Dragon Bridge in Vietnam turns a roadway into a spectacle. By day, it carries traffic on weekend nights it breathes fire, and sprays water.

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There is a very good, straightforward explanation of why we can't just put solar panels on roofs if we're taking decarbonisation seriously here.

Corbyn on Palantir:

"In 2019, I warned that the NHS was being sold off to private U.S companies.
The media's response? I was peddling Russian propaganda.
One of those companies is Palantir, a company that has enabled genocide in Gaza. We were right then and we are right now: Kick Palantir out."

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The UK’s radical ‘Preston model’ faces an uncertain future with local elections looming | Andy Beckett A Lancashire council has pushed on with plans to keep wealth and power in the area, despite such ideas being out of fashion in Westminster. But Reform could unravel it all, says Guardian columnist And...

This is a really good piece by Andy Beckett on the Preston model of local government - which unfortunately may become a casualty of Labour's unpopularity under Starmer

“We’ve been inspired by Preston, and everything that Matthew Brown has done,” says Andy Burnham
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fears grow for Edinburgh observatory as funding cuts could put future at risk Fears are growing for Edinburgh’s Royal Observatory after warnings that potential UK funding cuts could put its future at risk.

The planned ~30% cuts to UKGov funding of astrophysics, particle physics & nuclear will not only be devastating for University physics departments across the whole UK, it's also impacting treasured institutions like our Royal Observatory here in #Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭🧪

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2604118...

Of all the genres of column about the US-Israel war against Iran, my absolute favourite has to be, “Ignore the nay-sayers: Here’s why this war is nothing like Iraq (which I was also wrong about)”

hated landlords until I became one - tenants are just ungrateful Rhiannon Picton-James

I hated serial killers until I got that first rush of my hands squeezing tighter and tighter around a helpless delicate neck

Europe's electricity: 29% fossil fuels in 2024, down from 53% in 2005. Progress.

But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%.

And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported.

Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do.

More here: rdcu.be/feOjc

Leave the content of the piece to one side. A pair of Levis retails for £100/US$130 in the UK although some discounters sell for less. Why are they $100 dearer in the UK? Someone is making money here, almost certainly not the Cambodian tailors who make them now.

The bumblebee bat, the smallest mammal in the world

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Are we sure Trump can even read?

Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, I repeat Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, this is unpreced—

<wait my producer is just whispering something in my ear>

Apparently this is precedented

Royal Mail invests £500m to tackle late deliveries as second-class post cut back Courier promises to meet new delivery targets by next May after being fined last year for poor record

Royal Mail scandal.

2nd-class post will be delivered every other weekday, scrapped on Saturdays.

Company hasn't met any letter delivery targets since privatisation, so regulator reduces targets.

Price won't be reduced for worse service

Promise of £500m investment by ripping off customers.

House of Commons debates Vetting. John McDonnell provides some really useful knowledge on Labour Together Many on the Labour Benches, at least, will appreciate my right hon. and learned Friend’s apology today, but many of us remain bewildered about why the appointment took place, despite the warnings t…

John McDonnell demands Really Useful Knowledge on Labour Together wp.me/p15p2Q-gBr

The President and his Administration have already failed twice in court trying to intimidate me, and he's still not letting up. Just more proof that he'll do anything it takes to silence those of us willing to call him out. I'm not backing down — ever.

The vast majority of journalists killed since 2023 have been killed by Israel, most of them Palestinians. The deadliest massacre of journalists in nearly 2 decades was committed by Israel in Yemen. Israel killed Iranian and Syrian journalists. Today, Israel killed another Lebanese journalist.

Before she was murdered, Amal Khalil was sent a threat on WhatsApp by somebody with an Israeli number.

Journalist Jeremy Loffredo then reached out to that number and the individual was unsurprisingly unapologetic about murdering journalists.

“Keep men out of women’s sports!” Lol

Wrong and wicked.

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.

RT if you know it has to be.

When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.

Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Oil spills from the Iran war are visible from space | CNN Satellite images show oil swirling in the water after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities and ships. Experts fear an environmental catastrophe

Happy Earth Day. The Iran war is an environmental disaster

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, ranting racist owner of ManU and Ineos, who lives in Monaco & backed Brexit, yet says “migrants are colonising Britain” received £800m from the UK and from the EU in support last year for chemicals plants & refineries.
[Source: Private Eye]

Vacancy: Men's first team lead psychologist at Tottenham Hotspur FC
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

EARTH DAY REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Good news on Earth Day: 99% of growth in global electricity demand last year was met by solar and wind.

We'll keep fighting the vested interests of the fossil fuel industry and their efforts to spread climate denial to protect their profits.

For people and planet.

This will be helpful because I haven’t actually heard his voice, despite him running the Labour Party for half a decade and the country for two years.

QUICK! While the Hungarian guy is out, but before the Bulgarian guy comes in!