Big day for Sir Oink-A-Lot.

Agree. And you won’t fundamentally move the dial on population health by making things better for the worried, well & wealthy!

They’ve already done ray-bans!

NEW ANALYSIS: UK's solar power surges 42% to a new record, after the sunniest spring on record

* For the first time, solar was >10% of UK generation in consecutive months (April/May 2025)
* In 2025, solar has already avoided gas imports that would've cost £600m

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks...

With the usual caveats about longer-term trends, data comparability, blah blah, this is incredibly impressive -- a 50% drop in Jamaica's poverty rate in four years. opm.gov.jm/news/jamaica...

‘Maurice Glasman rails at progressives – why keep treating him as one of us?’ - LabourList The last month has seen a return to public prominence of Maurice Glasman – Labour peer, erstwhile guru…

labourlist.org/2025/02/maur...

Sign the Petition Give fans more tickets for National League final at Wembley

There’s a joint petition, Iain! www.change.org/p/give-fans-...

Who are those 7% of Lib Dems?!

island of strangers

new reality show for ITV4

12 good-looking Brits are placed on a remote outcrop in Orkney

they must grow the island's economy sufficiently to pay for a proper health service before they get old enough to need it daily

must-watch

Sign the letter for community power I just signed a letter telling Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to give local people more power over their places and futures. If you lead or play a prominent role ...

I just signed a letter telling Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister to give local people more power over their places and futures.

If you have led, supported or been part of a community organisation or group in your area, will you sign the letter too? actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...

thank you brother, as always the real action is on the Alt

Joel’s face imprinted in Guinness foam

Joel’s face imprinted in Guinness foam

Got a haircut. And an iron supplement.

The Glasmanisation of the Labour Party is a massive risk to them. The Conservatives discovered that if you insult your professional base long enough in a desperate attempt to win populist right votes, they will flock to the Lib Dems and you lose 60 seats. Labour may find similar soon enough.

Draw your own parallels.

Would give anything for British politicians to stop holding German federalism up as a beacon of growth and regional equality.

Huge numbers of people in the old GDR states just voted for actual fascists because of intense austerity, decaying infrastructure and a brain drain to the big cities.

Very proud to see this new pilot launching. It's been almost a year since we began work with @nihrsphr.bsky.social to develop this intervention to support young people and now it's live in Manchester, Norwich and Southampton ⚡

It's fundamentally all about tackling health inequalities at the root. 👇

Further fun complications, statistically the NHS plays a more significant (positive) role for those most affected by the building blocks (i.e. in depriv) earlier in life... Then caveating poorer NHS access, outcomes, experiences w/ higher IMD. What that does to percentile ranges is anybody's guess.

Yes, have heard Bola Owolabi say 20-30% on a few occasions.

For for the West of England mayoralty More in Common have:

Lab: 23%
Con: 21%
Reform: 18%
Green: 18%
LD: 15%

It is genuinely absurd to have an election with that kind of spread decided by first past the post. Unjustifiable.

Coming up against teams who don't have 15x smaller budgets - an actual test!

Proud of my cousin not just for running the marathon, but more importantly for managing to overtake Joe Wicks right in front of her family

Big ups to Southend who’ve made it into the playoffs today for the first time all season, after 45 of 46 games.

Amazing work!

Question: who held when Dom turned 18?

We’re excited to share Social Democracy Now, a new pamphlet by @ewallis.bsky.social.


As political, economic, and environmental challenges mount, Wallis revisits the communitarian tradition and offers a fresh toolkit for social democrats to shape a more participatory democracy. 🧵 (1/5)

The flavour profile is “white chocolate and parsley”

Domino’s garlic and herb dip Easter egg

Everything about this is monstrous

It is very funny that NYT let noted trade columnist Paul Krugman walk like six months ago or whatever because he wanted to produce too much trade content for their taste

Chart showing: Real average weekly earnings (regular pay): GB

Despite strong growth in real wages over the last couple of years, the longer-term picture for workers’ pay packets is still pretty bleak.

Real weekly pay is only *£27* above what it was on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis.

Today we have launched our new report, Place-based partnerships: challenges and opportunities.

We found that there are three key factors for success in place-based partnerships:
1️⃣ accountability
2️⃣ collaborative leadership
3️⃣ resources

Read the report. buff.ly/OrZ3uWO