Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
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Candidates standing in next month's local election confirmed In what is shaping up to be an unprecedented election, candidate lists for all 25 wards have now been officially announced

I've looked at the 'statement of nominations' for May's local election in Enfield and picked out some of the more interesting candidates, including an ex-Labour cabinet member now representing the Tories and a youth club founder standing for Labour.

Read more 👇
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Iran condemned Trump for insulting the Pope and when I read this I just let out a bark laugh as I could feel myself losing an already tenuous grip on reality.

A first double over Norwich since 1992/93 puts us in prime position to clinch a third promotion in four seasons!

Nigel who?

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#itfc

Check out my attempt to summarise the election pledges of *six* local parties ahead of next month's vote! 👇

My colleague Nick met Nigel Farage today as he toured Dagenham, where the Reform UK leader was presented with a cake claiming "London needs Reform".

But he's not confident they'll win control of the local council.

Here's Nick's piece for @banddstar.bsky.social 👇
barkingstar.co.uk/2026/04/10/r...

Thanks David, much appreciated!

Government housing chief quizzed on 'new town' – but misses chance to visit Crews Hill The Dispatch spoke exclusively today to Labour's secretary of state for housing as he joined the campaign trail ahead of next month's local election

Government housing chief quizzed on 'new town' – but misses chance to visit Crews Hill

The Dispatch spoke exclusively today to Labour's secretary of state for housing as he joined the c
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Government housing chief quizzed on ‘new town’ – but misses chance to visit Crews Hill The Dispatch spoke exclusively today to Labour's secretary of state for housing as he joined the campaign trail ahead of next month's local election

Today I interviewed housing sec Steve Reed about his government's plan for a 21,000-home 'new town' at Crews Hill.

Reed insists there'll be an "increase of jobs" despite the council admitting that scores of existing business will be turfed out.

My exclusive 👇
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THE MOON
Close up images captured aboard Orion Integrity by the NASA Artemis II crew of the far side of the moon during their April 6th flyby.
📸 NASA

Imagine how incredible it must feel right now to be 252,757 miles away, passing behind the far side of the Moon without any way to communicate with Earth, knowing that for 40 whole minutes, you won't be able to even vaguely know about anything being said by Donald Trump.

HISTORY MADE!
Orion Integrity and its Crew Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen have broken the 56 year old recod set by Apollo 13 and its crew James Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, and have become the humans that have travelled the farthest distance from Earth.

A man this crazy cannot have nuclear weapons

Why do we understand that when it comes to North Korea but not when it comes to Washington

The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be the new 1936 Summer Olympics.

‘I still think it’s one of the great films of all time’: All the President’s Men turns 50 In April 1976, the flawless Watergate film premiered in Washington – cast members and reporters share their memories of ‘the granddaddy of journalism movies’

A great article about possibly my favourite film - which premiered fifty years ago, yesterday.

He means it this time.

A coot's nest on the New River with three newborn chicks

Carr's Basin, part of the New River Loop

Eight Egyptian goslings beside the New River

Crown & Horseshoes Pub

A spring walk along the New River Loop in Enfield Town never disappoints!

They have to share a toilet in the middle of their living space. It's enough coffee.

LAUNCH! ARTEMIS II LAUNCHES WITH A CREW OF 4 TOWARDS THE MOON

It's maddening.

Biggest-ever NHS care board now serving Enfield and twelve other boroughs A second merger in just four years has led to the creation of single body planning primary care for 4.5 million people

Just four years ago, every London borough had its own clinical commissioning group, planning primary care services for the local population. Two mergers later, the largest-ever NHS care board has now launched, covering 13 boroughs and 4.5m people.

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Israeli strikes killed three Lebanese journalists over the weekend. This is part of a disturbing pattern CPJ has documented, in which Israel accuses journalists of being combatants and targets them without any evidence. Journalists are #NotATarget.

cpj.org/2026/03/isra...

it's ridiculous that this "London has fallen" bullshit has been allowed to fester for so long.
The best time to deal with this was a few years ago, and the second best time is now

Check out the April issue of Enfield Dispatch, including my efforts to summarise what six - yes, six! - political parties are promising ahead of the local election in May.

Reminder for residents on registering to vote ahead of May local election Voters will be heading to the polls in just over five weeks to elect councillors to represent them at Enfield Civic Centre

Reminder for residents on registering to vote ahead of May local election

Voters will be heading to the polls in just over five weeks to elect councillors to represent them at Enfield Civic Cent
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NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes?

LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else

N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help?

LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead

The Rycroft Review into foreign interference in UK politics It is not just foreign money in our politics which is a problem, big money from UK sources is also damaging. Sign our letter to the Minister.

It's not just foreign money in our politics which is a problem, big money from UK sources is also damaging. Sign Unlock Democracy's letter to the government:
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How can one not admire history’s exquisite dark sense of humor?

As part of a “delegation” of sanctioned Russian State Duma deputies visiting the United States, there was none other than the actual grandson of USSR's Vyacheslav Molotov, there to discuss a Trump–Putin pact.

a man with blonde hair is sitting on a couch with a book in front of him Alt: Doc Brown in Back to the Future slams the door on Marty McFly because he doesn't believe he's really from the future.

Imagine travelling back to 2006 and telling someone that ten years later America would elect a president far madder and dumber than George W. Bush, and that in twenty years this almost 80-year-old man - still president for some reason - would emboil America in yet another Middle East war of choice.

Picture of me in a 2024-25 Ipswich home shirt with Chaplin 10 on the back, holding a placard saying Ipswich Town and anti-fascist, Farage not welcome, Ashton out

The only Ipswich Number 10 I recognise is Conor Chaplin