The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month. Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.

"With nearly 195mn followers, he is America’s most influential purveyor of disinformation. In total he has made 50 posts since January 1 that have been debunked by independent fact checkers ... These were viewed 1.2bn times." ft.com/content/bdd100…

Amplifying & disseminating lies & falsehoods *is* suppressing the truth, even, perhaps especially, when done in the name of ‘free speech’. Otherwise, you make an excellent point.

In Star Wars George Lucas is literally on the record saying that the main inspiration for the rebel alliance was the Vietcong and the empire the U.S. As for V for Vendetta, the original author Alan Moore has been quite explicit that he wrote the book as a response to

Lord Cameron keeps his money in Panama, Rees-Mogg the Cayman Island, Zahawi Gibraltar and Tice Jersey. Tell me again about the patriotic right.

Members 📣  The catch recording app has been updated for Octopus. You will have received an ID pocket guide in the post to help you record accurately.   Please make sure you record Octopus by species as the data collected will provide insights into this emerging fishery.

I'm so sad and angry!😡 Charlestown Shipwreck Museum is not being sold as a going concern as I thought. They are auctioning off the contents in November! Many items were donated to the museum by local families for safe keeping! Just selling off our history & heritage is so wrong!

Nail on head here. American "culture" has destroyed British culture to the point you could get one thousand 18- 40 year old Britons together who couldn't name 10 British traditions or cultural norms but could parrot any number of American words, pop culture and habits. That's

Donald Trump said rising seas will create "more oceanfront property." Elon Musk said "we don't need to rush" to cut emissions and shouldn't "vilify" the oil and gas industry. The exchange on X was called "the dumbest climate conversation of all time" theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Draft genomes for two #maerl forming #coralline algae, with a paper in review. Very challenging to assemble and not as complete as I'd like, but they are available for the red algae community! P. calcareum: GCA_040759855 L. corallioides: GCA_040759835 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/682…

GBNews total income in its last full financial year was £6.7 million. It lost £42 million. No serious business pays £1 million salaries on the back of those numbers. So, GBNews is very clearly a highly-subsidised political project, not a broadcaster.

Richard Tice defends public servant Nigel Farage's huge salary ... and condemns state sector pay rises for ordinary people... Less than 5 minutes apart

So it turns out ‘Shimon’ and ‘Talia’ were actually pro-Israel agitators Mark Lewis & Mandy Blumenthal. This article is not news, it’s fabricated propaganda. If the Daily Mail was a credible & reputable tabloid, they would sack Sabrina Miller (Sabrina Miller) immediately 🚮

The UK has lost £bn in R&D tax fraud. £100m of this was thanks to "tax specialist" firm Green Jellyfish. They hired unqualified creative writing graduates as "technical experts" and gave them briefings claiming that garden design was R&D. Thread with evidence:

From now on I’ll be measuring personal well-being solely as my state relative to a maximum metric of “Happy as a juvenile lobster on release day…” 😬🤪😍🦞 ExeterEvo NationalLobsterHatch ExeterMarine Cornwall IFCA Fishing News Live Newlyn Fish Auction Chris Weston Tom Jenkins

Working with Jamie Craggs and his team at the Horniman Museum in London, Kaila W K (Exeter) has successfully managed to observe the pink sea fan, Eunicella verrucosa, spawning; the first time that this has been reported in a temperate soft coral.