Newsom: He’s a broken man who tried to break this country. His presidency de facto ends when Speaker Jeffries is sworn in — at least as the presidency as we know it. Now, losing this tariff policy and the unilateral authority under IEEPA — that’s a major blow.

UK govt finances better than expected in January. Ridiculous single statistic obsession. Must prioritize public welfare. Unemployment rising, millions in poverty, unfit roads, unaffordable housing, NHS queues, deindustrialization, endemic profiteering. Can't rejuvenate without public investment.

Culture wars set to accelerate in Europe. We'll need a good response. Are we ready?

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

KFC, Nando's, Burger King and others ditch chicken welfare pledge. It is about profits. They prefer "franken-chickens" which mature quicker but have higher rates of premature death and muscle disease. What are people eating? Customers not told anything about chicken welfare.

President of Peace about to peace all over Iran Trump caught on a hot mic making chilling military threat toward Iran www.the-express.com/news/politic...

No country "needs" immigration - in the same way that no country "needs" trade... But the countries that chose it grew larger, richer and more dynamic." Another excellent piece by @akoustov.bsky.social alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/western-co...

Team Human vs. Team Machine. >> The human spirit is fighting back. Empowering. time.com/7377579/ai-d...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest prompts calls for justice in the US

the3million intends to take the UK government to court to protect the right of EU citizens to be able to come back home to the UK while their immigration status is being decided. Here are the info and the fundraiser. www.crowdjustice.com/case/eu-citi...

Exactly right @sianberry.bsky.social: UK has “sleepwalked into a situation that carries enormous risk” by relying on U.S. tech companies" www.politico.eu/article/brit...

"In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

BREAKING: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer throws a major wrench into Trump's plans for an illegal war with Iran as the United Kingdom REFUSES to let him use crucial British military bases for the attack. The rest of the world is done rolling over for the MAGA cult leader...

So, so many people fell for the bullshit these guys were peddling. No one has recanted, apologized, vowed to change the way they do things, anything.

With ICE attacking protesters and snatching people off the streets, it’s clear: World Cup fans and players won’t be safe in Trump's US. >> Demand European countries to boycott the US World Cup matches - unless they are moved. Vital. Signed. Please pass it on. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...

California: Tax the Ultra-Rich! >> Important >> Signed >> Please, pass it on. action.eko.org/a/california...

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

VIDEO: My short talk with Techies Go Green, about the first in my three-part series on Rethinking Net-Zero: How can we cut through the noise of culture wars? #NetZero #ClimateAction #Sustainability #ESG #CultureWars youtu.be/TwaHHZcIlhI?...

When politicians exploit the grievances of their support base, just to get into power, and then don’t actually deliver on promises of making their lives better, guess what happens…?

How the UK is preparing for climate breakdown Utterly insane www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy #LunarNewYear to all Blues fans celebrating! 💙 pic.twitter.com/RrdDCWnOPo #bcfc Link: x.com/BCFC/status/...

THIS🔥 The World Cares About What's Happening in the U.S

Over a million views in 11 hours. Guess the bad guys trying to silence this Colbert interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social really didn’t work, huh? Such a shame… #StreisandEffect @colbertlateshow.bsky.social youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

A lobbyist used AI to falsify 20,000 public comments to tip the scales against reducing deadly air pollution in homes. This has been illegal since at least 2019 - but enforcement would require a prosecutor brave enough to argue that "bot" can mean "AI". Crickets. www.latimes.com/environment/...

VIDEO: @mike-earthshine.bsky.social talks with Techies Go Green, about his first in a three-part series on Rethinking Net-Zero: How do we cut through the noise of culture wars? youtu.be/TwaHHZcIlhI?...

Idiot parents sending their kids to this place.

😬Not the best look for Reform’s Gorton & Denton candidate Matt Goodwin White supremacist far right activist says “you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts” Tad awkward😬

Zelenskyy on Russian shadow fleet: Putin still has financial stability guarantees—much of it right here in Europe. Russian oil tankers freely sail the Baltic, North & Mediterranean Seas. Russia uses over 1,000 in it's shadow fleet. Each of them is, in fact, a floating wallet for the Kremlin.

STUDY: “Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter.” Follow great scientists here like @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.

It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…” #HousingFirst

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed. Govt officials warned that the contract would not offer value for money, but Starmer and Streeting still went ahead. Mandelson took Starmer to meet Palantir’s chief executive.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Speaking as an immigrant out of Monaco, Sir Jim Ratcliffe told us this week that Britain has been “colonised”. Except that Britain still writes its own laws, controls its own borders and governs its own migration system. Almost as though he doesn’t have the foggiest what he’s talking about.

Hubris.

Donald Trump is threatening your health and well-being to reward his fossil fuel donors. While he sells out our nation's future, I won't stop believing in the science and fighting for what Illinoisans need — affordable energy, clean air and water, and good jobs.

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

. Big oil pay just $450 million dollars to Trump to say climate change is a hoax. Quite a bargain really for a million lives. “We’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.” . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Ratcliffe again providing a reminder that the real group that doesn’t integrate and doesn’t live up to ‘British values’ like tolerance and honesty’ are the billionaires.

Epstein conspired with Bannon to replace Theresa May with Boris Johnson. Elon Musk is conspiring to replace Starmer with Nigel Farage. You see the pattern.

Who could have seen this coming? Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later". A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on. When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.

2/2 The IOC said that it offered "compromises", allowing Heraskevych to show the helmet during training and in the media zone. Ukraine's squad points out there was no ban on the US skating team remembering teammates killed in an air disaster.

The MAGA pandemic 🦠 is spreading to Europe. Democracy is truly in peril. The public need to recognise this fact and vote accordingly to protect their constitutional freedoms 🤷‍♀️

Following on from the caffeine can reduce dementia story of a couple of days ago, it’s really been a good news week for me!