Badenoch “pictured in a police uniform” in Justin’s favourite papers. Is she arresting herself for impersonating a Police Officer? #r4today

Instead of discussing how we can allegedly earn tax revenues by doubling down on the fossil economy, how about we discuss how to tax BP's windfall profits to help fund the energy transition instead? Thanks for the advice though. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

BP boss urges Burnham to prioritise UK oil and gas even as firm exits North Sea

Meg O’Neill says ‘where we generate jobs, we generate tax revenue’, as company’s profits more than double

theguardian.com

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

Justin has just said Liddle - as editor of #r4today - turned up in Europe saying “I effing hate them and we’re going to do them in” That’s quite an admission but explains a lot.

And Amol concludes the interview wishing they had time to talk more about economic growth. Having wasted half of the 10 minutes on small boats. Brilliant #r4today

Amol repeating the misinformation that N Sea extraction would result in lower UK gas prices. #r4today

#r4today allowing Reform to set the agenda again. Interviewing the, er, Energy Secretary about, er, small boats.

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

vox.com

I don't have any hot take on this, it is just so deeply nutty and absurd that OpenAI and Anthropic are both fighting to boost their valuations pre-IPO by competing to see who can depict their own products as the most irresponsibly dangerous and risky and this is just treated as normal

Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?

OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI.

npr.org

We need to review Burnham’s first two weeks and future prospects. I know, let’s get Starmer’s ex Director of, er, strategy in for expert advice. #r4today

A fascist party founded just months ago polled 8.7%, ahead of the Conservatives, in the Manchester mayoral election. What’s happening on the right of British politics is terrifying.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 5d ago

Greater Manchester Mayoral By-Election Result: 🌹 Craig | LAB: 47.2% ➡️ Astley | RFM: 21.0% 🌍 Coggins | GRN: 12.2% ◼️ West | RES: 8.7% 🌳 Eckersley | CON: 7.7% 🔶 Kilpatrick | LDM: 2.2% 🙋 Farmer | Ind: 0.6% 2nd Round: 🌹 Craig | LAB: 66.3% ➡️ Astley | RFM: 33.7% Labour HOLD.

Hope the ‘drive to school’ is in an autonomous cab so he doesn’t have to have any interaction with the kids at all.

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s gangster capitalism. These ‘revelations’ are constructing a protection racket. “Look at what might happen unless you continue to do what we want…” “And imagine how much worse it’d be if you let the Triads - with their bribes of cheaper, open-source models - move onto our patch!”

I Am Incorrigible@imincorrigible.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Anthropic Says Claude AI Hacked Three Companies During Cyber Tests The breaches signal that AI’s expanding capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts long feared." Is anyone ready to regulate AI yet? #r4today www.huffpost.com/entry/anthro...

Oh well. What to do we have to do to get them to bugger off, then?

Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · 6d ago

No shit!

Astonishing from the bloke from the Board of Deputies on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Andy Burnham sending a signal about his stance on antisemitism by doing his first interview as PM with Gary Lineker. Really?

Jenrick tells the Reform UK press conference this morning an official will come to your dying mother's bedroom to tot up her jewellery, confiscate her brooches and itemise her coats under Andy Burnham's new tax. Is there not a danger of just sounding so alarmist that you sound unhinged?

#r4today Amol Rajan mentions recent flooding events and now droughts and asks what’s going on? Really?

Sad that @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social has fallen for the OpenAI scam. If the company was bothered about what has happened, it’d have covered it up. They’re just advertising it to drag in investment. You’ve been persuaded to give them a free ad!

Oh, but it was Ed Miliband’s net zero zealotry which was apparently destroying the economy and the reason why he could not be trusted with the nation’s finances… www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

June heatwave cost UK economy more than £1 billion, study finds - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

The heatwave in June 2026 led to 24 million lost hours of working and a £1.15 billion hit to the UK economy, according to new research by the Institute and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Cha...

lse.ac.uk

Nigel Farage is trying to fight a non-existent candidate rather than admit he is facing Count Binface

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · last wk.

Another recent leaflet from Reform in Clacton hits out at the Tories' "broken promises" Quite an odd focus given that the Conservatives aren't actually running in Clacton.

Do the people raising the spectre of a ‘death tax’ think it’s just fine for the families of people requiring extended end-of-life care to bear an Inheritance Tax charge of 100%? Because that’s what the current system is.

Blimey. We seem to have a PM who talks like a human, not like a SpAd-bot. He won’t last long in the job, eh? @mrjamesob.bsky.social

I suspect that Fartage is setting up an “I was hounded/out” narrative to excuse his defeat in Clacton or his second resignation.

A public service for those of us who don’t use Instagram or TikTok

David Durant@bowsy.co.uk · last wk.

For unknown reasons the Number 10 media team still doesn't have anything official on Bluesky so I spent 15 mins vibe-coding up this which automatically shares @andyburnham.bsky.social 's Instagram and TikTok posts. @unofficialandy.bsky.social #AndyBurnham Please share away!

I think the Achilles heel of the much-needed vocational plan might be finding and paying for the FE lecturers. If a plumber can earn £70k+ working for a housing developer, why would they train as a teacher only to earn half of that? And IT specialists…?!!! #r4today

Perhaps the most startling change is the pivot from managing decline to actually trying to fix the big problems. #r4today

Manchesterism off to a flying start?!!

Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · last wk.

Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...

UKRI launches two AI research labs to stay ahead in global race

Two new labs will back British researchers to develop next generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, helping secure the UK’s position as a global leader.

ukri.org

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last wk.

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...

Badenough says she supports social care reform, so long as it doesn’t cost anyone anything, ever. Genius. #r4today

Burnham has “refused” to say when his social care plans will come in, reports #r4today A bit unfair to describe it as a ‘refusal’. It’s not exactly in his complete control.