Emma-Jane

The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.

Scientists have measured the shortest moment in history a Zeptosecond

That’s 0.000000000000000000001 seconds.

Pippa Crerar (@pippacrerar.bsky.social) Political Editor, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar

From @pippacrerar.bsky.social

“Well that's interesting... the Lib Dems 10-minute rule bill to rejoin the customs union has just passed.

After a 100-100 tie the deputy speaker followed convention and cast the deciding vote in favour. It won't get govt time so won't progress - but still a moment.

Carragher is a wee ninny! #MoSalah

Mo Salah

Amber is a bloomin’ musical theatre star! It’s her job FFS. #Strictly

“My battery is low and it's getting dark."

This was the final message from NASA Opportunity, sent to Mars for 90 days but wandered for nearly 15 years.

Its final transmission wasn't words, but fading data-summed up on Earth as "My battery is low and it's getting dark."

UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades Britain’s energy watchdog gives go-ahead to initial £28bn of investment to upgrade UK energy infrastructure but reveals move will push up network charges

UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades.

Since 2020 energy companies made £125bn profit.

6.1m live in fuel poverty.
£4.43bn energy bills arrears.
128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.

Eliminate privatisation of profit. Use it to fund infrastructure. Nationalise.

Titan. James Webb Telescope.

Watch Professor Hannah Fry and Chloe Barnes fall a little in love - sublime portrait, powerful women, beautiful telly. Portrait Artist of the Year - Final.

Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official Prof David Miles tells MPs the messaging given by the chancellor was

Of course she didn’t - ahem Chris Mason www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Telegraph - the house paper of Brexit - publishes a 2,000-word obituary admitting:

📉 Brexit has cut UK GDP by up to 8%
📉 Investment down 18%
📉 Productivity down 4%
📉 Employment down 4%
📉 No trade benefits
📉 No regulatory freedom
📉 No immigration control
📉 No growth

…beginning of the end.

Happy days.

New - Trump approval (Trump 2024 voters)

🟢 Approve 83%
🟤 Dissaprove 15%

YouGov #A - RV - 11/24

Alex was in massive pain, god-love-her! Would have finaled. What a woman. #Strictly

Gordon Brown:

“Rachel Reeves has today done more to transform the lives of 450,000 of Britain’s poorest children than any of the seven previous Conservative chancellors, who, in 14 long years, did nothing but harm to the lives of vulnerable children” #Budget2025

Reforms lead down to 6pts

REF: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (-)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDEM: 15% (+2)

via @YouGov, 30 Dec
Chgs. w/ 17 Nov

Here’s how £100 of our tax was spent in 23-24

£22 NHS
£ 6 Defence
£10 Education
£10 Debt interest
£11.40 State pensions
£4.15 Working-age welfare
£0.50 Asylum system
£0.70 Overseas aid
The asylum system accounts for just 0.5% of public spending.

They lie, con us, and hate us

con us, and

A liar, a racist, and probably a traitor.

This kiss of bias death as #RobbieGibb describes the BBC's Political Editor #ChrisMason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"

Donald Tusk

“All the decisions concerning Poland 🇵🇱 will be taken by Poles. Nothing about us without us. When it comes to peace, all the negotiations should include Ukraine. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine” 🇺🇦

a man in a blue shirt and tie is making a funny face while sitting in a car . ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is making a funny face while sitting in a car .

🥱 Labour M.P. Lloyd Russell-Moyle defects to the Green Party

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

New #EpsteinFiles @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation: how Steve Bannon’s planned “European revolution” ran through Nigel Farage’s network – with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein quietly helping in the background. 🧵 1/12

Comet 3I/ATLAS - NASA Science NASA missions are working together to track and study this rare, interstellar comet as it passes through our solar system.

NASA “What's so special about comet 3I/ATLAS? It's only the third object we’ve ever found passing through our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. NASA's fleet of spacecraft is making coordinated observations of the comet. Some of what they've seen so far:” go.nasa.gov/3IATLAS

Absurd

Senior MPs in Labour’s soft-left Tribune Group are making early preparations for a leadership contest, believing they have the 80 members needed to nominate a candidate

Even more absurd

Lucy Powell, Lisa Nandy and Louise Haigh are being considered

@thetimes.com

Oh Scotland how I love you #WorldCup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files

Farage facing fresh and not so fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school [Dulwich College]

“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers"

#NigelFarage and Zia Yusuf will tomorrow say that foreign nationals must 'bear the brunt' of filling the black hole in Britain's finances as they announce £25bn worth of cuts.

Charming as ever #refugeeswelcome
#immigrantswelcome