Rob Massam 🔸

Another wasted opportunity. Blair/Brown had 14 years to reverse the worst effects of Thatcherism. Instead they embedded it into every public body. And here we are again, another landslide government and no clue how to use it.

The richest 50 families in the UK possess more wealth than half of the UK population Tax the wealthiest in society

It is a dark stain on American voters and the Republican Party that despite a range of criminal convictions, plus successful civil actions for rape - let alone the Jan 6th insurrection he encourages that the Republican Party allows him to stand for a second term & American voters elected him.

Sorry. But that is no excuse at all. About 70 million voters voted for him THREE TIMES

⚡️ Update: Denmark slams Norway-Finland call with Putin. «I actually don’t know what the two countries think can be achieved with this. I think we should stand together and speak with one voice,» Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said.

“Why was a major government supplier allowed to help shape the rules governing how the department buys its products, with little public scrutiny?” (The name of the supplier should come as no surprise) https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-palantir-led-secret-review

Who’s going to take lectures on democracy from anyone on the Trump team? Rubio’s stained along with the rest of that shower.

I meant "rubble" obviously, but "rumble" works too!

Believe it or not, this is the same party that built the NHS, the welfare state and a million council homes from the rumble of World War 2. Embarrassing.

If we want to get serious about long-term economic growth, we need to be investing more in R&D to raise UK productivity.

For 27 out of the last 30 years, the UK has had some of the lowest levels of public research and development (R&D) in the G7. I put this to economists and experts on Treasury Select Committee. 1/2

⚡️️ 302,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded by Ukrainian drones since January, Defense Ministry says. The highest number of casualties Ukrainian drones inflicted on the Russian military was recorded in March, with almost 34,000 soldiers killed or irrecoverably wounded.

I wrote about last night's ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, and what it is to be afraid but not to panic when explosions are all around you sianushka.substack.com/p/kyiv-under...

Fascism will not be overthrown as Burnham suggests by a "debate". We should never ever engage with these people. They have no "legitimate concerns". We should only make the positive case for democracy, equality, the rule of law and our place in a free Europe.

Brexit was a fascist project. The objective was to establish a mainstream fascist political party in the UK. Suddenly both their flagship project and the party they established are under threat. The backlash from the far right in politics and the media has been hysterical.

Americans: Imagine for a moment that your collective power of the vote is big enough and strong enough to defeat the corrupt actions of Trump and the £ billions poured into his corrupt coffers by his tech bro funders VOTE with dedication and persistent focussed action. You can make it happen.

Now why might there be such huge public concern re Data Centres? …Threats to water & electricity supply to local communities …Noise …Toxic levels of pollution …A handful of jobs created …Imposition of SEZ status or equivalent… interference in local democracy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We Calculated How Much Water Data Centers Actually Use. The Total Will Shock You! youtu.be/c0PSKqqFbeg?...

samf.substack.com/p/whitehall-... good second interview with detailed analysis of the ways forward might entail.

It's a good job Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 for water bills on her parliamentary expenses. If she had failed to declare a ten quid overpayment on Universal Credit, she'd have been in serious trouble then.

IEA flags concentration of clean energy supply chains as emerging challenge reut.rs/4snq4qx

10 things Burnham doesn’t want you to talk about; 1. Labour’s support for Gaza genocide 2. Climate change 3. Wealth Taxes 4. Transphobic Section 28 5. Rent controls 6. Man City 7. State Pensions in neighboring countries 8. Water nationalisation 9. Mandelson 10. Labour’s support for Trump’s Iran war

"Flávio has given up." A Bolsonaro family adviser tells The Washington Post he’s terrified his father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, will DIE IN JAIL, and that he could be jailed himself THIS WEEK. Flávio effectively conceded defeat after Trump stopped short of intervening, per WaPo

Reform UK now in third place in four out of the last five UK polls bsky.app/profile/youg...

U.K. Chancellor John Healey is set to deliver an unexpected increase in defense spending at his first budget tomorrow, as Britain strains to reach its NATO commitment to spend 3.5% of GDP on defense by 2035.

After restoration, these shops assemble components, integrate radio-electronic equipment and configure ground-based radio interrogators and radar stations. The enterprise is part of Rostec and repairs the Buk-M1/M2 and S-300V complexes.

Lines for dismantling, diagnostics, restoration and overhaul of air defense system components, in particular S-300V, Buk and Tunguska-M, as well as radar reconnaissance systems, are deployed here.

💥 75th Arsenal, Serpukhov. Satellite Image Analysis, - CyberBoroshno Shops No. 24 and No. 25 and a nearby hangar were damaged. These are the key production buildings of the enterprise.

Very interesting preprint on how badly LLMs do peer review "All tested LLMs lacked both sensitivity to errors and specificity, recommending major revision or rejection for papers [...] published in top journals" The tendency to reject is influenced by the prompt, with "revisions" judged favorably

Admidst their internal party politics, Labour have done nothing to redress how Cameron stuffed the BBC full of right-wing political bias. They have done nothing to effect proper #MediaReform. They have not instigated #Leveson2. Shocking dereliction of duty.

idk man, I'm Arab and I do a lot of posts, surely that's got to count for something

Not beating the "unable to accept the results of a democratic election" allegations

Who could Vance mean 🤔

UK Wind Power has fallen to 19.1GW this morning. With 1.3GW of Solar we are burning 6.7GW of Gas as well as exporting 1.5GW. Hydro is 0.6GW. Nuclear is 5.1GW and the awful Biomass 2.3GW. The price of wholesale electricity over the past 24 hours was £123 per MWh. #renewables

CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

🕊️A ceasefire regime in occupied Oleshky now, – Lubinets. Ukraine has introduced a regime of silence: ▪️deliver humanitarian aid to residents who remain in the city; ▪️prepare conditions for the free movement of civilians from Oleshky; ▪️ensure the safety and rescue of people.

Oh maaaan, they KEEP raining ballistic missiles down on us here in Kyiv. HUGE EXPLOSIONS. Reports suggest Russia may be using ballistic missiles with cluster warheads.

🔥 Over one year since the ceasefire agreement, more than 1,400 people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, nearly two million still need shelter, not a single hospital is fully functioning, and 1.4 million face crisis-level hunger.

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

True 😂 Israel could say that a hospital got blown up by a dragon and the British press would run with it.” Frankie Boyle

In today's Russian papers, surprise at the the defeat of Moscow ally Aleksander Vučić in Serbia. One paper: “Russia can expect nothing good from this.” Another: “The results benefit the EU.” But several point out: “The Serbs are dependant on Russian gas.” #ReadingRussia

Stability of pipeline should help on some of that in the medium term - more people working in the sector maintaining their skills - but there are constraints yeah