Stophe ‘n Manon

He needs to hit mega ambitious targets to earn his obscenely high trillion dollar bonus. Important context, to be fair.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
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Awesome

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan at C40 World Mayors Summit 2025.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan delivers a keynote speech at the C40 World Mayors Summit 2025.

Close up shot of audience members.

The climate challenge we face today is stark. It’s an existential fight between the climate wreckers and the climate defenders.

At the C40 World Mayors Summit, we’re taking it on, countering denial and misinformation with hope and real progress.

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."

In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.

Maybe Beth is on a diet.

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

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Whose

It’s where he feels at home.

Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

It must be hard for our Brexit brethren, having to come to terms with a large increase in non-white migrants since we left the EU.

They got the polar opposite of what they thought they were voting for.

Caveat Emptor.

Stunningly beautiful film, imo. Some reviews 👇

“Barry Lyndon is pure cinema, and, if you only let it, its aching beauty will wipe you out.”
Frank Rich

“A consummate work of art, a "literary" period piece brought to cinema terms of remarkable intelligence and overwhelming beauty.”
Judith Crist

Shelagh was parroting exactly this argument at around 2.20 this afternoon.

Can you have a word ..?

You wouldn’t find me down there … I mean, down in the deep water ….

I remember listening to R4 Today on days when Mishal Husain and Justin Webb were both presenting. Any hard-of-thinking right-wing guests must have been thinking “please God let Justin interview me ..”

Burning banned on England’s deep peat to protect wildlife Ban on burning heather and grass on deep peat extended to improve air quality for local communities, reduce flood risk and protect wildlife.

Great to see that government WILL ban moorland burning on peat deeper than 30cm, and over a much greater area than previously

Big win for communities who've suffered the smoke + floods stemming from this Victorian practice

Only losers are ~150 wealthy grouse moor owners

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Well said. You can never get bored in London (unless you’re bored of life).

Agreed 💯. I think this is what Emily Maitlis called the Minfordisation of the BBC.

I suspect it’s a combination of lobbyists (the usual ones) and a Tory-dominated Board.

Awesome news, I’ll bookmark this once I can figure out how …

So he’s a likeable somewhat eccentric academic. That’s fine. But why did the BBC keep booking him whenever there was a debate about the pros and cons of leaving the EU?

It’s not though, is it? Take Brexit. The political extremes, the left and right, were in favour of leave, while the rest of us - the centrists is how you’d describe us - were happy to stay in an imperfect Union and try to reform from the inside. You got what you wanted, don’t blame the centre.

I’m centre left, but I’m also massively opposed to the appalling barbarity being committed day in day out in Gaza.

Why has the BBC allowed BBC World Service to continue to provide an excellent news service (albeit reduced)?

Jessica Elgot has become a must-read reporter.

Michael Gove is sleaze made flesh.

Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.

The Times’ use of emotive right-wing headlines was inevitable once they appointed Tony Gallagher as editor.

His track record says it all; former editor of The Sun, The Daily Mail (deputy) and The Daily Telegraph.

The English press is largely a national embarrassment.

Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’

The family of Bebe King, one of the girls killed in the Southport attack, have urged ministers to reconsider disclosing ethnicity of suspects.

They say family were failed by “despicable” actions of far right, who “tried to make political gain from our tragedy”

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People here want Starmer to do the right thing. Unfortunately, doing the right thing in Brexit Britain doesn’t seem to get you anywhere.

Vast dynasties have been created on the back of oil and gas. They’re not going anywhere soon.

Bet all those flags come down when the neighbours realise what they'll do to house prices.