Tom Hannen

Wondered what the police had to say about the curious handling of the September 27 RAF Fairford incident? My story about today's first charges has now been updated with a police statement acknowledging the handling might "appear illogical" but defending it: www.ft.com/content/7128...

Loved ‘The Black Tapes’ pod. Highly recommended!

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Every day Douglas Adams' gags become less about the 1970s

How it started. How it's going.

Westminster station -the portal to British government, passed through by 1000s of policymakers every day - almost always offers a good illustration of why TfL & @london.gov.uk need to curb fossil fuel ads on our tubes, trains & buses. BP isn’t advertising here to sell consumers more petrol directly

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

now look at them yo yos that's the way you do it use number 4 as your private key that aint workin thats the way you do it kill all computers via PHP

The juxtaposition between Jackdaw approval and today's UN report warning the world is on track to far exceed 2C of warming even if all current net zero plans are delivered is beyond stark. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537621... www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

The problem is not really Jackdaw, which is pretty small. The problem is the UK's plan to transition away from fossil fuels is still not ambitious and detailed enough. The problem is if Rosebank follows. The problem is if every country develops one last fossil fuel project we're all screwed.

Well, this is a thing. Overnight in the UK, the BBC World Service will come... from Sydney. Goodness. james.cridland.net/blog/2026/bb...

tWiTtEr iS bAcK … down to 18% of nationwide usage this year from 21% last year, appropriately tied with Nextdoor www.pewresearch.org/internet/fac...

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

The demolition of Quantel’s site on Turnpike Road in Newbury is underway.. Paintbox, Mirage, Harry, Henry, Picturebox & the sQ edit platform were all created and manufactured here. It was an incredible place to visit in its heyday..

It’s taking a long time for people to wake up to the fact that these platforms are not public forums but privately owned companies with terrible agendas and total control. If you lay down with these dogs…

NEW: Virtually every news organization has a Meta business account. Meta’s new terms say it can scrape websites “associated with” those accounts — and use the content to “train” its products. @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I on what this means for publishers: www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

This is a great idea

Four dimensions is too many! Let's unfold this 4D cube to three dimensions, then two, and then one. Don't worry, we'll put it back together again. The math is lovely, but it's the rhythm and dance of the lines that fascinates me here.

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

I'm starting to think that, despite its tax status, Facebook isn't really an Irish company.

Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one.

The boss of a French supermarket chain targeted by cyber attacks that forced its fridges to overheat has described the incident as an “unprecedented” and “extremely serious” attack on the country’s food security www.ft.com/content/6908...

This sounds extremely similar to the unconfirmed hack of the US DoD freezers a few months ago signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-so...

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Curious media blackout on a case involving an Oxford professor and culture warrior thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/oxford-pro...

The subject of a cracking future Guardian column I hope

Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.

Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪

pressgazette.co.uk/news/reform-...

This is going to be FASCINATING

False attribution is illegal in UK law: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/4... (should anyone know of a UK person this happens to). This is also present only for visual artists in US law: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... though might (IANAL) be subject to the much wider fair use over there

The King’s cut from your electricity bill bit.ly/4yx46ng he gets 12% of crown estate profits through the Sovereign Grant

If you’re unable to speak, you probably shouldn’t be presenting the UK’s flagship news programme. Follow me for more radio production tips…

Revoy’s electric dollies can attach to semitrucks, turning them into #hybrid vehicles without modifying the engine. A 36-ton truck can run 320 to 400 kilometers on electric power. buff.ly/Ai5xSUn

Don't bomb Iran, you're welcome.

Of course we Tories are not climate change deniers …it’s just that we want to abandon the net zero target, scrap environmental controls. and expand Heathrow ….

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a staggering all-time high 65% off on Steam! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoNi...

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They both sound like own label rip offs of Brie cheese

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

Every glaciated region on the planet lost ice for four years in a row now. From 2023–2025 alone, glaciers lost around 1,400 gigatonnes of ice, equivalent to roughly 560 million Olympic swimming pools (the official weird measure for anything water related). Source: bit.ly/WMOStateofWa...