VERY BIG NEWS out of France a week ago: "French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Friday, April 10, a ban on installing gas heating systems "by year's end" in new buildings, including multi-unit housing, to curb France's dependence on fossil fuels." www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources

More than 40% of ships globally transport fossil fuels. Nearly all of them run on fossil fuels too.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25

"Asked by Axios last week at an energy conference in Houston about how natural gas jives with the company’s clean energy goals and overall strategy, Google’s head of advanced energy, Michael Terrell, said: “We don’t have anything to say on that.”" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A month on and the Prime Minister is fighting for his survival on a technicality. But the serious moral failure of appointing Mandelson - despite all that was known back then - was already a resigning issue.

If the US can spend $300m to rescue a single airforce pilot, why is it acceptable that children go hungry and people struggle to stay housed there? What a monstrous failure of perspective! www.bbc.com/news/article...

The cucking of JD Vance escalates to levels scientists had previously deemed imposible.

remember, the Star gave us the lettuce!

Not content with offending 2 billion Muslims worldwide with his "Praise be to Allah" comment, Trump heightens things by insulting the leader of 1.5 billion Catholics. With this kind of speedrunning he can probably piss off all of the world's religious people in a matter of weeks, even Buddhists.

JD Vance is on a historic roll: He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose. Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses. Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably. Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.

I've lived for years in a province where an overwhelming majority: - speak the same language - share a history and culture - have similar values - Practice one of the Christian religions (or none) Monoculturalism... can be a little dull and uninspiring!

Was it only four days ago The Telegraph comment pages were gazing into their tea leaves ?

Maybe we *can* start having a few nice things? www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.

It would certainly be wild if Canada managed to get into the European Union before the UK could return 🙄 www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

a whole thread on this stuff, from an expert on the rationalist cult

Yes. That's the plan. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science

Fortunately, thanks to @greenparty.org.uk it is now possible in the UK to also choose 3. Determinedly trying to implement good shit. Which (to be clear) is even better!

What a chart. Depending on how Google's massive battery pans out, this is probably somewhat overstating the 'clean' chunk as well, as wind and solar will generate a lower proportion of this capacity than the gas turbines

The framing of this by the NYT (and others) is weird. It allows Trump to call the ceasefire a success and then goes on to explain the "success" is in avoiding making things any worse and still likely leaves the US and world worse off than when he started it www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Donald Trump just posted a video of Somali people enjoying the Mall of America to the soundtrack of “Mad World” because he is a bigoted POS

The 2-child benefit cap ends today, but when will the Government listen and scrap the overall benefit cap that means hundreds of thousands of children are being left without the help they need? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What does it mean that the only person I recognize among those with the most engagement on X in 2026 is Elon Musk? And when I looked at a few of the heaviest hitters... they are madmen. Look up Jackson Hinckle if you dare - an Anti-Israeli, Pro Putin, self-described conservative Marxist Leninist?!

Interesting review of GB News output from 2024 from @ivorgaber.bsky.social which exposes the bias in its output, which is especially bad in its written output on websites, something which is not covered by Ofcom apparently. Definitely skewed toward the Conservatives and of course, Reform UK.

Yeah because I tried Mastodon in good faith and it was the social media experience of eating bran flakes while being glowered at by an angry German

Enjoyed this piece on Sweden’s communal laundries: theconversation.com/how-swedens-... Argues that: “… these shared laundry rooms spread costs, reduce waste and nudge people towards sufficiency. Just as importantly, they give us a reason to meet, compromise and practice our negotiation skills.”

Glad to see Australia acting to tackle the high price of gas by making transit free of charge. Time to think differently about how we get around! www.bbc.com/news/article...

This may not be the right answer but something needs to be done there and elsewhere: a report found two-thirds of letter grades issued at Harvard are straight As and almost 85% are A-range www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"How can Keir Starmer & his Labour Government be so unimaginative and lacking in boldness? All they need to do is look at how angry people are, look at how much people are suffering. Maybe they don’t understand it. Maybe they just don’t care." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Greens have now overtaken both the Conservatives and Labour, according to the latest polling average

“It’s important we present, and create, an alternative.” @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @rachelmillward.bsky.social on the energy of hundreds of thousands taking to the streets at the Together Alliancemarch and the need to harness this to defeat the far right in local elections and beyond.

Listening to the @financialtimes.com Political Fix podcast. Am getting fed up with hearing about Trump's "increasingly erratic behavior" from centrist pundits. Surely after all that "increasing" since last year he has to be levelled up to "unhinged"?

Roses are red, Violets are purple, While technically correct, Basically nothing rhymes with purple.

Oh so now copyright matters.

why is the only non-sad thing he can imagine going to the moon? like why can’t it be high-speed rail? awesome public housing communities? great cinemas and libraries and public spaces? a rejuvenated postal service finding new ways to serve the public? technology for people not profit?

Collecting taxes and paying for the unseen, hardworking, competent employees who make government function is important because then a country gets to do amazing things like send astronauts to the moon and less visible things like preventing and finding cures for diseases. We should lean into that.

Actual good news about the media landscape?!

On International Transgender Day of Visibility, I’m thinking about Wembley this month. Thousands turned up - unapologetic, joyful, and standing together. In a world that tries to erase trans lives: we see you. 🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

Israel is set to establish a death penalty which applies only to Palestinians. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"We can't make the roads any less deadly, so it's on you to creep through the urban fabric like a soldier on the battlefield, perpetually fearful & alert."

Can anyone explain why those proposing that most 2021-24 arrivals wait 15 years to settle in Britain keep pushing polls asking people about 10 years as "support" for the policy??! Just 39% to 29% plurality for a softer version of actual policy, a 36% to 30% plurality for applying it to those here

The company you keep, Nigel.

DJ Fatboy Slim 'appalled' that hit song was played at Reform UK rally

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