A common story: Times publishes slapdash, grossly misleading article that flatters the prejudices of its editorial line, which thunders away about What This Means For Society, and is then picked up and amplified by the far-right on TV and social media even if there's a sotto voce correction later

"She's running for President while wearing an electronic tag" would be fairly spectacular levels of France.

2016: Farage quits UKIP, "I want my life back" 2021: Farage stands down from Reform UK, "I'm getting out of active party politics" 2026: As leader of Reform UK, and an MP who has so far skipped 67% of parliamentary votes is to announce something at 2pm, another quitting politics statement?

I really question whether I'll still live in the UK a year from now.

9.1m watched England v Mexico live at peak, highlights have been watched 5.9m times, 900k to 1.1m watched the full replay on BBC2. Mad numbers. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I guess if the rules-based nations can't or won't do anything about enforcing sanctions on the shadow fleet, then it's not surprising that Ukraine have to do their job for them.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is welcome news and long overdue.

#OTD #RedDevils #Belgium🇧🇪

I have a high quality poster of the periodic table saved onto my phone's local storage. It's just in case I get picked up by aliens and I need a basis for communication.

The Green Man Trust refugee training is such a great initiative. We need a bit more positive news right now. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Study finds melatonin may ease chronic pain Melatonin shows promise as low-cost pain relief option for musculoskeletal pain. www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... Free full text: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex... #ChronicPain #Sleep #Melatonin

View from 🇬🇧, having spent decades as a criminal lawyer including prosecuting. I cannot tell you how shocked I am at the handling of the investigations (or not) into these two killings. I don’t know how 🇺🇸 will recover from what looks like state corruption this deep & at a very senior level

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Warnings of a possible attack tonight. And still, I couldn’t help but share this. The National Art Museum of Ukraine posted this painting today. I fell in love. Hryhorii Diachenko Head of a Girl. Study 1910s

Fascinating and encouraging analysis of the state of the Russian economy and its likely impact on the war.

“None of them seem to understand that an apprentice needs an employer.” - fantastic piece on why the UK’s politicians keep calling for apprenticeships while providing fewer and fewer:

"Guardian analysis of X feed shows how keen world’s richest person was to air his views and ‘interfere’ in British politics Elon Musk posted about race and immigration in the UK on his social media network X twice as often as he did about SpaceX, which he also owns, in the run-up…" — The Guardian

Next time you hear UK politicians and the msm say we can't afford welfare, remember it is smaller as a share of the GDP than it was 15 years ago, not bigger. In 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8% of GDP. France is over 31% of its GDP 55% of the welfare bill is spent on pensions. ##NotOnOurSide 🔥🇬🇧

A doctor who returned to France from the Democratic Republic of Congo with an Ebola infection has recovered and been discharged from hospital, French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said on Saturday. It was the first known case of this Ebola variant detected in France.

Looks like the spaghetti tree is a thing, after!

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Sometimes it matters more who is saying something than the exact detail of what they're saying. This is such a time. @rolandmcs.bsky.social was a liberal leaver; regrets it; and is now setting out a pretty accurate roadmap, even manifesto, about getting closer to Europe again and joining. A🧵

So much for human rights and the rule of law.

I also imagine in practice it'll be almost impossible to collect and doing so will cost the govt more than it ever raises. Just performative cruelty of the worst sort.

This is the social murder of disabled people, and I really wish people who aren't disabled would shout about it as much as we do. WHY are we having to be the ones who have to be squeezed even more AGAIN.

So ICE waited more than a week to disclose a 85-year-old German man died in ICE custody.

I couldn't leave the USA without giving my DAG talk one last time! Come and join my 'farewell lecture' in New Haven (or online!) on 15th July at 4pm Eastern Time! Sign-up to attend in-person or online at: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

This is the future of warfare. The old “garbage in, garbage out,” applies as much to AI as old style targeting where you screw up because you had the wrong map. The difference is the scale and speed now, with too many targets for humans to double check. But they call it “operational efficiency”. ☹️

From an amazingly resilient Ukranian!

Wondered how <16 ban would be enforced &now feel horrified this may mean requiring users to share IDs with SM companies (eg face/voice recognition, govt IDs). YES to protecting kids from harmful content but NO to tech bros having even more of our personal data www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/when-wi...

Wow — more on what Jared and Ivanka were funding in Albania and why Albanians and conservationists are so furious

And without LinkedIn link... m.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQx...

When you realise that there's about twice as much money in the shadow banking system than in the regular banking system, this summit hasn't come a day to soon. Whether the many vested interests will prevent any progress, who can tell?!

I wonder how the British and Swiss governments come to such different conclusions about sharing their people's data with Palantir?

Did anyone else miss this major news three months ago?

This on water privatisation/nationalisation by @economist.com is pretty good. Both the costs and benefits of nationalisation are exaggerated - the reality is more investment is needed and someone - bill payers or taxpayers -needs to pay. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

This should probably be a bigger story www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

Holy cow

The scaffolding is going up.

Another excellent thread from @sailorrooscout.bsky.social outlining the remarkable initial results in the amivantamab trial. (Full references at end of thread)

This study shows an association between low emission zones and cardiovascular & all cause hospital admissions. If this is a causal effect the mechanism may not only be through air pollution but could be active travel behaviour through less noise, feeling safer etc www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We can’t keep preaching about diet quality as if it’s a free choice once the information is provided. This is out of touch. In the most deprived fifth of the population families need to to spend 70% of their disposable income to afford healthy foods guidelines. foodfoundation.org.uk/press-releas...

Many congrats to my friend & colleague Sir Patrick Vernon, just knighted in the King's Birthday Honours list for services to racial equality and social justice. A steadfast campaigner for the Windrush generation + for writing Windrush into the national story www.expressandstar.com/news/wolverh...

VICTORY: A fed. judge just indefinitely blocked Trump's $1.8B slush fund @democracydefendersaction.org is proud to have filed a bipartisan amicus in support of @democracyforward.org’s challenge to the fund Next up: DOJ has one week to put its abandonment of the fund in writing, under oath -TN

BREAKING: Donald Trump just filed his emergency stay in the DC circuit to keep his name on the Kennedy Center & it is batsh** crazy He clearly wrote big pieces himself We have filed our opposition, fighting for the rule of law & the American people

I spent far too much time during my PhD in fluid mechanics trying to prove that the slow stream of piss with big drops is better at getting shit stains off the toilet than a faster constant stream. Even have the draft paper written.

If you’re a father with a 5 year old daughter, you want to give them privacy to do their toilet business and that means being able to inspect the cubical for cleanliness, available toilet paper and lack of needles discarded by drug users. Non gendered cubicals aren’t just for LGBTQ

“How many times have we been told that Iran's military has been destroyed? That it's got no capacity to do anything anymore? I've read reporting that Trump keeps going to the generals and saying: why can't it be more like Venezuela?” 😂@snellarthur.bsky.social

A philosophical approach to living through war — as ever from @strategywoman.bsky.social