White House security is pretty shit.

Iran war leads to biggest jump in global energy inflation in at least 25 years – business live Global oil demand will decline this year for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, IEA predicts

Greenpeace have calculated that the UK has commissioned enough wind and solar this year to generate ten times as much electricity than the fossil fuel it imports through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Regular exercise can slow aging, but there’s a catch! We all know that regular exercise is good for us, but did you know it can also slow, and even reverse, aging?

There's an interesting relationship between exercise and biological ageing, but there's a third crucial factor - sleep, and it doesn't always work the way we might assume!
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UK households to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soar Incentives to absorb surplus wind and solar energy could help balance the grid and lower bills

The UK is generating more power from renewables than the outdated, underinvested grid can handle, so much so that Brits are being urged to use more electricity to balance it out.
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The human body isn’t a masterpiece of design – it’s a patchwork of evolutionary compromise Many aspects of human anatomy are just “good enough” solutions – functional, but far from perfect.

We ain't perfect
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Why I'm learning to juggle and other brain adventures

Why I'm learning to juggle
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Iran ceasefire deal gives Trump a way out of war - but at a high cost The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US.

Certainly a win for the world, but not so much for Trump.
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Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal US president Donald Trump once again warned Iran to make a deal on Tuesday, saying a “whole civilization will die tonight” if an agreement is not reached to end the conflict. Writing on Truth Social, he said: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

This is truly insane!

Middle East crisis live: Trump says he is ‘not at all’ worried about possible war crimes as his deadline for Iran nears Israel warns Iranians to immediately stop using trains or being near railway lines, saying it would ‘endanger’ their lives

The US is currently committing war crimes!
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Why I'm learning to juggle and other brain adventures

Why I'm learning to juggle
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New North Sea drilling would barely reduce UK gas imports at all, data shows Exclusive: research finds Jackdaw field would provide only about 2% of current demand, and Rosebank only 1%

New North Sea drilling would barely reduce UK gas imports at all, data shows

We need to ask who is pushing otherwise and why

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Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure? International law experts ‘seriously concerned’ about ‘strikes on schools, health centres and homes’ in contravention of Geneva conventions

Probably, but who will hold Trump & his psychopaths to account?
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UK hit by record rise in fuel prices, and ‘biggest mortgage shock since mini-budget’ as Iran war bites – business live Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

"Instead of ‘no more war’, we got ‘no, more war!’, with heavier strikes expected and a fresh warning of attacks on power plants."
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Trump likes bombing Iran on weekends, when the markets are closed.

One Way or Another, Most of Our Electricity Comes From Solar Power That’s good news, since the forecast is sunshine for the next 5 billion years.

That’s good news, since the forecast is sunshine for the next 5 billion years. www.wired.com/story/most-o...

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

Hardly surprising to see Peter Thiel's sticky mitts all over this. The UK government needs to kick Palantir out of bed before it's too late!
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Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

Book banning is alive & well in UK schools
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Early morning slow 10k

3. Autocratizing Countries Nearly a quarter of the world’s nations are now on the list of autocratizers: 44 countries. 44 autocratizers divide into 24 stand-alone autocratizers and 20 Bell-turns. 10 new autocratizers identified in 2025. Among the new autocratizers are five European countries: Croatia, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the UK. Media censorship remains the most common tactic among autocratizing governments with 32 countries (73%) resorting to it. Repression of civil society has surged to affect 30 autocratizing countries (68%).

The UK is heading in a similar direction

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

The United States is no longer a liberal democracy... let that sink in.
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The world's happiest countries for 2026 - and what they get right From Nordic trust to Costa Rica's sense of community, residents explain what daily life looks like in the countries topping the 2026 World Happiness Report.

Top 5 breakdown
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Happiest countries top ten: 1. Finland 2. Iceland 3. Denmark 4. Costa Rica 5. Sweden 6. Norway 7. Netherlands 8. Israel 9. Luxembourg 10. Switzerland

Scandi countries top the list of happiest countries again. But there are a couple of surprises!

Why drawing eyes on food packaging could stop seagulls stealing your chips New research shows that displaying a pair of eyes on food packaging can be enough to stop some gulls pinching your food.

New research shows that displaying a pair of eyes on food packaging can be enough to stop some gulls pinching your food.

Middle East crisis live: Israel claims it has killed Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani Israel said it had killed the secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council in overnight strikes

Heavy loss of life in Iran is 'alarming', ICRC says, with families 'gathering for funerals instead of festivities'

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"At first it didn’t know how to move, aim or shoot. Then it would shoot two enemies and stop. So it’s definitely learning"

I suppose that's progress.

Trump warns Nato faces 'very bad' future if allies do not help secure Strait of Hormuz The US president says he is speaking to several countries about

The sound of panic!
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Reform UK government would replace top civil servants with those ‘more likely to implement party’s priorities’ Exclusive: Senior party figures conclude outsiders or existing senior staff deemed more suitable should take over from current permanent secretaries

Farage still following the Trump playbook... and we know how well that ones going!
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