Suzanne Snowden

Parts of Spain/Portugal will approach 40°C next week, and we are still only in MAY. This is not “just summer arriving early”. Europe is heating faster than almost any continent on Earth. European agriculture, ecosystems & infrastructure were not built for these extended extremes.

@Martina Ban men! Took her a year to work through this guidance?

Phillipson to ban trans women from female toilets- 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@LBC @lewis_goodall Cumon @AndyBurnhamGM . The consensus, now settled in the courts, is: -biological women are women and biological men are men. You should make this clear or expect to loose the womens' vote.

'Why should this always mean women being quieter and smaller?' Shelagh Fogarty reacts to Andy Burnham's interview with @lewis_goodall last April, where he said the UK needs a 'new sense of consensus' on the trans debate.

Empty rooms and Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear World Cup washout bbc.in/3PhoBTP

HS2. A masterclass in how Britain destroys money. The cost: • 2011: £32.7bn • 2013: £45bn • 2015: £55.7bn • 2019: up to £88bn • 2020: up to £106bn • 2026: up to £102.7bn… for a fraction of the original route What’s been cut along the way: • 2021: Eastern leg to Leeds: SCRAPPED • 2022: Golborne link to Scotland: SCRAPPED • 2023: Birmingham → Manchester leg: SCRAPPED • 2023: Crewe hub: SCRAPPED • Euston terminus: paused, downsized from 10 platforms to 6, now needs private finance Original plan: 11 cities, 340 miles, £32bn, open 2026. What we’re getting: 4 stations, 140 miles, £100bn+, open 2039. A national embarrassment, paid for by taxpayers.

@TheGriftReport Perhaps time for the #bbc to make programmes people want to watch not populist reality dancing and celeb recycling trash

@sheikki @fwxainthosis Salmaikki my 😍 favourite

@fwxainthosis At least we have the best candies

Food from this region of the world 😮‍💨

@tulips_trader @fwxainthosis I went and it was delicious. 😍fish

@fwxainthosis Can confirm. Went to Norway, almost everything was shit. Depressing cousine.

@kongharald @jackprandelli Proof of smart longterm thinking 🤓

@jackprandelli In 1975 the most Thatcherite Norwegian party, the populist Progress party, proposed selling the Statfjord oil field for an one time payment of 8 billion USD (2026 value). Since 1979 Statfjord has produced 700K barrels/day, and earned >400 billion USD www-nettavisen-no.translate.goog/artikkel/jeg-v…

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea. 🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion. 🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts. Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes. Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11. That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference. Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad. The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets. That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth. The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal. The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism. North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget. Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime. The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund. Where things stand in 2026? Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone. The UK is a net energy importer. Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas. One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth. The other treated it as income. image source:eia

@jackprandelli @AaronBastani They own equinor and used to fund the country's sovereign wealth fund which ensures the well being of the population. Drilling in the UK would simply line the pockets of @bp_plc, privatised long ago, and @Shell . Short-termist economic planning by the @Conservatives

Wow, poor bloke and poor guide dog.🙁 Manners and the understanding of others should be brought back to society.😡

@mopdenson New trees promised have died, no new #HOAC for children to sail in. Total fail as expected.

It's been 15 painful years to get to this point in the #HS2 scandal. With today's announcement it means the section of track in the Chilterns will potentially sit for the next generation without a single train running on it! Yet the site will have to be maintained for future use.

@domharrison175 YUP #lordadonis (Labour), @FailingGrayling (Con), @BorisJohnson @grantshapps

#HS2 Is anyone at all responsible for this debacle-or is it ‘everyone and no-one’ as usual? When governance of major infrastructure projects is established in future we need to establish clear personal accountability for decisions taken (or not taken). bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz6e…

@bagshaw2112 Not! Have been trying to stop for 10 years.

BREAKING NEWS Am I the only one who thinks this is a total waste of money ?? #hs2

@ChrissieGrech by the time the #hs2 disaster is built (now 2040s!) there will be no physical meetings to go to,... only algorithms. This white elephant should never have started!

Oh dear. What a pity #LordAdonis is missing the point. Ww cannot and must not "get back to normal". #PlanetIsInFire #ClimateCrisis #StayHomeSaveThePlanet

@FT @grantshapps @FailingGrayling @Keir_Starmer @BorisJohnson @stophs2 and don't forget #LordAdonis ! -- primary architect and originator of the High Speed 2 (HS2) railway. As a former Transport Secretary, he pioneered the project under the Labour government in 2009 and has remained one of its most vocal and prominent advocates.

@FT Not sad to say we told you so... @grantshapps @FailingGrayling @Keir_Starmer @BorisJohnson @stophs2 Poor and deluded project oversight to keep spending good money after bad 👎

UK ministers considered abandoning HS2 amid spiralling costs ft.trib.al/zWtBvJK

Mind boggling. There are 171 TRILLION pieces of Microplastics floating in the world’s oceans alone, surveys conclude. And they are indestructible, so there forever. What on earth are we doing? spacedaily.com/j-a-there-are-…

Nothing is funnier today than the Mango Mussolini cribbing from the Chinese Prime Minister's notebook ... as if the Papaya Paedo can read Mandarin, when he can barely read English ...

Financial disclosures for US President Donald Trump showed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of transactions involving securities in major American companies including Nvidia, Palantir, Paramount and Boeing in the first three months of 2026. ft.trib.al/nauttka