Trump’s pivot to gasoline and away from EVs now* looking spectacularly stupid. * nah, it’s always been stupid. The man’s a narcissistic idiot.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... There’s a stark choice with regards to this person, either: Ditch her (because her inhumanity shames us all) OR Lose even more of what’s left of Labour voters.

Like "let's defend a system where sexually repressed bearded machine gun toting blokes who oppress women and mudder gays run governments that dictate energy production and price" is a bad take. It's hard to think of a worse one.

Divesting from oil was a good idea, is a good idea, will be a good idea until we are fully divested from all fossil fuels. If your energy price depends on blokes you occasionally war with, who hate you, you've got a terrible energy policy.

A few episodes in to our first rewatch of Picard and 7 of 9, played by @jerilryan.bsky.social, is once again just breathtaking. I always said that 7 shouldn't work, but she's played so damn well that she's one of the most compelling characters in all of Star Trek.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones. Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

The Venn of those cheering on the USA in their illegal war against Iran causing a big spike in fuel prices, and those who condemn any suggestions to increase fuel duty by a penny or two is a circle.

People who are quick to criticise China for human rights abuses are oddly silent about the same in the USA.

When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.

Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?

"Would you allow the US to use UK air bases on a defensive basis?" The US isn't operating on a defensive basis. It is prosecuting an illegal war of aggression. Fucksake BBC. #kuenssberg

The particular reference he makes to the spectre of "Jenrick appointed judges" really hits home, when you see the hair raising abuse of the law currently going on in America, perpetrated by "Trump appointed activist Judges".

The Courts and Tribunals Bill will remove your right to a jury trial for serious criminal offences. Toff magistrates/judges will decide your fate. Chances of miscarriage of justice will increase. Working class, poor, minorities will be the biggest losers.

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Drinking a glass of my signature homebrew, water mint wine. I've made... A lot of wines. Many beers and brews. This one isn't my favourite, but it's the most "me". An unsung but delicious wild herb making something distinctive and delicious, only a forager and winemaker could make it.

Italy are the better side and deserve this win #6nations

Stationary phone distraction isn’t harmless — the evidence is clear. It impairs hazard detection and reaction time, with effects lasting well beyond the interaction. This is road danger and it can (and does) have fatal consequences. Academic research strongly backs it (see pic). Enforcement matters.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

This is hopelessly naive. We can't police what US planes do once they leave the ground, what other planes they tanker for and what targets they hit. This is a completely illegal war and complete opposition is required, not weak requests for clarity.

Bookshops and librarians, PLEASE help us out? Not every cyclist is a sports cyclist, and there's a HUGE difference between books about sports cycling, and books about cycle touring. You'd sell more #cycling books if you made it possible for us to filter between the two.

It’s like the U.S. forgot how the Cold War worked.

Other people's dogs are better. Go out for a walk, make friendly eyes at the dogs and wait for them to bound over to share their love with you.

Dogs are great if you have money and want that to no longer be the case.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump. There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.

Left behind: the UK’s roaming rip-off as the EU embraces the Western Balkans | Cleisthenes' Disciple

Singer Kiki Dee liked her bike so much she put it on the front *and* back of her 1973 album Loving & Free Happy #BicycleBirthday, Kiki! Born March 6, 1947

So Labour planted the fake story of the family who could no longer afford 5 holidays a year because of VAT on schoolfees, you know, the story the Torygraph were made to apologise for.

Early 20th Century Firefighting Bicycle. 👨‍🚒🚲 Manufactured by Birmingham Small Arms. These British machines were rapid response units equipped with a hose, ax, crowbar, and siren. It allowed quick patrols to stop fires before they could spread. #bicycle #firefighters #fire #oldtimes

Rules sets are the beginning of the game, not the game.

This is ethically wrong and strategically stupid

Hell will freeze over before I vote for a party that's doing this. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If Muslims do this we call them radical terrorists and drop bombs on them. ...

I'm sure the classism that comes with this is just an unfortunate side-effect we sadly have to accept, nothing to be done about this. /s

Is there a hotel full of refuge-seeking tax evaders from Dubai that we can picket?

How it started / how it's going

Zelensky said that the EU must change its legislation to confiscate Russian oil, saying Europe should not release detained shadow fleet tankers after a few days. "We don't want Russians to earn because they use that income for war against us." #Ukraine

Made it to Friday but at what cost

This is incredible. UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

This summer, govt will set legally binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for 2038-42 – critical for reaching net zero by 2050 🏭🌍 I’m part of the Environmental Audit Committee, which is urging the government to centre communities. 6 key takeaways from our report, published today 👇

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As the <checks notes> drone interceptor discourse handily demonstrates, having a highly battlefield experienced and armed to the teeth Ukrainian state as part of the EU / closely integrated into Europe is a bit of a game changer for perceptions of European military capability…

Big money has bought British politics 75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

⚡️Putin threatens to cut Russian gas to Europe unless EU reverses ban, leveraging Iran war. As the U.S.-Iran war disrupts global energy markets, the Russian president is brainstorming ways to strong-arm the EU into rethinking its ban on Russian LNG and pipeline gas.