I wish we had this in the UK.

Every year, millions of tonnes of perfectly fixable products end up as waste, because repair is too expensive or too complicated.

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bennotinspain.substack.com/p/is-it-alwa... ‘This’ is Trump, Ukraine, Covid, Brexit, climate change and much else besides. ‘This’ is something you feel as a sense of bewilderment, anxiety or anger or confusion or powerlessness. So is it always like this?

Classified information has come to light on the US Iran strategy….

Russia is not “winning” in the Ukraine 👇 👏

Please dear followers do fill this in. Most important points IMO: BBC is ambitious+capable but can do nothing without proper funding; World Service to be funded by govt; BBC needs a permanent Charter; no more party political appointees to its board; political independence.

⏰ The Government consultation on the future of the BBC closes at midnight tonight, so do have your say. It takes about 40 minutes to respond, but you don't need to answer every question, you can skip the open ended questions if you want. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Democracy in America was no weaker than anywhere else. What has failed, & on nearly every level, are the consequences for rule-breaking. Rules are there for a reason, & there will always be some who ignore them. (We wouldn't need them if everyone behaved.) They are nothing without sanctions.

The Americans are starting to look in the mirror and say “this is on us- we allowed this”. Us Brits need to look in the mirror and be just as honest about our specific, cruel, stupid self-defeating prejudices:

🚨IRAN UPDATE:🚨 Charlie Gammell joined me a second time to talk about the latest. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Just in case anyone isn't sufficiently enraged. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Honest to fuck media types, do you think you could stop bothering with the ‘hmm Trump said green is purple but strangely it looks like it might actually be green. However are we to interpret this anomaly?’ shit.

Oh look, we're prosecuting some heinous individual for murder & torture in Syria 15 years ago....take note Trump & anyone else who thinks they can escape justice www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

So predictable. While Trump and Hegseth posture, millions around world have their lives turned upside down by their cavalier, ill-thought-through attack on Iran, whose regime clings on, and people suffer. Everyone suffers from the devastating consequences, except the immoral morons who launched it.

If you feel powerless watching war, political chaos, and an economy that feels unbearable, remember the significance of Seneca’s reminder: sometimes simply continuing to live with dignity matters. Being alive, offering kindness, and giving grace to others is its own quiet form of resistance.

If you can look past the “are you being served” sniggering about the shipment choices (surely deliberate to distract the feeble-minded), this is a terrorist attack by Russia on us, with the goal of destroying freight aircraft in flight. We must respond appropriately

Stay strong Keir. The country is behind you. #iranwar

Right on schedule, Trump and MAGA will use Europe's position on Iran to further undermine NATO, or possibly remove the US entirely from it. With Russia in spiralling decline due to Ukraine/EU aid, and with the US now bogged down in Iran, the only winners here are China.

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Trump needs to learn some history.

I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down. Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book. (And would much appreciate a RT please)

Every ship's captain going through the Strait of Hormuz

‘How will Europe respond to the fallout of a potential state collapse in Iran? Its territory and population vastly surpass those of Libya, Syria and Iraq; Iran becoming another failed state would create a dramatic humanitarian crisis and new migration flows towards Europe.’

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

Okay, so I am definitely going to have to go freelance, at least for a while. So, if anyone has any advice on actually building up and finding freelance policy and comms works, including providing media and advocacy training, campaign planning and strategy please let me know.

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Trump's Iran war makes the case for the energy transition to renewables for most countries much clearer and immediate. @pkrugman.bsky.social 1/

The VIP lane was rotten to the core. A national scandal.

And if we’re not careful this is what’s heading for the UK if Fartage and his cronies ever get into positions of power.

While Russians paraded under their flag to the sporting world’s cheers, their missiles murdered a 13 year old girl in Kharkiv. Shame on the IOC!

I'm a vicar in a small rural village. I could never say this to my flock because of the outcry, but Reform are blatantly opposed to genuine Christian values and it's clear that anyone considering voting for them has not been listening to a single word I say each week

#USEmbassyUK #Bastards How quintessentially English!😂😂🔥 Man walks past the US embassy in the UK shouting 'bastards'!

Helluva way to make Venezuelan crude feasible

Another completely predictable thing has just happened.

For comparison, in April, the whole of the BBC’s content - radio, TV, online, #BBCSounds, #BBCIplayer, BBC Website will cost each UK household just over 49p a day.

I have good news and bad news about my friend Schrödinger's Cat...

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

I know there's a lot wrong with the BBC but it makes my soul sink at the thought of it not being there and things like Small Prophets only being on Netflix, which costs more than the license fee anyway.

The closer we look, the more we see how much worse our predicament actually is. Millions of coastal dwelling humans will be on the move soon. We are absolutely NOT prepared. #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise

The most seductive thing about a social media platform is its ability to create an immersive world that mimics but is different from the ‘actual’ world and in so doing teach its participants to act as if that created world is indeed the real world.

I’m deeply honoured to receive the Royal Television Society 2026 Special Award. Thank you RTS and many thanks to the great BBC team in Moscow.

Oh ffs not Proton too, is there nobody we can safely pay our money to?

Parliament should take steps to ban this technology. There is no good and proportional reason to allow private companies to analyse and store people's biometric data, especially without notice or consent. www.ft.com/content/adb3...

Sweden’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, has advised people to keep 1,000 kronor ($110) in cash at home, enough for a week of essentials like food and medicine in case of war, cyberattacks, or other crises. (Bloomberg)

The home heating oil situation is terrible for many unlucky enough to be about to refill. The outrage is this is an unregulated, unprotected, market (we've long called for that to change). We are subserving many, especially those who live in rural communities.

It would be nice to go back to the old days when one could go to bed and not wonder if the USA will start WWIII overnight or try to take over allied soil.

Get fucked you fat orange prick. You started the illegal war against Iran by murdering schoolgirls... why the fuck should any of us help you?

If you think I'm overstating concerns about the loyalties of US tech companies - check out this memo from Anthropic CEO to staff on their battle with the Trump administration.