Ooh thank you for sharing here ❤️

It’s always a surprise winner 😆

Well that is just lovely - thank you Ben ❤️

I really appreciated the wit, wisdom and humanity in the opening lecture at the Peninsula Trainers’ Conference by @lucygobag.bsky.social - it was blistering! I particularly valued learning new words and the richness of their specific meanings thank you!

Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke | Gaby Hinsliff

Oh thank you - will read with great interest

Distressed elderly woman died alone in A&E corridor at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, visitor says A woman visiting the hospital with her partner says she saw the patient in her final moments and alerted staff.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It must be utterly exhausting to be a good constituency MP with social conscience at the moment. Just a steady stream of cases with a general theme of state collapse in various new and imaginative ways

This is grave

BREAKING: The Met police has apologised to the Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle for sharing with Peter Mandelson’s lawyers that he had passed on information that the former UK ambassador planned to flee the country.

The Met are treating it internally "as a serious protocol breach"

As I suspected here it sounds like the Met Police *spectacularly* screwed up here.

It's absolutely amazing they're demanding to overrule parliament on disclosing documents around Mandelson'sappointment while making errors this basic and grave.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘We’ve been paying for happy endings for Andrew for years’: the inside story of a royal disgrace, by his biographer

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A County Court judgment on an unlawful eviction claim (locks changed while tenant and children were on holiday). Landlord files hopeless defence then fails to take part. Damages of over £50,000. Thanks to Radhika Shah of Harrow Law Centre for the note of judgment.

nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/02/evicte…

So many people I love are negotiating so many kinds of crises.

Some personal, medical, professional, some collective and political

All compounded by the sadism and destructive policies, & programs of this regime.

www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

Some PR advice for the Andrew-stricken royals – try something that look less like a $12m cover-up | Marina Hyde

Terrific paper from our colleagues @hazcenter.bsky.social develops ideas of disaster literacy based on experience, yet is critical of overstating youth agency in the face of sociomaterial inequalities: should inform disaster planners everywhere @cabinet-office-uk.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit

Indeed. A party invite for public officials, to be held in Mayfair no less, by a company that has recently been awarded a £240m public contract.
The competition would be livid - had there been any.

We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change | Gordon Brown

Flood-prone Ynysybwl homes to be bought and bulldozed by council Homes on a street at severe risk of flooding will be bought by a local council.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Managed retreat is again the third item on BBC News - we will need to have much bigger conversations about this

Non-physical domestic violence in childhood has stronger links to adult mental health than physical violence 🏠

New study found intimidation, control & property damage more strongly assoc w PTSD, anxiety and depression than physical violence.

#MentalHealth #DomesticViolence #TraumaTherapy

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The Irish Times view on Storm Chandra: underlining failure to prepare for the `new normal’ The increasing frequency and ferocity of extreme weather is clearly linked to climate change

The Irish Times view on Storm Chandra: underlining failure to prepare for the `new normal’

‘He hoped Trump’s help would arrive’: why protesters in Iran feel betrayed Many believed a US president would – for the first time – rescue them but now people can only despair after mass arrests and brutality

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘He hoped Trump’s help would arrive’: why protesters in Iran feel betrayed Many believed a US president would – for the first time – rescue them but now people can only despair after mass arrests and brutality

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘It’s pretty grim’: Tunbridge Wells residents struggle through several days without water – again South East Water blames bad weather as pubs are forced to close, toilets overflow and people go without showers

I keep thinking about this piece www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out | Aditya Chakrabortty It’s not just Tunbridge Wells – a country famous around the world for its rain is in danger of self-imposed drought, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We do not talk nearly enough about the emotional and physical labour that accompanies a power or water outage - and that’s something responders need to start factoring in