More than 110 Nobel laureates call on Iran to release gravely ill activist Narges Mohammadi

NEW ISSUE: In this special extra edition of Renewal, @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, and other members of the Tribune Group of Labour MPs set out paths to repairing Britain's broken economic settlement. renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

How should the government respond to spikes in energy prices? A targeted energy discount would help to protect lower-income families with high energy use this winter ⤵️ buff.ly/bDPVzLB

This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson

Bridget Phillipson wrote a good piece in 2019 about Labour's addiction to sentimentality and nostalgia — paywalled unfortunately www.newstatesman.com/politics/201...

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

Liz Truss spent £75bn responding to the Ukraine energy shock. The Iran war has caused another energy price spike — but we can’t afford the same response. That’s why our new report recommends more focused support to stabilise the economy. Read here: www.ippr.org/articles/pri...

These MRPs are completely mad. 1. They are *not* polls of each borough - their sample size per borough is about 80 people. Instead they are projections based on demographics. At General Elections this works fairly well across the UK - but it does not work for councils because:

Reform has ignored multiple requests for comment from @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/r...

A £5,000,000 gift from the party’s largest backer, is neither ‘purely personal’ nor a commercial loan. It is without precedent.

The lead plaintiff in Callais v. Louisiana said on social media that he was at January 6:

How infuriating to hear the chairman(?) of Asda on the Today programme implying that land use for solar farms might significantly hurt UK food production. It's nonsense. Golf courses use more than solar ever will & beef/lamb production is huge yet provides a tiny fraction of our protein & calories.

Cool project. Solar panels over canals in California "recorded evaporation reductions of 50-70% beneath the solar arrays and an 85% decrease in algae growth" www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/s...

"there is nothing Starmer can do to stop the crypto cash" I'd say there's always the option of criminalising the holding of what is literally the crime currency, and which exists for little other practical reason than that

Now more than ever, we must stand by our Jewish friends, neighbours and colleagues. Jewish Londoners deserve to live without fear. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

22 years apart but @moreincommonuk.bsky.social polling today and 2004 ‘The Fairness Code’ so similar! @rachelsylvester.bsky.social As one So’ton voter told me ‘You go to work, pay your taxes, play by the rules, but all the help goes to other people.” 🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/59007...