Three of England’s worst harvests on record have happened in the past five years. How should farmers & government respond to deliver food security? Kate Moore reports.

More in Common polling: who would Britons vote AGAINST: ➡️ Ref 38% (+9) 🌹Lab 34% (-4) 🌳 Con 7% (-1) 🌏 Green 7% (+4) 🐦‍ LD 3% (-) changes w/ Nov 2025

Why-didn’t-you-just-burn-the-tapes voice: “Why didn’t you just grant yourself an outrageous salary?”

In hot countries, temperatures are pretty constant within 5-10 degrees all year round. In the UK, it's freezing, freezing, freezing, freezing, cold, cold, cold, cold, wet, wet, wet, wet, HELLFIREEEEE!!!! wet, wet, wet, cold, cold, cold, freezing, freezing, freezing.

Climate targets scrapped. Committees abolished. Climate language removed. What Reform councils have done after taking power. Adam Barnett reports

The best thing about my Russian hack story is that how the Guardian found out about the £5 million is completely irrelevant. But now people are talking about that instead of why I was given it, why I tried to hide it and whether I bought houses with it. 😉

The Canary is launching a daily weekday national newspaper this week after an injection of cash from a used-car website founder in 2025 “People have been saying that for years that print is in decline, but essentially from our perspective it’s not dead yet" pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

As I’ve said many times before, if you think X is a vector for fascism you should also be worried about Facebook which, even with its recent troubles, still has an order of magnitude more users than Twitter ever did, and which is being pumped full of Restore and adjacent propaganda

Peter Kellner: "Andy Burnham's lead over Reform’s Robert Kenyon is just 3%. On a small sample that's too close to call. However, after going through Survation’s data in detail, I reckon Burnham is on his way to Parliament, as his true lead could be as much as 10%." open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Carol Vorderman issues challenge to Reform UK after 'disgusting' X post about her

Quite funny The electorate was wrong.

😡😡😡”The analysis done by private firms was sometimes so poor that NHS radiologists had to read scans again, raising questions about the benefit of outsourcing.” The government promised “the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation”. They must deliver it now.

A large warehousing scheme which would uproot more than 10,000 trees is set to get approval from councillors. Three new warehouses are planned in Carrington, Trafford, but they would destroy woodland habitats. But we were all so sad about the Sycamore Gap tree. www.bbc.com/news/article...

We should all recognise that it's no longer about the money for these people. They are already so rich they can't possibly spend it all. It's about the power the money gives them over the rest of us. Money to buy politicians, ignore the law and ride roughshod over ordinary people.

The prediction of a Reform government shows what this country has become due to our nasty spiteful media class who have allowed the far right to thrive - today will be 35 degrees and our next government could very well be one of climate change deniers , robber barons and asset strippers

😡This is the sort of ‘bloke’ who’d make inappropriate comments to your teenage daughter. This is the sort of ‘bloke’ who’d leer and smirk as you went by. This is the sort of ‘bloke’ who’d say any woman who got raped was ‘asking for it’. This is the sort of bloke who’d claim it was all just ‘bants’.

The Guardian says that the National Cyber Security Centre is not aware of any report from me about my phone being hacked by Russians. It's absolutely infuriating how these 'journalists' keep checking for facts and evidence! Why can't they just take my word for it like GB News?

Also: brexit's done! It's over! The process of leaving the European Union had a beginning and an end! That end was *six years ago* now! We are now just living in the world. "Making brexit a success" is like saying "to to win the gulf war": it's just a category errorm it makes no sense.

If you're still trying to figure it out after a decade that might be a clue....

The £5m The Clacton house The antisemitism The stories all keep changing. #Liegel

The thing is that movies with older women in leading roles like Harold and Maude, Fried Green Tomatoes, Moonstruck, Sunset Boulevard, Steel Magnolias, The Queen, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, anything with Dame Judi Dench, are just some of the best of cinema.

Ministers consider not stopping benefits entirely when teens go into apprenticeships bit.ly/49ici0d the loss of income now deters parents from encouraging it

Rich families get nearly a third of the bursaries originally designed too help the less well off bit.ly/4tSLHOA university of London says only one in six go to poor families

And whilst they were at it, they enriched themselves to the point of becoming king makers and being untouchable. Whilst the rest of the population goes short or starves. We are truly back to feudal age.

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

"The black rain frog looks as if he's constantly annoyed." I so feel this. (Meme via lovinurbanism.bsky.social)

#OriginalRollCall Monday 25 May ☀️Good Morning. Up and At ‘Em ☀️

Steve Baker is concerned a future Rejoin campaign might be dishonest and be about vibes. Baker also says how voters are bothered about dishonesty in public life. Yes really. Some things he says are right (IMO) but he is saying them. A pointer that we have to get past the Brexit generation of MPs.

i cannot believe this is real

The president of the United States is a sociopath. I'd love for him to sue me for saying that because then he'd have to prove he's not a sociopath. FDT!!!

Day 1551 of my 3 day war. I spent $25 million on an Oreshnik missile to blow up someone's garage. Ukraine spent $50,000 on a drone to blow up a key oil pump station. I remain a master strategist.

I will have vengeance. I will have salvation.

“Respecting” the result of a referendum held 10 years ago, when it’s increasingly clear that it was won on the basis of a pack of lies and that Brexit is doing massive damage to Britain’s economy, status & influence in the world, is a total abdication of responsibility.

‘Electoral reform and reversing Brexit: they’re more connected than you might think’ Labour’s emerging leadership contest is reopening the EU debate. But if we want to rejoin, Britain needs a more European voting system first. #getPRdone www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UK needs to uncover and forensically dissect the finances of every politician that has received money from Putin. It's ridiculous both how stupid, how many and how CHEAP these bastards are.

This looks like bullshit stenography to me. Glen Owen also ‘reported’ Farage’s lies about French police & a monoglot mechanic ‘telling him’ his car had been ‘tampered with’ in an ‘assassination attempt’ when he was trying to distract attention from something else. Also, Putin *wants* him to be PM!

Random opinion: The primary purpose of AI, instead of the genuinely revolutionary like medical/scientific image analysis, has become the replacement of human labour in order to lower costs. It's being driven by shareholder greed We should tax the use of AI to fund a universal basic income

The kind you find in a second hand store...

As Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is driven towards self awareness, he surely must wonder just how many servants have pissed in his soup down the years. #epsteinclient #MountbattenWindsor #andrew

Now I wonder what the Tories would do here… 😬

Oops! 😬 'A fire has destroyed the Reikado Hall in Hatsukaichi, Japan. The hall houses the "eternal flame" which the temple says has been burning for nearly 1,200 years. Authorities said the fire may have been caused by it.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

meanwhile, absolutely batshit recommendations for cities to visit in summer: Barcelona and Athens are ovens in summer, and Miami is both an oven and a swamp in summer. Avoid all three in summer unless you want to die of heatstroke.

Reform trying to out compete Restore. When I was a kid the National Front were on the streets. Now they're on the Sunday morning politics shows.

Lowe threatening to destroy "the establishment" and send bureaucrats to prison. All sounding a bit Maoist.

Sky News is STILL LYING about Brexit! Trevor Phillips claimed nobody in the EU wants us back, despite the EU Parliament saying the exact opposite YESTERDAY! He even repeated Boris Johnson's BUS LIE!!!

If it's not clean, it's not sport. Who agrees?

You know how people are always surprised that he managed to bankrupt a casino?

Fucking psychopathic freak. But sure, hand over our NHS data to him for peanuts. That'll end well.