This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

This isn't true. On the 16 April, Red Electrica state that the highest hourly renewable contribution to the generation mix was 80.7%. In addition, Spain has extensive hydro, and this provided 23.1% of the power. This matters because there has to be enough synchronous generation for inertia.

Says the charlatan who told us that Brexit would not mean leaving the single market and that the Covid virus would not kill anyone…

#TheCompleteBritten #108 The Sword in the Stone - Incidental music (1939) The ink was barely dry on T. H. White's 1938 novel before BBC Radio adapted it with music by Britten, who'd just arrived in America. The BBC remade it in 1981, with Michael Hordern as Merlyn, and here it is! #NowListening

Liberal England... Knaptoft: The very heart of England "There is, for example, the green deserted country around Knaptoft in the south of Leicestershire, where the pastures of central England hardly touch five hundred feet above the sea and yet they are the watershed between Trent and Severn."

Super El Niño. Oh dear. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

Sleepier than Joe

4,414 Allied soldiers gave their lives on those beaches and in the first day of the operation. Thousands more would be killed in the coming weeks. Instead of saluting them this pettiest of men, with the smallest of minds and the most fragile of egos just wants to snipe like some two bit troll on X

There's no evidence whatsoever that it was a wrongful arrest. Wrongful arrest doesn't mean that subsequently it turns out the arrested person wasn't guilty. It means the police didn't have a reasonable suspicion, based on the facts available at the time, that the person had committed an offence.

Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

The Brexit vote 10 years on - and the legacy we live with every day. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Putin: “Iran has not requested weapons deliveries, and Russia is not supplying them.” Ukraine’s United24 has just published leaked contracts showing Russia supplying Iran with air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles.

I will only ever vote for <unpopular party> because political purity is essential to me. Why does my vote never count?

Here's my new poem from this week's issue of The Spectator. I do hope you enjoy it...

One of the most devastating voices in this piece is the mother of a 15yo girl who disclosed that her father sexually abused her for years. The girl's mother said the OALC didn't help... yet she remains a member. Why? “Because I want to go to heaven.” www.propublica.org/article/old-...

Again, the people saying this stuff may be "influential figures on the right" but what they really are is racists and in some cases Nazis. It's not your job as a public service broadcaster to both sides Nazism

UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc The strategy has run out of road A 🧵 on what happens next.

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

And even if you impose high taxes on the wealthy, there aren't enough of them to raise significant sums. Here's what happens if the TUC's fantasy list of wealth taxes actually raises what they say it will (spoiler: it won't) (You may need a magnifying glass)

And plumbing tools

I'm surprised that the average person was alive in 1961.

Yeah. (I'm not trans and I've been challenged in toilets last year. It did not get ugly because the lady in question didn't press the point, but it easily could have) (obv no one should be challenged in toilets! But merely raising this to counter the "we can always tell if you're trans")

Wonder if they would be up in arms if the UK government mentioned the US gun problems caused by the gun lobby funding the Republican Party.

That's fine but England have responded with Harry Kane as the Venerable Bede

Sarah Wakefield: "Reform's policies on women are shocking. Reform on day one wants to repeal the Equality Act. That is your party policy." "I can't believe, as a mum of a young daughter, I'm having to sit here in 2026 and make the case for me and my daughter to have the right for equal pay."

New folk, to explain. In which I write a story, live, in real time and on Bluesky. And it always starts like this: "There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve."

Have they all been banned from entering the US?

“While in France only 5% of children’s care homes are run for profit, in England it’s 84%. Successive governments have failed to provide local authorities with the capital needed to house children themselves, as they think public is bad and private is good—the foundational belief of neoliberalism”

There is no better analysis available than the one provided by @stephencollins.bsky.social

If there's a country in the Western world that has two tier policing, it is the USA. An armed white mob can ransack the Capitol with impunity. But a black 11 year old has a toy pistol in a park and is shot dead by the police. An innocent black woman can be shot dead by police in her own bed.

Farage treats the two incidents differently not because of the difference between the victims: a white English woman and a British-Polish man. The difference in his attitude is because of the colour of the perpetrators. A white man and a Sikh.

Notwithstanding all the other dreadful views Kemi Badenoch has expressed, claiming that her pitiful "culture wars" are going to lead to a Civil War in the UK should be career ending. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Official cures now include drinking raw milk

If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.

It started at $200M in donor money, then went up to $400M, then rose to $1 BILLION in taxpayer money.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)

In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.

Guilty plea to violent offences by Farage rioter 'who has 25 previous convictions for 55 offences' - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Hey, wait a minute! This is grass! We’ve been eating grass!”

Another example of how Brexit is a lose - lose proposition. With U.K. having the most to lose. Well done, Labour, for embracing hard Brexit with both hands.

The media are portraying last night’s riot as a “protest”, and the rioters just aggravated locals, perhaps triggered by Farage. In reality, at the heart of it are highly motivated fascists who’ll travel miles and work hard to build this kind of violet mobilisation. bsky.app/profile/bobf...

Restore Britain meanwhile is sucking up many hardcore fascist activists, providing them with opportunities for influence and recruitment and to spread their messages. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of last night’s rioters, moustached man next to the Restore Britain T-shirt guy, was Luke Jahn of National Rebirth hopenothate.org.uk/case-files-n...

Why there should be an independent inquiry into Russia's role in Brexit: it's not just a historic issue - as the prospect of return approaches, we need an account of what really happened... www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-w...

Which of these is Farage demanding: A) when you report a violent intruder on your property, on arrival the police should treat you as the potential criminal or B) when called to a violent incident the police should always believe the white person

Three months since the Iran War started, what have countries done to deal with fossil-fuel disruptions? We took a deep dive looking at policy changes made now and how deep shocks in history have led to profound changes in the energy mix. Please read and share! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Fantasy threat of “two tier policing” whipped up by deeply corrupt and malignant far right racists, ethnonationalists and Musk’s X - excitable media outcry. Very real and sinister threat of fascist authoritarianism trashing our country and democracy - *no* serious scrutiny from mainstream media.

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

Five years ago, I made a meme I'm still mighty chuffed with.