It is striking how few allies and acolytes Starmer has. Even Truss had them!
economist.com/britain/2026...

I never knew that’s what St George looked like. Not what I expected

“Russia can sustain extremely high levels of casualties and losses in human lives. They don’t care about people’s lives,” a Ukrainian officer told me. However, “it is painful for them to lose money.”

And the last time both parties got over 40%!

CARE WORK IS HIGHLY SKILLED WORK
and only paid so poorly because of the failure of successive governments to value it properly.

THE GOVERNMENT’S SHOCKING & SHAMEFUL IMMIGRATION PLAN AND WHY WE MUST OPPOSE IT YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

The governments plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its an absolute disgrace

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This was a lie. Repeated by CEO, chair of board & editor in chief.

Tortoise Media has celebrated the one year takeover of the Observer by axing two photographers. They’d been with the paper for more than half a century. No notice, no warning, no pay off.

"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.

Larry you look as if you've lost weight

There's always Trumps golf courses build on them maybe???

What an absolutely mad statistic. I bet in person capita terms that the real outliers are going to be Scotland and Northern Ireland.

“Putin is not so bad actually”

“I’ve never seen him threaten genocide.” Aside from the examples Tom gives, incurious Zack might want to read up on recent Russian state TV output www.theguardian.com/world/2022/m...

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

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Classic Chats: Grayson Perry on hating classical civilisation Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 23 April · 50min

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... what does Grayson Perry think of Classical Civilisation? Not much, is the answer. Here on Instant Classics Grayson, Charlotte and I have a good disagreement!

Spring is Springing 🌳

No no no!!

Revealed: How Big Oil is pushing Labour to drill the North Sea Oil and gas lobbyists have met ministers 96 times since July 2024 as industry pushes to overturn Labour's North Sea drilling ban and scrap energy windfall tax.

🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea

Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office

MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵

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Le premier ministre Carney rencontre des membres de l’AIP à Ottawa, en Ontario.

L’Association internationale des pompiers représente des milliers de femmes et d’hommes courageux qui risquent leur vie chaque jour pour protéger les autres. Merci à tous les membres de l’AIP pour votre courage et votre dévouement envers la population canadienne.

Iranians are leaving the country just to access the internet Iran has cut off its access to the global internet. To find an internet connection, some Iranians are traveling across the border with Turkey — even just to make video calls and then go back home.

Iran has cut off its access to the global internet. To find an internet connection, some Iranians are traveling across the border with Turkey — even just to make video calls and then go back home. n.pr/4cIWVyQ

Updated Scotland poll tracker, accounting for recent polling.

SNP 1 short of a majority.

Pro-independence majority of 23.

Seats (+/- 2021)

SNP: 64 (nc)
Lab: 17 (-5)
Ref: 16 (+16)
Grn: 12 (+4)
LD: 10 (+6)
Con: 10 (-21)

1/2

Me for East Anglia Bylines. Just like to point out I wrote this before Rachel Reeves was reported to be looking into “War Bonds”.

Actually you know what I’ve suddenly realised I was really bad at my security vetting job, the stores I could tell like the one time…

When the AI Cloud Comes for Texas Water Legislators are (sort of) beginning to grapple with the grim costs that come with the state’s data center boom.

“Constituents are really alarmed.” – state Representative Erin Zwiener

New from Miranda Williamson: Energy, water, and deep tax breaks ... legislators are just beginning to count the real costs of the data center boom.

Well that's all you need to know -Reform a group of ill educated white men with a grudge against almost everything
They know nothing have achieved nothing individually or together and merely blindly follow trumpian nonsense

Hegseth Ends Flu Vaccine Mandate—Ensuring Everyone’s About to Get Sick Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says a flu vaccine requirement is “absurd.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doesn’t think soldiers living and fighting together in close quarters or aboard warships need to take the flu vaccine. trib.al/Lseq9xd

AI-generated videos of upturned dinghies in the English Channel circulate online – Full Fact Six people are known to have died so far in April attempting to cross the English Channel. But viral videos claiming to show overturned dinghies are not real and were made with AI.

Viral videos of overturned dinghies in the Channel have been shared with claims that over 100 people have died.

It’s true that six people have died attempting to cross the English Channel this month, but these videos are fake and were made using AI.

Not to be a broken record, but why on earth is Ed Balls there interviewing his wife's work colleagues about a scandal involving the government department she currently runs?