Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s search for a new US ambassador – cartoon
Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s search for a new US ambassador – cartoon
Gun violence is out of control. The victims of gun violence are Republicans, Democrats, independents, and kids, who have no political affiliation whatsoever. We need to tone down the incendiary political rhetoric, for sure, but we also need to do something about guns. The guns!
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
Come on. Just freaking come on.
CLARE SHORT?????????
I’d like to see more work done to preserve the site of the ancient palace of the Roman Emperors so that many more generations can visit and enjoy it. Which is why I, like many others #SupportPalatineAction
Now you C-D-See it, now you don't. @theonion.com
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I’m going with refugees. “Kill ‘em before they get here”
we are at this ⬆️ point in history.
This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
The abuse I've been sent has got noticeably worse in the last few months, escalating in some cases to violent threats, which are reported to the police. It doesn't matter how much you disagree with someone, threats of violence are never, ever OK. And they won't silence me. Me in the Guardian:
TBH mostly the UK. We been Russia’s oligarch laundromat for years.
Threw out the knight.
So the outcome is different how?
In Nick Clegg's defense, nothing in his recent pre-Facebook experience could have forewarned him that accepting a position of supposed authority from bad people doesn't always work out the way you had hoped.
With my mind he runs.
You were in France FFS
You were literally in a café.
Why the fuck would you order this? This is the stupidest post I’ve seen this week. And I’ve seen some really stupid posts. BTW tea is piss where ever you drink it😂
The far right wanted to march across Liverpool today… Liverpool had other ideas 👊 www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
me last week: “There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”
Correction “Our Globe”
I remember finding a live Stag Beetle outside my tent while camping in Kinabalu national park in Sabah, Borneo. in the 1970s . Amazing to find out their life cycle now and understanding their contribution to the ecosystems of the globe. Thank you.
The larva spends 1–5 years feeding on decaying wood, mainly from broadleaved trees, so it usually inhabits oak-rich forests. Adults feed on tree sap and ripe fruit juices. Their life after metamorphosis is very short, just 15–30 days. (pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaca-lo...)
First Class! 👏👏👏👏
I know one of the big arguments against a Republic is "what if we ended up with a President .... (insert your bogeyperson here) instead." But people forget that for some 32 years, we were just a single heartbeat away from Prince Andrew being the first in line to the throne.
47% of Britons think there are more “illegal” immigrants in the UK than legal immigrants, despite only making up 4% of the overall figures! My latest article with exclusive research outlines how the UK are being sold a lie…. www.jacobbarclayevans.com/how-4-of-mig...
People are appallingly ignorant about immigration. They don't understand basic things about "net immigration statistics" and have a completely warped sense of what is going on. It is up to the government and the media to educate, but both are too busy batting their eyes at Nigel Farage's voters.
Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #FindsFriday #Archaeology
Worked well with Canada🤣
£88m is not really “money” it’s not even a rollover lottery win.
Since lots of rat hysteria - see "Giant Rat of Normanby" - at moment, a good time to point to my Substack noting our culture "is particularly bad at both creating messes, & blaming the creatures that flourish in world we created" nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
And this misunderstanding leads to ignoring one of the big opportunities brought by renewables: sometimes it gives us really cheap electricity. Such as: today! There is a huge opportunity here that we should learn to take advantage of... bsky.app/profile/cele...
On Ofwat's CEO resigning this month month, Lib Dem Tim Farron MP said: “Captains usually go down with their ship, but in the wake of Ofwat’s abolishment, David Black has chosen to jump... “Ofwat has recklessly allowed profiteering water companies to spoil our precious waterways for far too long."
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Used to be but not now. These are all available to use as a non Tesla driver. But I don’t need to as mostly charge at home or at one of the multitude of other providers available everywhere now.
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
"Signatories include Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford, broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour and chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, as well as iconic war photographer Don McCullin."
Moscow already helped by Pyongyang; Zelenskyy says China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, African fighters on board.
David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.” ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social
"So what attracted your new minor party to PR when you've spent decades being lukewarm or anti-PR when you were in a party that benefitted massively from the old disproportional system?"
Britain has a corruption problem. "MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"
On this #PoisonedPlanet, last thing #PublicHealth or #Biodiversity needs is more #pesticices
“Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum adhere to a “Palestine exception” when opposing genocide... organizations such as the ADL, use spurious accusations of antisemitism to silence or discredit those who dare to speak out.”
The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
As OP points out, Zuck never defines "superintelligence," but if the term means anything it must mean intelligence greater than that of humans, right? "Super" is latin for "over" or "beyond." *If* we somehow managed to build computers smarter than us, what's to say they would do our bidding?
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And shining light in the body. 🤦🏻♀️
The White House announced a 50% tariff (+40% from previous 10%) on products from Brazil due to “threats to the U.S., human rights abuses and coercion of U.S. companies”.
Well, Lula called him “wanna be world emperor”, so here you have it. :)
Via @pml.ac.uk - Only 0.5% of 90,000 oil slicks reported over five-year period, analysis finds - @leanahosea.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The decision came after the country’s military chief sent a letter to Trump praising his ‘strong leadership’.
