Very badly run debate. Bad positioning, bad lecterns, bad chairing. #C4news

How Republicans can win the Midterms – and how to stop them A longer analysis of why the 2026 midterms may be far closer than they look, focusing on marginal districts and voter suppression

Excellent piece of thorough analysis by Prof Christina Pagel: open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Insect Alarms A couple of years ago a really huge dragonfly flew in through a car window giving everyone inside a fright.

Concerning, tender essay here from Paul Komierowski: substack.com/@paulkomski/...

The Mandelson business is pretty shocking, but the endless media speculation about whether it's a resigning matter for Starmer is really unhelpful. We need some stability right now, so let's move on please.

Check out The Nerve - good stuff by good people.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Tax reform is urgently needed to protect the many from the few. Polymarket is an open invitation for insider traders. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Meanwhile..., by The 844s 4 track album

Out just recently from Calder Valley rhythm and blues band The 844s: the844s.bandcamp.com/album/meanwh...

The #BBC should abandon 24-hour news. It's unnecessary and unpleasant.

This guy must drink a lot of Yogi Tea.. #Newsnight

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

It'll be the Russians. #Artemis

Solid from Zack Polanski

Rejects the idea of pitting pensioners against students

Says the real divide is between the 99% and the 1%

And that we should tax the rich more

Can anyone explain to me how the intelligence relationship between the UK and the US can be in good health, while the political relationship is clearly not?

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Europe’s escape plan from Trump’s chaos machine The continent needs to take the crucial step towards ending US global economic dominance. Here’s how to do it

app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/153667... This is an interesting proposition:

Your pension, Palantir’stheir war machine USS, the UK's largest private pension fund, has £45m invested in the AI company that, its CEO boasts, can bring ‘violence and death’ to America's enemies. University union leaders want change, reports...

Hmmm.. www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-p...

There is no god.

There is no god.

Wow - suddenly it became quite profound. Nice to see it happen in Clacton. #bbcqt

I think Tom Skinner is drawing nice pictures while the others speak. #bbcqt

I think you're being a bit too kind there.

Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian village of Jalud during Eid al-Fitr, torching homes and wounding at least one person.

The attack comes amid a surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank, where over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023.

The dialectic of Trump & Farage This graphic was posted by the TUC who have a rapidly improving social media game

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There is no god.

Real President vs. Temu President.

There is no god. #Newsnight

This is pretty grim, isn't it? Particularly bad chairing tonight, not helped by the daft stuff coming from Orr and Whately. #BBCQT

James Orr - another inspiring, engaging Reform politician 🙄 #BBCQT

Let's start by taking bites out of each other rather than answering the question.. #BBCQT