Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh.
news.sky.com/story/migran...

The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎

“Nothing will be torn down.” — The ironically named Karoline Leavitt

At last week’s lobby on Sudan, I spoke to constituents about loved ones caught in the horrors of war — especially in besieged El Fasher, where 250,000 civilians are trapped and starving.

The UK must back an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian access & end arms sales to the UAE that is fuelling war.

“Facts Matter. Verifiable, testable, provable facts.” – Stephen Fry

This #GlobalMILWeek, let’s champion reliable info and critical thinking.

See how Full Fact’s building a better information environment: fullfact.org

#CelebrityTraitors

Tell the government to stop the crackdown on peaceful protest now: act.gp/3J2ntjz

Cost of Privatization,

Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.

Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.

Public ownership is the only way out.

That ballroom extension seems slightly suboptimal …

Breaking: The East Wing

"Winter is coming, which means we're back to thinking about home heating."

Not sure how my colleague Max Woollard managed to get this past the @nestauk.bsky.social editorial team, but he did and his blog on how to make clean heat more affordable is great...

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.

Real life:

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

Just saw a sign,

“A comb over is not a crown”

😂

For no reason at all I thought this quote from Katie Lam MP would work in a different font. I thought I’d add a headline too.

Apropos of nothing in particular. Really, no reason at all.

“People had a way of suddenly disappearing, no trial, no explanation”; “prisoners were half-starved, bullied, inhumanly treated”.

“The resonances with today are impossible to overlook. Would that we all had Carson’s insight and her moral clarity.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social

British.

Fracking is a massive backwards step, & not something we want.

Useful insights:
reports.electricinsights.co.uk/q4-2024/why-...

A life well lived.

“math” 🤔
(runs for cover)