Weird. Earlier Badenoch said the Tories had changed, but this is just more of the same as when they were in power. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

USN officers applauding as a President calls his party political enemies insects to be eliminated. A new low every day.

*gasp*

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Other parties do not have plans she says while claiming the Tories do. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... And yet....

Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Choose carefully when you exercise your right to demonstrate…” 🤨

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants. Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

The response to protests you don't like is not to slide the Police more power and suggest they use it, but to actually listen to what protestors are saying and think again.

Sheer racism

WGN TV – Illinois Governor Pritzker says President Trump is federalizing 300 members of the state's National Guard despite his objections. wgntv.com/news/operation-midw...

Reform, Tories and Labour all at full speed to hollow out whatever remaining soul the UK has. Shame on the lot of them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the logical conclusion of the Americanisation of UK right-wing parties, for whom Steve Bannon has been a conduit since the Brexit campaign.

Apparently it's not enough to be busy policeling toilets and what's in people's underwear any more.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Shared how the greater shutdown of NIH science has been underway since January on @msnbc.com today. We need Congress to stand firm to protect science, democracy and the American people. www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...

“Why don’t you just verify your ID? Just send them your passport/face scan/credit card, what could go wrong? It’s perfectly safe you’re just paranoid” etc etc etc

Oh dear. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

We don’t get to choose who’s worthy of love. Everybody means everybody. ❤️

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

In memoriam...

Man, I really hope the UK government didn't get around to chucking a ton of money we can ill-afford at LLM data centre infrastructure, like they said they were going to.

It's an exciting appointment. And not just because of the connection to home (Crediton). Good background beyond the Church in healthcare, universities, in science-connected thinking, thoughtful positions on key issues...

"The Church of England has been without a leader for almost a year..." I think the King (unfortunately) and the AB of York might have a different opinion on that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

So which presenter gets the good job of announcing the new ABC and which one has the sad job of sending a bishop home this week? #BishopOff 🍰

Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying, "It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza" "These are separate things and we should condemn them both"

Ooof. Our Labour Government is just terrible at public messaging. Telling people it is 'un-British' protesting the destruction of a people group in another country because of a singular, isolated attack in this country (motivations still officially unknown) isn't... great. We rightly condemn both.

READ ⬇️ Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education.

🆕 The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable 🪐 On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Mind that Liz Truss? Kwazi Kwarteng? Tufton Street's finest? Praised by every right wing paper and think tank as the second coming of Thatcher? Mind how they walked in and tanked the economy and had to be removed after 1 month? Farage was their biggest fan, too. bsky.app/profile/stur...

It's worth remembering that Reform's platform isn't just callous, racist and divisive. It's also economically illiterate and absolutely will not improve anything*. *unless you're a member of the party or one of their billionaire backers, hedging against the country you helped them take charge of.

I'm not a single issue voter, but if there is one single issue to vote on it should be this. You simply cannot aim to extract & burn all fossil fuels while pretending that you will tackle climate change. Somewhere along that line you are lying to yourself and voters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Department of 'War' was bought together so their two nutcase leaders could inform them that the enemy was beards. And women. And US citizens and cities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really disappointing from @royalsociety.org which is hiding behind "not policing politics" to sustain the membership of an openly white supremacist anti-science billionaire who never should have been admitted in the first place, talk about low bars 🧪 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

US war crimes are back, baby!

Deeply disappointing. Once again the @royalsociety.org has avoided explaining how *actions* by Elon Musk that clearly repudiate the Society's values are consistent with the code of conduct that Fellows must adhere to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

This was a powerful speech by Pope Leo which built on Pope Francis’ teaching legacy. He criticised those who “have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming”. It was a privilege to be in the room. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

A great loss to the world, but what a life to celebrate and look up to. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Feck sake. Labour were voted in because they *weren't* the Tories and we're meant to be offering something different. REFORM-LITE IS NOT IT!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump: "I'm gonna be meeting with generals and admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm gonna fire them right on the spot."

TEN YEARS for settled status. Labour really do seem to have gone collectively insane. Just don’t play Farage’s game. Refuse. Try thinking about what you’re actually saying. And stop.

People thinking that Reform's suggestions of getting rid of legal immigrants will fix the NHS have no idea how much it will hurt healthcare. Immigrants & children of immigrants keep the NHS functioning. Same with social care.

Literally telling them to turn their body cameras off as well....

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

Me: "You didn't write this, Kant did." Student: "Yeah but Kant didn't opt out after I announced I'd be using his work..."