This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

Really pleased about how the FT has been highlighting this shameful issue. I was doing some work on this in the autumn and asked people why it wasn’t a bigger issue when the problems and solutions are known, and everyone said there’s not enough pressure to do something about it.

England’s treatment of vulnerable children is a scandal ft.trib.al/a15L6j2

The UK health department’s top official was a shareholder at a private equity-owned children’s care home business, which imposed sharp fee increases on local authorities. Read more here: ft.trib.al/BQiQeYW

Nice read on the pothole campaigners. I might become a pothole vigilante. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This story of how we’ve allowed profit to become the driving force in children’s care homes makes me sick. Children only allowed outside for 15 minutes a day. 15 year olds discouraged from going to school because it doesn’t suit ‘carers’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Stopping this scheme in order to keep ‘Peckham’s historic village core’ while so many people in Peckham live in unsuitable housing is not a decision I will ever understand. And presumably until it does get developed we’ve got to put up with an emptying shopping centre. www.ft.com/content/8ef6...

God, this is BS is just one of the many reasons in which I detest Andy Burnham. 1) Half my family has lived in Liverpool for 40 years. It is transformationally better than it was in 1986. Manchester, even more so. Leeds, Newcastle, ditto.

The chant at Palace is ‘If Adam scores, we’re on the pitch’

I hadn’t realised how late all the World Cup matches are on. Is that because of the heat, or is it optimised for a US tv audience?

I’m worried that the changeable weather is reflecting the changeable mood in the Labour Party and it won’t settle until the Labour Party decides what it is doing

This story about a nurse who had never parachuted before being strapped to a paratrooper to do a ‘fucking difficult jump’ to help remote hantavirus patients is amazing. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

I think there’s a problem here of how many charities and state organisations like the NHS or the BBC don’t understand social media. They think people will find out information by Googling, but actually that’s not how it works anymore. You need to be actively working on Instagram/Tiktok get reach

The Nike ads shaming walkers are also weird because if you listen to any of the Nike Running Club guided runs they frequently tell you that if you need to walk, you should walk. It’s a marketing department that doesn’t know what the actual company does. www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...

i wrote about the $95 bus ticket www.theguardian.com/football/202...

“You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon.” says man whose country has many nuclear weapons, as an argument for attacking a country that has none.

Plus there is widespread jumping of red lights in London now. I don’t understand why every light doesn’t have a camera and there should just be automatic prosecution.

I know it’s Easter but I’ve done two big car journeys this week and there’s noticeably less traffic on the road, so I think petrol prices are already causing people to drive less. Prices doing their thing without needing a government intervention.

There is an absolutely horrific story in this piece, which isn’t even about the main guy. It’s so bad that I’m not going to screenshot. But funeral directors need to be regulated now. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:

Hope we don’t have to wait until his birthday in October for Mandelson to be arrested

Fantastic to see my Mini Switzerland idea covered by the BBC. It captures so many people’s imaginations because it’s both obvious, simple and yet - from where we are today - unspeakably radical. Please share! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How is this legal?

Jonathan Haidt on r4 now prattling in about mobile phones. Such an amateur fucking social scientist. Why have so many fallen for his puerile analysis of the impact of mobiles/sm on kid’s health?

"The essential point is that money will always find weaknesses to exploit. This is what the Epsteins of this world understand." - fantastic column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social:

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Private equity draining money out of the children in care sector while failing children should be a national scandal. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

martyr means witness.

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

Why are they doing a Q&A? Was there a topic that wasn’t covered in that speech?

If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

This is a great piece. Obviously as a charity person I enjoyed the history of the Henry Smith Foundation but I also love a dodgy landlord getting his rewards

100% agree with this. Never understood why people tell their children that all their presents come from Santa.

How investors plunder the care system: the owners of the children’s homes company Your Chapter have paid themselves £11 million in dividends this year.

“When they are defending their liberal democracy, they are in fact defending ours as well.” ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”

Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.

I’m so excited it’s finally Budget Day after months of speculation!

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

This is just funny. southwarknews.co.uk/news/news-pl...

No! Just put them up and put us out of our misery

This is really sad, QEF is a charity that has helped a few people I know. It’s very tough for charities right now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s funny that the BBC is in a fight for its life as it starts BBC Children in Need week. Radio 2 is dedicating most of the week to this important fundraising activity. There are many reasons to fight to save the BBC.

This is great. I first heard of this when we were buying our house and the searches revealed it had been bought up by the council because it was going to be part of the Peckham ring way. So difficult to believe now that we wanted to be like an American city.

Can’t believe MainFT beat @theonion.com to this scoop www.ft.com/content/b7f6...

This is a really good piece from @joshglancy.bsky.social. Far from “whataboutery“, it’s a genuine attempt to to wrestle with a disturbing and peculiar feature of contemporary politics, namely “why is the world quite so obsessed with Israel and Palestine?” www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-world-wa...