This should be worrying for Green-curious progressive voters.

A barren plain, filled with flat rocks, pebbles, and sand. The sky is a yellow colour; the ground fades with distance from the camera, which is mounted on a lander (the base of which is visible at the bottom).

This is what the surface of Venus looks like.

(Sort of.)

Probably the most important political news today.

My compatriots seem to have gone completely bananas. How on Earth can they think a bunch of English posh boys and offshore crypto millionaire funded chancers can be good for Wales.

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Really don't think another unelected PM is what the UK needs. But if Starmer decides to stand down with grace next year, suspect Ed M would be a less unpopular choice than the alternatives.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Sorry to hear this. Government probably deserves some of the blame; they have yet to demonstrate understanding of what HE means - or meant - to the UK.

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10

Increasingly, America itself does not feel like part of the West, thanks to stuff like this.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Outside the Single Market, the UK will be seeing more and more manufacturing opportunities like this slip beyond its grasp.

FB in particular is barely recognisable from a decade ago. Noticing that it's really pushing nostalgia accounts now: superficially interesting but with comments full of far-right bile. Very hard to work out who owns these, but there's a semi-organised feel to it.

And, perhaps, children who've become bilingual in Welsh/English find it easier to learn further languages.

Here's a question for journalists to ask spittle-flecked Tories and Reform politicians: which European countries are NOT members of Erasmus+, and do you want the UK to be more like them?

Farage: "I happen to know him, but that’s by the by.”

Yes, in my branch some of the left did support Starmer because he offered basically the 2017 manifesto programme with plausibility as PM. I & others joined in 2019 to keep RL-B out & because we saw an authoritative pro-EU PM. What we had in common was "competence". It's working out really well.

Do you think Labour are as bad as the Tories?

Yet a government of towering integrity and a genuine desire to improve lives compared with its immediate predecessors. Disappointed with Starmer, but important not to overdo the rhetoric if you're interested in green-curious progressive voters, perhaps.

This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win

christ, not to relitigate It a decade on but it's hard to watch people happily waving Hungarian flags and EU flags at the same time and not think "oh right, almost like it's not that fucking hard to realise that you can have and cherish multiple, complimentary identities"

oh god oh fuck I took the metro to the Tisza rally and all these kids POURED OUT of the train at the stop and started running up the escalators chanting, and briefly held hands with the older people leaving the rally and going down on the escalator, and I think I may actually just cry

Looks like it’s gonna be a very bad night for Matt Goodwin, James Orr and the Spiked crew….

Didn't mean to discount the huge efforts being made to push back locally and nationally 👏. Partly a reflection of our media not covering that sufficiently, but also of political structural effects, eg no US Leader of the Opposition, just congressional minority leaders who get little attention here.

Really hope Vance turns up to campaign for Reform

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.

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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.

Tristan da Cunha: The busiest place you’ve never seen 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.

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!

(apologies for the length). Most of this is anecdotal, so perhaps ESRC could fund some more rigorous research that looks at the factors in vehicle choice in much more detail. In short, we should tax the behemoths off our roads, but be precise about vehicle taxonomy. 3/3