Today I learned that the collective noun for frogs is "army." Huh.

"Brexiteers boasted that leaving the EU would be worth hundreds of billions a year. Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade Britain's economy will be £300bn smaller than if we had not left the EU. This is self-harm on a heroic scale."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

I keep a diary.
It’s called The Long War. Letters to the Living.

Today I wrote:

The muscovites launched 465 drones and 32 missiles.
Many were shot down –
405 drones and 15 missiles.
The rest landed on our lives.

Funny how Russian bribery gets mentioned by @zackpolanski.bsky.social on #BBCQT & Zia Yusuf gets very upset!

Good, about time someone stood up to Reform.

Fair play Zack as the panel seemed rattled by you.

Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch (or Rewatch) the classic (and ever relevant) film: "All the President's Men" (1976) - Dir. Alan J. Pakula

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC3Y...

Would be striking if a peace prize in memory of a Swede and based in Norway will go to someone who threatened Greenland which is part of the kingdom of Denmark.

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

NEW #DoctorWho postcard pack on sale next week. 15 Doctors, 15 debut stories. Artwork based on #DavidPelham’s #PenguinBook covers from the 1970s. Here are the first four —

The European Commission is going to investigate allegations that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government placed intelligence officers in Brussels to gather information on EU institutions and recruit an EU official.

❗️The 🇪🇺European Commission is creating a special team to investigate the espionage operations in which 🇭🇺Hungary is suspected - the representative of the European Commission Balazs Ujvari

Indicting People Who Lied to Congress Would Overcrowd Prisons
www.borowitzreport.com/p/indicting-...

“99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow… and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it…” (Private Eye)

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

Kyiv at night,
under drone attack.

The mayor warned there may be
power and water outages
because of the strikes.

I’m charging devices
and resilience.

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

This #bbcqt audience is from the West Midlands & isn't taking any of the bullshit dogwhistling about Handsworth from Zia Yusuf (or Robert Jenrick).

They know it's designed to polarise & enrage, & - as @zackpolanski.bsky.social says - to distract from the real causes of poverty & inequality.

Everyone in the country should know this name

I'm genuinely interested in what might happen to the UK if fewer people were spending large proportions of their earnings on a place to live and were able to study and learn in way that wasn't limited by their income. A place to call home and something to be getting on with as a policy

I was at a British university. I met self-promoting gobshites like Annabel Denham and Zia Yusuf. They were a minuscule, unrepresentative fraction of some very privileged students, let alone the country. Why are they on TV talking about integration? They know nothing about it. They've never done it.

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.