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Sally Rooney is ridiculous. Instead of donating to one of the many charities that help Palestinians directly she chooses to donate to a group of criminals who hit police officers with sledgehammers. Proscription of Palestine Action is wrong, but that doesn't mean they aren't useless criminals.

Dear @greenparty, around half the people who live between the river and the sea are Jewish. The establishment of an exclusively Palestinian state provides the same ethnic exclusion that Israel does to non Jews today surely? Unless you're suggesting some pogroms to change that?

Good to see MPs using their time wisely. Can't think of anything that the Culture and Sports committee could better spend their time on. Well done Dame Caroline Dinenage. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK government knows the name of the diplomat who it is alleged was in possession of child abuse images. We can't get him back because of diplomatic immunity. But what we can do is pay for posters with his name and photo to go up around his home city with the message "Check his hard drive".

While a supporter of passing the assisted dying bill today, I would have liked it to have a sunset clause, forcing a review of the operation of the safeguards before it is renewed. We have to get this right, some other countries with these laws have headed down a route few in the UK want.

I don't post on American politics often, but this $5k offer to voters in Trumps recent speech only increases the parallels with Crassus and other patricians in the late Roman republic. A failed military campaign against the Parthians. Subverting democratic norms. Now bribing the electorate.

When they bowled England out for 290, Pakistan probably thought that putting England into bat first was the smart thing. How wrong they were.

While Burnham's announcements over the summer on homelessness etc are welcome, everything they do at the moment is twiddling at the edges compared to the budget in the Autumn. How are they going to increase taxes and by how much, what will they spend it on, and measures to increase growth.

If you see a post from someone saying we should have a national care service, ask them for successful European examples of the model of funding, organisation and care delivery they are proposing to show it works. I'm not against social care reform, I'm against the UK (again) ignoring what others do

Why is Andy Burnham messing around with a No10 for the north? Move parliament to the north. Everyone has to leave the palace of Westminster in a few years anyway, use the opportunity to split the political and economic centres. Lots of other European countries do this very successfully.

NHS blood test form. Do you want to book an adult or child appointment? We have an upper age limit of 12 for a child's appointment, but won't tell you that until much later in the process. You should just know this. I mean duh, did you even go to school?

And we wonder why it takes so long and costs so much to deliver any kind of infrastructure in the UK. Months wasted and hundreds of thousands of pounds on one part of the public sector suing another. The system for building things is completely broken. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kindle's frustration free setup is really quite frustrating as it doesn't seem to actually work.

I'm all for passive cooling strategies for your home, but when its over 30C for 5 days in a row (and over 35C for 2 days) there is only so much passive cooling can do in a home designed for the cold, damp usual weather in the UK. Portable aircon to the rescue!

A good lesson in thinking about the numbers that you quote. The figure below is nearly the entirely daily amount of water provided by Scottish Water. This should give you pause before quoting it as in reality it mistakes per day for per year figures.

Interesting article by Dan Neidle - reinforces my thought that we need to spend more time looking at what our more successful European neighbours do and copy them taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/06/05/t...

I missed this over the last couple of days, only noticed through this Guardian article. Do the morons complaining about this not understand the danger of false positives? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The reality of Cuba's repressive government laid bare in this interesting article I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

Vetting council candidates is a bit of a nightmare as there are so many of them. Every party struggles a bit, particularly when you're growing fast. @greenparty.org.uk What's the excuse for lack of vetting on a single, super high profile by election candidate?

Reposting antisemitic conspiracy theories otherwise known as personal and family problems, it seems.

Interesting analysis with some proper detail and work behind it. Worth a read.

Rare to see sensible comment on housing policy.

I'm appalled by politicians and the media who think it's perfectly acceptable for a sitting Labour MP to stand down to enable a sitting Labour Mayor to stand down in order to contest the ensuing by-election. No wonder people have no faith in politicians or the media. So disrespectful to voters.

While I don't want a Labour leadership challenge because I'm not sure any of the others will be much better and I'm not a fan of the kind of political chaos it will cause, I am enjoying the frustration from Andy Burnham seeing yet another chance to become PM slip through his fingers.

"Them? I didn't know they were noble?" said Io. "They're all very rich and have had millions of people butchered or tortured to death merely for reasons of expediency and pride" said the Lady. The watching gods nodded solemnly. That was certainly noble behaviour.

I need to manipulate the Bluesky algorithm into giving me much less US internal politics. There was some kind of decision on a case about voting rights this week and its clogging up my feed. I don't care about domestic US politics as I don't live there. I need to convince Bluesky of this.

Interesting how the discourse over trans women in elite sport has changed over time. A few years ago the guardian would have been horrified at considering publishing an opinion article like this. Now they published this alongside an opposite one by Moira Quinn - two opposing views.