Read my latest Global Threads piece on what’s really going on 👇 open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...

Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week. A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift. 🧵👇

The Bloomberg LSE European City Leadership Initiative will support mayors who are leading the way across the world. Fantastic to welcome 30 European mayors to London to discuss shared challenges and priorities. 📸: Bloomberg Philanthropies

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a carpenter. I’d love to be one. But when politicians use that to sneer at everyone else, you start to see what they’re really afraid of: people who can think for themselves.

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture. It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Just popping on to say a miracle has taken place and ffp3 too!

Good to see Neil Duncan-Jordan MP calling on the Govt to ban hunting asap!

The new viral season has now started. This is wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels in the Netherlands. The start is around the 2023/2024 season and there is a clear upward movement from the previous season (last week). This is in line with other countries and indicates the next wave 1/5

Manchester synagogue terrorist pledged allegiance to Islamic State in 999 call

🚨 Cal Roscow, campaigns director at Best for Britain: 📊 “Badenoch says the Conservative Party were “brave enough” to take Britain out of the EU. That ‘bravery’ has been rewarded with their lowest ever poll ratings." https://bit.ly/3VVyA0E

🚜 A poor deal for farmers. A rotten deal for the country. “Brexit was not principally about trade" - we know Michael we know... 🛠️ Let's fix this broken deal and get Britain building again. https://bit.ly/42YNQxG

My calendar is launching in just two days! Get ready! I am really excited to be releasing this product to you all. I've worked hard on it over the last couple months.

The fact that everyone totally ignores C3PO when he says stuff like this makes a lot more sense if you think of him as a ChatGPT type computer who just says plausible sounding sentences without any real analysis behind them.

FACTCHECK: Claire Coutinho claims UK gas power only costs £55/MWh… …but she is ignoring a few small details: 🤫 Gas prices always rise in winter 🤫 Gas plants cost money to build 🤫 CO2 causes economic damages THREAD with receipts 1/8

I’m proud that my Pension Credit campaign has helped older Londoners unlock £40m in unclaimed support. Too many Londoners are still missing out. I’m urging Londoners to use City Hall’s Cost of Living Hub to check their entitlements to benefits: www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

‘You want a player to die?’ Heat is on tennis after players wilt in extreme conditions

Prayers shouldn't play a part in formal business of the state. We want parliament & councils to be equally welcoming to all attendees, whatever their personal beliefs. Join our campaign to end prayers in parliament & councils 👇 www.secularism.org.uk/end-governme... #ParliamentaryPrayers

#religion #atheism

Those campaigning for an 'Islamophobia' definition often cite social cohesion as an aim. But this can't be achieved with a definition which negatively impacts the freedoms of people of other religions and beliefs. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 MISSION & MISOGYNY: This session will reveal how the privileging of faith groups in the charity sector is enabling charities to promote/condone female subordination, sexist 'modesty codes' & even marital rape @natsecsoc.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

Religious radio programmes are the least popular and least well received according to the BBC's own research. Join our campaign to reform BBC Radio 4's discriminatory #ThoughtForTheDay 👇👇👇 www.secularism.org.uk/thought-for-... #TftD

"The right to offend is not a regrettable byproduct of free speech, it's the very point of it." Hamit Coskun's conviction shows the way offensive speech is being criminalised, and a 'heckler's veto' created. This is why we're supporting his appeal👇 www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2025...

We campaign for an inclusive, secular society where no religion is unfairly privileged. Join us in our stand for equality, freedom, and fairness. Become a member of the National Secular Society today: secularism.org.uk/join-and-renew

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

They broke Britain! Farage, Trump, Brexit… and 50% tariffs on our steel. Workers pay the price while the guilty play the hero. Has Britain gone mad? 👇 #Brexit #SteelCrisis #Farage The Great British BETRAYAL: How Farage’s Brexit Sold Out Britain youtu.be/k7LWcKVNcvg

In this episode of The Spirit Of Revolution, I explore the deep and often confusing relationship between suffering, resilience, and transformation. What happens when we embrace vulnerability instead of avoiding it? rogerhallam.com/beyond-the-p...

“If pictures of American troops in war zones overseas upset Trump voters, pictures of them 50 miles down the road are not going to do any better. When the culture war escalates into real-world street fighting, people rapidly lose their patience with it.” inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

Ooh, ooh, I know, I know. Does it rhyme with Spexit?

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

I find these occasional asides, and things like the Sunday Times interview, fascinating, in that they serve absolutely no purpose other than to go 'no, it's as bad as you think: I do understand this is a problem, I'm just too much of a coward to do anything about it'.

Bluesky text and hashtag searching is kaput.

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

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Protect the Wild joins the Committee Against Bird Slaughter and Chris Packham on the frontlines of conservation. protectthewild.substack.com/p/tiny-heart...

I am so tired of reading stories like this where foxes are vilified and demonised by the press 🤬 The truth is that we destroyed their habitat to build our homes and then moan and whinge when they dare exhibit natural behaviours looking for food! 🦊 #news #wildlife #uk

The fox hunting 'season' has started up again. Another year of wildlife killing and havoc for communities across the country. And this Government continues to sit on their hands because they're too frightened of upsetting farmers and would rather play politics than end this sick pastime.

Shame on Oxford University for continuing to push the narrative that Badger culling works in tackling bovine TB

We joined Oxfordshire Badger Group to call on Oxford University to say it how it is: Badger culling is not the solution to bringing down TB in cattle and it never will be.

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👉 It’s all over for the Avon Vale Hunt, now it is time to end all hunting for good! If you have footage of a hunt that needs to be exposed please email us - [email protected] - we can shine a light on this vile pastime and ensure it is consigned to the dustbin of history. #news

Damn right! An MP has urged the government to honour its pledge to ban "trail hunting". www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2552486...

Neil Duncan-Jordan, MP for Poole, has warned that loopholes in current laws are allowing fox hunting to continue under different names despite the 2005 ban. He has written to Angela Eagle, the new minister for rural affairs, urging her to act “before another season of suffering.”

Once upon a time the US was like the world’s somewhat misguided mum and dad. Now it’s the twisted uncle you dread sitting next at a family gathering.

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

U.S. $ was 0.97, when Biden left office in January 2025. Today your purchasing power has decreased (has dropped) to 0.86 under Trump. Biden: $1 used to = 0.97 Euros Trump: $1 now = 0.86 Euros More expensive to Import from Europe now. More expensive to travel to Europe now.

WTF is going on in Canada 🇨🇦??

Indonesia is moving to designate 17 seagrass habitats as strategic areas for blue carbon, a plan that promises climate & community benefits but raises concerns over safeguards. Experts welcome the initiative but warn it must avoid privatization, ensure fair benefit-sharing & guarantee transparency.