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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
londoncentric.media
After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones". https://bit.ly/45sIFqu
This week, a wildfire has torn through Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, leaving the entire nature reserve devastated. An area of around 210 football pitches has been affected with rare habitats and wildlife lost in a matter of hours.
Growing up, I would watch football on TV or listen on the radio, from the safety of my own home, after I was racially abused on the terraces and my brothers were chased away from a different stadium by National Front extremists.
Racist and homophobic abuse on the rise in English football as new figures released
Reports of abuse soared last season, with Kick It Out claiming discrimination is ‘deeply embedded’ in English football
independent.co.uk
President Trump dozed off almost immediately after delivering his eulogy. trib.al/Tg5xEEM
Trump, 80, Falls Asleep After Mocking Lindsey Graham at His Funeral
President Trump dozed off almost immediately after delivering his eulogy.
trib.al
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
Kotaku is looking for bilingual freelance writers covering gaming who are based in Japan. If that's you or someone you know, please DM me!
I think people who do not work in media have trouble grasping how genuinely terrifying it is watching organization after organization (even those ostensibly held by entities able to fund them!) continually get carved down into nothing. Lights going out all over
Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 2w ago"Most of the affected employees were at National Geographic, both at the cable network as well as editorial and operations." 🫠
The thing about saying Burnham "will want to be able to say immigration has fallen" is... he can already say that! It fell significantly under Starmer - and no-one cared!
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2w agoI don’t really think scrapping the most draconian immigration policies of this century is ‘shifting hard to the left’ on cultural issues tbh. And that ‘unite vs divide’ framing is curious, but cultural issues already divide the Labour 2024 coalition - he’s just chosen the conservative side!
Suffolk is currently under a hosepipe ban and drought, with farmers reporting no effective rainfall for 11 weeks, poor crop yields, reservoirs nearly empty, and they're terrified of their combines bursting into flames. www.eadt.co.uk/news/2626620...
Caroline Goldsmith@goldcaro.bsky.social · 3w agoGreat news everyone. Our Reform-led county council has solved the problem.
looks like Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its chief executive and a 26% rise to its finance director
Stamp duty and council tax are terrible taxes. Land value tax could replace both - and Andy Burnham has backed it for 16 years. Who wins? Who loses? What happens to house prices? LVT could drive growth. But it isn’t easy. Our model shows its promise - and its problems.
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
I know you know this on bluesky, but I posted it on insta so I thought I should post here too. And if it makes someone second guess using AI for these things then maybe it helps.
Spotted last night on hoarding around a partially-demolished abandoned former hotel on the seafront in Clacton 🗑️
Fascinating, beautifully written magazine cover story by @samlearner.bsky.social on how vibe coding is overwhelming the unsung human caretakers who keep the web running. Your weekend must read right here as.ft.com/r/1e761e4c-c...
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
as.ft.com
"Drax power station produced more carbon emissions than any other UK site in 2025 while receiving a record £999 million in public subsidies, according to new analysis from Ember."
Drax power station is still by far our biggest polluter - Energy Live News
Drax is the biggest polluter for 11th year in a row but supplier says report authors aren't accounting correctly
energylivenews.com
Headline measures of wealth inequality haven't meaningfully changed since the 1980s, but it's harder to work and save your way up the ladder than it used to be. Meanwhile, inheritances are becoming ever more important. Me for this weekend's Observer: observer.co.uk/news/capital...
Never interrupt your enemy when they’re launching themselves into a 6 week long argument with a bin.
Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck in a ferocious scandal where he cannot get his story straight and his excuses raise more questions than they answer inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.
Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth
