Here are the stupidest things Kemi Badenoch has said so far today inews.co.uk/opinion/kemi...

That Barclay's statement could have been shorter: "We're only interested in the money" #wato

Polanski's failure to say 'sorry' (even 'sorry, but ...') is like Tice skewing complaint about him not declaring an interest in debate - Polanski's slip would have gone away, & so would Tice's if he'd just said "oops, sorry, forgot, won't do it again' Poor judgement on a simple matter for both #wato

i confess that Jonny's "cynics would say" did cross my mind as well. The Greens have been fairly quiet on climate change compared to the pre-Polanski era up to now. #wato

Hopefully Priti Patel will stop referring to Louise Haigh as a “convicted criminal” on account of her spent conviction in that case.

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

Why is #wato giving such credence to the fantasy plans of a minority party anxious to deflect from all the dodgy financial dealings?

Reform UK and Nigel Farage are now so knee deep in scandal and investigations, their attempts to deflect and divert are failing. They’re running out of faux outrage.

This isn't attracting much media attention #wato

Owen Garling@ojgarling.bsky.social · 5d ago

Quite some agenda. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Total nonsense, Jonny - peace has not even "kind of" broken out in Gaza. #wato

The Ceuta exclave seems to be yet another messy remnant of colonialism and long-forgotten European wars. But the Reform/Tory panic-inducing claim that they're all coming to UK is nonsense - if they're Moroccans they'll be aiming for France. #wato

Says a lot when you find yourself in agreement with Sepp Blatter #wato

i bet he lived up to his moniker of Chris Gulp more than usual. #wato

Sue Reeve@suereeve.bsky.social · last wk.

What appears to be a #Farage style PR stunt by the odious #ChrisPhilp appears to have...... backfired. #wato

That was a very good & enlightening interview with Robbert Dijkgraaf. UK politicians take note. #wato

The Daily Telegraph with its finger on the pulse of the nation, no. 297,092

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

bbc.co.uk

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago

“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪

Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹

As called on La 1 in Spain:

@jesseduquette.bsky.social

Enjoy the BBC crediting “Bob the Cat” in their official closing montage.

Saved this one for such an occasion

German broadcast. Nailed it

Dear FIFA Never have a halftime show ever again. Yours Football

Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”

😆😆

In an angry, divided world, this is a great image from last night's France-England game 👏

"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue

Is it too much to expect the national public broadcaster to be capable of reporting on one of the consistently most salient political issues in an informed way?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Small boats to UK now down 45% year on year to mid-July. The BBC continues to (mistakenly) tend to hypothesise a weather effect. It is neither weather nor UK govt policy. It is a change in EU-wide flows.

The UK fall not as dramatic as EU-wide fall. This won't change much changing UK terms of protection (2023 ban on claims had v little impact). It could be addressed by deeper UK-EU cooperation. We aren't in shared database of claims, so people will now try the UK second. Scale up routes/returns deal