How grotesque the mixture of ambivalence and retreat into useful lies has been to see from news shows , bigots , bots and right wing politicians talking about Renee Nicole Good

Hardly any USAmericans understand what the modern International Criminal Court is, and how Congress's refusal to ratify its Rome Statute opened the door for the administration's lawlessness. Our fellow refuseniks: Putin and the Saudis LeMonde's cartoon of the day: www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Make this go viral. Labour MP Louise Haigh.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Nice work on the Prince Andrew financial investigation. Any chance of the same for Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Geoffrey Cox? #r4today

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Great Britain sets new record for renewable energy planning approvals finds Cornwall Insight www.renewableenergymagazine.com/storage/grea...

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

Europe must stop pulling its punches on Trump ✍️ Lord Darroch

In 2024, at least 1,365 people were killed by police in fatal shootings in the USA. In the England and Wales in the same period that figure... was 2.

Time to counter some misinformation.... This year's flu vaccine is probably low-efficacy. This means it probably won't prevent you from GETTING SICK. But it probably WILL prevent you from having to go to the hospital and from DYING. The data strongly suggest this.

This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

Do not use anything other than water for exposure to tear gas and/or pepper spray. In a Minnesota winter, consider the potential for injury due to water in cold weather. Water can cause fatal hypothermia whereas tear gas/pepper spray on skin and eyes is a matter of discomfort.

Notice how few architecture / building folks react to this data.

Supposing NATO does break up and Europe creates a new Europe only alliance, it would have its own foreign policy. I imagine the state that would find that least comfortable would probably be Israel.

Leaving Gaza is difficult, entering Gaza is difficult, being treated in Gaza is difficult, living in Gaza is difficult. You're always unable to do anything. Everything has been destroyed, and we've lost everything.

The Huffington Post, at least, is not afraid to tell the truth.

I think the way to get people to care about the environment, climate, democracy, etc. is for celebrities to talk about them. John Cusack sets a good example that others can follow. If Taylor Swift can get everyone to want a Monterey Bay Aquarium t-shirt, she can get them to care about these issues.

Not gritting footways saves the local council money... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Can we check her pulse?” “No! Back up! Now!” “I’m a physician.” “I don’t care.”

Gaza - I ask the government about the continuing bar on free and unfettered access for international journalists Minister's response here: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...

More devastating news for Thorpeness homeowners "The rate of erosion here is frankly astonishing...in the past few weeks. Look at these bags of rocks they've been tossed aside by the sea like a toy" @ 13.57 Time to consider the erosion at the nearby Sizewell C site www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I saw this one this morning. That’s a poem that hasn’t lost its punch or relevance in the last 85 years.

Absolutely. The contrast between Bowen and Mason, sat next to him on BBC News last night is staggering. As are their salaries. Sadly one can sense where the agenda is at the BBC these days.

Jeremy Bowen really is an outstanding broadcaster. He's a reminder that public service broadcasting can be objective and impartial without needing to be balanced - indeed that balance makes objectivity impossible. I imagine they'll get rid of him soon.

Why? Seriously, why? (Non Labour cultist answers only, please.)

Terrible news for Thorpeness homeowners "...I was told I was scare-mongering so yes, they've underestimated what is going to happen" The awful consequence of ignoring erosion warnings- yet govt continue nearby Sizewell C build 'on 1 of Europe's fastest eroding coastlines' www.itv.com/watch/news/c...

Shooting a woman at point blank range, simply for driving away is bad enough. The most powerful people on Earth justifying it is simply next level.

A restaurant has a buffet where you can eat all its dishes for one fixed price. You can also order many of the dishes individually off the menu. But pick more than a handful, and the total cost quickly exceeds the price of the buffet. EU membership is the buffet. Selective EU deals are the menu.

Just like climate change , there are two sides to this but one side is lying and we can just report the truth.

The UK provided significant military support to the US when they seized a Russian flagged ship in intl waters, & the UK govt says its ok because the op was legal (its telling they can reach a quick conclusion on legality under intl law when it suits them!) Paul McNamara reports

The BBC's David Willis doesn't help by claiming that the car "lurches forward in the direction of another officer". #R4Today

Murders, BBC. Murders.

"Due impartiality" doesn't mean treating two sides of an argument equally when the available evidence backs only one side. #R4Today

Sky News plays a report that includes footage of someone identifying themselves as a doctor being refused permission to check on the woman who had just been shot Moments later Ridge tells us there are claims that doctors were not let through. Claims? We just saw the footage!

Overcharging by asylum contractor bit.ly/45uCBhK there’s a surprise!

COMMENTARY: In justifying his military operation against Venezuela, Donald Trump reached back in time and grabbed hold of the Monroe Doctrine. But it’s another 19th-century interest that propelled his extraordinary gambit in the first place — oil.

ICE almost certainly knew video evidence would contradict their statement on the killing in Minneapolis. And that it would be available within minutes. That they released the statement anyway shows they simply don’t care. Or they’re confident that it won’t matter.

Did you know that coffee / cacao bean bags can be upcycled into extra nice insulation? This is what a german chocolade company (Ritter Sport) does: www.thermo-hanf.de/en/products/... #biobased

This, this, this, and not the A38 extension nonsense please www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Building with (your own) Earth 'practical' webinar postponed to 30. Januar 20:00! (UK: 7 p.m., PST: 11 a.m.)

#Venezuela #Greenland Will the UK government acknowledge the idea of "the West" as a geopolitical entity with shared values, principles and interests is dead? No

People who consider themselves decent, progressive, or left leaning should not only be embarrassed to remain on X in any active capacity - they should be deeply ashamed. The line was crossed long ago.

Industrial agriculture - a key reason this is a #PoisonedPlanet with collapsing #biodiversity "Neonics work by binding to insects' nervous systems and paralyzing or killing them. It's effective, but it impacts more than just pests." phys.org/news/2026-01...

Together with @investigate-europe.eu, we mapped landfill locations - current, historic & illegal - across Europe. You can explore on the map which are in flood risk zones, near rivers, coasts, or in UK drinking water protection zones, here: share.google/vFJ7ZKad3jbE... 3/3

willing to bet that literally the last thing AI does is 'liberate women from unwanted chores'

Imagine if scientists could figure out how Earth's climate has varied for hundreds of millions of years, build sophisticated computers to project how humans are now radically altering it, and warn the public, only to have greedy corporations & venal politicians ignore them. Criminal. Immoral. Evil.

Seems quite probable. Trump and his thuggish capos will see Cuba as an easier immediate target than Greenland, and the US right has long wished to reinstall something along the lines of the (utterly corrupt) Batista regime.

The more rogue the U.S. gets, the worse this looks.

Good, but how about insulating + modernizing homes so people don't have to go to public warming centers + infrastructure attack isn't so worthwhile for Putin, e.g.? Nations independent of the fossil fuel and techno-centric, oligarchy, people protected from fuel poverty = independent voters. 2/2