Mark J Thomas

Stop Thames Water’s costly mega-reservoir – fix the leaks! The reservoir could only replace a fraction of the water they lose through leaks and, studies show, it would be unlikely to provide water in droughts. Why does Thames Water want to do this? A mega...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."

It’s as if he picked up a bargain-bin crystal ball or earned his soothsayer credentials from a TikTok tutorial. 😂

Trump and the end of American soft power [FREE TO READ] Joseph Nye coined the term for the influence countries exert through attraction. Here he sets out why exclusive nationalism is likely to prove a losing strategy

Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights thread. As ever, all gift links are free 300x and that's your lot, editor's choice is final. First up is this essay from Joseph Nye, who coined the term Soft Power, on how Trump doesn't understand it and why that's a problem on.ft.com/4hlZTcB

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I reckon we're about two weeks away from 'Kemi Badenoch SHITS on Keir Starmer's face'

Tweet from the world's dumbest fascist reading: there is a shortage of top notch air traffic controllers. If you have retired, but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so.

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

Usually political risk people write stuff about like the threat of armed group attacks or piracy or whatever but it's wild the #1 wild card factor is "we literally don't know what the most powerful empire that is the pillar of the world order is going to randomly decide to do tomorrow"

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

Terrorizing our civil servants…

Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

Dear Germany, two thoughts when it comes to your elections 🇩🇪

🇬🇧 Look what happened when the UK voted for Brexit

🇺🇸 Look what Happened when the US voted again for Trump

Populists promise the world, and deliver pretty much nothing other than more hate and division. Chose well and good luck 🙏

F-35 americani in Europa, il Pentagono ora può bloccare i decolli. L'intelligence francese: gestione software negli Usa Gli F-35, uno degli aerei da combattimento più avanzati e cruciali per le forze armate di numerosi Paesi europei, stanno sollevando crescenti preoccupazioni per la loro dipendenza dai sistemi...

American F-35s in Europe, the Pentagon can now block takeoffs. French intelligence: software management in the USA

According to Gomart, if Washington attacked Greenland, no European country could take off its F-35s to defend it www.ilmessaggero.it/mondo/f_35_g...

I agree with Grok.

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

Anti-migrant hate is flourishing in Germany’s ‘time of the cowards’ | Musa Okwonga This weekend’s vote will show how far xenophobia has been driving even some traditionally progressive parties

I've just read your article. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
A very good piece which really brings the situation in Germany home. Let's hope Germany steers away from this unfiltered xenophobia today. Germany as a nation is better than this.

Having failed to exclude Zelenskyy, they sought to bully him.

Having failed to bully him, they sought to bribe him.

Having failed to bribe him, they sought to discredit him.

Maybe they will get round him one way or another, but you can see how frustrated they are at him holding on.

Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board

it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

Trump put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers and, on Musk’s instruction, fired the FAA chief early without replacing him.

This should be the only thing Dems are saying today. They should all be out on media saying this.

THAT is a subhed for the ages.

If a man can’t give a Nazi salute at a party for a racist convicted fraudster and proven sex offender, then what kind of sick world are we living in, I ask you.

Shout out to @gilesyb.bsky.social for the “Triangle of Crap” which remains a powerful tool for visualising the problems facing the Government, although the labels are probably a touch too strong.

The usual suspects, prioritising profit over planet, gather as the world burns. Future generations will inherit the consequences of their greed.

Here's Gary Gibbon #C4News explaining that the Conservatives amendment which was defeated was never about winning

It was so Conservatives could campaign on doorsteps asking voters why Labour didn't support another inquiry

Conservatives politicising child abuse - disgusting

Thought this was a myth.

It HAD to be a myth - surely but er no.... it's true
www.politico.eu/article/tory...

Trump says he’s sending Don Jr to Greenland in order to promote his expansionist bullshit, but I think he knows Jr will try to snort a glacier

Dear World,

We’re sorry.

Sincerely,

Sane, Decent Americans