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Desperate to know the civil servant story behind this. What advice was provided? Did the perm sec agree with pulling the income tax hike we’d all been prepared for?

Drax being defined as low carbon energy by any gov, let alone one with Ed M as energy secretary, enrages me

Thinking about the only good leaked email (Channing Tatum from the Sony leak)

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something? Wrote this on it earlier this week: inews.co.uk/news/world/b...

Love this

Turns out this news was in the public domain yesterday but no one has covered it as far as I can tell. Does no one care about our national library anymore? It was much the same with the cyberattack. If this was a bit of 'science' infrastructure can you imagine? www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

I'm not sure but I think I might be the first person in the world to hear "the dog's got into the chicken biriyani and it's on the curtains" being shouted up the stairs while I'm on a teams? x

🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests. Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not. This is worse than we feared.

The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar. Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Some v good points in here, which my experience with ministers supports

Good thing there’s not a power hungry sector of the economy that has single handedly revived demand growth in electric markets and revived interest in fossil fuel plants or we’d really be in trouble

And more importantly, they’re 81,200 very entertaining and interesting words

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?

To be fair, Ireland hasn't had a female president since the two they had before the last one.

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

voting reform the public will get behind

Pete Hegseth is the kind of guy you used to send on a Crusade so he’d stop bothering you and die from incompetence

This piece is MENTAL

Excellent and accurate use of ‘shitehoused’ here

"We can’t say it strongly enough: for planning reform to succeed for both people and nature, this newt-bashing, snail-baiting, spider-hating scapegoating must stop." @richardbenwell.bsky.social, chief exec @wclnews.bsky.social, outlines what's needed to create balance between nature and planning:

The launch of the New Nottingham Journal is just a month away and a small amount of FREE tickets are still available for our little party. Come along and follow here for more news about our first edition @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/new-nottin...

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

I pitched this idea to apodcast company about a year ago. It was called This Is Your Death. Never heard back

Fascinated by how these right wing (fascist?) tech billionaires (whether they’ve always been that way, have converted, or are pretending/are bending the knee, because, capitalism) are going to row back on this shit when - I assume (hope?) - a Dem president next gets elected

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

There's good reason why the oil and gas industry lobbies so hard for carbon capture - because it's the one 'climate solution' that wouldn't necessarily require shutting down the oil and gas industry But it doesn't work. They need to be shut down

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

The idea the UK civil service can go back to its pre Brexit size notwithstanding all the things Brexit added to the UK civil service’s in tray having previously been done elsewhere is a mark of how unserious the Tories are Contemptible

Problem faced. Policy applied. Policy worked. Politics can work.

Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them? No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/29/t...

The fossil fuel industry is sinister, manipulative and evil so this does not surprise me

Here is my reading of if I must die by Refaat Amareer in memory of his murder by Israel. He would be 46 today.

This is why nothing ever sticks. It's a cult like, Dunning Krugeresque faith system that attracts highly opinionated people who have "decided already" that they are right and who "believe what they see" rather than acquainting themselves with facts.

Reform is a (bad) mood and not a political party in the traditional sense. Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs. No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that. You cannot defeat delusion with reason. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Jackie Kennedy arriving in London in 1962 - the first public outing of the pink suit that she wore on the day of the assassination. The suit was never cleaned after the assassination and is currently preserved in the national archives, where it will remain until at least 2103

personally I think it's fine if like four guys own all the things, seems reasonable

One of many good points in this “We should be treating those immigrants who live, or will live, in the UK with the respect we would want shown to us if we lived/worked abroad”…”no more talking about ‘islands of strangers’ :‘incalculable damage’. And in policy- clear, consistent and affordable rules”

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS