UK politics obsessive. Pragmatism over idealism. Reduce poverty & inequality. Climate crisis real & urgent. Stale, white & male. Likes mean read nowt. Anti-Yank Clash fan in London - other bands also good. Arsenal Science is real unlike Internet fantasy
Clarity on the talk on #Newsnight about enquiries into the UK sexual trafficking activities of Jeffrey Epstein and Mohammad Fayad There are two SEPARATE enquiries under consideration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Burnham considering public inquiry into UK activities of Jeffrey EpsteinMinister says PM has agreed to meet victims of sex offender and could launch separate inquiry into Mohamed Al Fayedwww.theguardian.comInevitable blood price paid by Ukrainian civilians for America's amoral equivocation over the blood-stained tyrant Putin's assault on a neighbour What has Vladimir got over the Don? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Zelenskyy rails at lack of anti-missile defences amid deadly Russian attack on Kyiv – Europe liveUkrainian president tells allies that anti-ballistic measures could have saved lives as at least 17 die and more than 40 are injured in huge attackwww.theguardian.comAnyone else think the second "to" in this headline redundant? Whatever happened to sub-editting.... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Badenoch defends decision to allow man jailed for antisemitism to stand as councillorTory leader praises Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s ‘contrition’ but says she has higher thresholds for MP candidateswww.theguardian.comWhat I cannot accept is that this individual has no better way to "give back" to the community than to stand for a council seat He can work in a soup kitchen or in any number of voluntary activities outside politics I question the motivation here
Sarah MurphySo Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
London cyclists are a pain.... and get "righteously" angry when challenged about their selfish disregard of the rules I have no problem shouting at them like (or as) a mad pedestrian Default behaviour is now NOT to stop at Belisha crossings or red lights
John O’DonnellAlmost got hit by a cyclist going through a red light on Notting Hill Gate, and he was motoring. This is getting to be almost a daily occurrence.
All large mammals are fucked - mankind he destroyed the biosphere already All we have left is to witness our own destruction
Extreme Temperatures Around the WorldARCTIC RECORD WARMTH The world's Northernmost places above 80N had exceptional temperatures up to +17C (Station Nord,Greenland). Absolutely exceptional the MINIMUM of +12.7C at Clyde,CANADA :It shattered by huge margin its all time High Minimum record.
Wow! These thugs need to be treated as dangerous
Oxford ClarionLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Reminder of the real Israeli agenda - they want to steal all of Palestine for themselves www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Jerusalem’s most important Muslim religious site facing ‘imminent’ threat of Israeli takeover, says JordanCountry convenes emergency meeting of ministers from Arab and Islamic world, fearing such a move could ‘trigger a religious conflict’www.theguardian.com