Alaa's family held a press conference yesterday in London with former detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffee, to discuss how the new British government is failing to live up to their promises on hostage diplomacy and Alaa's case while in opposition. This includes a promise in the Labour manifesto.

Hello hello- here is Catigula for tax.

Darth, this is Catigula Ayatollah Clawmeini. Here is he pretending to die if his snacks aren't filled to the brim. He loves the drama.

So I get a lot of nonsense borderline spam emails (plus some recent entertaining ones from a guy claiming to be the messiah) but this was too ludicrous not to share. Why frame it as whether LinkedIn is "the new Tinder," when this is clearly just about harassment of cis-women in online space?

Back in Hatay almost six months after twin deadly earthquakes in February, followed by another quake, weeks later. Here is one of the sites where the authorities chose to dump piles of rubble so big they look like hills from afar: It used to be a wetland, a spot known for birds and butterflies.

Depressing example of bad rightwing coverage of climate change: A non-scientist bemoaning a straw man argument about people correctly connecting the recent Canadian forest to climate change.

They can present this as about semantics as much as they want, will not change the reality.

Solidarity with BBC colleagues in Cairo who are on a one-day strike today, demanding pay in line with inflation. They're paid in EGP rather than foreign currency, which as they rightly point out here is discriminatory- their foreign colleagues are paid in FX.

Fair pay is part of press freedom too.

Hello from Catigula. He loves a bag.