The EU has mobilised emergency aid for Lebanon. It includes food and medical kits, shelter materials, and winter clothing kits to meet the urgent and rising humanitarian needs in the country. Read more: link.europa.eu/KxTrT3

Perhaps those who are still undecided or cling to the last straws of Brexit may like to reflect on the notion that EU membership is as much about our freedom of movement as it is about mainland Europeans'. Idle Tuesday thoughts.

“Never once did Reform promise to cut council tax” insists an angry Nigel Farage to Sky News. Here's some of the leaflets Reform have been putting out ahead of the local elections

I've just signed a petition calling on the UK government to give British businesses a better deal with Europe. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/single-marke...

Tories are just negative about everything. Oppose everything. Complain about everything. Pretend they are not responsible for all the failings they caysed from their 14 years in government. They have short memories & think we do too. But Communities Secretary put them straight!

Dear journalists: Shut up about the “special relationship”. There is UK reliance on the US but for the time being there is no special relationship in any meaningful sense and talking as if there still is sounds ridiculous

Lessons in leadership. Think about the future moment not just your impulse in the moment. And this is going to get worse and worse for those who leapt in with little to no thought for the likely outcomes

Ed Miliband, famously closing coal mines as a 14-year-old minister in Thatcher's government during the miners' strike

The choice, consciously or not, is as it always is for the Xi Jinping class, merit or obeisance. May he choose the latter.

They have mostly bought places in New Zealand which they plan to escape to. So if I were a hostile nation, New Zealand would be my preferred nuclear target after Trump's ballroom.

"So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will. Standing up against those simplifying assumptions is fundamentally a humanist thing to do." From a recent interview I did... here's the rest: humanists.uk/2026/03/06/h...

👏 @stellacreasy.bsky.social: "When we ask ourselves what is holding Britain back from being more productive, it is not immigrants or women who don’t have enough babies – whatever the claims of the right. Instead, tackling the cost of living crisis and confronting division should be our priorities."

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective. He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

GB News should be treated in the same way as Russia Today. It is a malign propaganda conduit and should be taken off air.

This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts. Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

Videos shared online falsely claim Keir Starmer banned New York mayor Zohran Mamdani from the UK, after Mr Mamdani supposedly said the UK had “lost its moral compass” at an event they both attended. But no such event happened, and he hasn’t been banned.

Save the Earth

Note to Jeff Bezos: Stuff matters.

The grifters on the mainstream Right see vassal status as the route to personal riches and forever power.

J.D. Vance is no different. This is a terrible take. He never had different ideas. Every Republican is exactly the same. They want America dumb and poor so they can be easily controlled workers for wealthy Republican donors.

Interesting from a Boris Depiffel Johnson whose core piffle is his coruscating inability to understand or accept why he lost his position.

+ Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill + Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) Bill Lords considering amendments: + House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill Commons considering amendments: + Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 3/3

Two others are also at the stage of agreeing on amendments. Lords 3rd readings next week: + National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill + Tobacco and Vapes Bill Lords 2nd & 3rd readings next week: + Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill 2/3

Which makes our current expenditure and preoccupstion with AI *completely* *redundant*. It's merely a pointless distraction, and that most certainly won't save civilisation Efforts should be focused on mitigating the climate damage, which I emphasise is inevitable and will otherwise be devastating.

Beyond contemptible.

#RepublicanO'Clock.

Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it? Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.

Stolen the future of the Russian people.

Just 20 accounts drive more than a third of the activity in Stephen Lennon’s (aka Tommy Robinson’s) online network. Our Data Desk analysed 13,000+ posts and 1,750 key interactions for State of Hate 2026 to map how his ecosystem works. Here’s what we found 👇 hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...

Student loan Plan 2 creator David Willetts tries the Harland and Wolff Titanic defence - it was all right when it left here bit.ly/4ucZQYu but now he warns it could collapse

My cousin Charlotte and her friends are cycling hundreds of miles across Scotland, for the Doddie Triple Crown, raising money for research and support for MND patients. If you could help at all, donating or sharing this link, they - and I - would be so grateful. www.justgiving.com/team/grittyg...

Humans Sketched Oddly Precise Geometric Patterns Onto Ostrich Eggs 60,000 Years Ago gizmodo.com/humans-sketc...

Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

“Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour” Stella Creasy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Untrue - the Convention provides both for the possibility that protection might cease to be necessary (ie the cessation clause: refugee status ends if there's a change in circumstances) AND the possibility it might need to be long-term (ie references to facilitating citizenship of the refuge State)

Wimborne Against Hopkins is up to 340 signatures if you could take a moment to lend it some support I'm sure it would be worthwhile. Thank you

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

Most of all people want justice. They want to see those who were responsible for the avoidable deaths of so many thousands, and those who stole so many billions of pounds brought to an account in which they have to endure lasting shame, at the very least.

A new analysis of 95 posts by BBC political editor Chris Mason suggests the issue may not be accuracy – but framing. No single headline is inaccurate. Impartiality rules appear unbroken. But repeated talk of “predicament”, “backlash” & “U-turn” frames a misleading story of permanent crisis..

Another day, another billionaire creep.

New The poisoning of the wells Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

#Iran: The country has now been offline for over 100 hours yet disturbing reports continue including claims of people protesting from their homes & being shot at. Verification is difficult with the shutdown but such accounts are consistent with a regime that's killed thousands in recent weeks.

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Incredibly telling Kemi Badenoch interview on Today: - can’t say what she’d actually want UK forces to do - no idea what objective her proposed military action is to achieve - hides from reality that single biggest constraint on British military = her govt’s defence cuts

"Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences. Every headline, every clip, every click adds weight. This is how the line gets crossed." "And how some media are no longer just covering the far right but helping it speak."

It's hard to fathom the cruelty of this. Pregnant women prisoners in England are being handcuffed to prison officers – often male – during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births. Will this dehumanising treatment be stopped? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

🇪🇺MEPs from across the political divide have called for the proclaimed EU–UK “reset” to be “decisively accelerated”. The UK must go further and faster in our reset with the EU.

“We’ve run out of fresh water and we have run out of sewage capacity” Peter Freeman on the infrastructure challenge for Cambridge “It can be quicker to get from King’s Cross to Cambridge than to get from North Cambridge to South Cambridge”

Hegseth is the very avatar of stupidity.