Fantastic evening here in Colchester with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social She really is such a talented story-teller, keeping a packed audience totally captivated for over two hours. If you have a chance to see her on this tour don’t let it pass you by

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil.” From July 17th: m.facebook.com/share/p/16yL...

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

Ballad of Wallis Island best film I’ve seen for about ten years.

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE 🚨 ⏫ SIXTEEN THOUSAND (!!!) LETTERS SENT ⏫ 📈16,000 letters have now been sent to Ofgem in less than a week - will you join us and help stop Musk? ✍️It only takes two minutes to send Ofgem our letter... https://www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elon-musk-uk-energy-power-grab

My novel Baby's Breath is available to pre-order now. www.amazon.co.uk/Babys-Breath... £2.57 pre-order price on Kindle. Published 1 Sept on Kindle, paperback and hardback. Here's what advance readers thought of it. Read the first chapter babysbreath.co.uk/chapterone.h... #BabysBreath

Just finished my advance copy of #BabysBreath by ‪@russincheshire.bsky.social.‬ I've certainly raced through this one - which is always a good sign. A fast-paced psychological thriller, set in a very topical landscape - Russ creates a vivid backdrop with complex characters and plot-twists aplenty.

Come on @ipswichtown.bsky.social please start posting updates on Blue Sky - it’s a much friendlier place than that other cesspit !! 💙 #itfc #coyb

Someone is disputing their paid membership of my newsletter with their bank because the product was "defective, damaged or not as described". This is how the product is described iandunt.substack.com/subscribe?ut...

As always, a thoughtful and interesting post from @rolandmcs.bsky.social, but I'm sure he'd accept there is more to say. It wasn't just that Vote Leave included different views, or that it radicalised during the referendum campaign and afterwards. 🧵 1/8

TWTD Questionnaire 2024/25 #itfc #premierleague

Having abortion in the criminal code means vulnerable women are treated as criminals when they ought to be treated with compassion. Help protect abortion rights in the UK. Sign our petition for decriminalisation. humanists.uk/action/prote...

No, they are not "exceptionally high call volumes" if you already have a prerecorded message to say that. Thank you.

“Hard Brexit was xenophobic, economically illiterate and narrow-minded. An apology from the Brexit lobby is too much to hope for. Silence might be a relief. An appalling mistake was made. It awaits correction.” Yes. Such damage and waste. For nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

Staggering statistics from USAID that the cessation of their malaria programme will lead to 2-3 MILLION more deaths. This is genocide approaching Holocaust levels, just on this one programme. Why is the world so quiet on the extraordinary loss of life Trump/Musk have wrought?!

🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation. 🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised full post: christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si... 1/15

This has been one of the most helpful podcasts and the stupid things are 1) heat pump explanations as political impartiality?? 2) why bbc wouldn’t do it in house (see above) 3) half the BBC’s talent is earning millions doing 3rd party revenue share podcasts and Evan was hit for a show on… heat pumps

This is profoundly irresponsible by the BBC. Truly shocking. It should actually be a BBC podcast. @evanhd.bsky.social

Brexit is bad for our health (as predicted). There’s an urgent need now to repair the damage done and get health research and provision back on its feet. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Column, on the spectacularly bad-faith/ideologically contorted White House demands the "free speech protection" be a factor in UK-US trade talks www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Logic of Destruction open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

Will Keir Starmer the last person on earth to still trust Donald Trump? Piece from me on our government’s absurd servility before Trump and its equally absurd suspicion of our natural allies and fellow liberal democracies in Europe nickcohen.substack.com/p/will-keir-...

Jack on top form in the last chance saloon

In Sackets Harbour, NY, ICE went door to door and took away third graders. 8 year old kids. They’re cuffing and detaining children and putting them in privately owned camps. You’d be forgiven for thinking this is Nazi Germany but no, this is America in 2025. Land of the free…

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

“Trump’s America has forfeited global trust. The world has other choices apart from paying tribute to him and his sycophants now running a once great country with the prime aim of self-enrichment” Starmer says we don’t need or want to choose. Oh but we really do. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of my childhood heroes. A master craftsman in his trade. So sad that the ability that made him great, should possibly contribute to his demise. RIP Trevor #itfc www.eadt.co.uk/news/2505217...

The Imperialism Has no Clothes - another really excellent piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

This just seems so painfully obvious. Political honesty may be difficult. The rightwing media may scream and shout. But would that really be worse than being braver, taking a few short-term hits but making life genuinely better for us all?

🤷 Planning reform = 0.4% GDP growth. 💥 New trade deal with the EU = up to 2.2% GDP growth. bestforbritain.org/growth_report

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

🔍 #ITFC WOMEN V #PAFC MATCH PREVIEW | OUT NOW 🗣️ We preview Town Women's return to Portman Road, in a big game to decide fortunes at the top and bottom of the #FAWNL Southern Premier Division. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... 📺 youtu.be/c4nf5hO34GQ

I’m the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped. I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky.

If anyone - especially #itfc fans - doesn’t already follow Jack’s blog, I would highly recommend that you do. Always an interesting, thoughtful read - really should be getting a wider audience

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Where is the outrage in America about this shameful betrayal by Trump? Where are the Senators and Members of Congress who cheered Zelensky when he addressed them, but are now too afraid of Trump to say a word in defence of Ukraine?

11 weeks apart. They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House. Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.

BREAKING: 'You have full backing across the United Kingdom' Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tells Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 'We stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take' 👏

In the last 24 hours I’ve read a lot of words about the Whitehouse ambush of President Zelenskyy - but this, by @timothysnyder.bsky.social is by far the best. It should be shared widely.

Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:

Ukraine: Some disparate thoughts on a horrifying day... This is basically a scream of hatred and anguish, which gradually develops into something marginally more positive. I'm going to have a drink. It's not too early. iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...