The other side always arrives. But it would be so good not to have to go through the darkness first.

One of those small shifts that is quite seismic: the Hungarian army was out distributing pouches of water at today’s sweltering Budapest pride

These are Spanish soldiers, members of the army's disaster response branch the formation of which was bitterly opposed by the moderate, democratic and honest Partido Popular😕

Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel always says England to me, the one I care about. "Son, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home"

god this is harrowing - obviously Slava Ukraini but those poor lads

Call me a solipsist but I don't hate the idea of a PM who is an Eng Lit graduate born in the early 1970s who grew up in the northwest and likes Orwell.

Staggering stat: police in Albuquerque (a city of 555k) have shot and killed 116 people since 2013. In the same period police in the UK have killed 34 economist.com/united-state...

Imagine being a broadcast news journalist and admitting you "don't know the first thing about" Bosnia, of all places. Mindblowing

This is what imperialists always do. They claim to love their country. They feed its people into the machine.

Really sad to learn my great colleague David Hencke has just died. He was a legendary journalist, probably best known for breaking the cash for questions scandal He was a lovely man, who loved reporting stories others missed and kept filing, even from his hospital bed. He will be hugely missed

Life rules: 1. All supermarket fruit labelled ripe is unripe 2. Non-iron shirts always need ironing 3. Butter ready to spread straight from the fridge is always unspreadable straight from the fridge 4. Gluten free biscuits are always better than regular biscuits 5. There are no smart racists

One problem with tackling Climate Change denial has been that it is very difficult to imagine people who are so venal that they would knowingly advocate for what will harm future generations because some more money could be made now. It’s a struggle to envisage someone thinking like that.

So much to love about Pico waving the Irish flag, not least that he, a proud Irishman of African heritage and as Dublin as can be, embodies the kind of Irishness that the far right can't abide but is a thriving feature in communities across the island.

This is superb on privilege, education and a skewed meritocracy. Pretty unanswerable, I’d say … www.linkedin.com/posts/carlos...

Often feels like Zack Polanski’s leftism doesn’t adjust for being in Britain rather than America, where defence spending is astronomical and there are hundreds of billionaires

Reform tried to bin a council's climate emergency declaration. The vote was delayed... ...because the chamber was too hot. Even reality has started mocking Reform. 🔥 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

A thousand times this. The BBC would also benefit from not giving a shit what the Daily Mail has to say about anything.

All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening

One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.

Place names are *very* political in Spain. Very. For example, if someone chooses to use Lérida and Gerona instead of Lleida and Girona you immediately know a lot about their views.

This is crazy. European deaths from high temperatures are almost as common per head as American gun deaths. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-...

You can basically get Great Britain from Gran Bretaña, but I think a lot of English monoglots would struggle to work out Reino Unido in the absence of context.

I appreciate people have a habit of overstaying the role of brexit in the current state of Britain, but without Brexit then Kemi is sacked from her first junior ministerial role sometime in 2021 following one of her many outbursts and languishes on the back benches until she leaves in a huff.

I'm no Burnham fan, but if he would "barely qualify as a fourth-rater" what the fuck are you making of Lee Anderson, Richard Tice, Kemi Badenoch or indeed the endless stream of mediocrity, hypocrisy and corruption wrapped up in tweed and pretending to enjoy a pint that is Nigel Farage?

If Hansel and Gretel were English they'd be Johnny and Peggy :)

Negative Patriotism strikes again. A belief that your culture is exceptionally bad and thus, by definition, exceptional... when actually that's just how it works and every other fucker does the exact same thing

Good luck to both teams playing in the #Pride derby tonight www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

He's just entirely unserious.

Every edgy Spectator writer is a cliche. Rory is entirely interchangeable with a dozen others: they all think the same, they all write the same; but, fair play, it works brilliantly.

Everyone talks about 1976, but 1975 was the hottest summer for years. The first cricket world cup was played without a minute being lost to rain, and that after there had been heavy snow on 2 June. #SeventiesSummers

I never did understand the way that Dan Jarvis was always dismissed as a vibe. His military career strongly indicates there is actually quite a bit to him.

it's hard to overstate what an absolute shithole King's Cross used to be. the redevelopment is pretty amazing www.ft.com/content/6a3a...

Don't care about sports but I can't help but feel some pride at my countrymen's knack for completely out of order, unnecessarily vitriolic football chants

Remember when Keir Starmer tried to bully Khan into retreating on Ulez? What a far-sighted PM he's been. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A large increase in the number of flamingos at a lagoon in Venice, Italy, is giving scientists hope for the future of the area's biodiversity. Environmental experts have been working to restore the wetlands, which have been impacted by industrial activities.

Blimey! Is this an actual or hypothetical?

Works for me! britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

Rebellion in the Uruguay camp. The players called a meeting with Bielsa to say that they were tired and wanted to play a low block/counterattack against Spain, while Bielsa was giving his reply they walked out. Pampered millionaire eejits

If your due diligence on buying a property in Spain, knowing what you knew, was a throwaway comment from Michael Gove on a telly debate, then you get what you deserve. Did you ask us? It's our fucking laws, our countries, our union. You just assumed HM passport meant you could ignore the law. 4

If you voted for Brexit, voted to turn your back on Europe, because of a promise from Michael Gove, then I have no sympathy. Really, the arrogance of looking for special treatment now after turning your back on us. Fuck off. 3

Meanwhile, in Manchester.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s hard to think that racism has not played a part in Sadiq Khan not even getting a mention for Labour leader. I hope I’m wrong.

This is what political bravery can achieve. Thousands of lives saved, tens of thousands of hospital beds not occupied, countless days off work not taken. Sadiq Khan stood up to the critics, the doubters and the bad faith experts and made London better. A true leader.

So unwritten that of the five prime ministers to inherit a majority in “mid-term”, only one of them called an election before its due date. Why are some political journalists so uninterested in history?

Deeply, deeply dark things are happening in Spain. A right wing judiciary has now launched a full scale attack not only on the leader of the current government but on the leader who won the election in 2004 after PP ministers lied that ETA was responsible for the Atocha bombing atrocity.

El mensaje es: toda persona sometida a investigación puede ser destruida antes de que se someta a juicio. El que pueda destruir que destruya al hombre que no tenía que haber ganado en 2004. En el Ruedo Ibérico se ajustan cuentas de hace veinte años. Días oscuros, ciertamente.

The only reason anyone talks about this approach is because it sounds mean, not because it would be effective. Sign of unserious government.

www.maptap.gg June 26 100🎯 99🎯 100🎯 92🏆 95🏅 Final score: 960

Dutch far-right politician who campaigned on "keeping women safe" found guilty of three rapes of underage children and child pornography offences.