The Major Oak has stood at the heart of Sherwood Forest for over a thousand years. This spring, it failed to come into leaf and experts now believe it has died. But its story isn’t over. Its ancient trunk & branches will continue to support life for years to come: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

There’s been an enormous furore over plans to introduce mandatory age verification for social media. While many people think it’s a good thing but policy experts oppose to. To help explain why; the online gaming platform Roblox has provide us with a very timely case study. Brief 🧵

Demonstrations sometimes turn violent but if you’re turning up in a balaclava specifically to burn houses and throw paving stones at the police are you really a “demonstrator” or “protester” or are you something else?

Unionists in Belfast marching against foreigners. The irony. #Belfast

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9

1. Wondering if you can do me a big favor. If you’re on IG, please follow my friend Dieudonne Dirole. Dieudonne is a freelance photojournalist in DR Congo. He lives in Ituri province, where the Ebola crisis began. He is putting his life on the line to document what is happening on the ground.

There has been great work done by the Irish football community to try to get the FAI not to play the Nations League fixtures against apartheid Israel. Momentum to #StopTheGame grows. FAI's General Assembly preparing motion to boycott Israel games www.the42.ie/fai-egm-isra...

A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality. This is not true. 🧵

The head of the WHO has warned that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is “outpacing us” and will “get worse before if gets better”. So far, 101 cases have been confirmed in DRC, with 10 confirmed deaths. jrnl.ie/7051210

I can’t believe it’s not even June yet and we’re already looking at the very real possibility of France reaching +40°C later this week. Literally hundreds of May records have already been set. Truly unprecedented to witness this level of heat so early in the year.

Dr. Fauci came to Stanford for Medicine grand rounds and shared a few reflections I thought were worth passing on: The first was about Operation Warp Speed and the current state of the NIH. As you’ll recall the first mRNA vax was developed at record speed. Fauci atttributes that success to 4 factors

Can we talk about Cuba?

As someone who nearly drowned in a swimming pool as a child, I’d encourage everyone to read this.

Speaking to the press in Irish, President Connolly said she was 'very proud' of her sister but added this evening 'I am worried about her.' 'In relation to my sister, it is very upsetting, I am very worried about her, and I am also very concerned about her colleagues on board,' she said

We need our gov to act- please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pa... @uplift.ie

Chicken products sold in Aldi, Dunnes, Lidl, Centra, SuperValu and Tesco have been recalled due to the possible presence of salmonella. jrnl.ie/7037376

South Sudan stands at a dangerous crossroads. Conflict up. Hunger up. Displacement up. Attacks on aid workers up. I saw it firsthand and felt the scale of this despair. We need access, funding and respect for international humanitarian law. My remarks: bit.ly/4vHf7BC

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"

Petition to suspend trade between EU and Israel reaches almost one million signatures "The proposal can be submitted to the EU Commission for examination once it reaches one million" www.thejournal.ie/petition-to-...

Populism is a fundamentally dishonest form of politics, that attracts fundamentally dishonest people. It is a tissue of lies that validates the darkest prejudices, and covers up the most blatant greed and corruption. It generates wealth for the few, and suffering for the many.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Racists brining the country to a standstill this week (under guise of fuel crisis) tried to intimidate one of the great charities in the country last night. MSOÉ have been feeding the unhoused for 11 years on O Connell street. Ugly scenes but beautiful show of solidarity from the people they feed.

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

Nice work, Nathan Howard of Reuters. 📸👏

Again. This is not a drill. mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/a-historia...

Clean water would be a great start...

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

Goals. 👏

Why is any state in the world still trading or dealing with these people? Why are they not ostracised and boycotted on every conceivable level?

“The scale of the nightmare in Gaza and the West Bank is vast. It is her job to somehow absorb and relay it to the rest of the world. That costs her profoundly — more than any American sanctions.” The price of serving as UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Israel becoming more authoritarian and more and more marked by naked apartheid. This new law is in direct contravention of Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. When will the EU stand up for *its own* law-based agreements? Or does Israel get a pass? www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Seven out of nine child car seats tested in an EU-organised campaign failed crash tests, with only one passing all tests. A total of 12 child restraint systems - nine seats and bases for three of them - were randomly selected in eight countries, including Ireland. jrnl.ie/6997108

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

Middle East war at 'perilous stage' with strikes around nuclear sites, World Health Organization Chief says

WHO briefing: 3.2M displaced in Iran, over 1M in Lebanon. Overcrowded shelters are now raising the risk of disease outbreaks.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

1. Trump starts war for unknown reasons and without consulting anyone 2. War goes very badly 3. Trump threatens partners unless they bail him out of his self-created mess www.ft.com/content/1ca6...

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Nobel Peace Prize is surely in the bag for the stable genius after this?

Hard to think a hot pink powder is trying to be *that* illicit.

This is the most blasé admission of a war crime by a US president in history. Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.

BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is WW3 ongoing, early days of it or just another day in the life of arseholes beating their chests🤔

BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING: The UN's nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, says inspectors have not found evidence of a coordinated Iranian program to build nuclear weapons, despite Israeli and US claims. LIVE updates: aje.news/dp8prb

UK Ministry of Defence can confirm that a Shahed-like drone which targeted RAF Akrotiri at midnight on 2nd March was not launched from Iran.

🚨🚨 Unusual with such moral integrity for a European political leader: Spanish PM Pedro Sanches insists that #Spain won't temper criticism of #Trump's attacks on #Iran over fear of reprisals and commercial pressure. 👇 www.politico.eu/article/pedr...

Sadly, never not relevant.