Dave Powell

There will be many specific reasons for these declines - chemicals, changing farming practices, climate change, insect populations, disease - but over all its not that complex. We extract too much, we pollute too much, we are too careless and leave too little. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just been served an ad for Age UK featuring an 80-year-old called Dave. Sorry, no, not possible, Dave is a young person's name

Brentford

No AI for kids. Full stop.

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

The right to blair arms

Fairest way to decide how Manchester City should be punished is to open it to a national citizens panel. All ideas can be considered and we can all vote on the top 16. I’d like to pitch in “no relegation but they have to play every game for 5 years without football boots on”

I'm a few days late to this, but it's worth noting as amid all the years of deeply weird discourse about low-traffic neighbourhoods this is perhaps the most unhinged thing I've ever seen. [Plus: they're not "Sadiq Khan's LTNs". They're done by councils.]

Thomas Edison in 1910. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves on this net zero business, lads

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

Now, just personally, I would have considered the crocodiles

or to put it another way, good news for first time buyers

Tough next game away to the Moon in the Europa League

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This is very very good

Does my cat’s nose look like a Klingon Bird of Prey?

Let’s get real about how complicated climate change is in our brains, says Renee Lertzman in my latest Your Brain On Climate. pod.fo/e/56671c

Does my cat’s nose look like a Klingon Bird of Prey?

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

Get booking

Flooding and a targeted campaign response can lead to a noticeable (but small) effect on voting.

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

Seems fine.

She hints at what her plan will entail - nature, nuclear, flood defences, markets and innovation - but all this is already being done. If free markets and innovation (without carbon pricing) worked as an adequate answer on their own to the climate crisis the problem would be solved already.

One billion plastic pellets about to go up the gullets of fish off the coast of England. A Martian would ask: I mean someone’s going to prison for this, right? Right?

Donald Trump’s net approval rating has fallen to a record low of -25, according to our tracker. Explore the data

Whoever designed this Times front page has a dark and wicked sense of ironic humour. Hyper-sensitivity to predictable technical challenges of energy transition. Meanwhile, Europe burns.

Quantum of Tzolis

It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

I think they got these two the wrong way round

is that a pair of cocks?

"B.. b.. but I don't want to"

‘54 Toni Turek Max Morlock (W. Germany) ‘78 Leopoldo Luque, Oscar Ortiz (Argentina) ‘82 Alessandro Altobelli (Italy) ‘98 Didier Deschamps, Zinedine Zidane (France) ‘06 Gennaro Gattuso, Marco Materazzi (Italy) Daniele De Rossi (Italy) ‘18 Paul Pogba (France) ‘26 Pedro Porro, Mikel Merino (Spain)

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Irredeemable horror that pre game

Over 85% Britons say that climate change is responsible - strikingly this extends even across more socially conservative segments more sceptical about things like net-zero. More broadly 66% of Brits are worried about climate change.

There's gonna be a new PM. What he needs is an op-ed telling him what to do, of which there's no doubt a lamentable absence. Here's the time-hallowed method for creating one: 1. Set out the problem cleanly, as if the PM had literally no idea that growth, the cost of living and deficit matter. 1/

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Vale Sam Neill 🥹 An actor that used his platform to raise awareness of environmental issues, including single use plastics and climate change. He spent this year fighting a mining project in Otago, NZ. A true role model. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Calling Count Binfantino

*sitting in bath of ice water* Definitely time to stop worrying about climate change