Europe: We're building wind farms, current turbines, solar panels, in a bid to power the twenty first century! US: We're unshackling the coal industry, trying to kill alternative energy, and bringing legal slavery back!
I think remember injecting disinfectant was also mentioned.
In France they call them Wind Royales.
Motherfucking wind farms…
🇧🇪 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 BREAKING | Belgian FM: Belgium officially recognizes the State of Palestine. The government has been directed to impose severe sanctions on Israel. What Israel is committing in Gaza is a systematic act of genocide. We will not remain silent in the face of such crimes.
After Trump said Sadiq Khan was 'nasty' today, a spokesperson for the Mayor says if Trump came to London he'd "see how our diversity makes us stronger not weaker." “Perhaps these are the reasons why a record number of Americans have applied for British citizenship under his Presidency." 🧨
This is perfectly written. When I see a column like this it gives me hope that comment journalism still has a purpose.
The PNG Courier on the crime against humanity currently being permitted to take place in Gaza. Substack - mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
Bluesky, having given me an unwanted blue-tick to verify I was a contributor to the FT, has now verified I am also an adult. Apparently the one was not sufficient for the other.
American journalists have a lot to learn from Scotland.
"In 2020, the government pointed to Maxwell’s 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the government’s control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help the president out of this jam."
“So it’s not a mistake and you know it and you keep the warehouse locked…” 🚨 He knows the food is still good and can be used for starving children, yet still plans to incinerate it.
A window through an Atlantic rainforest to the adjacent sheep-wrecked mountain. The degree of contrast between rich, pulsing life and empty nothingness has to be seen to be believed.
Important story from @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
No shit sherlock. 😂😂😂
As we say in the UK “No shit Sherlock!”
CONFIRMED: Trump’s name is in the Einstein Files—multiple times. 🚨 Earlier this year, DOJ officials went through what Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of Epstein documents. Guess whose name kept popping up? Donald Trump. Over and over again. Senior officials confirmed it.
This is so good.
"First Past the Post has encouraged a focus on ‘Mondeo man’ – the idea that there’s a small number of constituencies needed to be won. That’s a reductive mentality. Politics has to be about everyone, everywhere." Well put, @andyburnham.bsky.social.💯 No constituency or voter should be left behind.
One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today
Steve Reed MP Secretary of State for Environment in England, deflecting from the Sewage Scandal engulfing private water companies in England, lied on ITV News,"things were worse in Scotland" under public control.He should be held to account & asked to apologise for lying & resign
The pollution problem has become so severe in the Permian Basin that it's causing infighting among oil producers... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"The pandemic saw the biggest sacrifice from one generation for another, since the war. Then we said to children: off you go to navigate the [mental health fallout] on your own." An MP with empathy? IT'LL NEVER CATCH ON! Seriously, well done @chrismurraymp.bsky.social. A touching contribution. ~AA
Good luck generating power once the glaciers have gone www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
I recommend watching the whole youtube video. Brave and incite-full from Mehdi Hasan. We all need to confront fascism or it will become the normality. If it hasn’t already.
done
Farage claims that “convicted sex offenders” have been bought to the UK via the Afghan Relocation Route but is not bothered that a sex offender is coming to have tea with the king in September.
You're all going to be so embarrased when the Wall Street Journal releases Trump's letter and it turns out it was just a threat to impose 40% tariffs on Epstein Island.
The great artificial water crisis of 2025 🫣 🌍🔥 This is a man-made disaster fuelled by decades of failure to invest in climate resilience. This isn't suprising given that since 1990, shareholders have extracted over £77bn in dividends...🤬 🔗- bit.ly/4lTRZdi @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Government insiders tell @tesscolley.bsky.social Chris Hinchcliff had whip removed due to "persistent knobheadery". Here he is, asking whether it's right to build in a way that could create 100,000 new homes uninsurable due to flood risk. Is that knobheadery? www.endsreport.com/article/1925...
OK, own up, who did this? darrengrimes.co.uk Hilarious.
A remarkable and revealing account of the fragility of our legal and constitutional system of government in the face of a concerted effort to prevent journalists from doing their job.
Asylum seekers include qualified doctors and nurses and trained engineers. Of course they should be allowed to work.
“crafty” wanker
Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s Darren Grimes Seeks Help From European Convention on Human Rights After Previously Calling It ‘Utterly Bent’ EXCLUSIVE: The former GB News host wants to rely on the same European laws he has campaigned against
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story. The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...
We all know why, don’t we?
WTF? A judge is ALLOWING this? Lawyers not giving their names publicly?!
A manmade drought in looming in Gaza, as the whole water system is collapsing & children will start to die of thirst. Ten people, including 6 kids, were killed in an Israeli bomb strike yesterday as they queued for water at a tap, clutching their jerrycans. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
I’m seeing many reposts of Donald Trump’s demented distraction from the Jeffrey Epstein mess about Rosie O’Donnell. What I’m not seeing is her sassy response. Here it is:
