The 1976 heatwave killed 700 people in Greater London alone. The heatwave of 2003 killed over 2000 people in the U.K. This is why weather forecasts warn us when unusually high temperatures are due, because heatwaves can be lethal for unwell, elderly or frail people.

Does anyone have a spare box of Explaining Crayons lying around? Mine melted in the heat before I could finish explaining to Kemi Badenoch what a defence lawyer actually does.

🇬🇧 James Dyson offshored jobs, dodged EU law, and cheerled Brexit to escape “red tape”. 💥 Now UK 🇬🇧 courts are letting forced labour claims through — right to his door. That’s Brexit handing him back his own a*se. Gift-wrapped in court papers 🎁 👺 Brexit Dyson lobbied for

Will you FUCKING IDIOTS who keep voting for nationalistic populists finally get the message you're going to get us all wiped off the planet and just STOP DOING IT ??? FFS

There isn’t one person younger than 68. Reform is for miserable old codgers looking backwards rather than forwards. A nationalist nostalgia party.

Since Boris Johnson came to power, there were 142 Tory U-turns. In one case, 3 in one day. I listed and documented them on a thread which ran from Dec 2019 to June last year. On each of them, #BBC’s Mason declined to ever use the word ‘U-turn’.

This is surely true unless we change course. And it’s true that the current 20-year malaise began with the financial crisis and the policy responses to it, amplified further by factors outside our control such as the pandemic and the Ukraine war. However, there is also Brexit -

Brian Cox Brexit harmed both the numerator and denominator of GDP per capita. Which is the primary driver of service provision. Until Labour admit this, gilts will continue to get smashed which will inevitably lead to the chancellor having to resign and a change of fiscal course.

Looking forward to Farage’s apology to our brave police officers after he has been well and truly proved wrong on this. He must resign now. Surely.

Reform announce securing £67million to fix potholes in Kent EXCEPT £52.8 million was approved in February before the elections £14.2 million direct from the government REFORM secured NOTHING

Andrew Neil We know who she can blame, you and your Brexit cheering ilk. Scotland was right in 2016 and so were the economists who predicted that Brexit would be like shooting yourself in the foot whilst simultaneously shooting your pals in the foot too.

Sadiq Khan just went and RUINED Reform's Monday....crime is rather awkwardly DOWN in London. Now what Laila Cunningham Susan Hall AM Ant Middleton Nigel Farage MP Alex Phillips Dan Wootton ?

Alaska has already created a statue memorializing Trump's summit with Putin

Nigel Farage MP Fraud? That’s rich, Nigel. Still waiting for: ❌ £350m for the NHS 🚨💸 ❌ A stronger economy ❌ Cheaper food & bills ❌ More for schools ❌ Better fishing Nothing works. It’s YOU. It’s BREXIT. 👊

“Flag shaggers, sir. Thousands of them.”

I've always admired Carole's 100% commitment to doing no reading or research whatsoever

Tragic truth

Conservative MPs really do think the public are thick David Frost campaign against the "awful" Brexit deal he negotiated Chris Philp campaign against NCHIs he brought to parliament Robert Jenrick campaigning against migrant hotels he procured Do they think we forget?

As an unexpected acceleration in UK inflation, widens the gap with our Eurozone peers, Reeves fixes her beady eyes on our pension lump sums & retailers warn her that new taxes will hit living standards. Read it and weep.