Simone Hochgreb

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

The first 2 minutes of this exceptional documentary are a very good indication of the high quality of this brilliant 1 and a half hour journey through fear and despair and arriving at hope.

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

UPDATED – Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 ✍️ By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 With comments from @claudioangelo.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/QqRBFfy

A wonderful bit of news, finally! Nail-biter, but saved by hard-nose democrats, a bit of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, using (Meta) Whatsapp to get the bottom rungs voting. It can be done! Now for the hard part, but the planet gets a few more years of life... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

"It's OK. I wrote that joke."

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy

Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

Just putting finishing production touches to a *banging* Palantir scoop for tomorrow’s Democracy for Sale email Goes out straight to inbox in the morning (it’s free - but paid subs are ❤️’ed) 😊 democracyforsale.substack.com

Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It remains a British national disgrace that professional liar and bigot Toby Young is still at large in any capacity.

What frankly is the point of government publishing this sort of statement on trade negotiations with absolutely no useful content? Compulsive secrecy to the point of parody. For no good reason whatsoever. www.gov.uk/government/n...

NEW: BBC will no longer have a dedicated education editor as part of proposal that will see 100 jobs go across BBC News. School leaders call the plan “deeply regrettable” and ask for a rethink. Education/Social affairs editor jobs being combined. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

Principled stand in support of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by chair of @LondonAssembly.bsky.social @andrewboff.bsky.social leaving London Conservatives after 53 years in the party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

"This hatred, it’s like a cancer. It spreads because people will always say, ‘Oh, it’s just the illegals.’ It’s not. “From what I experienced, it was anyone who was remotely different, different creed, different colour, different sexuality.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

Jack Ross [of Turning Point UK] denied our findings “completely”, claiming that everything he said to our undercover reporter was not meant seriously. Some joke. network.aljazeera.net/en/press-rel...

Democratic-aligned group Progress Action Fund has released a PRO-trans ad, attacking Republicans for being creepy in bathrooms. It will run in Texas and Ohio, and is expected to reach millions. You have to see the ad itself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

What the hell? This is shocking. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

This is fucked. Really bleak how entrenched this is becoming.

Andrew Boff has left the Conservative Party after 53 years (so will now be an independent in the GLA) over his support for human rights. The leadership will not allow candidates to run if they publicly support continued UK membership of the ECHR, ratified since 1951 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Last night of the pogroms’

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Elections matter apnews.com/article/hung...

Differences? What differences?

New analysis by thinktank E3G suggests that the £15bn warm homes plan - currently under threat - would slash £1bn a year from UK household energy bills, concentrated on those on low incomes, provide a £1.6bn yearly boost to the economy, and create 50,000 new jobs, vs Rosebank's projected 1,100 jobs.

You have not missed anything. Here is the (weird conclusion which does not answer the question)

Nobody tell Princess Anne this is allowed. youtu.be/mFqWu-9kb04?...

New research from E3G out today once again showing that getting off fossil fuels lowers bills and improves quality of life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Devoting your social time to platforms where you control your own account and your own data, is the only real long term solution to hating billionaires controlling their own platforms.

Plaque telling story of African-Caribbean prisoners in Britain stolen within days

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

X and Meta interfering in Brazilian elections. Starlink siding with Russia. That's just this week. It's not a word I use lightly, but we are at war with the tech oligarchs whether we like it or not.

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000 nfap.com/research/new...

Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.

I really hope this Croydon model of public house building doesn’t falter because of some errors in projections. These should be lessons learned to be fed into the next round of public housing, not to dismantle the Brick By Brick project that has won a RIBA award www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

REMINDER: If govt cuts heat-pump grants, the UK will have to import a lot more gas In 2023, Energy UK said that'd cost an extra £3bn over 2026-2030, but gas prices today are roughly ~2x what they were at the time of the analysis…

This is a Russian jet-powered Shahed drone striking a supermarket in Odesa in broad daylight today. ​This is terrorism. Terrorists shouldn't be rewarded with lucrative business deals. They must be repelled, arrested, and prosecuted.

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

A fellow of the @royalsociety.org aiding and abetting the Russian terror state.

1/ Russian warbloggers are applauding the Trump Administration for the apparent crippling of Starlink in Ukraine. Terminals now reportedly no longer work at speeds of higher than 60-70 km/h (37 to 44 mph), effectively disabling many Ukrainian drones. ⬇️

More of this please

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.