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Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."

The Autism "study" will be led by a guy who pretended to be a doctor even though he only has a BA in bio and who attempted a small-scale genocide of autistic people through chemical castration, so you know it'll be legit.

Anyone know who the last motorist was who was jailed for life for killing a pedestrian? Seem to creating an odd imbalance of punishments here www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

Comments from Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko that Ukraine may be forced to temporarily give up some territories to Russia have been met with dismay by Ukrainian lawmakers who spoke to the Kyiv Independent.

This is still very clearly the climate story of the week, and possibly the year.

big scoop from FT colleagues: Apple plans to shift the assembly of all US-sold iPhones to India as soon as next year, according to people familiar with the matter, as President Donald Trump’s trade war forces the tech giant to pivot away from China www.ft.com/content/c2be...

My best friend was killed on his bike 10 years ago. The police tried to suggest he had been cycling recklessly, until the CCTV showed a car doing 2x the limit mowing him down. The driver walked free. Yes we need tougher laws. But not aimed at cyclists

Guam kingfisher breeds in wild for first time in four decades uk.news.yahoo.com/once-extinct...

🇫🇷🇺🇸 Macron: The anger of the US should be directed at one person - President Putin.

@UKLabour is moving heaven & earth to go after "a tiny minority" of “dangerous” people on 🚲, while the vast majority of motorised road users continue to endanger themselves & every other road user around them... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

If you want to kill someone, the best way to do it is in a car because you are highly likely to get away with it.

From Fujitsu to Palantir - a long history of politicians ignoring the warnings that the computers will say stupid things that will destroy lives & then the IT firms will be difficult to get rid of. In other news, Tony Blair is still styling himself as an IT guru (funded by Larry Ellison of Oracle).

You know the Horizon IT system that led to innocent people going to prison? The Post Office (us) have paid Fujitsu £600m for the contract to use it since 2012 & we're still paying them! We shouldn't be paying Fujitsu. We should be sending them to prison.

Good. There is no financial justification for this. "Keir Starmer is facing a rebellion over his plan to use direct deductions from people’s bank accounts and the cancellation of driving licences as part of a government crackdown on welfare fraud and over-claiming."

Starmer going backwards on Ukraine.

Every time I almost forget the damage this man did - with Brexit, during the pandemic, in terms of public confidence - up he pops to remind me how loathsome he is. Failures like him and Truss used to at least have the decency to disappear from public life. Now, they just grift even harder.

Longest sentence for a driver causing death by dangerous driving that I can find is this one. 18 years. Killed two people. Injured 4 others. Drove a stolen vehicle, driving the wrong way on a motorway, and evading police on multiple occasions. So the question... www.herts.police.uk/news/hertfor...

"Trump administration officials are attempting to block the world’s most important energy research agency from producing data that the U.S. government argues favors renewable power over fossil fuels." www.politico.eu/article/dona...

NEW: The IEA's research has shown increasingly optimistic outlooks for clean power and gloomy forecasts for oil. The Trump administration wants that to change. w/ @saraschonhardt.bsky.social , @charliecooper8.bsky.social and @nicolascamut.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Farage: "7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts". Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born. The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.

More nonsense from the Royal Parks, as they preside over motor vehicle chaos in what is meant to be a nature reserve. @theroyalparks.bsky.social

Cummings loves leaking secrets, except not about his shrouded-in-secrecy, exempt-from-Freedom-Of-Information applications £800 million Gov funded project ARPA that aims to fund high-risk, high-reward’ scientific projects, from AI to feed the world democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

You know what's insulting to the memory of 6m dead Jews? Using them as moral cover for supporting the worst genocide of our time (which Maher does), and then humanising and grovelling at the feet of fascist president who is shipping innocent people to a Salvadorean concentration camp.

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

⚡️Trump says Russia has shown willingness for peace by not taking over all of Ukraine, calls it 'pretty big concession.’ “Stopping the war, stopping from taking the whole country, pretty big concession,” Donald Trump said when asked what Russia has offered as part of a potential peace deal.

"We’re putting a lot of pressure on Russia, and Russia knows that". The US is actively working to increase trade with and normalise Putin's regime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

chinese commerce ministry spox today: there are “currently no economic and trade negotiations between china and the united states.” “if the us truly wants to solve the problem, it should…completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures against china.”

Trump Pressures Ukraine to Accept Peace Plan Favoring Russia. Russia gets land, US gets minerals. Akin to Germany and Russia carve-up of Poland in the 1930s Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in return for worthless security guarantees from US, UK, Russia More states will go nuclear archive.ph/iK5ww

Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

A new partnership with the EU "is the sensible, pragmatic thing to do. We want to put more money in the pockets of working people and provide Britain with long-term stability and security; we won’t be defined by debates and arguments of the past" - Nick Thomas-Symonds theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'So who has the government listened to? Astonishingly, Keir Starmer has told us. His attack on environmental regulation, he states, has been inspired by “my conversations with leading CEOs” ' Get ready to fight this BS at the local level - every step of the way www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Von der Leyer urges Keir to "team up" in the north sea over wind and marine energy with joined up regulation to give investors certainty . She tells Starmer that they should "team up" to deliver the "regulatory certainty" investors want - speaking at IEA ahead bilat with PM

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

New details on killing of paramedics in Gaza appear to contradict IDF’s account

Nigel Farage has said Reform UK will have a Minister for Deportations. He added that they would also have a Minister for Dog Whistling, a Secretary of State For Shit Stirring and a Department of Complete Bollocks.

"The government’s ‘red lines’ are stifling debate" Exactly that.

“ Keir Starmer seems to want to handle Trump’s bullying trade tactics by trying to get him to be nice to Britain... However, it isn’t possible to placate or do deals with people who are deliberately trying to undermine your fundamental core values”