Sir John Major, "Brexit has been very damaging" "Most people think of the economic damage, but that's only part of the argument" "It has as a country made us weaker, more isolated"

Marina Purkiss, "Nigel Farage said 'up the Ra' for £86, What do you think he's willing to do for £5,000,000?

A ship full of solar panels only has to make the trip once. It arrives, gets installed, and generates electricity for the next 20 years. A ship full of liquefied natural gas? It has to make the trip EVERY YEAR to generate the same amount of electricity over those 20 years. The choice is clear.

Meanwhile, UK political debate is focused on the so-called "net zero zealotry" of Ed Miliband

What breaks my mind about this is that there was precisely zero public glamour to reform indefinite leave to remain, outside of a highly online right fringe. The public debate is about small boats, not whatever the hell this is.

The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".

That time Conservative MP Owen Patterson said in 2015, "Only a madman would leave the (EU Single) market" 10 years after Brexit, we're outside the EU Single Market, the economic hit is in the tens of billions, and the country is poorer unable to fund services

Lots said about why the heat here is worse than the same temp elsewhere. But one thing I haven’t seen mentioned is the length of days. When I lived in the UAE you knew the relief of sunset would come around 6.30, give or take. Here it sets 9.21 and rises at 4.40. That’s a lot more hours of heat.

Reminder: -Our farms are no longer yielding -Heatwaves -Advancement of desert is alarming -Our rivers are drying -Proliferation of pest and pathogens -Development of tropical diseases. -Our crop are dieing out. Climate change is a reality we must fight.

But please, tell us again how arbitrary and joyless Net Zero is

Reminder: perhaps the easiest & cheapest way to tell Bezos to fuck off is by linking to Bookshop or (even better) an indie bookstore WHENEVER you talk about a book online. W/o a link people will just google it & that will lead to Amazon. W a link you can send a sale to a good business

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Texans have been sounding the alarm on AI data centers for months. The Greedy Few said nobody would notice, but a new poll shows most Texans oppose data centers in their communities. When Texans stand together, even the biggest corporations have to listen.

Don't have anything to say about the Brexit anniversary except: What a goddamn waste of time.

António Guterres, "Here in London, the city of Dickens.. Climate chaos is accelerating before our eyes" "London isn't just calling, it's cooking"

"Does the Labour government still have a mandate? Over to Nigel Farage who thinks not". Oh fuck off. #R4today

Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.

Is that it, Nick Robinson? That interview with Farage was about the mildest, chummiest grilling you’ve ever done. #R4Today

Of all the awful things I’ve been called while cycling, somehow I am most enraged of all by having ‘putain’ hissed at me by a tiny Frenchwoman in a pastel helmet because I had the temerity to stop at a junction. 😤😤😤😤

It's incredible to me that even Thatcher recognised the approaching climate catastrophe in 1988, and since then, not only have we not prevented further global heating from being baked in, but we have actually accelerated it because of fosssil fuel lobbying and capitalism. #r4today

“It’s not the Today Programme saying Keir Starmer should go!” protests Nick Robinson on the Today programme, two and a half hours (plus about two years) into saying Keir Starmer should go.

FYI for rest of the UK, Scottish papers and news outlets are accurately describing it as a terrorism incident. We aren't one country/nation, if you rely on English press for Scottish news you won't get indepth Scottish news,

I’ll keep posting for a while: Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37 They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such And:

“A man has been charged following a series of suspected anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh that left five men injured.” White supremacists are taking to streets emboldened by media and politicians who vilify migrants and Muslims. We cannot stop racist violence by ignoring how it’s institutionalised.

It's obvious to point out attacks against Muslims get ignored - but still needs repeatedly calling out. An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken. But where is the same media outrage, cobra meetings and calling of national emergency when 5 Muslims are attacked?

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

😂 The Jetsons lied to us

Most Texans have never heard of "artificial daylight." But ranchers say massive data centers are lighting up the night and disrupting livestock breeding cycles. These Corrupt Bigshots shouldn't get to experiment on our communities and our food supply.

the importance of reading

My cat has got no money, he’s got his Tombili

So Chris Mason et al. How long do we have to suffer you all pretending Farage is inevitable as Prime Minister when he keeps losing?

We are social creatures, hard-wired to give attention to people when we’re in conversation with them. If the person isn’t present, we use some of our mental energy putting ourselves in their place. Doing this while driving is about as bad for attentiveness & reaction time as being a little bit drunk

Apparently there are people harassing a hotel in Irvine, convinced it's hosting asylum seekers, because...they've seen coaches full of people turn up at it with luggage

I can totally understand why people don’t like Keir Starmer. But ‘the least popular Prime Minister in history’? Where has that statement come from? How was it measured? I mean just in the last few years we’ve had Cameron, May, Truss and Sunak. Who was polled for this statement? Genuinely curious.

Exactly - imagine Chris Mason, Beth Rigby, Laura Kuenssberg, Nick Robinson, Justin Webb, Trevor Phillips, Nick Ferrari etc if Labour had lost 6 local elections/by-elections, they’d be wanging on about Starmer having to resign every single day non stop…. 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️ #wato #r4today

Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

the year is 2030 and you need a face scan, retinal scan, voice scan and to answer 20 questions about your family, health and employment history every time you use the computer. but don’t worry your personal data is safe with Butterfingers Corp in partnership with The Dark Web

It feels strange that humanity dreams of finding life on distant planets while forests here vanish every day. A forest takes decades to grow, to cool the air, protect wildlife, and create peace—yet only moments to destroy. The most important world is the one we already inhabit.

Every day, new facts emerge about corrupt & fraudulent Farage ... meme via Martin Ormerod

What do these companies have in common? -Block -Citigroup -Coinbase -CVS -Dominion Energy -Disney -Halliburton -Hasbro -HP -Kohl's -Live Nation -Palantir -Paypal -PG&E -Southwest Airlines -Tesla -United Airlines They all paid a lower effective income tax rate than you: zero.

Utterly insane.

Students are spending less time learning handwriting. Here’s why it’s still an important skill. www.vox.com/explain-it-t...

Employers spend almost $1.7 billion a year hiring union-busting consultants and law firms to stop their workers from organizing for better wages and working conditions. Imagine if they spent that money on their workers instead?

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Nigel Farage "Trump is an extraordinary and remarkable human being." Donald Trump owns Farage and if you vote for him you get Donald Trump as UK President.

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