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For anyone who missed #BorisJohnson defending himself at the Privileges Committee

The number of Britons saying the UK was right to vote to leave the EU has hit its lowest level since the referendum, ahead of the fifth anniversary of Brexit on Friday Right to vote to leave: 30% (-3 from Nov) Wrong to vote to leave: 55% (=)

NEW ANALYSIS - With the UK government poised to back the expansion of Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton, we crunched the numbers on the climate impact of these plans. The UK would need to plant a new forest 2X the size of London to offset the emissions from all the extra flights 🌳✈️

🗣️ "There is an unbelievably unpleasant undercurrent here which goes well beyond their views on wokery" Rory and Alastair explore the lengths populists will go to - and the journalists enabling them.

@SpooksandBooks @saranaidinecox My feedback was great and 100% spot on. You know feedback is good when that niggling voice in the back of your head that you’ve been trying to ignore pipes up and says ‘I told you so.’ My book is going to be so much better thanks to your feedback, many thanks for it!

@saranaidinecox I can only speak for myself, of course, but my feedback was certainly not generic. It was detailed, encouraging and really helpful. Thank you again!

British transplant surgeon Professor Nizam Mamode's harrowing testimony to the Select Committee about Israel’s quadcopters shooting at civilians and children in Gaza who were already injured and on the ground...after they had just been bombed. Pls watch

1. Who really won the US election? The fossil fuel companies and other polluting industries. We scarcely heard about them during the election campaign, which is just how they like it. Almost everything we *did* hear about was a distraction from the real agenda. 🧵

@RoryStewartUK This - just like Brexit it was all going on out of sight: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

1 thing that strikes me as someone who got it wrong is how Trump victory’s become a mini Rorschach test. A few 100,000 secret votes in swing states now represents and validates a 100 worldviews. What are the most striking unusual explanations of victory you’ve come across here?

She knew it earlier than most of us and paid a high price for pointing it out. She’s back now and not for a cheap ‚told you so‘. But to warn us again. That it’s late. But not too late. Rarely say sthg is a must read, but this is.👇 @carolecadwalla⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@cbcreative @richardroper ‘Who’s that man with the bodyguards and the fake tan?’ Jake said. ‘Wait! What the hell’s he doing here?’ Sally looked down, tapping the bunker with her sand wedge, ‘I know you don’t like him but I thought maybe we could soften him up before he starts his job in January’ #WriteCBC

#WriteCBC task from @richardroper: Two characters are on a walk when they come across something, or someone, completely out of place. Write a mini-scene where we see how these characters react to this unexpected event.

Never heard Oxfam condemn anything so strongly as they condemn Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people…because it is a stain on humanity. The level of brutality is staggering!

@AndrewLang It’s also very good

I am happy to share that my short story Hold has won the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize and will be published on 26 October. You can read it here (it's very short!) oxfordflashfictionprize.com/2024/10/15/fir…

@MichaelRosenYes Surely we can find out for sure by seeing if there’s a correlation between piles and the introduction of heated seats in cars (if so, they might have to change the ads a bit)

Do you remember when they said that if you sat on the school radiators you'd get piles? Is that medically proven? Does the heat go up there and make everything swell up? And blam! You've got piles. I bet those old cast iron ones were the worst. They had ripples on the top.

It wasn't that long ago yet we act as though the pandemic barely happened. It was devastating for so many of us as @Kevin_Fong poignantly highlights here. Also important to remember that for many people it's not over; there are ~2million people still living with #LongCovid in UK

@jounwin This is unbelievable

To all the people saying "they should have locked the Just Stop Oil protesters up for longer", enjoy your weekend. But please remember that you wouldn't have a weekend, or any other fundamental right, were it not for protesters who were reviled by people like you.🧵

🚨 BREAKING: THE WHOLE TRUTH FIVE IMPRISONED FOR 4-5 YEARS ⛓️ Lucia, Cressie, Louise and Daniel have received 4 year prison sentences today, whilst Roger has received 5 years. ➡️ Stop jailing those telling the truth. Sign the petition — actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-p…

Tonight somewhere out there are five cells with sleepless people in them . Elsewhere there are empty beds , empty homes and broken hearts . Fear and tears . Anger and confusion . A bunch of good people whose lives have just been smashed by injustice . We hold you in our dreams .

@guardianopinion @jounwin

You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison | Chris Packham and Dale Vince theguardian.com/commentisfree/…