The Home Office' anti-immigration agenda is strangling growth across the economy. It prevents a closer relationship with Europe, deprives us of the workers we need and undermines universities. getting-out-of-the-hole.uk/labours-red-...

The UK would have been well-placed to provide a European alternative in life sciences and biomedical research, with critical mass around the Cambridge biomedical campus and EMBL-EBI. But brexit sank that hope.

Dreadful that **before their appeal has even been heard**, Gvt has told police to restart arresting elderly pro-Palestine protestors. It’s almost as if they want to do even worse in the May elections than they were already going to.

Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.

I think this had been bothering me without me putting my finger on it. Ed Davey was a successful Energy Secretary for three years accelerating the rollout of renewables and now he’s arguing for major fossil fuel subsidies during a global oil shortage. There’s no way he believes it!

Fascinating.

A month and a half after the US and Israel attacked Iran, CNN finds itself unable to say.

It’s crazy that the vice president openly intervening in a foreign election for the candidate backed by Russia ranks a distant second in insane things happening today.

NEWS: The Trump Administration has DROPPED its appeal of an earlier federal court ruling that reinstated the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS)! This is an enormous win for libraries nationwide. Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2026/04... #FundLibraries #ForOurLibraries

On this, Polanski is right. We need to pressure Labour MPs now.

👇what will it take for our leaders and institutions, including the media, to treat this moment as the crisis it is?

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

#Artemis II - We have the first image from yesterdays Lunar flyby captured by the crew on Orion EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. 🚀🌕🌍

#Artemis II - Photo 2 from yesterdays flyby ECLIPSE. April 6, 2026. Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed. Photo: NASA 🚀🌕🌑

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

For #Stunday. This is an image made with Intentional Camera Movement. I adjusted iso and aperture to get a shutter speed of about two seconds. Then quickly panned the camera back and forth horizontally during the exposure. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #ICM #photoart #digitalart

Understandably seeing several posts and comments about the the fear of nuclear war, given the latest outbursts from Trmp; not least from people who've read the compelling and disturbing novel "The 2020 Commission" by @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social

The Artemis II crew is now getting a good look at the Moon—including parts we can't see from Earth! At the right of the Moon in this view is the Mare Orientale multiring basin, only a portion of which is visible to us normally. In this photo, the Moon's south pole is to the top.

9/ This heat map from Goldman's report shows that many Asian countries face an existential energy shock, with the total loss of Gulf imports of key refined products, especially fuel oil and jet fuel.

Despite institutional constraints and limited political room for manoeuvre, Brittany maintains a strong cultural identity, a sense of belonging, and a place in the Celtic world ✍️ NHU - Votre Média Breton

Voters in Wales failed by inaccurate UK media reports on devolved issues, study finds www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Miriam Cates is asking a good question “Unlike the main populist parties in France or Germany, Reform’s support is heavily skewed to older voters and comparatively marginal among the youngest sections of the electorate.” This is true, but why?" Big part of answer: UK is integration success story

Next major Artemis 2 milestone is a perigee-raise rocket burn carried out at 1130 UTC, near apogee. Resulting orbit will be around 191 x 70133 km.

The best and the worst of America, in one memorable day.

The UK has had the successive shocks of Tory austerity, brexit, the pandemic, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran. Is it unreasonable to ask the very wealthy to do more of the heavy lifting to get our country back on track? This is a question many hoped Labour would ask.

The UK government is exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract, the FT reports. A big and absolutely correct step.

Also, donate if you can. We know who the offshore crypto billionaires are funding. www.partyof.wales/donate

🔴Kemi Badenoch Campaigns For North Sea Drilling at Company Owned by Oil and Gas Executive Who Donated £250,000 to the Conservatives The Conservative party has also taken millions of pounds from funders and directors of anti-Net Zero lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2026/03/30/k...

🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19

"Put simply, Wales is becoming less British." If only the English press commissioned more analysis of Welsh politics as good as this.

Starmer’s press tormentors are merciless. He either needs to fight back or bypass them | Jane Martinson

Looking good, FPTP

Other vacation destinations are available.

This is not okay. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is deeply disturbing

And we shouldn't overlook those in the UK who still cheerlead for Trump.

Again, I point out that the landscape I grew up in was absolutely ravaged by the side effects of fossil fuel extraction so my sympathy for these people whining about how they might see a solar array is pretty limited

Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.

I think people outside of Ukraine still struggle to understand front line cities, being emptied of people. Families forced to move, forcibly displaced, communities emptied, children taken from everything they know. These are cities where 1000s of people live, emptied of life.

This should be put to a House of Commons vote.

This is v good on Tories failing to understand what they are leaving behind in their dash to compete with Reform on Reform’s terms.

Hardly a surprise. Reform are the most English nationalist bunch imaginable. The astonishing thing is that any Welsh or Scottish voter could even consider voting for them.

Labour's red line on Freedom of Movement (created as a sop to McSweeney's "hero" voters) has to go. FoM was always hugely popular in the UK when framed as a reciprocal right instead of being conflated with immigration.

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Expats can't vote in the Senedd elections. But we can donate to @plaidcymru.bsky.social to ensure that Wales gets a government by Wales and for Wales.

Wales beat Italy who beat Scotland who beat France who beat Ireland who beat England who beat Wales. #6nations

If Trump wants more than strategic advice from Europe on the Strait of Hormuz, the price should be a gigantic US military aid package for Ukraine to compensate for the additional oil revenue Russia is receiving due to the Iran War. Military aid. Not defence contracts paid by Europe.

This is the default configuration of Samsung TV. GB News has bought prime spot. What this meant was that racist chat entered my front room yesterday ("foreign NHS workers can't speak English").at 6.30pm with my six year old listening. How can Ofcom just sit back and let this happen?