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3,000 excess deaths in two months from UK heatwaves. There's a common sense principle that businesses whose operations cause damage to the environment and blight people's lives should pay for that damage. Somehow it has never applied to the industry most responsible. Thread. 🧵

👏 Good to see Best for Britain's work headlining in The Yorkshire Post on Saturday. 🚨 Membership of the EU will provide substantial growth and opportunities to every region across the UK. 📈 Want growth? Want opportunity? Go for membership.

Another example of where Keir Starmer and his reputation for "decency" diverge from reality #OllyRobbins

The former top Foreign Office civil servant who was sacked by Sir Keir Starmer over the Peter Mandelson scandal has launched a legal challenge. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Dan, you're arguing with a bin

Meanwhile, welcome to another edition of Andrew struggles to process normal human behaviour

GOOD NEWS: France is finally moving to ban advertising for imported fossil fuels, closing a loophole that let oil and gas PR keep slipping through. A real step toward ending fossil fuel greenwash and making polluters pay for the climate chaos they caused.

Great words on humanism by the Nigerian humanist, playwright, poet, Nobel Laureate, and our patron – Wole Soyinka. An essential writer for any humanist bookshelf. He was born #onthisday 1934. humanists.uk/about/our-pe...

Spectacular work here

🏠 Real estate is a major haven for hiding illicit wealth. Anonymous companies, trusts & other legal vehicles can conceal who really owns property, enabling #MoneyLaundering, corruption, #TaxAbuse & sanctions evasion. Our 2 new reports explore the gaps & solutions: taxjustice.net/2026/07/07/n...

Which still won't stop the troop of malevolent idiots on X banging on about "third worlders" with "medieval views about women" coming to the UK.

We need age-appropriate restrictions on platforms. This is not about whether children can access social media. It is about when social media can access our children. For a safer start online for every child ↓ link.europa.eu/NR9c9h

Those genetic differences are at it again!!

Rupert Lowe and his party are not "hard" right, they are explicitly far right racists. How can anyone @politicshome.bsky.social expect to be taken seriously when you are making these dishonest editorial decisions. People often ask how the Nazis rose to power, & I say media cowardice helped.

“The most recent [survey] finds that supporters of Farage rank “being English” above “being a parent” as a marker of who they think they are.” Fintan O’Toole on Brexit and the undiagnosed, untreated and ignored issue of English Nationalism www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

2 wounded in shooting in Detroit, Michigan. near Van Antwerp Park; 1 person detained

📌 ICYMI — The Walls Are Closing In Around Nigel Farage’s Crypto Insurgency Nigel Farage's party is now connected to multiple parliamentary and police investigations, as questions grow about its opaque crypto-connected funding, reports Matt Gallagher

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

Rarely has a case of pure hypocrisy been clearer. #Oakeshott #r4today

It has been clear for a very long time (decades) that corruption in this country, especially of our politics, is out of control. That parliament gives itself explicit exemptions from criminal consequences, and the media connives with this pretence, is at the heart of the loss of trust in politicians

It's already a "murder inquiry". Shocking. #Widdecombe

If Fery goes onto win from here it will be one of the greatest comebacks of all time. #Wimbledon 🎾

Oooh, mixing it up by tanking the markets on a Friday instead of a Tuesday

Today in 'look at what you could have won': #Rejoin #BrexitReality #DSA #DeleteFacebook

New definition just dropped.

Just seen whatshisface in the park during my lunchtime walk.

It's official, the Clacton by-election will be held on August 13. The announcement from Tendring Council includes a nice picture of the writ for the by-election, which is not something I've ever seen before.

There's a poll. You know what to do. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I reckon the 17% of voters who don't think Reform are at all sleazy is probably pretty close to the vote share they end up winning at the next general election

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

Unqualified respect for Miatta Fahnbullah. Genuinely one of the sharpest policy minds in British politics. It's encouraging she hasn't been absorbed and neutralised by the Labour machine the way some others have. Torsten Bell, I'm looking at you. 👀

If she actually finds teachers who reject overwhelmingly evidenced climate science, that tells you everything you need to know about 14 years of Tory education policy. She'd be proving Labour's point for them. 🌍

I don't think this is speaking ill of the dead. It's merely describing, accurately, some of the things she did. We need more of this type of honesty, not less, and especially when the BBC and others decide to whitewash or ignore the past rather than report it. #Widdecombe #r4today

Apparently, #r4todsy is just fine giving Lisa Nandy a prime news time opportunity to plead for a job in Andy Burnham's cabinet.

I mean, if #r4today (again, inevitably, R5 Live's Anna Foster) is to be believed, Ann Widdecombe was a sweet and generous lady who was just bags of fun and laughs. Not a single mention of anything even mildly controversial that she believed or acted upon.

#R4Today spent this morning warmly eulogising Ann Widdecombe. Almost none of what they said was wrong. Almost none of it was complete. Here's what they left out. 🧵

Mamdani got into office and instantly: • Froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers • Cut subway fares in half for low-income riders • Fully funded NYC parks • Added $680M for public schools • Launched free child care for 2-year-olds If establishment politicians actually wanted to help you, they could.

What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

My grandma could have saved that penalty, and she's been dead for 25 years. #FRAMAR

His claim to be fighting for the people of Clacton would have been somewhat more convincing if he hadn't been forced to go back more than two years before finding a clip of himself there

In the name of all that is fkn holy, tax the rich.

#Morocco is finding a clever way to produce #cleanenergy while protecting one of its most valuable resources: water. By installing floating #solarpanels on reservoirs and dams, the country is allowing the same surface to generate electricity while helping reduce water evaporation during dry periods

NEW @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social reveals tonight that the Met Police have been investigating donations to Reform UK from fraudster George Cottrell's mother. The investigation has been ongoing since last year and two people have been interviewed by police.

A very important shift in position by Andy Burnham. I, along with colleagues in Labour Friends of Palestine & the Middle East, have been pushing hard for this – 1/3 x.com/andyburnham/...

*shudders*

So they're all taking this really well

I kinda love that Nigel Farage's Plan A was 'people who think the five million is dodgy as hell and receiving benefits in kind from a convicted fraudster who calls you "Daddy" will go "oh that's alright then" because he'd won Clacton by 20 points.

Screaming "WHO FUNDS YOU" at a man with a bin on his head, in a cool, non-rattled manner

Also, the fact that Rupert Lowe is an overtly racist politician, with an extreme racist policy platform, & welcomes extreme racists as party members & supporters, should also disbar him from being included in our national political disciourse. This is fundamental. What are our media playing at?