Poster from the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social about the disastrous cuts planned for fundamental physics research in the UK. Write to your MP about this!

Matt @MattCartoonist on #DefenceSpending  @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Had a blast at Babbacombe Model Village this afternoon. I expected twee, but it was laugh out loud funny & lightly subversive in places. Throughout there's really impressive gardening, managed by a team of just four. Plus, crazy golf ⛳ A must. #Devon #Babbacombe

Nigel Farage has declared his largest single payment yet for work outside his role as an MP, after earning £270,000 for promoting gold bullion

Nigel Farage received £270,000 from gold marketer he promotes

Mae’r gantores ac awdures blaenllaw ar gerddoriaeth werin Cymru Phyllis Kinney wedi marw yn 103 oed. newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/gant...

Former Tory MP Craig Williams pleads guilty to cheating at gambling with election bets

As further data from our observation network has been made available over the weekend, the provisional new UK highest June temperature on record is 37.7°C at Lingwood, Norfolk. 🌡️

Dame Penelope Keith, star of The Good Life, dies aged 86

The end of BBC long-wave radio broadcasts at 198 kHz.

Repellent. His tarantula had more humanity than him.

There was a dead dragonfly in the back garden.

The BBC stopped broadcasting its long-wave Radio 4 service at a frequency of 198 kHz (1.5km wavelength) at 1 a.m. today. This is the end of an era. I found an old radio set that received long wave, attempted to listen to the end of the service, but fell asleep. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

I was looking up giraffes in crowborough (IYKYK) and came across this I thought you all might like. bsky.app/profile/mrni...

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

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Today, Euclid revealed the largest, most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's centre in visible light 🙌 This video takes you on a journey across this region.  Turn up the volume and enjoy our galactic centre 🤩 🔭 🧪

Hmm (mini thread): bsky.app/profile/jame...

⚠️⚠️🔴 Red weather warning updated 🔴⚠️⚠️ Extreme heat across parts of England and Wales Wednesday 0900 – Thursday 2100 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

Our Extreme Heat warning is now active for much of southern and central England and Wales, with Amber warnings now also extending into Friday and Saturday for some. Read more 👇 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

The Guardian: "Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff" Well, well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

10 years to the day....

Today is the 10th anniversary of the United Kingdom's referendum on its membership of the European Union. The UK voted 52% to 48% to leave, and has been in political and economic crisis ever since. #EURef #EURef10

Matt @MattCartoonist on #KeirStarmer @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of child sexual offences including rape

⚠️⚠️🔴 Red weather warning issued 🔴⚠️⚠️ Extreme heat across parts of central/southern England and Wales Wednesday 0900 - Thursday 2100 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

A lectern has been brought out on to the road in Downing Street, London, ahead of a statement. The lectern has a UK government crest on the front. There is going to be a statement. #KeirStarmer #SirKeirStarmer #AndyBurnham

Now, 08h 24m UTC (9:24 a.m. BST, 10:24 a.m. CEST), is the solstice, the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth, the winter in the Southern. #Solstice #SummerSolstice #WinterSolstice

Is-etholiadau Makerfield a De Aberdeen a mwy… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The BBC reports that one person sadly has died in a collision between two trains near Bedford. One train hit the rear of the other. A number of people were injured. That is a railway line I used on occasion when I lived in Nottingham to travel to London. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, says Bank of England. Other studies suggest 8% hit. After the 2007-08 banking crash, the UK was growing fast and could have at least partially kept up with the US without the disruption. Now scavenges for trade deals. Relationship with the EU needs to be recalibrated

Key lesson of this by-election: make sure you book a plumber from Reform UK, not the Greens, as they will still have availability.

The victorious candidate in the Makerfield byelection, Andy Burnham (centre), with unsuccessful candidates Count Binface (left) and, I think, Ed Gemmell of the Climate Party (right).

Awful night for Reform. Smashed in Makerfield and Tories took Aberdeen South. Two party politics reasserting itself and they might not even be one of them. Time for the press to stop accepting inevitability of PM Farage. After Makerfield that will be tough.

✅ BURNHAM IN Makerfield by-election result: LAB: 54.8% (+9.6) REF: 34.5% (+2.7) RST: 6.8% (+6.8) CON: 2.2% (-8.7) GRN: 0.7% (-3.7) LDEM: 0.4% (-6.4)

✅ SNP HOLD Arbroath and Broughty Ferry by-election result: SNP: 41.2% (+5.9) CON: 19.0% (+3.5) REF: 18.3% (+9.6) LAB: 15.4% (-18.0) LDEM: 6.1% (+1.0)

🚨 | Aberdeen South Parliamentary By-Election Result: 🌳 CON: 49.5% (+25.1) 🎗️ SNP: 28.6% (-4.2) ➡️ RFM: 8.6% (+1.7) 🌹 LAB: 5.4% (-19.4) 🔶 LDM: 4.4% (-1.9) 🌍 GRN: 3.4% (-0.1) ✊ ADF: 0.2% (New) Conservative GAIN from SNP. Changes w/ GE2024.

BREAKING: Scottish Tory MSP Douglas Lumsden has won the Aberdeen South by-election taking Stephen Flynn's former Westminster seat from the SNP

SINK OR SWIM? A doff of the cap to David Hockney as @andyburnham.bsky.social gets on the springboard. Here's today's @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social cartoon... www.shareyourstories.live/northern-agenda/

Matt @MattCartoonist on #MakerfieldByElection @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Christian Adams @Adamstoon1 on #Trump #IranWar‌ @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

A little half-time astronomy to check out the Moon and Venus emerging from the clouds with my amazing new lens. 🔭

Here's #venus peaking out from behind the #moon. Seen from #victoriabc. #astronomy

Lua e Vênus

The Moon and Venus ..

A dyma ni! Diolch am y tip 🌛

Martyn Turner @turnercartoons on #Trump #KennedyCentre #IranWar‌ – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Y Llywydd yn rhybuddio Reform ynghylch iaith a allai ‘gynyddu tensiynau’ Daeth yr ymyrraeth wedi sylwadau gan Aelod Reform am geiswyr lloches o Sudan yn y Senedd ddydd Mawrth. #gwleidyddiaeth ✍️ Rhys Owen

So what impact will the proposed cuts to astronomy and particle physics research have on the next generation of aspiring scientists? 🧑‍🔬💫 Speaking after Monday's event, RAS President Professor Jim Wild told MPs the funding crisis would leave UK universities struggling to attract young talent 📹️👇️