This is a Ukrainian boy, Bohdan. He will forever be eight years old. Yesterday, a Russian drone killed Bohdan as he was playing on a playground in Cherkasy. Bohdan sang in the church choir. Deepest condolences... Russian terrorism must be stopped.

John Cartwright has really understood Hull and restored pride in @hullfcofficial.bsky.social. The fans would, I am pretty sure, have wanted their club to treat a very good bloke and coach like him much better than this. www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

1/8 The UK energy headlines are about to get loud again. Before that happens, here’s a simple explanation of how the systems actually work, that I created for my students a while ago and have updated to 2026. It explains why the risk is often misunderstood. #UK #Energy #EnergySecurity

Hospitals sharing images of children to identify their parents, this is the situation across #Beirut

Apartment buildings, hospitals, passenger trains and a UNESCO World Heritage site. These civilian sites are the targets for Russia's cowardly terrorist state. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

Back to the Cold War in today’s weekend long read. New subscribers - free or paid - always welcome. aqyoung61.substack.com/p/the-trawle...

Trump: "A lot of our people were walking around without legs"

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Pippa Heylings MP: "The Institute for European Environmental Policy has found that since Brexit, the EU has introduced 28 new or strengthened pieces of environmental legislation that the UK has not adopted." "We have weakened protections in habitats, pesticides, forever, chemicals and fisheries."

Devastating but powerful reporting from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social in Kyiv on how Russia is trying to freeze the city and its people. It’s utterly horrific www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

New weekend long read on the Hull company owned by Robert Maxwell and its business links with the Soviet Union. New subscribers - free or paid - always welcome. aqyoung61.substack.com/p/shiver-me-...

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

Russia is now murdering miners on their way home from work as part of its attempt to freeze Ukraniain families to death. The Putin regime is evil beyond belief and must be defeated. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...

Greetings from Kyiv. Saturday morning. No power. No water. No heating. I’m reading that similar problems are reported across the city. Total blackout in Kyiv.

Don’t forget what Ukrainians are going through.

Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

This week in San Antonio I met two traumatized young boys who were locked up for 6 weeks at Trump’s “baby prison” in Texas. Taken when they checked in for a routine hearing, their mother waiting in the car with their backpacks for school. It’s insane this is happening.

Russia is not interested in peace. The only currently available way to end the war in Ukraine is to help the Ukrainians to win it. We should stop distracting ourselves by pretending otherwise. Wasting time is costing lives.

I don’t think we’ve got the Brexit people voted for. Our traders face a daily nightmare getting goods across the border. Here’s one example of just why. Toby Ovens of Broughton Transport told us about the 26 stamps he needs on loads of forms. To move one trailer across the Channel…

Q: The premier of Greenland said today, 'We prefer to stay with Denmark.' TRUMP: Who said that? Q: The premier of Greenland TRUMP: Well, that's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But that's gonna be a big problem for him.

Spare a kind thought for rugby league refs this Christmas and the hard work they put in to make the game happen. This documentary sounds really interesting. www.theguardian.com/sport/no-hel...

This is what is happening to people in the holy land this Christmas. #Gaza giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com

We are wasting a lot of time discussing "peace agreements" amongst ourselves. But Russia started this unprovoked, illegal & disgusting war and clearly has no interest in peace. The way to end the war is to turn up the pressure on Putin and ensure Ukraine wins it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

📝 "The latest (research), says that GDP per head, the best measure of prosperity, is 6 to 8 per cent lower than it would have been had Brexit not happened. That’s around £3,000 for each of us." 📉 Brexit is worsening the cost of living crisis for us all. https://bit.ly/3MvK89r

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

An alliance made in Hell: immoral, abusive employers in the Arabian Gulf and callous, insatiably corrupt politicians in poorer countries. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...

How many more warnings will it take before we wake up and finally act on climate change? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds

Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink. Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.

New extra bit from me. aqyoung61.substack.com/p/trust-shel...

This is not talked about enough. 🚨 We have missed the 1.5C target and devastating consequences are now inevitable. Meanwhile, populists are spreading misinformation about climate change. We need to work together. Now. 🌏 https://bit.ly/47I9Pf0

“The Russian can see us just from the other side of the river, and a minute later they hit you - and they are specifically targeting residential areas, kindergartens, hospitals.” read this horrific report from Kherson: open.substack.com/pub/twogrump...

Good Morning from Global Britain.

Massive thanks to Gavin Willacy for this review of ‘Roy Francis: Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader’ in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/sport/no-hel...

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Rugby League - blimey. (Watch it to the end). youtu.be/d2dYEbNyLnY?...

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

Last night,Russia attacked #Ukraine with 823aerial targets: 810drones;9 Iskander-K cruise missiles;4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles There are injured&killed,civilian infrastructure damaged in Kyiv,Odesa,Poltava region A 2-months old baby&its mom were killed in #Kyiv,the dad is in critical condition

Ex con Lucy "Burn the Hotels" Connelly got a standing ovation at Reform conference this afternoon

‘Why not work the system’? How punks inspired by Thatcher built a Hull housing cooperative

Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters. Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

An important thread. What is Reform UK up to? ~AA

31 July 2025: Russia murdered these children in Kyiv Lev Lamekhovyi, 2 - killed with his father and pregnant mother Matvii Marchenko, 6 Roman Haiovyi, 17 - killed with his mother, brother, and uncle Alina Humeniuk, 10 Nastia Humeniuk, 13 - sisters died together with their mother #russiakills