Mmmm 🤔 #Trump

All of this from the splendid Hugh Grant
“Great news about the government finally banning phones in schools. Enraging champagne and hand clapping emojis all round. Next step - get rid of screen based learning. It’s crap, it’s stealing the children’s data and it deepens their screen addiction”.

Stonewall’s volte-face!

“our priorities now are very much focused on things like securing justice for military veterans and compensation for what they’ve endured. We’re currently working very hard to ensure that there’s a ban on conversion therapy in this country, which is incredibly important.”

NASA captured one of the most detailed views of Jupiter ever taken

Quite.

Boris Johnson didn't pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary.

The media must have missed that one.

New @OpiniumResearch poll released this evening:
Reform 26% (-1)
Labour 22% (+1)
Conservatives 17% (nc)
Greens 15% (nc)
Liberal Democrats 11% (-1).

The Vicar of Christ is on fire 🔥

Pope Leo XIV says the world is 'being ravaged by a handful of tyrants'.

Westminster Voting Intention:

REF: 26% (-4)
LAB: 22% (+4)
CON: 19% (+1)
GRN: 15% (=)
LDM: 13% (=)

via @tweetfreshwater, 10-12 Apr

(Changes with 1 Mar)

UK quietly regains position as the world’s 5th largest economy, Via the IMF.

1. 🇺🇸 United States ~ $32.38 trillion
2. 🇨🇳 China ~ $20.85 trillion
3. 🇩🇪 Germany ~ $5.45 trillion
4. 🇯🇵 Japan ~ $4.38 trillion
5. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom ~ $4.26 trillion
6. 🇮🇳 India ~ $4.15 trillion
7. 🇫🇷 France ~ $3.6 trillion

From @alexcrawfreports.bsky.social

‘Hundred medics and first responders now killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon - since March’.

Norway 🇳🇴 says it will expel all Israeli diplomats over its aggression in the Middle East - right.

The UK economy grew by 0.5% in February

Via Politics UK

…and so it begins

Today Radio 4

Justin Webb asks Zia Yusuf

“Under Reform, would anyone be allowed to come here and say, 'I'm gay and I fear persecution... and for that reason I should stay', and be allowed to?"

Yusuf says that there should be a temporary 'moratorium' on ‘new asylum claims’

Westminster Voting Intention:

➡️ REF: 26% (-4)
🌹 LAB: 22% (+4)
🌳 CON: 19% (+1)
🟢 GRN: 15% (=)
🔶️ LDEM: 13% (=)

From @tweetfreshwater
From 10th - 12th April
Changes with 1st March

“Self-interested billionaires helped send Donald Trump to the White House, and on Tax Day they're enjoying a return on their investment.

His Big Beautiful Bill delivered $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1 percent”.

Elizabeth Warren

‘Who says America can’t achieve regime change’ #PrivateEye

British students will now have the right to study, live and work in the European Union for the first time since Brexit.

Reform drops to 25% in this weeks voting intention their lowest since April 2025. They lead the Tories by 3 & Labour by 4

➡️ REF UK 25% (-5)
🌳 CON 22% (+3)
🌹 LAB 21% (+1)
🌍 GREEN 13% (+1)
🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc)
❓OTH 3% (nc)
🟡 SNP 2% (nc)

Via More in Common

New 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."

Even us lapsed Catholics are in a proper mood. How fucking dare he. #Trump

Rory McIlroy - what a beautiful man! Remarkable #TheMasters

“The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world.

Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere”.

Hillary Clinton #Hungary

“Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory”.

Péter Magyar - President of the Tisza Party

Hungary General Election

‘IT'S OV-AH! #ViktorOrban and his Fidesz party will lose power in today's Hungarian election. The only question now is whether #PeterMagyar ‘s #Tisza Party will get the 133 seats it needs to change the constitution. I'd bet it will, but it might be close’

Henry Olsen - EEPcdc

“The main difference between humans and animals is that animals would never allow the stupidest in the herd to take leadership" - Winston Churchill.

Voting lines in Hungary 🇭🇺 @theguardian.com

Mexico's President has decided to roll out Universal Healthcare for all Mexicans

Around 130 million citizens will begin to enjoy free healthcare from next year.

Go on Hungary 🇭🇺

Hungary’s turnout is BRUTAL: 37.98% by 11am (2022: 22.77%), pointing to 75–80% or more overall. In such a scenario, Orbán’s chances look slim, and it’s unlikely any party beyond Fidesz and Péter Magyar’s Tisza clears the 5% threshold.

Astronaut Christina Koch shared what she learned about "what makes a crew" through her experience being a part of the Artemis II mission.

"A crew is inescapably, beautifully, dutifully linked," Koch said. "Planet Earth, you are a crew."

@cbsnews.com