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The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.

Jesus Christ this graph. Total and utter political failure.

For context. (Mystery Hour)

Oh.

What a run this boy is on!

A picture of Vladimir Putin holding his phone

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

NEW: Nigel Farage is once again in America to fundraise for Donald Trump’s Republican party, with latest data showing he’s spent more than 800 hours - the equivalent of 2.5 days a week - on outside employment since election.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Kemi Badenoch Ditches Net Zero Target After Taking Donations From Funders of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change

Kemi Badenoch, who just declared Net Zero is "impossible" to reach, received donations from funders of a Tufton Street climate science denial group that campaigns against the target

One donor, who chairs 'Net Zero Watch' hosted her campaign HQ in his home
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Last month I did a little experiment.

I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.

The results were...interesting...

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Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872

🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%

www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Pause military aid and intelligence to Ukraine = Putin ratchets up attack and Ukraine gets bombarded by missiles.

Raise tariffs = economic downturn and prices up.

These are obvious consequences to foolish actions… not lessons to be learnt on the job.

Javier Milei giving the "thumbs up" with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in June 2024.

Javier Milei awarding Volodymyr Zelenskyy the Order of Freedom medal in June 2024.

Javier Milei just deleted from his socials every trace and photo of this June 2024 visit, during which he awarded Volodymyr Zelenskyy the Order of Freedom medal. ~AA

What a terrible, sickening insult to the 1,000’s of European troops killed and injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were there to stand should to shoulder with America against dictatorships.

If we weren’t there, those would have been additional American casualties.

JD Vance needs to apologise.

Ukraine latest: Cheers outside No 10 for Zelenskyy - as Starmer tells him 'you have full support of UK' Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Keir Starmer are meeting in Downing Street after the Ukrainian leader's extraordinary clash with Donald Trump in front of the world's media last night.

news.sky.com/story/zelens...

🚨Nigel Farage has been busy representing the people of Clacton again.

Here has just declared:

- £91,000 for working 4hrs per month for Mayfair based Direct Bullion.

- £27,000 trip to the US for Trump inauguration.

- £15,000 private jet flight to Palm Beach.

🤦🏻‍♂️🤷‍♂️⤵️

🍌 for short term energy boost.

A row of police officers walk in a line across a field, searching for evidence

The search for Nigel Farage in Clacton enters its 32nd week.

The will of the people does not accept the law.

Packed state schools have no room for private pupils

Official government estimates suggest that the moves will lead to a drop-off in private school pupil numbers of 37,000. Given the increase in fees, 35,000 are expected to seek a space in the state sector instead. Ministers have stressed that nationally there is enough capacity to absorb any transfer in pupils, and that thousands of children every year move between the state and private system. Nationally, there are 578,000 unfilled places in primary schools and 465,000 unfilled places in secondary schools. Some 83 per cent of primary schools and 77 per cent of secondaries have at least one spare space. However, figures released

this Times headline is very misleading as the following pars - in the same article - explains

more fair to say “a handful of packed state schools have no room for private pupils says 2022/23 data”

Avoid tomato soup entrée at all costs.

Cody Rhodes just gave Kevin Owens an Alabama Slam off the announced table through a ladder bridge. #RoyalRumble

Stepping back from the two big stories of the moment, pretty much all of the platforms where the Southport killer indulged his passions for violence, genocide & murder are owned & controlled by men who were in the prime seats at Donald Trump’s inauguration yesterday.

And they all *hate* regulation…

Please post health updates over the next 48 hrs.

Tory shadow minister rejected calls for mandatory child abuse reporting in 2018 Then-safeguarding minister Victoria Atkins - now a member of Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet - said the case for a mandatory reporting duty had "not been made."

Kemi Badenoch shadow minister rejected calls for mandatory child abuse reporting in 2018
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this