British politics has been defined by cakeism since 2016.

2 refugees drown 2,500 brits react to the story with laugh emoji

It is infantilisation of the electorate - who are grown adults - to keep repeating to them, as the exceptionalists do, that this is not their fault and they should live in a consequence-free world. #ExtrawurstGroßbritannien No. Votes have consequences. 6

extraordinary article in the british press. not one mention of brexit. fun fact: these EES checks are for NON-EU NATIONALS only. When the british helped design them, 2014, nobody thought the british would be stupid enough to vote to become NON EU NATIONALS. Turns out they are and they did. 1/3

This may sound like a boring technical measure, but the German chancellor's supposed 'anti-bureaucracy' crusade would be an act of European geopolitical suicide. This is about a simple choice. Either Europeans make single market laws at the confederal level where they are most effective, or...🧵

Am I actually too stupid to understand how we can have an affordable (cheap af) CO2 price—if your country even has such a thing—when every gram of CO2 we emit is depriving us of the very foundations of our existence? Are you more concerned about the economy or climate and biodiversity collaps?

This is the issue in a nutshell, isn’t it? No. Rental properties are not there to “supplement your pension”. They are there to provide people with the most basic human necessity and it should be a full time job.

Brexit benefits Income per capita in Poland forecast to overtake the UK

Brexit has failed due to the Brits who sold it as an idea, the Brits who voted for it, the Brits who negotiated it, the Brits who implemented it and because it was a really shit idea brought about by hatred. It’s not due to remainers, the EU, COVID or Ukraine. Own it.

As leaders gather in Santa Marta for the Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, our expert @dlevialvares.bsky.social explains why a fossil-free future must include tackling petrochemicals. 🧵 - 1/5 ⬇️

For those wondering why NATO exists and why countries want to join the defensive alliance.

Photos from the protest in Cologne this past weekend, demanding that the German government not backslide on its climate change commitments and transition to green energy www.flickr.com/photos/harri... #Köln #FridaysForFuture #Energiewende #Demo #Erneuerbare

Yes, and also the bit that I simply can’t understand is how joining the euro always seems to be presented as a problem for Rejoin, not an opportunity. A chance to join the single currency that has massively enriched its members? You should be biting our arm off.

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

Britain hasn't created enough high-paid jobs in productive, export-oriented companies since 2008-9. Several reasons for that, but a series of shocks to sectors with comparative advantage is a big part of it.

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

What a wonderful picture! It's the second time I've been teary. I had sort of given up on space flight for many reasons, but I cried when Artemis II took off. This is a good thing in so many ways. To preserve the good things, we must remove Donald Trump and his fascist gang.

Coming up on loss of signal as #ArtemisII goes behind the Moon. For the next 40 minutes humanity is divided into two - all of us, and four of them.

I never signed a release

Furthermore, the risks of a royal visit to a country run by someone like this are obvious. This is the point where you don't ignore crazy behaviour, you cut off relations. Yes there's a cost, but who seriously thinks there isn't a cost to the current policy of closing your eyes and hoping it ends?

"Messy" is overprivileged pundit language for "the casualties are acceptable to me". I've been on the receiving end of a less severe, but equally callous "it'll be messy"-drop & my hackles go up whenever I see the phrase used again Let the advocates of "mess" be the sole volunteers to experience it

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Holiday advice: It's pleasant to get a train to Europe. You just have to turn travelling into a core part of the holiday - lunch in Paris, dinner in Bordeaux, trip to Spain, week on beach etc. It's limiting, but very enjoyable & decent alternative to a flight you won't be able to afford by summer.

4/ Atmospheric CO₂ isn't just rising, it's accelerating. The growth rate has more than doubled since 1960: 0.27%/yr → 0.64%/yr. Whilst fossil fuel emissions are linear. Concentration is super-exponential. So why the acceleration?

8/ None of this means giving up. It means being honest with our selves and facing reality. Fossil fuel burning must fall hard and fast. And we must protect and restore ecosystems. The sink matters as much as the smokestack. The atmosphere measures what we do, not what we promise.

The oil price hike *ought* to be a chance for European railways In 🇩🇪 for example 99% of long distance and 80% of regional rail passenger-km are on ⚡️ railways No transport mode is better sheltered from price hikes Can the rail sector seize the opportunity? jonworth.eu/rising-fuel-...

This system gave CH a lot of power in the relationship without oversight (almost certainly why it is attractive to UK pols). Because of the structure it was monstrously hard to update, and it thus led to the degradation over time of the "singleness" of the single market. 3

Very hard not to worry that the "Swiss deal" is the next Article XXIV of GATT, bandied about without really being understood properly. Because, let me let you in on a little secret here, even the Swiss don't have the "Swiss deal". Clarification needed. A 🧵

PM of Poland

Markets are treating the war in Iran, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, like they treat climate change: not totally ignoring it, but not acknowledging the full scale of the crisis, either newrepublic.com/article/2082...

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

while the cuts to pediatric cancer research are regrettable I think we can all agree they're really the fault of babies, who are too loud

My resignation letter

The best time to have invested in renewables, walkable cities and transit to avoid the oil crisis shock was twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

Happy World Poetry, particularly to @brianbilston.bsky.social for this piece of perfection

Quite impressively hellish. The article is a good read, and contains a list of books that probably deserve a wider audience

Huge escalation for UK school library censorship. Nearly 200 books targeted in one school, with the excuse of “safeguarding”. A librarian has lost her job & can never work in schools again. The fate of the books remains to be seen. @indexoncensorship.org www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

It’s not defence - it’s aggression started by Trump & we should not be getting involved in an ill-thought out war.

The Peston show asked me to update my back-of-the-envelope estimates of the benefits of the UK-EU reset. Take a look

I heartily endorse this analysis by @aselrod.bsky.social. American politics across the spectrum can be boiled down to “When I succeed, I did it; when I fail, someone else did it.” That political thinking is directly related to how Americans have thought about *everything* in the last 50 years.

Congratulations to Trump - the sharpest gas price spike since Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago. And we’ve barely started.

oh how the tables have turned

Happy #StPatricksDay! ☘️ If you’ve ever wondered why the bubbles in Guinness appear to fall instead on rising, or what gives the beer its dark colour, check out this edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/...

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

No, they have not always been there for NATO

Weak, weak, weak.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Congratulations on your new forever war I guess I hope it was worth not voting for the lady candidates

Ignoring him isn't enough, and this is no time for politeness. The US and Israel have to be confronted. Spain is leading the way.