Iran is poised to fire far more long-range missiles at Israel and other Middle Eastern nations after rapidly digging out its buried arsenals – an effort that highlights the limits to US bombing strategy, experts said. https://cnn.it/4dPNTjX

ultimately the Tories are paying the price for feeding the monster of right-wing radicalism for short term gain. they got that gain in 2019. now they're in a very long comedown

Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.

GB News is NOT the broadcasting arm of Reform UK At least not according to Ofcom And Lisa Nandy just sits there, doing nothing

Very honoured to be the first ever guest on @rolandmcs.bsky.social's new podcast. I know there are loads of pods around but do consider it, not because of my contribution but because Roland is such a skilled interlocutor, and his associated Substack is consistently excellent.

Absolutely not shocking. This is Reform. No idea how things work… what laws really mean… how they protect us… Just peddlers of prejudice. Puppets for whoever’s bought them. They don’t even find out what their party is about when they decide they want to be an MP. All of them unfit for office.

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

New Soft Landing podcast. Featuring the doyen of Brexit commentators @chrisgrey.bsky.social, in which we discuss all things Brexit. Listen here now: rolandmcs.substack.com/p/podcast-br...

trump's "skill" in making deals has always been based on one thing: his ability to refuse to honor the deal he just made he'll agree to do something and then just not do it and dare you to impose consequences on him for it if you can actually do that, well

Increasingly it looks as though the contempt for democracy is not accidental but rather the whole point.

Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...

Was "Let's charge exorbitant fees and make universities financially dependent on international students." Then "Let's make international students feel unwelcome in the country." And "Let's cut services and support." Now "Hey, why don't you come any more? Who's going to pay for our universities?"

The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration? | John Harris

“Legitimate concerns” Pathetic. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And… by the way, interviewer… it is absolutely not “fine” that he doesn’t know anything about anything. It’s ridiculous. Disrespectful. Irresponsible. Stupid. Embarrassing. A clown expecting power. Cos Nigel said so.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Don’t put in the paper that I got mad about all the singers cancelling

This is really outrageous when you think about it. A jury found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll. News coverage often frames it like they’re political opponents.

And the reference to claims that she proved in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to a jury of New Yorkers following a scrupulously fair trial as "allegations."

Yet another article centering Trump’s emotions. We learn here that he is ”angry,” “irate” and that he issued a “scathing rebuke” of the decision. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...

One Day Of Extreme Heat Causes 3,400 Excess Deaths Across India With temperatures touching 48°C in Rajasthan, India is facing intense heatwaves driven by climate change People are dying in these oven like temperatures www.ndtv.com/health/one-d...

Absolutely shocking. No clue. No idea. No respect for workers rights - doesn't affect him so he doesn't seem to care...

Installed solar capacity in India has been growing by 40% a year. In March, it passed 150 gigawatts, and by 2030 is set to double again. Analysts say the world’s most populous nation is on the verge of becoming the first major country to power its industrialization predominantly with solar energy.

Probably slightly less than ideal.

Oh, OK.

Only an idiot would bet the future on the current state of AI. But there are so many idiots. And terrifyingly so many of them are in politics. And business. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

🚨🚨All agree with this and I thought for this quite some time and I do not see any real meaningful option for the UK in a long-term perspective left than reopening the highly divisive "rejoin" debate- there seems to be no other realistic alternatives available. And this debate needs to start now. /1

All sorts of paper-thin progressive justifications here for what would be a grotesque example of state power - deployed against immigrants and non-white Brits who people decide look a bit foreign www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Such an excellent and withering piece. The massive chilling effect that Starmer and Mahmood have had on high skill / high pay migration needed calling out.

E. Jean Carroll didn't just accuse Trump of sexual assault, she took him to court and he was found liable. All headlines should reflect this fact. Now Trump is using the full power of the United States Government to punish her for this action. This is a new level of fascistic political persecution.

It could be a challenge for weighting by Brexit that panels with actual 2016 data now differ from 2026 recall. (Some Leave voters who have become sceptical of Brexit now give "Remain" as their 2016 recollection)

ALERT: Former federal judge John Jones III says it looks like "fraud" and "collusion" were at play in Trump's lawsuit vs. IRS and the $1.7 billion fund "settlement" Jones (who's now president of Dickinson College) joined 34 other retired judges asking court to investigate

Potentially a very big deal. Changing the Westminster electoral system would fundamentally change our politics. Lesson from other countries is also that once FPP has been ditched it is unlikely to be brought back.

Labour is urging Robert Kenyon, Reform’s candidate in Makerfield, to “come out of hiding” and "urgently give proper answers to the burgeoning mountain of questions that remain unanswered about the growing list of deeply disturbing comments he has made"

Washington Times today: 'Podium Guy' Adam Johnson (who stole Pelosi's lecturn) has filed for $5M from Trump's slush fund “The harm is not just towards me. It is generational harm, and it will also follow my kids and grandkids,” www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/ma...

AI is the magic solution beloved of every politician who understands nothing about AI and who has no other solutions to offer. Oh and charlatans and grifters, they love it too.

Today my mother became a British citizen! It is such a moving ceremony - everyone was welcomed ^ thanked for their contribution to the UK. Their courage in moving to a new countrywas recognised. The mayor said how proud she was of the many nationalities who had made their home in this global city.

A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over millennia, meaning higher CO2 emissions than assumed buff.ly/2boex6n

Hungarian Parliament votes to remain in ICC, overturning Orbán's intention to withdraw www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

OK, so Helen Whately and the Express are doubling down and going all out hysterical at this point...🙄 They've actually "calculated" the state benefits a man with ELEVEN WIVES could claim!! And this time, they've done it behind a paywalled article🤷‍♀️ But don't worry, I got behind it!🤓 🧵1/20

Buried deep in this reporting is a demonstration of how Elon Musk's decision to gut USAID and its medical support programs in subsaharan Africa can be directly connected to the way in which Ebola ballooned very dramatically in the Congo, clearing 1000 cases in just a couple of days.

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

Heatwave in France: 'This is an unprecedented event, with about one-in-1,000 chance of occurring in a given year' Research director explains climatic conditions that led to France's record-breaking temperatures during this season & emphasizes urgent need for political action against global warming.

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

One of the most anomalous locations today was in Cornwall - Camborne broke its previous May record temperature by OVER 5ºC, its June record by OVER 2ºC and just missed out on breaking its all-time maximum temperature record of 30.4ºC from July 2022 by 0.3ºC. Unbelievable.

We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May... again 😮 Temperatures didn't fall below 21.3°C overnight at Kenley Airfield, making it a 'tropical night' (no lower than 20°C). Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.

UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students - www.ft.com/content/ded7... I don't really understand why any administration would not try to reverse the fall in overseas student numbers, but I guess I'm a naive liberal

It's true that this wasn't anticipated by the EES at its pre-Brexit conception (at which time the UK was a prominent advocate of it so as to 'control our borders'). But, hey, the UK left so it's a bit rich to be calling for "a tailor-made British solution": www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-... 1/2

Cannot be overstated that, for the far right, Reform already is and always was the compromise choice, just a foot in the door, it's not what they're after and Lowe delivers for them.