"I remember going to a press conference on the morning of 24 June at the Vote Leave headquarters. The event started half an hour late and I described Boris and Michael Gove looking like they had spent the night taking psychedelic drugs and woken to discover they had murdered their best friend."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/12/digested-week-starmer-legacy-brexit-world-cup

"The US isn’t a safe place to visit. This point was made vividly when the Swiss forward Breel Embolo was denied an Esta visa waiver three hours before he was due to take off for the US last Tuesday. The Swiss authorities remained optimistic and careful in their language. In many ways, Embolo could thank his lucky stars that he was denied entry while still in Switzerland. Had he been denied entry on US soil, who is to say he wouldn’t have spent six weeks in detention, as numerous tourists have?"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/09/football-world-cup-pathology-trump-regime

“The spiralling costs and secrecy have all the hallmarks of HS2, with LTC already costing more per mile than HS2. Whilst the government is nationalising the railways it is privatising our roads, demonstrating the utter incoherence in transport policy.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/08/extra-cash-spiralling-lower-thames-crossing

Dad of jailed baby-faced neo-Nazi says his teenage daughter was 'failed by everyone'.

One of those who failed her was you, dad!

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/dad-jailed-baby-faced-neo-10998189

It's high time the likes of Farage and Yaxley-Lennon, etc. were arrested and tried for inciting racial hatred.

Early grockle season fun.

Foul-mouthed Londoner gets his swasticar stuck on Cornish beach.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/tesla-driver-gets-stuck-south-10984767

"Academics at the university’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) have combined alginate – a natural extract from seaweed – with other biological compounds to create a stronger, more flexible material suitable for wrapping food."

#Aberystwyth #Cymru

https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-researchers-create-biodegradable-plastic-from-seaweed/

Mr Davison takes the media to task over their naming of serial convicted offender Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/19/call-him-stephen-yaxley-lennon-not-tommy-robinson

#KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own.

#DigitalSovereignty

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own/5240562