Dec 14th 2020 Left: dancing and drinks at a party when restrictions were in place, two nominated for honours in Johnson's list (Ben Mallet & Shaun Bailey) Right: Hancock, "Everyone should minimise their social contact, that's how we can control the spread of this disease."

Christmas 2020. What were you doing? Not this I’m guessing. It just goes on and on

December 14th 2020 Tories drink & dance at Covid rules in first ever Partygate video Johnson has given honours to (soon to be Lord) Shaun Bailey and Ben Mallet both of whom were at this party No govt or political party has ever disgusted me more mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

What's happening to Antarctic sea ice extent isn't getting enough global media attention. And by "enough" I mean none. Nothing. This ongoing and dramatic collapse is completely absent from today's news. Yesterday's sea ice extent was 4.02σ below the 1991-2023 mean (1-in-34,000).

It will never stop being funny that a war launched to capture Kyiv in a few days has resulted in an attempted insurrection by the presidential caterer.

A coup in Moscow on the first night of Glasto... ¾ of BBC staff are going to be trying to broadcast the news while off their faces.

reports: wagner turning round from Ukraine to Rostov on Don direction Moscow? there goes the weekend

Yep yep. This is all true.

And the government line remains that public sector workers are the problem!

Перші хвилини прильоту у Краматорську.. Жах..

This afternoon I slept and dreamed it had all slipped away , that we were all ambling to the funeral of life . We were sobbing over Swallows and Small Coppers , crying about Cuckoos and porpoises , choking and gasping about rivers and meadows . And when I woke up . . . the world

Russian state media celebrating the missile strike on Kramatorsk that killed 12 civilians, including twin 14-year-old girls.

me in the FT: GPs and the NHS. we (should be) the solution, not the problem. (so lovely to be writing for the FT again, sorry I look so washed out) ft.com/content/ccfa05…

This week in extreme weather An ongoing thread of newspaper frontpages from around the world 1/ The Week "Climate meltdown"

Yeah, it’s a bit hot, but it’s summer. Let’s keep drilling for new oil. Who cares about about our kids and their kids’ future anyway?

🥵 Heat records are expected to be broken again today in many parts of the world. The adverse health impacts of extreme heat include: ⚪ Heat stress & heat stroke ⚪ Adverse pregnancy outcomes ⚪ Amplified underlying health conditions Our report: lancetcountdown.org/2022-report/

I don’t understand how Rishi Sunak isn’t embarrassed. Waiting list grew by 4.7m from 2010 to March 2023 (when we began IA). They have grown by a further 0.3m since. It’s like blaming a defeat on a striker missing a last-minute penalty when you’re already 15-0 down ⚽️

Just spotted a dead #twitter on the way to the station.