It's now been confirmed that this summer will be the hottest on record. For those opposing bold action on the climate crisis - you're not just putting lives and the planet at risk today, but dooming future generations.

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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I sort of hoped that the internet and the huge, open documentation of the horrors and backstory of Ukraine (or on, say, the USSR) would lead the crank-left to reassess. Its not deniable. But then you realise the Webbs etc looked at the atrocities of Stalinism full in the face and ignored it.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 20h ago

a lot of their domestic political ideas are delusional too, but the FP stuff is totally beneath contempt. and, the thing is, its also been 100 years. they’re still weighed down by campism, including somehow still making apologies for Russia. in a decade we be at 100 yr anniversary of Holodomor

Why was the Jason Arday story broken by a racist blogger and not the mainstream press? Because Times Higher Education was intimidated off the story by a letter from notorious libel firm Carter-Ruck. I'm publishing the letter. Its central claim may be false.

Icarus did his own research.

Terrible argument. Making subscriptions easy to cancel IS a better product and makes the industry look less scammy

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2d ago

Andy Burnham is bringing forward by several months to January plans to make subscriptions easier to cancel. Trade groups said this would leave publishers "scrambling to adapt to an entirely arbitrary new deadline - diverting valuable resources that would otherwise go into building better products"

Who benefits when the lights go out early? Not the musicians, bar staff, venue owners or young Londoners who rely on our night-time economy. I've called on Westminster to back growth, not restrictions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

London mayor orders council to drop plan to ban new pubs and bars in Soho and West End

Exclusive: Sadiq Khan urges Westminster council to adopt ‘positive vision of economic growth’ of nightlife

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I haven't been to Clacton since I was a child - but @countbinface.bsky.social is making me want to go with these videos.

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3d ago

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

apple.news/AG1KYbqVWTfm... Well this is interesting?

Burnham ‘handed post-Brexit plan that could see Britain rejoin EU single market’ — The Independent

The proposal would reportedly see Britain promise to extend the protection of Britain’s Armed Forces and nuclear deterrent across Europe, in exchange for access to the EU’s free-trade zone

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New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...

A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution

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The lack of rain in the forecasts for England and Wales is getting very scary. We are one dry winter from catastrophe. We are totally unequipped - mentally, socially, economically and culturally - for a sustained shortage of water. But it’s fast approaching.

Well said Sadiq: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sadiq Khan calls on Andy Burnham to commit to climate action as pressure grows over North Sea oil

London mayor points to ‘terrifying scenes’ this summer amid speculation Burnham may back Jackdaw and Rosebank projects

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I'm glad Heath is doing this (and persisting in doing so). But as with Fraser Nelson I wish he'd take some responsibility for creating a world in which most of his readers in the comments are backing Lowe.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6d ago

Allister Heath in the Telegraph argues that the foundation of Restore's politics is a "Groyperification" into rabid conspiratorial populism that rejects ethnic & faith minorities being equally British. www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...

RIP William Orbit, who produced several indelible hits for other people (Ray of Light, Pure Shores, Tender) and some beautiful music of his own, like this tune with a very young Beth Orton. One of the people who defined the sound of the 90s www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneA...

William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf

YouTube video by atmosfearic1

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It's amazing how they all actually look like Nazis. This one is from central casting.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 4d ago

Charlie Downes, 25 year old campaigns director of Restore Britain, has been clear that he believes having white British ancestry & being Christian are necessary to be British. His exclusion of Jews from being fully/equally British will split the right, as should his exclusion of blacks & Asians

Page 1 from Donald Trump's Bumper Book of Grievances.

Kevin Schofield@kevinschofied.bsky.social · 5d ago

Richard Tice Says He's Been Treated 'Worse Than A Paedophile, A Rapist Or A Murderer' www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/richar...

Trump is now filing an emergency motion to stop his own lawsuit against the BBC because the BBC is looking into his finances during discovery. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They are riots. Not protests. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Further arrests in Thetford as disorder continues for third night

The arrests follow disturbances linked to anti-immigration protests in the market town.

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Morning. * Not having a plan is the point of populist politics.

Has anyone read anything good on why the east coast is such fertile ground for the extreme right? (Lincolnshire, East Anglia, the Essex and Kent coasts) Demographics aren't wildly different to other areas where it's much less pronounced.

Oooof

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5d ago

🔴 Reform UK converted a £630,000 loan from deputy leader Richard Tice into a donation to the party, raising further questions about the origins of the party’s funds. @ollyhaynes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/08/07/r...

I do not believe a man who tweets like this should have his job back and it's hard to see how any Jewish student could be comfortable in his classes given his views.

Rather concerningly, the lawyer for the Tate brothers has confused “extradition” with “execution”. Young lawyers note - be careful not to do this in court.

Trump suddenly furious that he’s surrounded by idiots. Who let this happen?

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 6d ago

“trump’s frustration over the Iran war boiled over at Camp David last week, where he demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran.” wapo.st/4hQVTF0

Salford pioneered play streets, traffic-free from 8am till sunset (borrowed from New York) in the 1930s. Legislation followed: there were 700 in England and Wales in the 1950s, all but forgotten by the 1980s.

Not surprised to see the leader of the Conservatives being so dismissive about the very important role of local councillors btw, it’s her party that systematically attempted to destroy local government and all that it does

*stares* I'm sorry, this guy is going to be your advisor on culture and integration? The one who makes these videos?

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'll be honest: I'd buy this a lot more if his main outlet wasn't abusively attacking opposition politicians via AI slop in ways which obviously nod to other forms of prejudice.

If Jeremy Corbyn had said what Badenoch has said today, it would be leading every TV and radio broadcast and all of tomorrow's front pages.

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. When your SpaceX rocket hits the moon like a big piece of junk and you don't give a shit, you're a moron.

Hands up if you just knew Polanksi was going to wade in on this one and stick up for the guy jailed for a prolonged campaign of antisemitic harassment against a Jewish MP

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 7d ago

Why are you commenting if you don’t know the specifics of the case!!!!!

What a repulsive man. I had eye problems. Everything from routine cataract surgery and laser work for retinopathy in both eyes, to a vitrectomy. Some of the surgeons and nurses didn't have flawless English. But as they were busy saving my eyesight, it would have seemed churlish to whine about it...