Gerald Hornsby

I’m surprised Kemi Badenoch is so opposed to the early prisoner release scheme. It’s an excellent source of Tory candidates.

As we have experienced this week, extreme temperatures are no longer a future threat. They are a present danger. Today, I’m launching London’s first ever heat plan: a city-wide plan to adapt our capital, protect communities, and build a climate-resilient city.

It sets out actions to make our city more resilient, including: 🔴 Retrofitting homes at the highest risk of overheating 🔴 More tree cover and green spaces 🔴 More safe access to blue spaces such as swimming 🔴 Support for our health system 🔴 Strengthening critical infrastructure

Buckle up for another epic thread from the ever-insightful Emma Monk, debunking yet another fact-free right-wing story! This time, about climate crisis. This thread is also a great lesson in how to do science communication to reach us non scientists

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Post-truth nonsense from Kemi Badenoch at PMQs. Some facts: - employment is up over 800k since the election - employment rate is near the highest on record (look at this chart) - inactivity rates are lower than all but one year under the Tories

1/8 Yesterday I was asked a question live on @lbc.co.uk by @mrjamesob.bsky.social : What happens if the United States intercepts a Chinese cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz? At the time, I said I didn’t want to think about it. Since then, I have. #Hormuz #MaritimeSecurity

Pope Leo is a man of conviction. Donald Trump is a man with many convictions.

I would like to thank @mrjamesob.bsky.social and @lbc.co.uk for fitting me in again. I apologise for the rather bleak analysis... but it is just honestly where I think we are. The escalation from "Area Denial" to "Access Denial" is a big shift in where the world economic security will sit.

Impressive so far. A refusal to be bullied into an illegal war by a mad US President should unite the nation. But Brexit Britain is, of course, not a normal nation.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Starmer: "We're taking back control of our energy security by investing in clean British energy, because that is the only way we get your bills off the roller coaster that is controlled by Putin and the Iranian regime."

The statement, @mrjamesob.bsky.social shows that Trump is only interested in business opportunities for him, his family, and his friends. Gaza is a real estate opportunity. Russia has promised a joint business scheme if they get the "peace deal" they approve of. He has no friends. No history.

I wonder, @mrjamesob.bsky.social why the British Board of Deputies x.com/BoardofDeput... have said nothing about this?

One message from Covid, @mrjamesob.bsky.social was that "Boris nearly died" from Covid. No. Nor was he "put on a ventilator." Because you need to be sedated to do that, and he wasn't. He did have oxygen "as a precaution", but he was in and out of hospital within a week. So, not "struck low by Covid"

Dear @mrjamesob.bsky.social is the Richard Tice who said that we knew lockdowns were awful the same Richard Tice whose income from his city centre commercial property portfolio was decimated during a lockdown.

I remember the Channel 4 film, @mrjamesob.bsky.social inside a northern Italian hospital.and the awful dystopian images of sedated patients connected up to beating machines, and the morgue being overflowing.

Storm "Claudia" was named by the Spanish meteorological service, @mrjamesob.bsky.social Ergo: Clowdia.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

As anti-Labour media will always put words in her mouth, why not beat them to it: "Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."

Reform UK have performed so many u-turns on policy, here’s there new logo.

The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.

These are #LabourAchievements and they are #FixingBritain. Private School VAT has delivered more than expected and billions extra delivered by HMRC collecting on underpaid tax by the wealthy. This is why the media hate Labour. Don’t be fooled.

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

A full and honest diagnosis of Trump's psychological behaviour and decline: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzz_... It explains pretty much everything.

Disgusting behaviour by fringe political nutters who should know better.

Please, @mrjamesob.bsky.social - don't do this nonsense "let's go to a random person on the scene who might have seen or heard something and has talked to people who also might have heard and seen something..." Let the authorities deal with it, and wait for the official statements.

I don't want him to tell me about his restructuring of the NHS. Just do it. @mrjamesob.bsky.social I want him to give me inspiration. I don't want him to criticise Farage or Reform. He's already done that. I want him to tell us his dreams, HIS inspiration, I want him to be a standard-bearer.

Some serious work going on over on Twitter. Dodgy Nige is still in hiding. But more being uncovered daily 👏👏👏

I've no idea who that could've been...

Who’s going to be the first to blame Starmer for England being slow, ponderous and, frankly, boring? #ENGAND

The Weekend Wire can now be found on our new Substack: The Best for Britain Wire. This week, Parliament has returned - but the biggest story of the week has undoubtedly been Rayner’s resignation. Subscribe for free to get it every Saturday! https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/when-the-rayn-falls

@mrjamesob.bsky.social From HMRC website: www.gov.uk/guidance/sta...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Quick point: Angela Rayner isn't a trustee, but the HMRC website says this doesn't matter because the trust benefits your child. www.gov.uk/guidance/sta...

Busy, positive start for the Gov. big announcements from Home Office, Foreign Office and a mega shipbuilding deal. Extra childcare hours come in and lowest August small boat crossings for 4 years. Keep up the good work!

Well well well.... And lowest number of migrants since 2021 Where's the Labour comms team?

Beautifully put by Steve Robb. Thanks for sharing this @simongosden.bsky.social

I did a google search last night on "mine hole" because I was sleepy and couldn't remember the word for "mine." Let me say that again. I googled "mine hole" because I forgot the word for "mine." Hi. My name is Kirk. I am a writer. #WritingCommunity

For those enjoying Gavin Newsom's fight back against Trump and his childish antics, you'll enjoy this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvva...

Climate change drives food prices up for consumers. 📈 Protecting the climate is good for your wallet. We need to act now. https://www.bsc.es/news/bsc-news/countries-across-the-world-see-food-price-shocks-climate-extremes-research-involving-bsc-shows

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South Park melts ICE 🤣🤣🤣

I love these debunking threads, @mrjamesob.bsky.social x.com/MonkEmma/sta...

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