This is Sandy Island, in Australia's Coral Sea: - 15 miles long, 3 wide - First recorded in 1774 - Not actually there. It's the world's most recently undiscovered island, after 2 previous attempts to undiscover it failed. (What a sentence!) Here's the story... 1/

FACTCHECK: GB News / Spectator owner Paul Marshall got criticised by Christian leaders for his channel's attacks on climate action, so he made a rare public intervention But in his letter to the Guardian (pic) he makes 25 false, misleading or confused claims (!) Receipts etc in next post 1/2

Our local Gloucestershire libraries have teamed up with Vision21 to pilot a Library of Things, to pilot loaning out items rarely used, or where you want a trial for >£5 pw. Dehumidifiers, carpet cleaners, gazebos, games, even e-bikes Cutting down waste and CO2. gloslibraries.uk/sites/glosli...

NEW A failed military police investigation? The Afghan war crimes inquiry continues to throw light on alleged crimes by UK special forces and their possible cover-up By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

There is an argument to be made that Russian propaganda scored enormous, generational wins in 2016 by exacerbating strains in the UK and US just enough…

BBC’s Michael Buchanan: ‘In order to mimic work, particularly monthly salaried employment, new claimants have to wait five weeks for their first payment. But many low-income households don't have the savings to last that long and so have to borrow, incurring debt.’ 1/ #UniversalCredit

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

More UK oil & gas WON’T: ❌ Lower bills ❌ Stop the war in the Iran ❌ Ensure our energy independence It WILL: 🔥 Accelerate the climate crisis 🔥 Make extreme weather WORSE 🔥 Make the super rich even richer

A story in three parts when I tried to see if Gemini could transcribe a Sky News clip of Keir Starmer talking to energy bosses in No10. It insists the clip is of Princess Catherine and then hallucinates a conversation from No10.

Threatening the drinking water and electricity of 93 million people because the IRGC whose control of Iran you accidentally made unshakeable won't agree to a protection racket deal with your son-in-law.

This point from @ldfreedman.bsky.social (who's been in Washington this week) is key. Out of malice and stupidity the Trump administration has destroyed its own decision-making capabilities.

82% of Britain’s electricity is currently zero carbon. This is an incredible achievement of which we should be rightly proud and motivated to go further, faster. Instead, we’ve got fossil fuelled politicians telling us we should be focusing on 93% depleted North Sea oil & gas.

Assuming accelerating warming since 1980, the planet will cross 2.0°C sometime around 2036-2037. As for where we are right now with respect to 1.5°C, check your rear-view mirror.

That UK government ever considers asserting its contractual rights against a major supplier is rare and welcome. And here, this is especially welcome. This will not be easy but it can be done, but it is good it is being seriously considered at all. www.ft.com/content/2d2b...

Future generations are going to be amazed by how much we knew about climate change and how many ways we found to keep pushing the use of fossil fuels. It’s seems unlikely they will look upon us fondly.

New York’s public hospitals dropped Palantir this week. Is it time the NHS did the same? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

I am very excited to announce that Tufton Street think tank, Think, Tank! is back in business and that Mark Francois is front and centre once again. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/728...

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Headlines claimed last year that Britain was experiencing a ‘spiritual revival’. This was based on a report by the Bible Society. Following our analysis, the poll has been declared fraudulent, and we're pleased to see this correction make headlines. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Suck It Up, #Farage!

New at The Empty City How Trump has created a situation he cannot get out of The choking of the Strait of Hormuz and an unwanted regime change in Iran mean Trump cannot simply walk away emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trump-... Non-substack theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...

My resignation letter

Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner. Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again: James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wow - The Bible Society has retracted its Quiet Revival report which claimed polling showed a surge in UK church-going among the young. YouGov, which ran the polling, now admits that it "failed to activate key quality control technologies" preventing bias. humanists.uk/2026/03/26/b...

"At this point, were Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for being allowed to develop nuclear weapons, nobody could be sure Trump would turn it down. If Iran made him the inaugural winner of the Cyrus the Great peace prize, those odds would improve."- www.ft.com/content/2656...

Ahead of tomorrow's report on sewage releases, we've loaded data on discharges near bathing sites onto our Watershed Pollution Map for you to investigate & make your own assessment of how water companies are doing. Come on in, the water's lovely... share.google/fJcxMofi3Hi7...

A lot of people clap and cheer at Arkell v Pressdram style legal letters. But the most deadly legal letters are calm and polite, and this one is lethal.

‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate - The Guardian apple.news/ALXN4cVZ7SaC...

This shouldn’t be controversial: water should be publicly owned. I’ve spent years fighting for that in Parliament. Now thanks to the support of tens of thousands of you, we’re gaining ground. Profiteers have their billions. We have each other. Join us: actionnetwork.org/forms/we-can...

Must read. A military strategy guy writes: “There is a frequent mistake, often from folks who deal in economics, to assume that countries will give up on wars when the economics turn bad.“

Peak snowmelt is happening nearly two months earlier than normal in most of California. “A melt of this rate is a big deal any time, but in March it’s unheard of,” said Mike Hittle, a hydrologist at the California-Nevada River Forecast Center.

Christian Nationalism is a divisive dead end. Most people in Britain aren’t Christian in beliefs, practices, or identity. The only basis for national identity in our country is shared values and institutions of our plural society. Stand with us. Sign our petition. humanists.uk/action/chris...

Alright y’all this is a small thing but an easy one Stop buying books from Amazon Instead buy them from Bookshop.com which supports your local bookstores Here’s a 20% discount on your first order refer.bookshop.org/jen52349

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

With new UK Future Homes Standard today, reflect that a similar standard was scrapped by then-Conservative government in 2015 The more than 1.3 mn homes built to lower standards since mean UK requires an extra 20 LNG tankers per yr Bad decisions lower energy security eciu.net/media/press-...

🚨 NEWS! A High Court challenge has been launched against @daera-ni.gov.uk over the Lough Neagh pollution crisis. River Action will join fishermen and clean water campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast this morning, calling for urgent action. 📢🪧 .. 1/3

Thames Water treatment site in Oxfordshire is the most offending sewage work in England. 2021 - 2025: 287 illegal sewage dumps. Marine life and biodiversity destroyed. Danger to human health. Execs rewarded, dividends paid, investment neglected, customers fleeced, no exec fined/prosecuted.

Rep. Thomas Massie says Trump called him on the House floor after he pushed to release the Epstein files. Trump told him three times: "I'm coming at you like you've never seen in your life." This video was deleted from twitter yesterday, you know what to do

Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170M building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night. Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top.

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

NEW The US guided missile attack on a school in Minab in Iran looks like a war crime By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

ICYMI: EU grid operators looked into causes of blackout across Spain & Portugal last spring Head of group said “the issue is not about renewables” but management of voltage fluctuations So all those people who instantly blamed wind & solar will be apologising? No? NO? www.ft.com/content/bc3c...

Bless the innocent souls that believe that mere contractual protections are sufficient to protect data being misused by international government contractors.

Clean information and clean elections are as important as clean water. But are the regulators up to the job? The way GB News has quietly been allowed to become Reform TV should alarm us all app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19