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This could have been written this morning. How exact and how applicable every word is. "Stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." No better description exists of the blasphemous, murderous, corrupt America of Trump and of ICE.

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

Despite the lies from Reform and the Tories migrants actually commit less crime than native British people migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk...

Yes some part of the press is calling out Reform's lies about net zero

Yes! www.edp24.co.uk/news/2570412...

The radical right in Britain increasingly claims to represent "Christian values" & "Christian civilisation" - though its leaders rarely go to church or pretend to believe anything. It's especially important that Christian leaders speak out against this, as it's their tradition that's being claimed.

Measles - an epidemic brought about by deception? www.theguardian.com/society/comm...

The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Highly relevant quote "Men possessed of money have infallibly imagined the awe & admiration money inspires were owing to their own wisdom or personality. The contrast between their view & the frequently ridiculous reality has ever been a source of rich amusement" press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This is like when the Tory govt discovered Calais was important for our trade links.

Watch the full interview on YouTube here: youtu.be/bOzsZYWMaXE @wildjustice.bsky.social

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

"Buy Canadian Instead" signs going up in BC Liquor stores

K. 86% believe climate change is happening. 75% believe it is mostly human caused. 80% are worried about the future. Politicians denying it are chasing a small minority of votes. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

What could English Devolution look like after Local Government Reform? Based on rumours, news reports, and past proposals, here’s a potential map featuring 32 Combined Authorities across 152 Councils: (Control based off current no. of district councillors).

Read about @britishacademy.bsky.social programme here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/jus...

A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was made to withstand a wildfire, and it did. I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The figures are astounding. Every year the biomass of birds in the UK doubles after the release of the captive bred birds. Its unnatural and unnecessary. They distort the ecosystem in a myriad of ways - out competing native species, damage the ground. It needs to stop.

Brexiteers never really cared about sovereignty

🚨How worried should Rachel Reeves be about rising bond yields? 😨How worried should the rest of us be? 😱And is this a repeat of 2022 (or even worse)? After all, UK 30yr govt bond yields are now at the HIGHEST level in more than a quarter century. 📽️My 4min explainer👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mDx...

We are in a very big flu wave, but it is NOT a quademic. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Interesting view of geography, perhaps MP's should have the knowledge to know what they are talking about.

Ripon and Wells must have been tricky, since they are not on the rail network! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

At exactly 11pm tonight, raise a toast to absent friends. Four years ago today at 11pm we left the EU. That went well.

The suspect in the Magdeburg attack was anti-Islam and supporter of AFD according to reports. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

I thinks its a bit chicken and egg. Without the power to make a difference, what serious politician would want the job? Do you think Andy Burnham would have taken the Job it more devolution had not been on offer?

This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.

Not a problem caused by brexit, but being in the EU would have provided a solution in the near future www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is a bit of a longshot. Does anyone know of any sources that explore how a 9th century minster church might have operated in England?

An unfashionable view of the Inheritance Tax loophole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8M...

When inheritance tax on agricultural businesses was abolished in 1984 it had some unforeseen impacts. First it meant that the super rich started buying up farmland to avoid inheritance tax.

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

Not solar or food, but both - why can't we do that in the UK?

What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...