A member of the government comes clean. The idea Starmer has ‘kept Britain out of this illegal war’ has been a lie.

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

By water towards Woolwich, and in our way I bethought myself that we had left our poor little dog that followed us out of doors at the waterside, and God knows whether he be not lost, which did not only strike my wife into a great passion but I must confess myself also.

Assuming this holds, Iran won the war

I am, and it is, and no, they don't

Save this article and look back in 6 months, a year, and five years and you will be nodding at how correct it is.

an exhibition that will be everywhere across all media and largely define London’s cultural and tourist offer in the autumn: salary c.25% lower than median for London, and barely scraping above national average

Probably should have mentioned the context that Allan Rohan Crite was a Black Episcopalian liturgical artist and iconographer, and his work weaved together all of these threads of culture

Yesterday I was in York, and popped into Minster Gate bookshop. Scanning the British History shelves, I slowly realised that there were many books on the same themes - radicalism, Chartism, trade unionism, 19th century economy and society, clearly part of a curated collection 1/n

The ban on trans women in snooker is important; it clearly reveals that all trans sports bans are political rather than based on science or “preserving women’s sports”. Even if you - wrongly - regard trans women as “men” trans women snooker players still have no competitive advantage over cis women.

Billions changed their behaviours of a lifetime. How they walk and stand in public! For their own and the collective good. We have concrete, recent experimental proof of what human society can do.

This is a rather great bit that captures the realisation in your early 30s your life has not quite gone where you envisaged but youre starting to accept the relative mediocrity

Now imagine what being surrounded by sycophantic humans for your entire life does to your brain.

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

There's two things about this piece - the first, obviously, is that is obviously discriminatory and whoever came up with the idea of spying on young disabled people and taking their independence away based on "infractions" should be ashamed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think 'nothing to do' is the funniest of the responses. you are on the moon! the moon, in the sky! are you worried they don't have the bingo or a pool?!!

Polio virus detected in London days before ministers cut global eradication funding

Millstone, setting sun - 1909 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110348

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word. IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it. Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Leap! leap up, and lick the sky!

ICYMI. Interesting idea... "The Scottish Greens manifesto will commit to scrapping first class on ScotRail services and converting the space into standard class seating" on publicly-owned ScotRail greens.scot/news/scottis...

Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

Labour saying Starmer 'keeping Britain out of the war' will be part of their local elections campaign. But it's untrue. There are 27 US B52s at RAF Fairford, launching bombing raids. Starmer has made Britain part of Trump's war. He could have just said no, like Spain's PM.

NEW – ‘Very alarming’ winter sees Arctic sea ice hit record-low for second year running | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @zacklabe.com Read here: buff.ly/Vu1TaIF

It’s underrated that small but highly useful skills can take minutes to learn but entire lifetimes to acquire.

🔴 NEW 🔴 The BBC’s commercial content arm has been producing propaganda films for Saudi Arabia – the state behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 📝 Our @desmog.com story in @theguardian.com

The reason Lost Cause mythology focuses on the (bogus) idea of defending local traditions and community identity is not just because it makes fighting to defend slavery look vaguely respectable, but implicitly calls into doubt the sincerity of the north fighting for universal ideals of freedom.

The older I get the more I become amenable to the Sun as the deity.

We could have stopped climate change, but chose not to. We could still make it vastly less bad, but still choose not to!

Ultimate- *ultimate* - Partridge final boss quote from Richard Keys in the Telegraph today. @luketurner.bsky.social @matcolegate.bsky.social @william-doyle.co.uk

Fascinating read, with a political side-note: once again we see a regulator falling apart due to funding cuts in the 2010s, and the government not paying attention after 2016 because the focus is elsewhere.

wrote 3000 words about why art doesn't work like it did in the 20th century anymore

It strikes me that everything about oil discourse right now should make clear that oil and its attendant infrastructural form is as much (if not more) a specific form of governmental power as it is a form of energy.

This but the good screen has the same image displayed as the bad screen

Fantastic welcoming committee at St Anne's College Oxford

"A month’s worth of gas from 14 years of licensing by the last government shows the complete folly of pursuing this policy. It’s barely enough gas to last from now until May Day.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

New substack: wherein I compare prices now to those in 1939: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/housing-co...

New Substack out. It's all about how politics has modern work largely wrong. And what a contemporary politics of work might look like. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyp...

What does it tell you that the ONLY point of reference anyone can come up with for a UK Prime Minister publicly standing up to a US President is a minor subplot from a twenty year old romcom?

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Detailed but spoilerless review of Loss Protocol up on the Locus magazine website. TLDR: 'surely some of the best speculative nature writing – which is to say nature writing about an ecosystem that does not exist – yet published.'

The man who, as prime minister between 1997 and 2002, had introduced the 35-hour working week, universal health cover and the civil partnership for couples, disappeared into political exile.

Extraordinarily powerful report. A reminder that our “allies” the UAE have been the central element in support of a genocidal war in Sudan. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Did King Harold Really Sail to the Battle of Hastings? I'm not convinced... www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/did-...

Love the fact that Finland has income-based speeding tickets. The richest man in Åland was just fined €120,000 for going 58 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.

The UK govt didn't condemn the US's illegal & unprovoked attack, they haven't called on the US to stop, they're helping the US & they won't criticise the US targeting civilian infrastructure. Govt minister this morning: "its the Iranians that have escalated the conflict"

Convincing stuff

If you were born after the 1970s you really haven't spent much/any of your career working in an economy that delivers on the promise of democratic capitalism.