BREAKING: The government has delayed a decision on whether to bring a second runway at Gatwick into regular use ⬇️ Read more news.sky.com/story/gatwick-…

I don't tend to read planning applications for fun but the UK government has said it is "minded to approve" the expansion of Gatwick. How you can read these paragraphs from the Planning Inspectorate and then suggest that the application should be approved blows my mind 👇

Don't believe the hype, the planning inspectorate recommended AGAINST #Gatwick expansion #ExpansionRebellion, and climate was a big reason

Taking my Trump derangement syndrome to new heights. (Stay for the finale.) 🧹🫧💚🇺🇸 #NewVideo #DefyDemocracy #Parody

We can surely rule out stupidity, senility, madness and kompromat - can’t we? But what else explains Trump’s behaviour? My column. prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/69483/do…

Surrey County Council have scored a blinder with their new traffic calming signage at Brockham

BBC management is closing ⁦BBC HARDtalk⁩ after three decades holding power to account around the world. Here are some thoughts ⬇️ ‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC theguardian.com/media/2025/mar…

Wrote this for the Radio Times… I care enormously about the BBC which is why I’m trying to be transparent about why I’m leaving and where I think it’s going wrong BBC is making a grave mistake axing HARDtalk, says host Stephen Sackur | Radio Times radiotimes.com/tv/current-aff…

📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement:

The sad state of public funded UK theatre. No longer able to afford the stimulating repertoire it has championed and offered for decades. Funding needs a big rethink.

My weekly check in with #trump : his 100 day report card.

Angela Jenkyns or Elizabeth Rook? Russell T Davies fictional Drama Years and Years is becoming reality #reform #lincolnshiremayor #WTF

russell t. davies' years and years gets closer and closer to accuracy every day

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Possibly the weakest Glastonbury lineup in decades.

Night flights = climate damage + sleepless nights It’s time for curfews at airports 160+ groups call for the International Day for the Ban of Night Flights at Airports on 13 Sept 👉 Sign declaration & take action: stay-grounded.org/ban-night-flig… #BanNightFlights#RedLinesForAirports

21.45 then ⁦BBC Sounds⁩ Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod believes #music runs deep across life on earth. But in uncovering rhythm and melody across #nature, where does noise stop and wild music begin? bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The decision to grant Gatwick’s expansion goes against the government’s own planning inspectors. It fails on climate, and will create extra air + noise pollution for thousands of people surrounding the airport. 1/4 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The Aviation Environment Federation This stupid woman is trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat and deliver Free Gear Kier, some 'free growth' because they are totally bereft of ideas When it's clear that 'growth' in the tourism gap is not 'good growth' and fries the planet, she'll be under the bus; electric, natch.

BBC Newsnight take apart President Trump's claim that Tylenol (paracetamol in the UK) causes autism Victoria Derbyshire, "The UK Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency has reiterated that it is safe to take paracetamol when pregnant, and there is no evidence that it causes