George Monbiot didn’t challenge the need for an increase to military spending on Politics Live. I don’t think there is a single previous or probable guest on that show who would say anything like what I’d say on the military (cut it in half immediately). They won’t even challenge the increase at all

Apparently the situation can be so bad that even a government ideologically opposed to nationalisation ends up pursuing it (the right solution) just to end the damn saga. Thames Water moves step closer to nationalisation after government objects to rescue deal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is this the official sign of humanity being permanently fucked? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The horrific sentences handed to the Filton 4 (8, 6 and 5 years) are gut-wrenching injustices; the reaction of a fascist regime determined to stamp out all dissent and exert control over a population that increasingly refuses to let genocide take place in our name Free them ALL

Governments always say stuff like this but never actually invest in cycling infrastructure seriously. You will never get increased cycling for transport unless you either separate cars and bikes, or get rid of cars from certain roads. But they will do neither. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

El Niño under way and threatens weather extremes, scientists say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The latest in a very long line of warnings that 99% of humans do nothing about. It kind of feels like a cliche at this point to even mention this, because it feels like no one cares.

Didn’t expect to see Sian Berry supporting increase in military spending. Although she was right about foreign aid and homes for military families of course. Having said that, we should have less military and therefore less military families to house. Just build council counsing instead.

🗳️ Which party best represents working people? ➡️ Ref: 16% (-3) 🔴 Lab: 15% (-2) 🟢 Grn: 9% (+5) 🔵 Con: 7% (-1) 🟠 Lib: 5% (-1) ⚪️ Oth: 3% (+2) --- ⚫️ None: 28% (-3) ❓ Unsure: 16% (-1) Via @YouGov, 9 June (+/- vs 27 May 2025) x.com/LeftieStats/...

I wonder how these gamers celebrating Microsoft putting up the exclusivity walls again would react if SEGA announced Dreamcast 2 for all their first party titles. And what about EA or Ubisoft doing the same? These morons would lose their minds in a fit of keyboard warrior rage.

Sea surface temperatures are already surging to record high levels for this time of year in key El Niño monitoring areas. ➡️ Sign up for our next monthly state of the climate webinar to learn more: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... We'll also be talking about the hurricane season outlook.

Why can’t the Peruvian people ever seem to get rid of these fucking Fujimoris from their political scene? These people just hang around forever. Hopefully they can get rid of them this time permanently. Although I doubt it.

I had a look to see who was on Laura K this morning. As far as I’m concerned, there were 5 right wingers and a centrist on the show. 6 right wingers if you include the host. That’s crazy. But also par for the course.

The Reform candidate said on Question Time with a straight face that we have a two-tier policing system that is unfair to white people essentially. That we have too many anti-racist policies which apparently cause white people to be put in excessive danger… In this one case in which the police…

Lord Bethel thinks it’s surprising that there’s a greater extent of politicisation among the workforce in the NHS than in other government organisations, like the military and police. Really? Highly educated, compassionate healthcare workers are more politicised than army or police boofheads? What!

I saw Cenk Uyghur on Sky News. He kind of dominated Frost. I don’t think he had any good arguments in favour of the ban really. It was basically nonsense. Cenk ran rings around him. Would have been fun to see Hasan though. He would have calmly dismantled the UK in an even funnier way…

I find it dubious how people are calling for regulations to be changed due to this murder in Southampton. Surely the issue was with the police response and application of the regulations, rather than the regulations themselves. It seems to me pretty likely that any regulation change will…

“A new study from the Danish Road Directorate shows that less than 5% of cyclists break traffic laws while riding yet 66% of motorists do so when driving. The Danish Cycling Embassy, a privately-funded NGO, puts this down to visibility” www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

People are talking about how Spain has lower GDP than the UK... but look how Spain's life expectancy surpasses the UK's in the early 1970s, with progress accelerating again after 2010. Today people in Spain live 2.5 years longer than people in Britain.

Finally updated the data source behind my global mean sea level graph so it refreshes more frequently.... yes, it is accelerating. Graphic updated regularly at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

What other reaction could they have expected in this fascist, dumbfuck world? Ferrari wanted to take on Chinese EVs with the Luce - then the backlash started www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨BREAKING: Labour have barred anti-Zionist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker from entering the UK after Zionists demanded his visa be revoked for opposing Israel. Piker was due to speak at the Oxford Union, but today confirmed Britain has revoked his visa for criticising Israel. x.com/LeftieStats/...

Lol what, we are really still doing this in 2026? 🫪

‘"Until yesterday, the highest temperature in May was 32.8C, but we've now exceeded that record on consecutive days by a full two degrees Celsius," the Met Office posted on X.’ Normal now to smash records. UK's hottest May day record broken for second day in a row www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yet again, another record-breaking heatwave is arriving well outside of the typical season. This time impacting the UK and other parts of western Europe with a strong ridge. 🥵 Here's how climate change is making that heat more likely via @climatecentral.org at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

I haven’t watched NASCAR for about 5 or 6 years, but when I did watch it a lot, Kyle Busch was always my favourite driver. Was so fun to watch and so talented. Just devastating for something like that to happen. And so suddenly as well. www.nascar.com/news-media/2...

ABSOLUTE INSANITY >37c IN FRANCE 340 RECORDS BROKEN Europe is living the most extreme event in history with thousands of records pulverized every day. 37.1CSoort Hossegor Over 600 records broken in 4 days and MANY more to come. Some broken by 6C! See list of records by Meteociel 🧵(long thread !)

