We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

Excellent dissection of that Russian "peace plan" for Ukraine (Russian Unreality and American Weakness - by Timothy Snyder) snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else. Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.

Paris rated among the five best cities in the world for cycling provision... London needs to pull up its socks! (Paris rentre dans le top 5 des villes cyclables - Ville de Paris) www.paris.fr/pages/paris-...

Headlines like this remind me that Farage has questions to answer about Russia and Putin

The News Cycle is so quick that it seems to have entirely missed a Brexit/Reform party member being sent to prison for 10 1/2 years for taking bribes from Russia

Asylum is not "illegal migration" Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...

Modernists have been promising us a city in forest for 100 years - and we've all see the reality (How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality | Green building | The Guardian) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think we should all sue farage and johnson for the missing £240bn. I'm sure their lovely Russian contacts will be happy to cough up the cash.

Repeating daily since Trump was inaugurated 🫠

We don’t need another delegation of European leaders flying off to Washington to kiss Trump’s ring now. We need them to get on the train to Kyiv and stand shoulder to shoulder with Zelenskyy.

We need to stop calling it a ‘peace plan,’ even with sarcastic quotes around it. Call it the US-Kremlin plan or similar. ‘US-Kremlin plan’ shames the US and makes it sound deeply unappealing to the broader US and European publics.

Look out, world "Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We so rarely hear about the lives of those seeking asylum here. The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Wow. Blackmailing a victim. It is so american nowadays. #UAView

Demand a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

This is appalling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a surprise, it turns out Trump's peace plan - that Zelenskiy has until Thursday to sign - is a Russian document

After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries." THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.

The man is an utter disgrace. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform behaving and reacting as if Gill is the end of the story. Very much isn't, though, is it.

NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated. I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble. But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash. Waiting for the feds? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

The AI bubble is going to pop any day now...

Witkoff is team Russia 100%.

100%

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Don't fall for it folks the trump peace plan is total surrender and a green light for Putin to run amok in Europe

Petrostates, such as Saudi Arabia, Russia--and the U.S. under Republican rule--are a threat to us and the planet, and must be treated as such. #ScienceUnderSiege www.theguardian.com/environment/...

X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform. Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported. A new thread documenting this.

Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170649/... @hopenothate.org.uk

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

“This is the self-fulfilling irony of the immigration story. We persistently fail to grapple with the root causes of our problems and instead blame immigrants for them. Then, our vindictive policies towards those immigrants exacerbate the underlying problems – and the country declines still further”

Yes I will! RNLI crews are volunteers who willingly put their own lives on the line to save anyone in danger — no matter their background, nationality, or circumstance. Attacking them simply because some of the people they rescue are migrants is not just unfair, it’s disgraceful. FFS 👇

Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.

Who better to fix Britain than the dickhead who broke it?

Imagine believing that this should be the policy of a Labour government

Another one! Reform councillor accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k through his businesses. He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax. His council is suing him

Well yes.

Well of course it does.

Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.

With a falling birth rate and an ageing population we should welcome people who want to come to the UK. Scotland already does but has been blocked by Westminster.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Reuters reports, citing the country's intelligence services, that the railway in Poland was blown up by Russians. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

There is definitely one causal link throughout all of this. Far Right rags like the Daily Mail.

This needs a bit of a push. Please sign and share.

This from @stephenkb.bsky.social cuts to the heart of the matter. Does the government not understand how toxic this argument is? Do they think they can somehow weaponise it? The last governments at least had the merit not of making this kind of foul claim.

Well here it is! The UK is considering joining PEM. Not A European customs union, but offers big benefits to trade across Europe. Not THE Customs Union, but something many people were calling for the UK to join as an alternative a few months back. So pleased to see it being considered. 1/2

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... This is about as powerful as it gets. Brilliant 👏

Hear, hear