This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Way to go Bruce Springsteen!!!! 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽

Trump’s illegal war is hitting our economy, pushing up inflation and deepening the cost of living crisis. We shouldn’t be rewarding that behaviour with a state visit.

This article interchanges vegetarianism & veganism as if they are the same. Recently, many restaurants/pubs have dropped veggie options in favour of vegan ones. Many meat/fish eaters are less likely to eat vegan as a one off than veggie - and that is one reason for a decline in non-meat sales.

When you begin a statement with "I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people..." you are absolutely NOT apologising. You are trying to excuse yourself.

My response to Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Sky News interview 👇

Anyone else struggling with the Desert Island Discs Party Political Broadcast for the Tories?

Do sign. It’s only right.

The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

Do read this letter. It’s really good.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Lovely #OtherLives tribute to the late Jim Thomas @longhouseman.bsky.social by Zak. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

In case you missed it at the back... 2019 (Jack Ryan): “Venezuela won’t fall because of ideology - it will fall because of oil and gold. And the U.S. won’t watch from a distance.”

How shit at business do you have to be, to be personally worth 37,000 times the amount an average UK worker will earn in a LIFETIME, and still be incapable of withstanding a tiny tax increase?

Siri - Show me the definition of a Government that knows that price of everything and the value of nothing.

I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking about Hitler’s Olympics in 1936.

Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members. What an own goal! Geddit?

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Jonathan Pie always gets to the core of issues.

Go for it.

Journalist, "Farage accused the BBC of election interference" Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin" "We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"

A reminder that Brexit and Brexiteers caused the small boat crisis. Numbers arriving in small boats (ONS). 2015 - 0 2016 Brexit referendum. 2018 - 6000 2020 UK sign EU withdrawal agreement. 2022 - 46,000

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Farage: epic grifter

I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla

🔴 If Gill took Kremlin cash to say it...why was Farage saying the same things? 🐻🇷🇺🪆 This looks Bad! This looks identical! #Brexit #Putin

Best to keep your distance from Corbyn. He's toxic to most pro-EU voters.

Extremely articulate take from The Guardian on Bad Enoch (Apart from when they start a paragraph with the word “But” 😏) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ed Davey's LibDem conference speech was pretty much everything Labour's change was meant to be

Nigel Farage claim: "We are not the world's food bank, it is not for us to provide welfare to people coming in from all over the world" Reality: The average migrant on the Skilled Worker visa had a net fiscal impact of +£16,300 in 2022/23. In contrast, the average UK-born adult had about +£800

In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty. Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

Here's a parody adaptation of the classic song "Walking in Memphis" by the soulful Marc Cohn, in which we address Donald Trump's arrival in the UK for his exciting historic second state visit. It's called "Put Up Some Fences" 🎹🎶 youtu.be/1Iag4yaozis?...

Isn’t it just simple for Starmer et al to say that old, well understood fact: “There is no such thing as complete freedom to do and say what you want because one person’s freedom to do that can mean another person’s loss of freedom from living without abuse, fear or worse”. Draw your lines.

Here are the alternatives. The world's richest man with a history of racism, white supremacy, fascism, political corruption, social media manipulation and election interference calls for the violent overthrow of the British government. Starmer can either: A. Pretend it didn't happen B. Do something

The far-right mob in London paled into insignificance compared to our Remain marches. Especially the one in 2018. Between 700,000 and a million people turned out. The Labour front bench stayed away. They also ignored its message. But the voters who took part in it haven't disappeared. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award, "It's not lost on me why I might have won this award" "Aside from presenting Match of the Day.." "Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

My rule of thumb is that a protest is not newsworthy if it draws a smaller crowd then I would get at a Lib Dem event for a session titled 'Why the British Standard for letterboxes is a failure'. But looking at the news, I see my rule of thumb is once again failing.

Her company’s co-ownership structure made 70 of her staff millionaires. Her son was autistic with high support needs so she founded a residential home and two charities. She gave away £70m of her own wealth through her charitable foundation, art in hospitals, IT and more. She was also STYLISH AF.

The protesters in Parliament Square were not inciting violence and it is entirely disproportionate to the point of absurdity to be treating them as terrorists. 2/3

More shocking stories about avoidable deaths. Excellent reporting by Ruben Reuter: "Cases like Nigel are exactly why the LeDeR reports exist, shining a light on failings and pushing for change. But this year it still hasn't been published." www.channel4.com/news/is-gove...

Had the pleasure of meeting Rory Cellan Jones at lunchtime today and promised to help publicise his petition to get Parliament to debate more funding for Parkinsons and implementing the ‘Parky Charter’. 88k signatures now - 12k more needed. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...