Poor Bosnia. Not to mention, poor Herzegovina

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Absolute chancers. Nationalise water. Now. And keep it in public hands forever.

We probably should be asking ourselves more often "what stage in the Oryx and Crake timeline is this" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

This transition will affect roughly 2.5 million civil servants as part of a 2026 strategy to achieve "digital sovereignty." France already has a successful precedent; the national police force has operated 100,000 computers on Linux since 2008, proving that such a massive shift is feasible.

Absolutely delighted for new @kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social colleague Robyn Arkle who has just been named one of the 2026 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers! She specialises in 19–20C Austrian & German music; currently working on Alma Mahler-Werfel ♥️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-gene...

❗️742 thousand children were deported to Russia between February and December 2022, — Ombudsman Lubinets According to him, a total of 1.6 million Ukrainian children lived in the temporarily occupied territories.

So Mandelson was in talks with Farage, and told Labour comms not to say anything "disobliging". But Farage obliged by recommending Mandelson as Ambassador. Something about all this stinks

The Supreme Court has today "strip[ped] fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people" say a group of National Charities for disabled people. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Old housemates, old school friends, family members, - they even asked a local launderette for an itinerary of what I've had washed! All this from billionaire owned media because they don't want a party to continue growing that challenges power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The point of these attacks is twofold: 1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true. 2. Grind people down until they lose hope. We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change. There is absolutely no way they win this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

We could have seen a nationwide programme of home insulation, going door to door, making sure every home can keep in the heat, so no-one would risk getting sick or dying because they can’t afford heating in the winter. Why is this Government running from crisis to crisis?

Voters of every major party want water and energy in public hands. Labour, the Tories and Reform want more of the same: private profit over public interest. It’s time for public ownership.

Exclusive: US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau instructed senior State Department officials to facilitate and approve a visa for a fugitive former Polish cabinet minister, allowing him to flee to the US from Hungary, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4tMPPQ5

A leading 'Raise the Colours' flag activist, who claims to be fighting to "protect our women" from migrants, has pled guilty to assaulting a woman bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/f...

Crikey, this is significant. All about Orban's regime showering money on populism abroad including the UK. David Frost mentioned as an alleged recipient, plus Unherd and The Spectator. So much for pushing back against foreign interference. H/t @guystall.bsky.social

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

The crisis of British democracy has never been more evident than after these local elections. The King's Speech was a missed opportunity to address it. We can't afford another general election under the same broken voting system. We need Proportional Representation now.

It's been 16 months since I left X, and I feel so much better for it. I hadn't realised just how big an impact the daily tsunami of hate, trolling, sealioning and strategic incomprehension was having on my state of mind. I cannot understand why anyone who values their mental health is still there.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha (Analysts at JP Morgan get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to write this bullshit.)

Remember when one of Wesley's junior Ministers led us to believe Palantir couldn't access identifiable patient data? Turns out that wasn't true.

Former Polish justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, who was granted asylum in Hungary by Viktor Orbán's government, has been spotted at a US airport. It comes a day after new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar, who has pledged to extradite Ziobro to Poland, took office.

Here's Nigel Farage's "Tiktok guru" and adviser, Jack Anderton, telling GB News that he would be "worried" if the Jewish population was growing in the UK. When do we start seeing all the coverage about the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

Thank you Rabbi for your kind words! 🙏🏽

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.

Thanks for all the lovely comments and support from media round this morning. Great to see Green Party membership ticking up as we enter a really crucial week. Let's end Rip Off Britain. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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When the movement-sensitive train toilet tap functions so poorly over such a long time of standing waving soapy hands around underneath it that you begin to speak to it in a sarcastic voice: "oh so turns out you had water all along, oh wow what a surprise"

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out:

I think Meg White is a good drummer just by the standards of being a good drummer but I think she’s an exceptional drummer by the standards of having her extremely strange husband come home one day and say that they were starting a band and had to dress alike and also she’s his sister now

🇭🇺 "Russians, go home."

Thing is that as a consequence of their invasion of Ukraine, if the Russians wanted to invade Hungary now they'd probably have to use the exact same tanks they used to invade Hungary in 1956

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis. You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me. An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

Am slightly tempted to suggest to every USian joking around about "TACO" after their president's declaration of a brief hiatus on genocide that they may wish to jump from a B52 bomber directly into a lake

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

Loving Angine de Poitrine but do want to point out that almost none of it is actually "microtonal" - instead mostly chromaticism around a very stable tonal centre (& songs that are surprisingly catchy and melodic once you get used to 10/4 and 7/4)

An utter, utter disgrace which makes zero sense and has minimal support among the people of the UK, but which a small handful of fossil fuel lobbyists have thrown their weight behind

To me the big Manosphere debate just highlights the developmental harm of not having earth-shattering new albums released every month or so throughout adolescence

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

Last two days to apply for our 2-year Early Career Development Fellowship in Jazz and Popular Music! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/140186-...

Australians now have better mobility into the EU than Brits “Under the new scheme, Australians can live and work in Europe for up to four years without needing a job offer before arrival.” Second class citizens in our own continent www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/tr...