Tim Pendry

I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half. Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.

Thoughts and prayers to the Midlands, Yorkshire, South Wales and Southern England who (according to this map) will apparently turn into molten lava when temperatures rise above 30C over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud. Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block. Hundreds of jobs are at risk. And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around. It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”. That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive. This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist. You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”. You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”. You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”. You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes. But eventually the spreadsheet wins. And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close. Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast. Real ones. Local ones. The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials. The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”. This is the part Labour never wants to own. Their policies are always sold as compassion. But the consequences are brutally practical. A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making. A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”. A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters. And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”. NO. Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices. That phrase matters. Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

Right now Palantir has a £330m contract to run our NHS health records, but this spy-tech firm shouldn't be anywhere near  our health service. Email your local hospital today and ask them to say no to Palantir goodlaw.social/6f561c

🇲🇽🇨🇺 | Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, in a firm tone: "We will continue sending oil to Cuba. We will not cave, and we will not be a tool for implementing the U.S. embargo. Enough of the blackmail."

NEW: Former Israeli soldier Jonathan Kestenbaum has resigned as a director of Labour Together. Last month, I uncovered the “IDF diary” of the Labour peer. Now, he’s stepping down. Here’s what happened:🧵

It is being reported that Ed Miliband is likely to become the Chancellor of the Exchequer if Andy Burnham is Prime Minister. Yet, here he is getting completely schooled in this interview on energy taxes and prices.

Highly recommend reading. The state of Israel subverted democracy in Britain. They secretly took down a man they could not buy off and replaced him with a ma subservient to them. And both British society and Palestinians are paying a huge price.

@PhilipProudfoot A little extreme ... the collapse of the Western economic model is actually at the centre of everything. The panic that it is creating makes morality appear a luxury to the centrists look political death in the face.

People can easily argue that Palestine is irrelevant to Britain (they’re wrong, on multiple levels, of course ) but Palestine is the moral test of the world It is the centre of everything. How you react, who you defend, and who you abandon is the supreme litmus test of humanity.

I'm worried that Trump will launch a war on Cuba, to distract attention from his war on Iran, which distracted attention from his war on Venezuela, which distracted attention from the Epstein files

@Steven_Swinford @eleanorhayward The latest moral panic from a panicking middle class troubled by the world they created but can no longer control ... the problem is not the digital economy but the buffoons it will soon make redundant. Kids deserve better than this.

Exclusive from @eleanorhayward Britain is facing an “economic catastrophe” as young adults “rewired” by smartphones are becoming trapped in worklessness, a government review has found A landmark report into why one million young people are off work says businesses must adapt to this “anxious generation” by offering greater flexibility and mental health support Alan Milburn, a former health secretary, was appointed by Sir Keir Starmer to investigate the 946,000 16 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training, known as Neets His interim report, to be published next week, says that a “rising tide of mental ill-health, anxiety, depression, neurodiversity” is the main reason for high economic inactivity Milburn said that these young people “are not snowflakes or faking it”, adding that their heightened distress and anxiety is linked to growing up in a digital age on social media The review team held focus groups with young people, which revealed smartphones had led to poorer sleep and mental distress. “Every one of a group of ten 12 and 13-year-olds told us they went to bed between midnight and 3am because they were scrolling on their phone,” the review says Milburn said: “This is a bedroom generation. They are sort of living in their bedrooms. They are on all the time, they’re never off. [Social media] is leading to some evidence of functional impairment, changing their sleep patterns, concentration levels. That is having an impact on their ability to work “ thetimes.com/article/304dbf…

An example of inherent sociopathy amongst the intellectual class - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Al… - the road to Mengele was not just a German road and 'scientists' and 'thinkers' (especially military) need to be watched like hawks ...

No one should resign on a past 'social media post' - it should simply be on the record and the voters can decide rather than the Neo-Calvinists in the establishment ...

Sky News just did an extended piece on the UK being the world's largest importer of jet fuel, with zero production capacity. They managed not to mention the closure 2 years ago of the Grangemouth oil refinery which produced jet fuel.

Best of luck getting a clear response to that!

I have written to Andy Burnham to ask whether he would establish an independent public inquiry into the British government’s complicity in genocide.

Exclusive with @EllenAMilligan @europressos The UK-EU summit pencilled in for next month may be postponed until July because of the UK leadership crisis Starmer had held high hopes for the summit, framing it as a big moment to push for closer ties But the Burnham/Streeting move to defenestrate him has hampered officials’ work to prepare Planning has proved difficult to negotiate because Brussels doesn’t believe Starmer’s government will be in place in the coming months, sources said In any case, French and German officials say Britain has to change its red lines on the single market and customs union if it wants a meaningful reset bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@owenjonesjourno It will implode if it does not challenge Burnham head-on ... the momentum will be gone @ZackPolanski Does anyone really want a Green branch office of the Uniparty?

The Greens' membership has exploded in size in a very short space of time. But they desperately need to prioritise sorting out their vetting. The other thing is that we need to deal with conspiracist thinking on the left. It's not socialism and leads to very dark places.

Yes, a bit over the top ... it is just about of hot weather!

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