Looks as if Palantir employees might be beginning to crack…

And this @jolyon.goodlawproject.org @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

www.commondreams.org/opinion/pala...

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.

Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil. www.wired.com/story/palant...

😷😷😷
Cancer: 1 in 3 people will be diagnosed every 8 seconds

I have Stage 4 metastatic bone cancer. I am being treated by the NHS: Free

Reform want to make the NHS insurance based.
They all have private health insurance
NB: you can’t get medical insurance if you have an ongoing critical condition.

Per Washington Post, a U.S. intelligence assessment found that it could take up to 6 months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz... that's if the war ended today.

Trump is not telling Americans that.

Might improve with teleportation - perhaps US politicians could help you with that?

When Bristol secedes, its regulators will have to work hard to overwhelm the cost of London bureaucrats refusing to allow Bristol products on the UK market without checks.

“The goal — both in Europe and in Ukraine — is to minimize human losses on the battlefield.
“We are working to ensure that the robots take the main blow, and the infantry becomes an elite, specialized force to perform those tasks that the robots cannot perform.“

Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts Exclusive: Officials warn department will also lose access to database of 26,000 verified incidents due to cuts

The Guardian
Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts

Department will lose access to database of 26,000 verified incidents after project ends.
Patrick Wintour - Diplomatic editor
23 Apr 2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Is the UK-US "special relationship" over?

As a former NATO chief identifies the necessity of ending UK military dependence on a no longer reliable or trustworthy USA, we thank our lucky stars we haven’t done anything really stupid, like let Farage, Johnson & co persuade us to turn our backs on EU allies…
open.spotify.com/episode/2ANY...

Scott Holman (who works for Nigel Farage), is standing both in Croydon and in Essex at the same time.

Reform UK pledges to control the presentation of historical narratives in Welsh museums Reform UK's manifesto for Wales vows that the far-right party will dictate how museums present history, should it win co

"Whilst the manifesto uses vague language, Reform politicians themselves have pointed to decolonisation efforts and portrayals of the UK’s controlling role in the Atlantic slave trade as examples of what they’re railing against."

Bonus 221: Sanewashing the Emergency Docket Criticisms of the Times' Clean Power Plan scoop are ignoring the evidence it provides that the Court treats Democratic presidents different from Republicans.

"As is so often the case with commentary about the emergency docket, the Court’s defenders make arguments that sound outwardly reasonable, but that depend entirely on cherry-picking their examples and ignoring the counterexamples."

Me on the barrage of commentary attacking the Times' #SCOTUS scoop:

DEEP DIVE: How Does Reform Show Its Racism? Let Me Count the Ways From “target practice” on refugees to burqa bans in Parliament, the tally tells the story better than Farage ever could.

BEARLY POLITICS
DEEP DIVE: How Does Reform Show Its Racism? Let Me Count the Ways

From “target practice” on refugees to burqa bans in Parliament, the tally tells the story better than Farage ever could.
The Bear
Apr 23, 2026
open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

As a result of my 🚂 travels I’ve been able to see a LOT of Roman architecture/infrastructure and objects dotted around Europe.

The more I see the more blown away I am by their strategic thinking and determined delivery (infrastructure) and the sheer artistry in objects

This is exactly what I’m writing about. We also should not assume the politicians necessarily understand the world as it is.

My thought too - how many PPEs and lawyers understand the world, given that it takes scientific as well as political and social knowledge to really understand it.

Rooftop solar is great, as I've bored on about at length. But it can't replace building large-scale solar developments. It is simply far more efficient, and we need it to hit net zero. Good read by @jamesomalley.co.uk
open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...

What an idiot (or rather idiots).

You’d think, after shooting himself -and 🇬🇧 Inc- in the foot over Brexit, Wolfson would stop and think “Maybe I don’t understand as much as I think I do”…

President Donald Trump and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at CPAC in 2018. Credit: Shealah Craighead / White House (Public domain) Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal.

Reform UK's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, jailed over pro-Russia bribes The former MEP had pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery Dan Haygarth • Friday 21 November 2025 15:42 GMT TREASON. Involving Russia - our greatest threat and enem...

The total tax Tice's companies are known to have avoided through onshore and offshore entities, or failed to pay, in relation to Quidnet now amounts to almost £800,000.

Reform hopeful said Nazis were 'real visionaries' Fintan Hogan, Constance Kampfner - Northern Correspondent Nathaniel Menday has described himself as an ethno-nationalist Reform UK has been accused of "systemic failure" in its vetting after candidates were found to have described the Nazis as "real visionaries", complained immigrants bred "like rats" and encouraged Southport rioters to burn down a mosque.

Incredible really that our media and political landscape is dominated by crisis about Starmer’s fitness for office, while it simultaneously paves the way for corrupt, racist Reform to take power.
Do we actually care about integrity at all? Because if we did… this shitshow wouldn’t stand a chance…

Polish-ringed Mandarin Duck appears in Scotland A Mandarin Duck seen at Kirkaldy, Fife, on 15 April was ringed and was found to have travelled some 1,600 km from Poland.

A Mandarin Duck ringed as a duckling in Poland has been seen 1,600 km away in Fife, Scotland:

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next great observatory, is finally complete "The images it captures will be so large there is not a screen in existence large enough to show them."

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next great observatory, is finally complete www.space.com/space-explor...

Trump vs. Earth On Earth Day — and every day — the carbon-pilled nihilist in the White House is rampaging against the environment

THE CONTRARIAN
Trump vs. Earth

On Earth Day — and every day — the carbon-pilled nihilist in the White House is rampaging against the environment.
Tim Dickinson
Apr 22, 2026
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

An unexpected visitor this morning - this Goldcrest spent at least 10 minutes hopping around in the foliage displaying to his reflection in the window.
Best phone shot that I could get - I should have taken a video!

AOC rocks👇🏼👌🏼✊🏼✊🏼

To use the parlance of Trump, Vance, Hegseth etc

She’s “more of a man” than those, weak, brittle, snivelling little creeps will ever be❗️

Enough said 🤷🏼‍♂️

Cows eat grass, make milk - must be their logic?

The dumbest headline I’ve seen this year

The funniest thing about this insane statement is that he thinks this being true would be an argument FOR what happened next.

My dudes, you failed to eliminate their ballistic missile capability and then both you and Iron Dome failed a bunch of intercepts!

Can you imagine if they'd had nukes...

Who would help the USA seeing how they treat those who have aided them?

Yes - one of my bay trees has died back completely, only to return after a couple of years.

Now a good strong healthy tree.