NEW CPI inflation - the main rate at which the cost of living is changing each year - fell from 10.1% to 8.7% in April. Big fall. But significantly less big than economists had expected. And, poss more worryingly, core inflation rose from 6.2% to 6.8%. ons.gov.uk/economy/inflat…

Interesting that french TV is blurring the faces of the rioters / looters. It’s because they’re worried many of them are under 18?

Twitter now almost exclusively shows me click-bait accounts I don’t follow. It feels very much broken.

Huge figures. Can a million households afford an extra £6k a year?

NEW: 85 people in Arizona suffered severe burns from contact with pavements heated up to 180F (82C). 7 of them died. In total, 257 people had underlying cause of death listed as "exposure to excessive natural heat". This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.

Stop making long films.

19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like many political prisoners, I am sitting on a life sentence. Where life is measured by the term of my life or the term of life of this regime. The sentencing figure

This made me laugh out loud :)

Two very different statements from the EU and the UK on the British re-entry into Horizon and Copernicus. Highlights for me are: 🇬🇧 - “which the UK has been excluded from over the last three years.” 🤔 🇪🇺 - “The UK will be required to contribute financially to the EU budget.”

There isn’t a meat tax in the UK. Meat is subsidised. What is it that he’s stopping?

Here's a really encouraging chart, from today's International Energy Agency net zero update report. Better, cheaper, more prevalent solar/wind/batteries mean emissions are already below the previously expected path. For those who still doubt green tech will come to the rescue... it's happening ALREADY

I am told the PM has now taken the decision to shelve the Manchester leg of HS2. Confirmation, and detail of the re-allocation of funds to other transport projects in the north, will presumably come very soon.

NEW 🚨 Wilko former family owner Lisa Wilkinson reveals to MPs that the previously debt free, furlough avoiding family business was in the middle of negotiating a secured loan from Macquarie Bank when the 2022 mini budget hit “hiking interest massively” making loan “infeasible”.

Tweet of the climate 2023 NB: Not all lines reach 2023 yet.

Zinger from Private Eye

WATCH: US Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene on remarks by UK foreign secretary Lord Cameron re Ukraine funding: “Frankly, he can kiss my ass.” ⁦Sky News⁩ #ukraine

The French farmer protest is heading down to the agricuture fair on the outskirts of Paris.

Tory campaign off to a roaring start

Poor Paris! Might stop by the end I guess..

You merely adopted the rain. I was born in it, molded by it