📌 ICYMI — Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’ With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

Fielded a terf, received the "worst result for the conservatives in by-election history"

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

NEW: Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers.

🔴Reform’s Matt Goodwin Advises Conservative Peer Linked to Relaunched Nazi Race Science Platform Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Toby Young, who has advocated for “progressive eugenics” and has ties to the front publication for a reconstituted Nazi eugenics foundation

The list of 14 🇪🇺countries participating in today's #TrumpBoardOfPeace inaugural meeting has been confirmed. Only 2 as members, the rest as observers. But the fact that the White House listing them together without a distinction shows just what a PR victory European countries have handed Trump today

📌 ICYMI — Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now"… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/bannon-epstein-farage-and-johnson-and-the-plot-to-topple-theresa-may/

if Musk is doing this for London crime, what do you think he is doing for content about American politics, an issue that affects him much more directly?

My complaint to the Biological Broadcasting Corporation

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

Consultation results published on Hampstead Heath bathing ponds

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

I mean, "I'm not breaking the law anymore so we're all good right?" is not how I understood the law to work

And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

🚨 Exclusive: Tony Blair isn’t just a big fan of AI — he's now trying to build and sell AI tools to governments Tony Blair Institute staff have described the plan as 'insane' and compared it to Palantir New by D4S and @lighthousereports.com 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids...

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.

What did we think would happen? Trump tripled ICE’s budget to $27.7 billion a year It now has a bigger budget than the militaries of most countries Then he turbo‑charged recruitment with six‑figure salaries and up to $50,000 sign‑on bonuses Anyone paying attention could see what he was growing

Why Greenland? "Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."

A reminder that Kemi Badenoch wants to create a UK “Removals Force” explicitly modelled on ICE

Journalists need to stop writing that “Grok is spreading child pornography” or “Grok is spreading antisemitic messages.” Grok is a human creation with algorithms created by humans working for X. The technology is not responsible. The people running the company are.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

Nothing will happen quickly. But with the BBC, important because it is utterly dominant in the news market, pumping out transphobia and misinformation and growing increasingly bold in doing both it is not easy to see how things get better and very easy to see how they get worse. Sorry but...

I imagine someone at @theguardian.com thinks this is funny as a campaign- it’s not. The lack of irony and self-reflection is quite something too, given how intolerant and appalling they have often been with regards to trans people - actively contributing to the ramping up of hate and misinformation.

"Britain’s persecution of trans people is not a reflection of an informed public demanding action. It is a reflection of a political and media establishment desperate to avoid scrutiny, eager to misdirect public anger, and entirely comfortable punching down when it suits them" 👏👏👏

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

It's time to talk to you about my cat.

On behalf of trans men everywhere: This blows. It is much worse to be included as women than excluded from women-only things. None of us want this.

GLP; Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued goodlawproject.org/excluding-tr...

It’s frightening that it only takes one sinister, undertaxed billionaire and a tiny minority can be so easily demonised and dehumanised. Maybe people will learn when it’s their turn to be on the receiving end of this. Of course it will be too late by them.

Joanne will never run out of money because people keep buying her stuff, and so this will keep happening. SLAPP after SLAPP until trans people are completely drummed out of public existence and nobody will do a thing about it

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Still impossibly gorgeous … youtu.be/LSOwqL9_aZg

This feels like a @nickharkaway.com or @cstross.bsky.social plot twist. "The Ukrainian Army is knocking a once-hyped Russian superweapon out of the sky by jamming it with a song and tricking it into thinking it’s in Lima, Peru." www.404media.co/ukraine-is-j...

Farage is a racist, you say?

This is an absolute disgrace. Catastrophic damage to incredibly delicate ecosystems.

Many of the writers and staffers at the @guardian should actually read this and think about how they have contributed and supported this narrative.

More evidence that the "gender-critical" transphobes are working with fascists including Russia, Iran & Saudi Arabia. All countries where women are treated very badly. "Gender-criticals" are not feminists & they do not "protect women" They are trying to hold the COP 30 to ransom to be transphobic

Amazing few days in Umeå…

“In a world where trans people already face exclusion on so many levels, such acts of solidarity and allyship are a beautiful reminder that division and exclusion are always a choice we can do our best to reject” great piece from @uglastefania.bsky.social

“MPs’ problem with the EHRC guidance was not that it failed to address every conceivable scenario, but that it set out fundamentally unworkable instructions to businesses that go far beyond what the supreme court actually ruled, and which places them at risk of costly litigation.” - Rachel Taylor MP

Reform-run Council Cancels Christmas... And, at significant cost. I would say you couldn't make it up. But unfortunately Reform can and did. ~AA

To ALL the politicians, media and commentators who have stoked anti migrant racist xenophobia - this is on you: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Very sad. RIP