As ever, the proof will be in the pudding but lots of interesting stuff in here and good to see the (almost certain to be) new PM doing thinking about positively engaging with their own MPs as well as parliament more broadly

Can anyone help track down this IT'S A KNOCKOUT episode from 19 May 1971, aired at 7:10pm on BBC 1 - I've done a few cursory searches myself but not sure it exists anywhere I can watch it - there's a good chance my late father is on it, so I'd be over the moon to see it! @tvark.bsky.social perhaps?

The UK has now said it will actively harm or damage: *Chemistry *Nursing *High-end physics *Languages *Astronomy *Creative arts *Theatre and performance *Cultural industries *Europe-level science The UK has lost its mind. 🇬🇧

Again, I beg MPs and the government to actually look at the policy they may or may not be implementing and think through both the human consequences and their willingness to have 1/6 of all care staff be deported.

Last week I was proud to lead the first UK Parliamentary delegation to Syria since the fall of the Assad regime. We saw some of the destruction left in the suburbs of Damascus by Assad, Putin and their allies. We got a glimpse of the vast recovery effort now underway in Syria.

It really is a wonderful city

Airport mini rainforest

Waiting for our plan and extremely happy to have found the viewing platform

Can I just shock you? I love Manchester

“The only realistic way of getting to 300,000 net additional dwellings a year, or 1.5 million over a parliament — the government’s target — is to build a lot more council houses”.

My start my own petition to increase broad based taxes and tell people on day one in office if you want good public services *you* will have to pay for it. Can we get to half a dozen signatures so it's waiting on his desk on his first day?

Clement Attlee making a timeless observation in 1934: "No one believes that when Sir Oswald Mosley talks about preserving the right to free speech he is really genuine in the matter. He preserves free speech just as long as it suits him."

Oil's record price in the 1860s has never been surpassed, according to the Energy Institute

“It’s a really important step,” says Vasee Moorthy, who leads R&D blueprint work at WHO’s Office of the Chief Scientist. “It’s hope for the community.” I wrote about the first ever clinical trial to test drugs against Bundibugyo, that started today. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

And if you're in Australia and up in the early hours, as with the rest of the tournament, it is free on Amazon Prime. No payment or subscription required. #T20WorldCup #ENGVAUS

Youngest prom today - looked v smart

Monday would be a lot more bearable if it was called Puffin.

NEW ANALYSIS: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time What's that you say? Something something demand, something something ZEV mandate? Take a look at the data: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Today's Times: "A new Spring can be purchased for £11,990 — making it not just Britain’s cheapest electric car, but the cheapest new car, bar none" www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...

Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India

RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage * Only 4% are opposed Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low * 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care

*sits filing receipts for the ltd company* *realises I genuinely could submit a doodle to HMRC, hope I'm not one of the 330, and hire three extra reporters with the extra money* *goes back to writing about all the small businesses just submitting doodles and opting out of tax*

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

A quick crowdsourcing exercise. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is looking for copyright free images we can use for promoting the eclipse on 12 August (a deep partial in the UK) to the press and public. Can anyone help? Diagrams and photos of past events all good. We'll obviously credit contributors.

Can’t go to Robyn at the O2 on Friday due to my agonies so if you want two tix in Block 102 and to give me, say, some of the money, hmu

One thing that is unusual about the UK is that you have a lot of choice of retailer so can shop around with, eg, @octopus.energy for flexible rates where you get the benefit from low power pricing hours during, eg, high-wind events.

This

Source, for the avoidance of doubt: Yahoo Sports / The Sporting News, Feb 2026, reporting Khelif's own words to L'Equipe confirming the SRY gene and lowering testosterone to zero for the Dakar qualifier. sports.yahoo.com/articles/ima...

Well. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

the things in this speech I didn't see trailed that feel significant are Burnham acknowledging the importance of universities, the creative industries and London, I think

A theme we can expect to hear from Burnham again and again is that politics is broken as it is set up for conflict, not collaboration and that opposition for its own sake is behind voter alienation. His opponents in the press and other parties seem intent on helping him stress test the theory today.

"Net zero is too often cast as a luxury we cannot afford. [But] done well, the transition to clean energy is one of the most powerful anti-poverty strategies we have." 👇️ Read @mike-reader.bsky.social's piece in @LabourList.bsky.social today: labourlist.org/2026/06/we-n...

Part of why housing discourse is such a mess is that when housing prices are successfully lowered by local government policy (which is exactly what happened here!), it gets reported by the local paper as bad news.

Think people underestimate quite how much the British love wildlife/nature (often above projects focused on people). Attenboroughism among British public is deep & real -across ideological boundaries. Extinction/deforestation gets people uniquely animated in groups. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Not that I don't trust Mr Banker but I had to check this was true and.... Christ on a bike, the brass neck on this fella share.google/UGToAwIdibgp...

I know everyone is saying it but nine out of ten African teams going through is absolutely incredible, especially when you consider some of the more 'traditional' big guns like Cameroon and Nigeria are missing. Awesome stuff.

Remember the pattern: Boring competent group stage <——— YOU ARE HERE Scrappy second round victory [English Fans start believing they will win the cup] Generally impressive quarter final Heartbreaking Semi Final Defeat Hastily purchased flags torn down Gritted teeth congrats to the Germans

The Mail are going to be outraged with whoever decided to let council tenants buy their homes at a massive discount and whatever drove up property prices at such an alarming rate

🚨 BREAKING: Two men have been arrested after a man in his 20s was stabbed during a rave involving up to 400 people near Dry Drayton. Armed police searched the area, and a cordon remains in place. #Breaking #Cambridgeshire www.cambsnews.co.uk/two-arrested...

Love a bitter shandy - also love the German name - Radler

I avoid awkward conversations with charity fundraisers or political campaigners by simply saying "I already donate" or "I'm already voting for you guys." It's a win-win: they get a little boost, I don't have to explain my decision-making. Must really skew polling data though.

Never change, BlueSky.

This. When he says “money for wars” it’s “money to support Ukraine against Russian imperialism”. Ultimately supporting Ukraine with military aid is to support them in a fight against fascism and to secure Europe against the same threat. Why do they refuse to see that!

Often feels like Zack Polanski’s leftism doesn’t adjust for being in Britain rather than America, where defence spending is astronomical and there are hundreds of billionaires

And yes, Italy's doing just fine, despite nature's comeback. share.google/a9A0ShIc1vku...

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

If you’re in Cambridge please come and buy my pots, they’re quite nice but more importantly I’ve got too many and don’t want to have to pack them all back up again on Sunday and bring them home. 10am-9pm Sat, 10am-6pm Sun, Kiln Cambridge, Ditton Walk off Newmarket Rd.

The Hove Amber Cup, crafted approximately 3,500 years ago from a singular piece of Baltic amber, was discovered in 1856 within a Bronze Age burial mound in Hove, Sussex. It's the best preserved of only two such Bronze Age vessels identified across Europe. 📷 me 🏺 #Archaeology