenoch’s cunning plan to completely alienate her party’s historic base. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Welcome back to another #FossilFriday Here is the molar from an American Mastodon (Mammut americanum). This comes from Pleistocene deposits in San Jacinto County, Texas. Mastodons used their bumpy molars for grinding up twigs, leaf matter, and other shrubs.

Voting turn out is generally bellow 50% in Gorton and Denton. My hope is that people will turn out to stop Farage. 🤞

Incarcerated for journalism. And for sticking it to various frauds & grifters who profess to care about ‘free speech’.

Global crisis worsens as President Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Canada and Greenland with imminent hostile launch

We The People can begin the process to stop this on 11/3/26. Every vote is needed, has power and counts. Vote every Republican out on the ballot VOTE 💙

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

EXCL 'Ten lorry loads' of stolen tools worth £2m uncovered by Met which 'would have caused delay to major project' Operation was UK’s biggest ever haul of stolen tools, with some reported missing as early as 2019 Three arrested as a result @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/article/2m-t...

Wild how both former main parties now hate their natural supporters and want them to vote for someone else

"You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns." So there are limits to the Second Amendment Donny?

Can someone please delete this - it's making us look like a bunch of hypocritical twats.

Huge if true

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

I hate this but it needs to be shown. Don't let the Fucking brownshirts turn into the US-SS

You can also watch this via @lbc.co.uk on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x91K...

For far-right parties in Europe, Donald Trump’s MAGA movement offered validation from the other side of the Atlantic ... until its leader started threatening the invasion of a European territory. 🔗 politi.co/4qyllAz

I worry that Trump’s latest partial climbdowns, pathetic & insincere as they are, will bolster Downing Street’s arguments for keeping him sweet when it’s surely time to go full Mark Carney.

“Appear to”.

Kristi Noem: "They responded according to their training"

Brownshirts

That’s not even close to an apology. And besides, Denmark lost more people per head of the population than *any* other country in Afghanistan. The obviousness of his contempt for crucial alliances matches the obviousness of his contempt for the truth.

Think of Prince Harry's court cases as a substitute for the second part of the Leveson Inquiry, which was dropped by (checks notes) Matt Hancock. His civil cases couldn't match a judge's power, but they have exposed truths which needed exposing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Quite glad that the big story in British politics is whether Andy Burnham will apply to stand in a by-election and not people being gunned down by state militias. Solidarity with Minnesotans resisting this barbarity.

Good for him. I mean it.

Leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, has a Donald Trump problem. Even voters keen on his poll-topping party are unsure about the company he keeps. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/nige...

Hopefully Europe remembers this lesson. Bullies only respond to being punched in the face.

I’ve seen bits and pieces of his Davos tragedy. It’s like someone took their demented grandfather to open mic night at the comedy club and just let him riff. How damn embarrassing.

Yeah it’s 50k now. Have you signed yet? Even Nigel Farage agrees. Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party t.co/GhzzDCOB3T

Zelensky is entirely justified in speaking bluntly like this to Europeans. Too many seem willing to see Ukrainians suffer to provide Europe greater time and security, without acknowledging that Ukraine’s fight is their own.

EPA pokes Musk over using unpermitted turbines for AI