It is mad that we have, somehow, allowed net zero - a policy common to all major parties under 5 years ago and supported by a majority of the public - to become a synoym for mad radicalism. It is doubly mad that we've allowed this to happen during the hottest summer on record.

Despite more than 1 in 4 MPs signing my motion against the Code, it is due to come into force without any debate or vote in Parliament. I have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities urging her to withdraw it now. 2/2

Woke up this morning to discover that I am now hoping that Count Binface wins the by-election. Saying that I don't know whether to laugh or cry doesn't quite cover it since mainly I am angry but it does feel very British.

This is amazing; 40 women’s organizations standing in support of trans people’s human rights against this government’s targeting of trans people against the EHRC transphobic code. Trans people and cis women’s rights are not in opposition.

I hate the way we’re barrelling headfirst towards a self-inflicted epistemological crisis: AI-written books, cynically edited political speeches, deepfake art, AI music pap, fabricated podcast slop, YouTube flooded with cute animals and influencers who don’t exist, LLMs that hallucinate… HATE IT!

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

When you have a strong suspicion that the story is fake but it is so good you do not care. Still team Larry.

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Farage is making millions from his public position - on top of the millions he’s been given. Does it matter? He doesn’t think so or think it’s any of our business. But then you look at donations to his limited company, masquerading as a political party - and you see Crypto dealers dominate.

Yet another reminder of how important it is to ask about our own biases when we read history. Who gets heard? Who gets blamed and who gets excused?

All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening

This is not climate change, this is climate breakdown. I am haunted by the thought that we will be the last generation to remember life under a reasonably stable weather system. Yet there still seems to be little urgency from many to make the political, structural and personal changes needed.

In Birmingham this week and had a quite temperate walk by the canal. Because trees and wildflowers and water and not just an area wrapped in concrete and asphalt. A/Cs are expensive to run and bad for the environment. Create more green space

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Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature

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Also, laying the blame so fully on Musk - who is absolutely a dangerous and contemptible racist creep - is very convenient for the UK's newspapers, news channels and politicians who've either spread the self-same racist myths, 24/7, for decades, or have entirely abandoned any pushback against them.

This is the Britain I am proud to be part of. Read the rioters defences which involved ignorant stereotypes of the cultures immigrants come from while wondering how British culture is seen after the riots. Thanks to them, we could easily be dismissed as violent, prejudiced thugs.

This argument applies exactly the same in the UK

Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).

These aren't protests. They're racist riots. And it's time for the government to take them seriously. The PM should be convening COBRA and setting out a real plan to end this horrific violence and bring communities together. Now is a time for real leadership.

Good thread on the reporting of racist violence.

Neil Basu, former police national lead for counter-terrorism, said that 'the way anger was being stoked by powerful social media figures and hostile foreign states meant it was a bigger danger than Islamist terrorism.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ideas of “free speech” cannot be divorced from social reality. Right now, those who vocally defend the rights of trans folk, migrants, Palestinians, etc are punished while those who contest the rights of minoritised groups are protected. That’s not encouraging free speech — it’s cultivating fascism.

Found this a really helpful exploration of loneliness. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

There has never been a single instance in history where the top .1% suffered due to high taxes. There are countless & ongoing examples throughout history where the bottom 90% suffered because the top .1% weren't taxed enough. This isn't complicated. Tax billionaires. Protect working people. Period

This, on the death of Henry Nowak, is an outstanding piece of journalism by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

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Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote in Parliament for the last 11 weeks. During that time he will have collected about £50,000 in wages and expenses. But he will tell you Disabled People and immigrants are the problem. No, it's rich lazy parasites like him.

The press are all over Nicola Sturgeon, who was investigated and released without charge. So glad all I did was take £5 million to become an MP, £1m to throw an election, make a couple of dodgy house purchases and lie about Russia hacking my phone.

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

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Does that include the £5mn?

I also did not know this.

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Please don’t fall for the hate

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Jews are not collectively responsible for Israeli government policy. People demonstrating peacefully for Palestine are not collectively responsible for the attacks on British Jews. Collective punishment for other people's crimes is not justice.

It's possible (and decent) to oppose antisemitism, Islamophobia and genocide whilst also thinking the police shouldn't kick people in the head whilst arresting them. Denying someone basic human rights because you think they are a terrorist is not acceptable.

Nigel Farage has been accused by multiple people he grew up with of extreme antisemitic comments and behaviour. Yet he's allowed to present himself as a champion of Jewish people. Meanwhile, our only Jewish leader, Zack Polanski, is smeared - because he opposes genocide.

PS If you reply with "but the plagiarism machines will solve the climate crisis for us" you automatically fail the test

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