🚨NEW | Labour appoints new chair of the EHRC in Scotland. He opposes abortion & gay marriage. Alasdair Henderson has been placed in charge of the Equality and Human Rights (EHRC) in Scotland, despite his vocal opposition to gay marriage and abortion.

US media keeps using the phrase “heightened tensions with Cuba” to describe what is in reality unilateral US aggression, with illegal sanctions and threats of illegal invasion, against innocent people who repeatedly say they just want to be left alone.

🚨NEW | Greens reject EHRC's anti-trans "guidance". Green MP Sian Berry said guidance "will mean trans people are barred from services", adding: "it is now up to Parliament to reject this document". Green MPs will vote against the "guidance". Polanski reposted her statement. x.com/LeftieStats/...

Ross Greer absolutely killing it on Question Time! So fucking good the answers on both food price caps and this nonsense drilling in the North Sea. Honestly he’s better in this type of debate situation than even Zack.

This thing on Question Time where people are suggesting that because supermarkets could be forced to provide essential foods for less under a price cap, that the costs would be put onto farmers and the supply chain. Do people not understand that you can mandate a minimum buy price from farmers?

‘His actions also drew rare criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said they were "not in line with Israel's values".’ He’s a minister in his government right? Far-right Israeli minister condemned for taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I got an email this morning from Stagecoach about their bus ticket prices increasing. I don’t see the government doing anything to make cycling easier or more affordable. I don’t see the government doing anything to reduce train fairs to a significant degree. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Polly Billington is insufferable. Suggesting the Greens are in favour of subsidising fossil fuels through green subsidies in energy bills I think she said. It doesn’t even make sense, since the Greens want to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies and “green levies”, which support nuclear and CCS…

Annabel Denham also brought up the German Green Party to attack the Green Party of England and Wales over. But the German Greens are I would say more similar to the Labour and Tory parties than they are to our Greens. It’s a bizarre attack line. It just shows have dumb their arguments are.

The BBC not only let Annabel Denham ask the dumbfuck, obviously disingenuous question of what happens to renewables when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow; but Vicky Young went out of her way to force Jenny Jones to answer it. How many times do we need an answer to this question?

Someone like me, a nobody who writes a blog and on Bluesky, is more qualified to talk on Politics Live about nuclear energy than Annabel Denham. She is an absolute clown. The fact that someone like her can be so prominent in British media says it all about how broken the whole thing is.

I always say the BBC invite the Greens on when they have something to attack them over. And again today. They brought on Jenny Jones to attack the Greens over supposed delays and extra expense to infrastructure building because of environmental regulations. Let’s deregulate in a climate crisis! Dumb

That’s insane. So wasteful in many ways. So stupid. And then it was also super sketchy to eject when the planes were basically humping. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

🗳️ Projected National Share, 2026 local elections: ➡️Ref: 26% (-4) 🟢Grn: 18% (+7) 🔵Con: 17% (+2) 🔴Lab: 17% (-3) 🟠Lib: 16% (-1) At 17%, this is Labour's lowest-ever vote PNS share in a local election, and the highest-ever for the Greens. x.com/LeftieStats/...

This guy on Question Time called Andy Burnham far left. What the fuck is wrong with this country? Everyone’s a fucking dumbass now. There hasn’t been a single smart question from the audience in this QT episode. I really don’t anticipate one in the second half of it, but let’s see.

Danny Kruger said that Labour under a new leader would be forced more to the left by their unions. I mean under Burnham, marginally. But under Streeting, it’ll go even further rightwards. So that’s not remotely guaranteed what he’s suggesting. Not that it would be a bad thing obviously. But they lie

Yeah I mean Trump is squeezing them on both sides. On the EV side by the trade war, and on the fossil side by the totally unnecessary and illegal war in Iran. And in addition the general idiocy of the world population in failing to rapidly adopt EVs in a climate crisis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The vast majority of the world's countries now have a more favourable view of China than of the United States. Data from the Democracy Perception Index 2026.

COVID was not a failure of epidemiology (they got the basic facts right pretty early). It was a failure of politics and of media. So of course those two sectors are working hard to shift the blame.

I’m sure everyone who saw me thought I was wearing it for protection against Covid or Hantavirus though.

I wore my FFP2 mask to go out today after I noticed an insane amount of air pollution on my walk yesterday. I’m not sure if it was less polluted today or not. I kinda doubt it was much different if it was; but I did notice a big difference either way. A small whiff of diesel at times, but much less.

🗳️POLL | #GE2029 with Streeting as PM: ➡️Ref: 32% (+17) 🟢Grn: 21% (+14) 🔵Con: 15% (-9) 🔴Lab: 15% (-20) 🟠Lib: 11% (-2) { Seats } ➡️Ref: 373 (+368) 🟢Grn: 101 (+97) 🟠Lib: 72 (-) 🟡SNP: 47 (+38) 🔵Con: 17 (-104) 🟩Plaid: 10 (+6) 🔴Lab: 5 (-406) Poll: @YouGov, 28 Jan 2026 x.com/LeftieStats/...

"Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to the world?" According to the new Democracy Perceptions Index report, the US is named as the top threat by people in 65 out of 84 of surveyed countries. In fact, the US is the top named threat even within the US itself.

Only in 4 countries (out of 98 surveyed) are more people in favour than against: Puerto Rico, Poland, Israel, and South Korea.