After all the scare stories in the media, I was expecting the worst at Amsterdam Schiphol with the new EES system....astonished to be through in five minutes

Exactly this

A very true & troubling statement, and rightly so…

It is quite strange to listen to political coverage currently, even from mainstream sources, and remember that net migration has quartered since its peak, and is likely to fall to Cameron's tens of thousands target next year and this has made no difference to the discourse.

This thread sums it up perfectly

While MAGA plays culture war around renewables, China added 119 GW of new solar and wind in a single month (www.ecowatch.com/china-solar-...) In context, that's four times the *total* monthly electricity capacity of a US State like Ohio (27.4 GW).

'Whatever malicious thing can be found anywhere in the world can be found [in London]… actors, jesters, smooth-skinned lads, Moors, flatterers, pretty boys... quacks, belly dancers [and] sorcerers'. A visitor to London, 1180.

Fmr President Clinton: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has long wanted to go to war with Iran

The cruelty in all this is unbelievable

The best thing about all this is that neither has any measure of self-control, meaning this will just run and run and run.

Sure, yes gyazo.com/fb361629c2ee...

The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.

Trump's press events with world leaders that he doesn't like are quickly becoming the weirdest moments in U.S. history.

Trump loses it at Peter Alexander: "What are you talking about? You oughta get out of here ... you're a terrible reporter. You don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart enough ... Brian Roberts and the people that run that place they ought to be investigated."

WTF? Trump is at it again ambushing Ramaphosa in the White House. He's doing much better than Zelensky

Several friends have told me in recent years that *insert country* is immune to the far-right, and yet just a few years later they are surging in the polls in each of those places. We still don't talk enough about the supercharged hatreds that algorithms have pumped into our society.

Social media this morning is a zombie apocalypse of dinosaur Tory politicians and right wing hangers-on hankering after the nasty Brexit wars of the last decade. Our country has moved on!

The unbelievable condescension we’re already seeing today towards working class people- suggesting they don’t travel to Europe or their kids might not want to go to university and study in Europe- is quite something to behold.

In my new book, we discovered that not just one funding gap kills promising climate tech. It's three distinct chasms. The most treacherous? When startups with successful pilots try to jump to commercial production. Even $100M isn't enough. Full analysis here: green.simpliflying.com/p/how-sustai...

This is excellent - "There is no modern ailment which cannot be lain at their door. They are the perfect foil for right and left: a simple compelling villain whose malevolence explains a complex world."

Gov't criticised from all sides. From the right, "not enough". From all others for its awful rhetoric. "Why are we trying to ape Reform when that will do nothing to improve constituents' lives and just stoke division?" ~AA @timfarron.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social

Not once have we had a government which is willing to openly state the benefits of immigration to our society and our economy, the way that diversity has made us a wealthier and culturally richer country. Not once. And yet we're constantly told that we've been living in an experiment of no borders.

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

Dumb on so many levels. Demographically: there simply aren't enough Britons to staff the care sector, especially with a growing elderly population. There never will be. Economically: the UK only has ANY kind of GDP growth because of immigration, so ... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The whole debate and the fixation about numbers, is depressing

American bro from South Carolina in the hotel bar in Amsterdam, telling the bar staff about Trump, and sounding like Fox News brought to life: "They are only deporting illegal criminals", " Musk found loads of fraud" etc. Seriously, when you come to Europe, don't be like this.

Ten years ago there was a study showing that at most 14% of people are regular news consumers. A great many people have zero clue about any of this, or even know what tariffs are. They are in for a surprise

Trump is going to insist that the only way for any non-American film to escape tariffs is for him to have a cameo.

Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."

You have to wonder what Mark Carney's other two wishes were after rubbing that bottle

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

This is the consequence of our media having obsessively given uncontested platforms to frauds, who use it to convince people their life is shit because a Polish family got the last available council house, or how they can't see a GP due to there being too many black and brown people in the queue.

ESG backlash. Climate cynicism. But Electra just raised $115M anyway. A hybrid-electric aircraft that can land on a runway the length of a soccer pitch, and needs no new infrastructure. It's one of the companies featured in my new book, out next month. www.electra.aero/news/electra...

According to The Guardian, Google Maps is “the last human place on the internet.” As a Level 9 Local Guide (yes, there are 10), it resonated, I am one of the obsessives the article gently poes fun at www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Ouch! What a headline. RIP.

Massive march in New York today to protect migrants and protect the planet #april19

Chinese release yet another clip mocking the US. This time feat. Trump, Rubio, Waltz, Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos.

NowThis: Palo Alto crosswalk buttons were hacked to play an AI generated speech of Elon Musk

new york times article a year from now, probably

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

This is unwelcome news, I expect the US to apply it to ICAO (the UN body for aviation) as well. The US Govt is going one further than many countries in ignoring or lobbying against climate measures, it is actively threatening to punish countries or regions that impose carbon prricing on US ships.

Elections have consequences

What a time to be alive

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

'Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd Canterbury Caterham Wickfield' 😁

What an insane story, worth reading the guy's Insta post where he details what happened to him. No wonder visits to the US are cratering, something that will get worse with a recession. www.instagram.com/p/DIEA_nBpCC...

In case anyone’s wondering… www.forbes.com/sites/quora/...

A lesson from the UK - we're seeing a lot of echoes of Brexit, the same shifting messaging, the same media cowardice. But here's the most important one. The non-political majority experiencing shortages and higher prices in the stores will trump any of the inane shouting coming from Fox.