I have to admit I underestimated how much Elon buying Twitter would influence our politics - not because of its influence on ordinary people, which I predicted accurately as "significant but not extraordinary," but because I didn't realize how addicted all our journos and politicians are to Twitter

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’

The replies 😆.

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There is still some sanity in the world.

Kash Patel Replaced by Startled Deer

BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.

Hedgehog highways could become requirement for new buildings

I can't understand why Starmer chose Mandelson to be his ambassador in DC. Surely there were better candidates without the baggage?

I hope you all got the alert that it's exactly 60 years since my husband was born! 🎉🎉🥳

Bit of a paradox that it takes a US Democrat to challenge Farage, whereas UK Labour does a decaf tribute act for him

Read and share, read and share.

Every time you start to panic about the state of this country, read one of Sunder's factual and calm-headed threads.

At least I now understand this. I had a very confusing half hour in the middle of the night trying to work out what all the cryptic posts from the US were about.

Eesh. Notts Reform leadership blacklisting both the local paper and the local democracy scheme that covers the council for the BBC. Don’t like this at all www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

This is great but did any of the national news outlets that covered Farage endlessly yesterday even mention this?

Court decision was a major policy event. It did not see more people join protests this weekend It seems that single largest protest on asylum this summer was probably the Epping *counterprotest* on July 27th at 2000 people. Nowhere outside Epping has hit 1000+ www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...

How Britain's Anti-Migrant Media Consensus Is Crowding Out the Truth Britain's longstanding traditions of tolerance and compassion are being suppressed in favour of a media-driven campaign of anti-migrant hate www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...

At this rate of 700 people at six Friday protests, the attempt to generate 27 protests might attract about 2500-4000 people nationwide. Even if a little bigger on Saturday, it seems a poor return on the front-page splash repeating exaggerated online hype (yet again)

If only facts mattered.

Me to my mentions:

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Sometimes a photo stops you in your tracks. Taken yesterday, Congressional Republicans sit smiling with the key architect of what major international agencies conclude is a genocide. To answer future generations’ question: this is how it was allowed to happen. (📸 Kobi Gideon, GPO)

Discussion on Ch4 News about immigration is pretty bad. Excuses being made for racist rioters. "They're not being heard" apparently. 🙄.

Should've been "Hampton Caught".

I hate penalties so much. Can't they just share the cup?

This is a bit of a atretch/hope: there were 5 protests, with the largest two being up to 300 people, a total of around a thousand or so people.

How the hell is the world sitting back and letting this happen?

I hate penalties so much I'm not watching but trying to guess what's going on by the cry's of joy/anguish coming from one of our neighbour's....

Penalties. 😩😩😩😩

What kind of future are we headed for?

I walked out the door to go to bed, giving up. Last thing I said "I bet England score now". I didn't expect two!

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I am so relieved to read this. I've thought about the writer so many times, wondering what happened to him. ‘I had a home, apartment, career’ … the Guardian’s Gaza diarist on the life he lost – and his journey into exile www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

This sounds exactly like those ridiculous pre-brexit claims. Why do people keep falling for the lies?

Today I have saved a bee and a wasp. Here's some tips for helping wildlife in this extreme heat: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2023/06...

Tonight is very definitely an antidote to last weekend! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ⚽

OBR notes that the net cost to the economy of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 is now put at £116bn over 25yrs, some £204bn lower than previously expected (!) As Carbon Brief highlighted at the time, these CCC estimates mark a dramatic shift www.carbonbrief.org/... 5/6

Well this isn't at all completely terrifying. Why is my daughter running up huge debts to get her aerospace engineering degree when robots will do her job anyway? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

People protest voting need to think hard about the people they're electing to run their services....

It's never ending www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Also interesting

Interesting.

This is really odd, completely tone deaf.

Mike Kennedy (R-UT) talking about how his children benefited from Medicaid and he himself grew up on SNAP and is now explaining why fewer people should have access to these benefits that helped him so much. Perfect Republican.

Something very disturbing has happened in the US.

Was talking about this with my teenage lifeguard daughters yesterday. They were telling me how many children at the Lido just can't swim.

"The greatest threat to people in the UK is disinformation... People are being radicalised online in days." Neil Basu tells @lewisgoodall.com about the dangers of social media in the war on terror in the UK.

Not saying there aren’t big problems, but all the pieces saying Labour has wasted its first year are in very stark contrast to the reality on climate and energy policy, where there’s been largely positive progress on a near weekly basis.

A new study found that the United States was responsible for 55 percent of the pollution emitted by private jets globally.