There are two types of people who know a lot about war - those who glorify it and those who study it to try to have it happen less, like an oncologist studying cancer. Edgelords and students. X kept the former, the latter moved over here.

Trump: NATO is a bad deal and a burden on the US Trump: Could you guys maybe come help out in my dumbass war that I've totally won but also there are mines 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

So whilst the self-reported big manly men are accidentally closing a narrow shipping channel by having a big manly war and shouting big manly war things, a reminder of that time a bunch of lads who were much secure in their gender did it deliberately.

Today we have published new analysis building on the Committee's advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget. Our conclusions about the cost of decarbonising the UK and impacts on energy security were tested against different scenarios ⬇️ Read the full report here: www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

As illegal international aggression once again highlights the need for investment in renewable energy, it is crucial the govt do everything possible to protect households from bearing the brunt of surging energy prices - and to ensure no energy company profits from this war.

Today I asked ministers to deny* that the number of jury acquittals in protest cases was a factor in the Government’s dangerous attack on jury trials. *They did not do this

The Trump administration keeps using Putin's language. from Anton Troianovski @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

If I'd rushed into a poorly planned campaign around a notorious maritime choke point that left it closed to friendly shipping I'd carefully lay off the Churchill comparisons, but hey...

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

As oil and gas companies see rocketing revenues, and more people face job insecurity, now is the time for the government to end tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, and support oil and gas workers into green jobs instead. Sign my petition here👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Today I tabled a bill which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs - legislation the PM once said he himself would pass when he was running for Labour leader. He supported it then, and he should support it now.

@bencsmoke.bsky.social : "these people clearly don't believe in the universalism I believe in.. very wealthy people.. moving away to remove yourself [from paying] anything into this country is a social ill. We need to start talking about it in those terms" #GMB

Putin: 73 years old Trump: 79 years old Netanyahu: 76 years old Narendra Modi: 75 years old Xi Jinping: 72 years old Khamenei: 86 years old The planet is run by elderly narcissists who think the world can't go on without them and have started a world war to prove themselves right.

Say “We think of you as a vassal state” without saying “We think of you as a vassal state”… www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

"The Greens don't have a plan" would sound a lot more convincing if it didn't come from the same guy who just six weeks ago said on *the same show*, quote, "you shouldn't prepare for a hypothetical."

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

🚨🚨Iran emergency episode with Charlie Gammell🚨🚨 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

“I am one of the last holdouts when it comes to insisting on giving the government credit when it does things well… But I just thought Starmer's reaction the next morning was catastrophic. If I had scripted it to go worse, it couldn't.” @sturdyalex.bsky.social 👏

If Reform had won Starmer would be on his knees to those voters begging for forgiveness. Greens win and it's like "Fuck off cranks"

Repeating myself I know, but - I think it's a bunch of people whose big political success was reforming the party/a CLP. In that scenario, driving people away is brilliant! Not your problem any more! That... model does not work in other contexts. MPs and voters still exist and get to vote.

HMS Manchester - lost due to the actions of its leader, who the resulting court martial "negligently performed his duty" in deliberately scuttling it. Don't know why that came to mind this morning...

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member. We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You can list Keir Starmer's modest achievements all you like. But as he has actively alienated his own voters - on Gaza, protest rights, benefits, green policies, cruelty to immigrants etc - it makes no difference. It's not a mystery. When you tell people you hate them, they will hate you back.

What you have to understand is that Carbon Capture and Storage is driven not by environmental concerns but by fossil fuel industry demands. It provides both a new revenue stream (at our expense) and the mother of all greenwashing schemes. Whether it works or not (it doesn't) is entirely irrelevant.

This was fun for a Sunday morning. I was okay up to and including 1300, 1200 had me stymied apart from the odd word though.

The Ponds patrons are overwhelmingly supportive of trans inclusion, and yet still Sex Matters keep pusing there idealogical agenda. They say they defend women's rights, but continue to ignore the voices of women; how very misogynistic.

Yes, @lucympowell.bsky.social here is a list of 14 peer-reviewed critiques of Cass to date (and don’t forget The Cass Review has NOT been peer-reviewed). It is junk science. You cannot credibly use it to justify your party’s policy of harming trans children & driving them to suicide.

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it. Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned. rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i... 🧵

'disappointed in labour' in bio... but will defend keir starmer to the death bcos oh no what about reform. labour don't care if you're disappointed in them if you're just gonna vote for them anyway. all they want is your vote not your approval. they don't give a shit if you're disappointed.

To those saying, "but the Greens will split the vote": 1. Things have changed. 2. It's not the Green's fault that Starmer has the Merdas Touch (turns everything to shit) 3. When the Greens offer the only inspiring option, perhaps we should see the Labour candidate as splitting the vote.

NEW: Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC "Volatile, gas-linked market prices – not green policies, as some misleading claims have suggested – dominate the real-terms increase in bills since 2021." www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today is #HMD. As we remember all victims of Nazi genocide, we also remember the humanists persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime – including those in the humanist organisations Hitler destroyed, and the leaders who were killed. #HMD26 andrewcopson.com/2021/01/what...

What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election? Reform winning? Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about. They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.

there’s something about the “watch the video and decide for yourself what it shows” argument that unsettles me, and i think it’s partly because if all journalists are going to do is gather phone video off social media and show it to us, then… what do we need journalists for?

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🚨Now closing on 90,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed. Let’s keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

If you're wondering how seriously Starmer takes the responsibility of PMQs, today he chose to completely dodge my question about water pollution and support for farmers - and instead rant about America, nuclear weapons, and cocaine. Utterly ridiculous behaviour.

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires have signed a letter calling for increased taxes on the super-rich. Extreme wealth means extreme power - over our politics, our media, and our lives. When even the super-rich know it's time to tax them more, will Labour finally listen?

No, the Spanish Flu did not end WWI

Horsley (Derbyshire) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7) ➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6) 🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0) 🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5) ☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0) No Ind (-1.7) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform. Changes w/ 2025.

Dear God. Is this moron (trump) intentionally trying to piss off every ally the US had?

I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

"I get to be Chairman for life. Oh, and you have to pay me $1 billion. But if you don't join I will invade something." www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...