Interesting report from @newyorkuniversity.bsky.social Langone on key factors to gain 13 years without dementia news.sky.com/story/three-...

Three middle-age health rules could bring an extra 13 years without dementia, experts say

Researchers, who followed more than 12,000 dementia-free subjects for an average of 26 years, found those who had none of the three risk factors lived without developing dementia nearly 13 years longe...

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Another glorious vindication of Kemi Badenoch’s impeccable political judgment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.

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There’s growing panic in the White House as no one can remember whether it’s Donald Trump’s turn to announce massive strikes on Iran or to announce that he’s called offmassive strikes on Iran because they’re now begging for a deal.  More news as we get it

Folding like a cheap umbrella? The US has removed Iran-related sanctions, according to the US Treasury's website, Reuters reports.

This afternoons walk to the beach through RSPB Lodmoor @rspb.bsky.social

That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.

He's still representing your party, Kemi!

Will Reid-Tong@willthong.com · 18h ago

Somehow Kemi on R4 has just backed herself into the utterly farcical line "come on now it's not a *national* platform - he's only gonna be a Tory councillor, not a Tory MP!"

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface

British foreign intelligence agency ranked top in Europe in Ballon d'Or and Eurovision-inspired competition www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...

MI6 ranked as Europe's best foreign intelligence service

British intelligence agency ranked top in Europe in Ballon d'Or and Eurovision-inspired competition

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The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

🔥 @whitehouse.senate.gov humiliates Republicans who just voted to advance Blanche’s nomination: “Probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office.” He cites the Trump-Epstein cover up, the cop beater insurrection slush fund, etc… Blanche is in it all up to his neck.

What a despicable little man he is. Ironic that he should refer to someone as a convicted fraudster.

She's a perfect example of why people need to study history because no one who knows anything about Dunkirk would dream of writing something so insulting and wrong.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d ago

The war. It always comes back to the war. That happened long before they were born.

Huge shift in Welsh public opinion, from voting Leave 10 years ago to 69% now wanting to Rejoin EU: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

From Leave to Rejoin: Welsh Public Opinion Ten Years On

Showcasing current research, comments and analysis on the law, politics, history, culture, government and political economy of Wales from the Wales Governance Centre.

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#VoteBinface www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...

‘A 99 with a Flake? That will be £7, please’: what’s behind the surge in ice-cream van prices?

From the cost of milk and chocolate to diesel and electricity, every part of producing the summer treat has been hit by the climate crisis and other shocks

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@bsky.app the Popular With Friends feed isn’t loading in the UK

Just watched episode 1 of season 4 of Van der Valk Marc Warren is great Brilliant episode with great cast Can’t wait for the rest of the season @itvx.com The books by Nicholas Freeling were also very good as was the original TV series with Barry Foster which I’m old enough to remember !

Oh shut up and fuck off - the British famously lost that battle too and had the advantage of being across a sea for the next few years

This has made me so angry. It's time NHS staff were properly protected from these people who should be banned from accessing NHS treatment. Let them pay for a 'white' clinician if they want one so badly (and hopefully they'll struggle to find one- be an ally!) news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism

Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."

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Left: Yvette Cooper saying something about small boats Right: Yvette Cooper's legacy is a policy which saw the daughter of a Holocaust survivor arrested a couple of days ago, "This is not what my parents died for.. I'm glad they didn't live to see this"

The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

It says a lot about a politician when 20% of people would rather vote for a bin.

If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.

When Uber Eats and DoorDash hid the tip button, delivery workers paid the price. Tips fell by 79%. In January, we changed that. Since then, more than $104 million has gone back into the pockets of the delivery workers who keep New York City fed.

#Breaking: More than 1,000 lawyers, judges, prosecutors, administrative & corporate lawyers have signed an open letter to the government & parliament demanding they start proceedings to ban the AfD. #Germany 1/2

Of course this is the problem with Reform/Conservative/Restore - we become an isolated country, Little England, Billy No Mates exactly the same as Trump has done to the United States. It is not a Fortress as they would have you believe. news.sky.com/story/politi...

Politics latest: France hits back at Reform's pledge to use navy to return small boat migrants

Reform UK has pledged to use the Royal Navy to return migrants crossing the Channel in small boats to France and Belgium if the party wins the next election. But France has responded, saying such a mo...

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BBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?

Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…