Well, that FIFA Peace Prize was worth its weight in shit.
02.03.2026 08:54
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Well, that FIFA Peace Prize was worth its weight in shit.
Nigel Farage to 'rig the rules' in elections with Trumpian plans to restrict who can vote and ban postal votes after by-election defeat.
People with indefinite leave to stay will lose the right to vote.
The elderly, disabled and busy people will be disenfranchised.
In Scotland, no patches of snow from winter 2024/2025 survived to winter 2025/2026
- This is the fourth year in a row that all snow has completely disappeared
I miss snow
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Wood burning pollution leads to 8,600 premature US deaths a year, study finds
- Wood is primary heating in 2% of homes but contributes to producing 21% of country’s wintertime particle pollution
Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Very impressive from @dpcarrington.bsky.social at the guardian - zero mention of Brexit at all.
Also never mentioned that the Common Market and Common Agricultural Policy were established to provide food security and environmental protection in Europe.
Maybe that's why there are no empty shelves.🇪🇺
Activists from the anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble on February 19.
A tariff that expires in 150 days isn’t a long-run industrial policy. Firms invest on multi-year horizons. If the policy is temporary, the investment response will be, too: mostly none.
(This was recorded when the tariff rate was 10%; it's now 15%.)
Many people have said this about him
FULL-TIME | A second half fightback secures Scotland maximum points in Cardiff
Analysis & reaction to follow...
#Scotland! Wow!
"rules that come into force on Wednesday require Britons with dual nationality from any country apart from Ireland to present a British passport to enter the country or pay £589 for a “certificate of entitlement”, which can take up to eight weeks to get."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
#BBCPM
There he is - #Trump, the not so great dictator. Good grief. He's lost it. #tariffs
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
Trump raises global tariffs to 15% one day after Supreme Court ruling - BBC News
The Washington Post: Trump raises new global tariff to 15%, beginning new chapter of economic uncertainty
📰 The Washington Post
Trump raises new global tariff to 15%, beginning new chapter of economic uncertainty
⟶ The Washington Post | headline in context
An important reminder
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You're probably right; - any word containing the letters "paed" may well confuse the hard of thinking. Just as well I didn't share it over on the other place! 🙄
This is astonishing!
#paediatrics #Science
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
India touts its demographic dividend and tech ambition, but the education and research system still runs on outdated 20th-century structures. Without modernizing STEM education and research infrastructure, that innovation promise remains a dream, not reality.
Bloody Beaker people, coming over here in 2400BC…
Britain is an immigrant island. Has been for thousands of years. It's the source of its energy, its vitality, its greatness.
@newscientist.com
Brilliant! Very timely, and as you say just as relevant now (even more so, probably) than it was then! How little have things changed...
youtu.be/Y38pbfJ4i_U?...
Still as funny and relevant as it was in 2013
I've just told my publishers to remove the Daily Mail quote they were going to put on the cover of the paperback of my latest novel. I don't care if the Daily Mail gave it a good review. The name of that shitrag is not going on the cover of my book.
Donald Trump's unhinged 24 hours as he gives deeply weird response to Andrew arrest
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Donald Trump is on his way to Georgia, where he'll give a speech about the cost of living.
UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS.
Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records.
Tell the government to end the contract!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
'It's overwhelming': Plastic from 1960s Canada washes up on Orkney beach www.bbc.com/news/article...
Genocide apologists have consistently tried to discredit official casualty figures coming out of Gaza.
This latest Lancet study finds that the Palestinian Health Ministry figures likely undercount the death toll by 40%. Horrific.
Duly noted! 😂 That's perfect 👌
