"Small boat crossings are still increasing" reports the BBC's flagship Radio 4 Today programme.
Editors could check BBC Verify, which reports they are down 35% year on year. The trend began Sept 2025, though crossings rose before that, but falling for over 6 months now if compared like with like.
Chinese car & battery company CATL now have a product which would allow a car to go from London to Barcelona on a single charge. And another that charges fully in 6.5 mins
Chinese reaping rewards from investing early & heavy in clean transition. Way ahead of the west now
www.ft.com/content/1773...
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
The media's day has been ruined by Olly Robbins, he didn't contradict anything Starmer said yesterday. The rest of the day and probably all bloody week will be filled with the media desperately trying to keep this b*llocks alive until polling day.
Mandelson's a self-serving scumbag - a huge gamble that he would assist UK-US relations. I don't blame Starmer for trying but it was clearly the wrong decision and he has apologised. I'm not a Starmer fan but am finding the feeding-frenzy OTT - and wildly hypocritical from Badenoch, Farage et al.
It was a terrible call - but at the time Starmer (and MANY others) thought the best way to deal with Trump was to flatter and court him. Wrong strategy!
Hate the Palantir-NHS contract too but this was signed in 2023 when Sunak was PM so think you're overstating Mandelson's influence here.
Spot on. And many agreed at the time. Faux outrage all round.
Starmer can't say why but it's obvious - he thought (& many agreed at the time) that a scumbag would be able to deal with the scumbag in the WH. Huge mistake but doesn't merit the faux outrage across the media. May appointing Johnson as FS when she knew he'd failed security checks is much worse IMO.
Starmer made a mistake over Mandelson. He wasn't (perhaps) officially told about the failed vetting but would have been aware of Mandelson's past.
Unlike the Tories whose governments were rotten with lies, deceit and (PPE) scandals that cost lives, this issue is not that, so can we please move on.
The Press knew. They laughed.
The Tories knew. They didn’t care.
All I see now is hypocrisy.
“Given the jingoism of the times, the EU’s political resilience is striking, even weird,” writes Janan Ganesh www.ft.com/content/927e...
Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future
iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...
When the numbers were going up, the Channel boat crossings dominated BBC news & much of the media daily. They have fallen 34% in the first three months of this year, but you wouldn’t know it from the media coverage.
🚨🚨Welcome and very significant news on #EU-UK relationship and #brexit reversal: yesterday, the European Union and the United Kingdom have enabled the UK's association to #Erasmus+ in 2027. 🧵
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
HOWLING
Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union:
"I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."
Trump is now posting Al images of himself as Jesus Christ
Trump is now posting Al images of himself as Jesus Christ
Spotted on Reddit…
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Norway is actually protecting the US by monitoring Russian nuclear weapons bases. If something serious happens, Norway will let us know, but Trump complains and scolds, trusting Putin more than his own old allies.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on UK to rejoin the EU for sake of European security
The Ukrainian leader said the UK could help Europe fight the security threat of Russia.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/volodym...
BBC NEWS Shropshire Council Issuing statement on council website: "We will be removing all unauthorised flags from our street lighting columns and other highway assets. This will be in Shrewsbury initially with plans to remove all unauthorised flags across the county in time. Where appropriate and legally possible, we will seek to recover the cost of removal from the individuals responsible for installing the flags."
Every council should follow suit.
I would rather that my tax dollars NOT go to supporting a foreign dictator and Putin ally. -- Sigh.
Brexit leaves UK creatives cut off from EU funding and touring, as rising barriers threaten collaboration, careers, and cultural influence | Robert G Davies
@europeanmovement.co.uk @cyfathrebwr.bsky.social @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
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THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:
Ukrainian forces have destroyed the last ferry used by Russian troops in Crimea, impacting supply lines. Source: Pravda Gerashchenko.
In a bold overnight operation, Ukrainian forces crippled a vital supply route for Russian military, hampering their war efforts.
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The Kremlin’s envoy has arrived in Budapest
This is the reality. The rest is bullshit.
'Jackdaw field, one of the largest unexploited gasfields, would displace only 2% of the UK’s current imports of gas, which would leave the UK still almost entirely dependent on supplies from Norway and other sources.'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We have a president currently who is indeed "a disgrace to the office" and all his predecessors!
