Why are US fighter jets launching from UK bases to bomb another country illegally? Why did Keir Starmer say that the UK is not involved in this war when they are attacking using our bases? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Spain showing the path forward for Europe. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.”

Stella Creasy asked 3 straight questions that govt is simply refusing to answer (!) - When do fiscal contributions + fiscal costs arise? - What impact does that have on the fiscal rules for 5 years? - How much would the proposed delay save (or not?) questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

UK’s renewables output hits record, helping to blunt Iran shock On Weds: Solar and wind fleet = 34GW, acc @neso-energy.bsky.social Gas 📉 to just over a GW, lowest since Apr 2024 and only 2.4% of power mix www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is what happens when you copy the far right. Good riddence! Keir Starmer next please. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

NEW - I asked the UK government if they had assessed energy demand/emissions resulting from plans to make the UK an "AI superpower". The analysis they pointed me to seemed... pretty implausible. Just 0.1m tonnes of CO2 a year. My calculations suggest emissions could be 100s of times higher.

With new UK Future Homes Standard today, reflect that a similar standard was scrapped by then-Conservative government in 2015 The more than 1.3 mn homes built to lower standards since mean UK requires an extra 20 LNG tankers per yr Bad decisions lower energy security eciu.net/media/press-...

Another reminder of Labour's fascist tendencies www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Can we please not equate Jewish people with the state of Israel? Nobody deserves to be attacked on the basis of their identity. Jewish communities in Golders Green have nothing to do with Israel. In fact, many are opposed to the genocide in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Why is the UK supporting an illegal war and endangering us further? A defensive move would be to shoot down missiles approaching UK territory, not to attack Iran. US bombers on British soil endangers us more than anything else. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

In the end, even white British people are not safe from the UK government's insane migration policies. But Shabana Mahmood thinks this is the only way to stop Reform... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

".. this is the realities of war, & those who target civilians, in particular the Iranian regime, that kind of action is appalling" Govt minister Sarah Sackman on the bombing of the school in Minab, which more & more people are now admitting was done by the US

Cruelty is the point of this Labour government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Labour government planning ICE-style depravity www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

US military openly committing war crimes... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Labour is still at 26% in the polls and Shabaha Mahmood is trying to make them fall even lower. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Israel has used the cover of the Iran War to launch a ground invasion of “strategic parts of Lebanon”. All part of the plan.

🚨 86 organisations are calling for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to increase, not cut, UK climate finance 💷 Cutting climate finance would be a massive betrayal of countries and communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis and of this government’s manifesto commitments to be a climate leader.

For the first time in my life, there is a party genuinely worth voting for that can also win. news.sky.com/story/greens...

As conflict in the Middle East escalates, civilians pay the highest price as homes, safety & livelihoods are hit. Fossil gas markets are exposed to conflict, chokepoints & bidding wars. Energy security comes from renewables & clean flexibility, not fossil gas. 🎢Time to get off the gas rollercoaster.

What is the purpose of an OBR analysis that is a) out of date at the time of release (re: gas prices) and b) ignorant of the broader changes in society? Expecting unemployment to peak at 5.3% and decline to 2030 when LLMs are being rolled out is nonsensical. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Just last week the German government gutted the heating law which was supposed to drive a transition away from gas. The timing could not have been worse: Gas prices are up 50% today and this crisis could worsen significantly. This will happen again and again and the consumer pays the price.

Excellent piece. We should be equally critical of the Trump regime, the Iranian regime and the Netanyahu regime, all of whom have committed war crimes. There is no world in which the Iranian regimes comes out with any moral superiority after it massacred tens of thousands of its own kids.

Once again, we did not invent concepts like international law and rules of engagement because we’re woke pansy wimps We developed them because we learned the very worst way, that even the strongest are less safe without them

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What does the US attack on Iran mean for British energy policy? Do we finally have chaos with Ed Miliband? What happens if Trump turns off the taps? READ ON... open.substack.com/pub/unbalanc...

“Rachel Reeves must reform the Office for Budget Responsibility to open the way to more public investment ... our current framework is contributing to instability, short-termist underinvestment and a lack of focus on long-term risks and opportunities.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🆕 BLOG POST There’s so much more to spatial downscaling today than classic LM or kriging. In my new blog post, I show how flexible and powerful GAMs can be for this task. #rstats #dataviz ➡️ dominicroye.github.io/blog/canary-...

UK government proving just how weak and incapable they have become. Instead of taxing wealth and taking on the tech industry, they would prefer to let the world burn.

Another masterclass in data storytelling by @nadiehbremer.com and Emily Barone! searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

Matt Goodwin has been sent back to Substack. The Conservatives have lost their deposit. Keir Starmer has been told left wing voters are not a guarantee for Labour. Overall, British politics could do worse than follow Gorton and Denton.

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Finally a ray of hope in UK politics. More Green and fewer Reform/Labour MPs can only be a good thing 👏

Truly horrifying. A very difficult read. [& the BBC at its best] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love how Deutsche Bahn's own app has to specifically build a feature in to highlight how likely you are to miss your connection because of delays. 🙈

From one terrible leader to another. Wes Streeting sold our NHS data to Palantir, a company engaged in Israeli genocide. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

The UK government is making it harder for immigrants to lead a stable life here. They want to double the settlement period from 5 years to 10 years - 10 years of insecurity, visa applications, and discrimination... Respond to the Home Office consultation: ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

The debate on whether GDP can decouple from emissions still hasn't been settled but what is clear is that GDP growth doesn't by default increase our wellbeing. That's reason enough to move away from growth policies and towards redistributive policies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very fitting. Sad to hear about all the journos losing their jobs... the media must not be controlled by a few billionaires. Our democracy deserves better.