As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.

Two reasons: 1. The number of Eritreans crossing has collapsed. Eritrea closed its border with Ethiopia to stop people getting out: www.africanews.com/2019/04/23/e... 2. Italy has a deal with Libya to stop crossings, so people cross to Greece instead (Eastern Libya isn't government controlled).

R.I.P. Jennifer Finch. L7's bassist has died at age 59. stereogum.com/2505697/jenn...

Spotted backstage at the BBC. The camera that started it all. #VX2000

There are a whole lot of people rooting for Jennifer Finch, bassist for L7, to win this battle, and I hope she is encouraged by this support. www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

Before the president gets on television tonight to peddle lies and conspiracy theories, here is what you need to know: The 2020 election was not stolen. We won, and he lost.

#BBCNews - The secretive crypto firm backed by Farage's biggest donor www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #tether

#BBCNews - UK starts first vaccine trial, eight weeks into Ebola emergency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And, yes, it is being amplified and reposted by exactly the sorts of accounts you would expect. In fact, the BBC journalist at the helm of this fearless project, seems to be grateful for and eager to amplify praise from accounts with pretty big "pinned post" alarm bells. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Getting ready to watch Morocco in the World Cup knockout round? Here are a couple of fascinating Revolutionary-era American & Moroccan histories first, connections that make them the perfect team to be playing during the U.S.’s 250th anniversary week. Quick thread 🗃️ +

If I hear the word “quality” one more time….. 💥🤯

Today’s note: on the cuts at the BBC. The problem has a simple cause - in 2010, the licence fee was £220 in today’s money. Now it is £180.

Yes, it’s true. Money Box Live has been the standout and most beloved part of my entire career. We have served so many communities, told so many stories and explained so many issues. I am heartbroken.

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Exclusive: Ukraine's drone commander wants to cut Crimea off from Russia - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

More than that, during the referendum Boris Johnson (& then NI Sec Villiers) explicitly invoked the Common Travel Area to claim that Brexit would have no effect on the I/NI border: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli... (a misleading claim in they way they meant it, but the point is they committed to CTA).

UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc The strategy has run out of road A 🧵 on what happens next.

In November 2023, police discovered the decayed corpse of Tracey Turnell in Walthamstow Market. She had no phone, job, passport, friends or lovers. There wasn’t a single photo of her. It was as if, in her far too public death, she entered the public record for the first time. Who was she?

(1/3) Throughout the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour, Bruce and the band have been supporting local organizations defending the civil and human rights of marginalized communities across the country — including immigrants and refugees — at their concerts in every city.

“I just happened to be out walking and I saw some steps and I thought: let’s see what’s up there,” he says. “There were a lot of pillars and abutments back then, where I could find spaces where people couldn’t see me, though they could hear me." RIP Sonny Rollins. www.theguardian.com/music/2022/j...

What did CBS stand to gain from issuing copyright infringement notices against YouTube accounts that shared Colbert's public access appearance? Whatever their motivation, it backfired in spectacular fashion over the weekend...

Stephen Colbert is a national treasure: The day after his show was canned after 11 years by CBS to appease a tyrant, he shows up on the Monroe, MI public access channel where he did his first Late Show broadcast in 2015.

What I love about this story is, absolutely, these will be circumstances that were 100 per cent foreseeable and foreseen by anyone who had worked with child actors for longer than the c10 minutes in aggregate across the production team’s career.

This is just brilliant. Brilliant music, brilliant performance, brilliant TV youtu.be/EtvKvmTIaQU?...

I have really enjoyed The Athletic, but dear god the New York Times make unsubscribing an absolute nightmare #NYT

Welp, just deleted Google Chrome from all my devices. Which took some doing on the Macs because of the hidden 5Gb LLM model it had sneakily installed without permission, which is *why* I'm yeeting this malware browser for good.

"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time." pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/g...

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Very good, if infuriating, piece on the pernicious but incredibly solvable problem of shoplifting www.londoncentric.media/p/greggs-sho...

Someone asked if I could tell them where to buy a pair of good chinos. In this thread, I will tell you, but my answer is not simple. On the upside, I think this is a better approach when shopping for clothes and you can apply it to any kind of item. 🧵

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda: The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

Football groundhopper record broken: Tony Incenzo completes life-long non-league dream

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month ⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices www.carbonbrief.org/...

This is a phenomenal piece of journalism by my colleagues at @economist.com - deep reported detail on how Iran is now being run that I haven't seen anywhere else: www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Imagine being fired by Bari Weiss, who has no broadcasting experience and even in her field has never written or commissioned a single worthwhile piece. I’d have blood coming out if my eyes

Nottinghamshire County Council's Reform leadership has stopped Nottinghamshire Live from the council chamber. This is quite unprecedented and authoritarian.

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

I enjoyed Louis Theroux's delve into the Manosphere, but I have the niggling sense that the whole panic around it is a bit of a fantasma. The prevalence of misogyny among young men is no higher now than in 2015. The worst you can say is it's stopped shrinking. What am I missing here?