One hell of a modal filter here, well played Bristol central library 👏👏

York stone paving slabs are not really the right surfacing option for cycle lanes. But I still like these in Bristol’s Queens Square. They are giving hieroglyph energy

Rishan from my now cancelled Journeys project. She escaped religious persecution in Eritrea and travelled across the Sahara and through Libya aged only 15, eventually making it to Kent. She has now qualified as an NHS nurse to give something back to the country which gave her sanctuary.

There was a stream of people who used to vote Labour now voting Green. "It has now become a torrent." 👇🏼 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I honestly think a lot of people are finding it increasingly surreal to watch the BBC and corporate media continuing to do Both Sides Centrism when one of the sides is "we're openly corrupt Nazi paedophiles"

“People don’t do good things because they’re good people. They become good people because they do good things.” @rutgerbregman.com 2nd Reith lecture is quite the tonic notwithstanding all the caveats, terms and conditions apply etc, well worth a listen

Here's how Aurora Energy Research sees the UK offshore wind auction (AR7) cutting bills for consumers "£1bn by 2035" * CfD payments go up * Other costs go up (balancing, capacity mkt) * Wholesale prices go down * Overall costs go down www.linkedin.com/posts/ivan-b...

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

I monitored Nazi terror Telegram channels from 2019 to 2022 or so and it's hard to overstate the degree to which DHS's X account mimics the tone, aesthetic, voice, and language of those cess pits. Whoever is running socials for them has obviously spent a lot of time in that space.

Meanwhile

Ofcom just sat in Parliament and suggested the reason they haven't upheld single complaint on climate coverage since 2020 is that "broadcasters that we regulate have a good understanding of the code and they are complying with the rules". This is what they've been green-lighting...

8.4 GIGAWATTS of offshore wind just contracted in the UK, thanks to Ed Miliband's recent auction - enough electricity to power 12 million homes. The US can boil in Venezuelan oil. We're investing in energy you don't need to invade other nations to obtain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good that the City of London is doing this, and about time, too.

Did you see the claim from the Government in the House of Lords that "10.8 million families use X as their main news source"? Well, the government has admitted it was wrong. I investigated for Radio 4's More or Less - you can hear it here, starting at 14:55. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Pretty straightforward statement. It isn't any more complicated than this.

1/ Some wild numbers have been used in the media this week for “the cost of net zero”. Reports have said that net zero will “cost” £4.5 trillion, £7.6 trillion – the list goes on. None of these are the cost of net zero – a quick explainer 🧵 on why

Ed Miliband continues to preside over the only bit of the govt doing good stuff, today with the excellent announcement that the latest CfD auction has secured *8.4GW* of new offshore wind! Ed: “This is the largest amount of offshore wind procured in any auction ever in Britain or indeed Europe” 🥳🏆

Anti-racism campaigners and unions have voiced their horror after Nigel Farage doubled down on his decade-old call for anti-discrimination laws to be ripped up so employers can discriminate www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Think mass protest & non-cooperation doesn’t matter? @jiggygero.bsky.social says: “When researchers looked at 35 cases of democratic backsliding from 1991-2021, only 7.5% were successful with no civil resistance movement while 51.7% were successful with a mass civil resistance movement.” Keep it up!

He has been very clear that Nigel Farage wants to initiate racist terror squads snatching foreign-looking teenagers off the streets here in Britain too. It boggles my mind the free ride Reform gets in the media despite saying yes they want a UK ICE!!

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Plaid Cymru and the Greens are surging in Wales, according to this latest poll. Where’s the media narrative around this? Where are the stories saying Farage is failing? When will Labour try to regain ground by appealing to Plaid & Green voters, not just copy Reform? www.itv.com/news/wales/2...

U.S. citizen detained by ICE: “…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”

Protester is 21 yrs old. ICE agent dragged him and held his head down in his own pool of blood, mocked him about losing his eye. They fired pepper pellets at the HEAD of a witness recording the incident.

After 72 days on hunger strike, Heba "knows that her death may be imminent... If she survives, she will have spent at least a year and a half in prison before her trial date - reportedly due no earlier than June this year, well beyond the UK’s usual 6-month pre-trial detention limit".

We are due a new rail infrastructure and rolling stock strategy in the first half of 2026, which really can’t come soon enough. Maddeningly, the procurement of bi-mode (class 810) trains for the MML has been given as a reason for cancelling electrification north of Wigston, which is absurd

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

Disgraced former Conservative Chancellor is off to Reform. On brand for the grab-bag of deplorables.

a decade is a long time in politics

Goood morning! To almost everyone.

Sure London has its problems, but I’m not even rly willing to entertain that conversation since it’s in the face of such an onslaught of racist lies about the place. London is the proof that integrated, diverse communities thrive living side by side. They HATE that. #r4today

Labour Party friends: I cannot in good conscience vote for this agenda and nor should you

People have been trying to talk London down, but the evidence tells a different story. Last year saw: The lowest murder rate per capita since records began The fewest murders of those aged under 25 this century One of the lowest numbers of homicides for almost three decades

“These new powers do not go far enough to protect pedestrians. It’s disappointing not to see a nationwide prohibition.” Our @charitycat.bsky.social responds to the news that local authorities will receive legal powers to restrict pavement parking. https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/pavement-parking

This is also what Yvette Cooper, when she was UK Home Secretary, said about #PalestineAction. If you knew the secret stuff I know, you'd agree with me that they're terrorists. It's the cheapest and basest way for a politician to malign someone, and a clear sign of a flailing, undemocratic state.

None of these vehicles fit inside on street parking spaces and consequently they should not be being issued with residents’ parking permits. This seems very obvious to me.

This political moment in the US is incredibly clarifying about the British right. In the Times yesterday, Fraser Nelson blamed the killing of Good on... immigration. Today, Camilla Long blames it on... Democrats, & trans rights. The left is always to blame, even for the rise of fascism.

Strange isn't it... the people who actually live in London overwhelmingly think it's safe.... almost like everyone else is falling for a lie

Good morning to nearly everyone!

This is the way!

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

We need urgent DEYANKIFICATION in the UK to end our dependence on the Fascistic Trump regime! @ukstoptrump.bsky.social

Remember: those who want to ditch the European Convention on Human Rights would enable exactly the same thing in the UK. You might think they won't come to your door because of that flag in your window or your white skin, but I can just go on X and tell Musk to direct a govt mob to your home.

Such a mystery why they would wrongly think this, weird

Minneapolis pastor says that he detained by ICE and then released, by an agent who said: "You're white, you won't be any fun anyway."

If pumping indecent images of children into our news feeds, isn’t enough to force the Government to finally take action against Musk then nothing ever will be. New post on how Musks useful British idiots are trying desperately to stop the Government from acting www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/elon-musks...