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The UK proposes an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ban smartphones in all schools in England; a ban was previously just advisory (Sally Weale/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/…
What is so bewildering about Trump’s cruelty is how it has been allowed to pass, its casualness.
Donald Trump hovers above the circus of death and chaos.
Trump defies attempts to make his actions cohere with any particular strategy.
His wars, killing of innocents, and indeed, the threatening of entire civilisations are reshaping the world,
but without him even having orchestrated some master plan.
He is animated by little more than momentary impulses and resent…
"More fundamentally, we must ask why so much of official Britain, and especially its security establishment, keeps clinging for dear life to the United States, behaving for all the world like someone stuck in an abusive personal relationship"
#Trump
#WarCrimes
5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate
Guardian US plans to launch a daily video podcast in 2026, hosted by Kai Wright and Carter Sherman, to compete with The Daily; a source says it has 10 staff (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/15/2026/the-guardian-debuts-new-flagship-podc…
CBS News is convulsing as Larry Ellison tries to please Trump (Margaret Sullivan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/21/cbs-trump-anderson-cooper-stephen-colbert-paramount
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p54#a260221p54
Lovely. #autism
I was struggling to understand my autistic son - until we watched an episode of Doctor Who | Doctor Who | The Guardian
https://www.
Monbiot sounding a bit 'carbon tunnel vision' and ecomodernist here.
He doesn't even mention energy reduction: just energy conservation (without defining it) and efficiency.
He knows better.
Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot | The Guardian
I scares me to think that some who thinks he's been teleported is in a senior post involving emergency response.
No matter what the truth is, all of options I can think of make him an unreliable resource that in a position where senior staff need to be immediately present.
Top US Fema official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before | Trump administration | The Guardian
I scares me to think that some who thinks he's been teleported is in a senior post involving emergency response.
No matter what the truth is, all of options I can think of make him an unreliable resource that in a position where senior staff need to be immediately present.
Top US Fema official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before | Trump administration | The Guardian
Army veteran sues federal government after ICE detains him for three days | California | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/army-veteran-detained-sues-federal-government
Article updated (note at the end) because I found errors in both the Guardian article and the original report.
See also the long Tim Parrique piece linked in a post here yesterday.
Decoupling …… again – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/12/16/decoupling-again/…
A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (Chang Che/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/19/inside-chinas-ro…
The Guardian view on changes to copyright laws: authors should be protected over big tech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/the-guardian-view-on…
This article is rightly making the rounds, but somewhat misses the point. The Guardian annoys you because you aren't paying. What is really off here—and the article completely fails to talk about—is what they do to *subscribers*. I'm already PAYING!
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
Trump’s constant
self-aggrandisement,
his grudges against political adversaries,
the fury at being challenged by the press,
the revenge he promises to wreak on the Iranian regime.
All are ways to erase and avoid what is a permanent terror of humiliation and obsolescence.
“Think of Benito Mussolini,”
wrote the journalist Barbara Grizzuti Harrison in the LA Times,
“jackbooted,
lantern-jawed,
squeakily bombastic,
posturing from…
Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/jeffrey-epstein-cbp-officer-st-thomas
I have just discovered the virtues of searching Newpipe for "Iran diss track". The Guardian article doesn't even touch how sharp some of this is. Cassette Boy and Politics Joe have definitely got company.
Sources: the Daily Mail broke an embargo on Prince Harry and Meghan's Australia trip; the outlet later took the article down after the royals' team complained (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/ap…
Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors (Jason Wilson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/jace-yarbrough-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p58#a260220p58
The Guardian view on #DonaldTrump and the climate crisis: the US is in reverse while China ploughs ahead
Let's hope the #EU will plough ahead in stead of coming to a standstill caused by pressure from fossil fuel, chemical sector and automotive. Otherwise Chinese companies will destroy our export markets before taking over European markets https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/15/the-guardian-view-on-donald-trump-and-the-climate-crisis-the-us-is-in-reverse-while-china-ploughs-ahead
Palantir is evil and supports evil. Why am I not surprised that these talking points are echoed by the current US administration?
Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/tech…
Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax | California | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/google-sergey-brin-california-billionaire-tax
How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/ai-trainers-identity…
Quoted (but not named) in this guardian piece for posting about some freezers on reddit.. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/18/the-sheffield-supermarket-going-viral-for-the-symphonic-sound-of-its-freeze…
The poster, FWIW, is shown here: #auspol
DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/doj-protesters-federal-agents-cases
Pedantic quibble with this article from The Guardian (and I know pedantic quibbles have an audience here, because this is Mastodon):
Minneapolis and St. Paul are immediately adjacent to each other. They share a border. They are only “11 miles apart” in the way that the US and Canada are ~1350 miles apart: if you measure center to center.
Aside from the ill-defined question of “What center are we measuring from??,“ there’s the misleading impression that there’s 11 miles of something •else• in between them. Just say “adjacent” or “neighboring.” Sheesh.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/michelin-guide-st-paul-minneapolis
DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers' lies are exposed in court (Sam Levin/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/doj-protesters-federal-agents-cases
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p33#a260221p33
The UK's Observer offers a new round of buyouts almost one year after its acquisition by Tortoise Media; ~33% of staff reportedly took the buyout offers in 2025 (Bron Maher/A Media Operator)
https://www.amediaoperator.com/news/the-observer-voluntary-redund…
"As Karen got to know the guards at the NW ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “**Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain** – the guards told me that,” Karen says."
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
"Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations"
#Mexico #Pollution
US businesses clamor for refunds after supreme court strikes down Trump's tariffs (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/retailers-trump-tariffs-refunds
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p41#a260221p41
Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/17/pope-leo-jd-vance-donald-trump-catholicism
US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be 'fine' if Israel took all Middle East land (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/mike-huckabee-israel-middle-east-tucker-carlson
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p25#a260221p25
Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege (George Joseph/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/20/amazon-sellers-price-raises-california
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p64#a260421p64
Google co-founder Sergey Brin increases his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC that opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/google-serge…
Labour government's malign inflexibility.
British schoolgirl stranded in Denmark after return flight blocked over UK border rules | Passport Office | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/19/uk-schoolgirl-strande…
I bike from Minneapolis to St. Paul for work every day. Minneapolis is 11 miles from St. Paul. My bike ride is <4 miles. Riddle me that, Guardian!
'We were terrified they were going to kill us': fishers who survived US boat strike speak out (Harriet Barber/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/21/ecuador-us-boat-strike-survivors
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p62#a260421p62
Sources and docs: the US "effectively gutted" the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb
Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/mexico-moves-to-combat-pollution-following-guardian-investigations
Reach makes its national UK newspapers' ABC print sales circulation figures private, joining News UK, Telegraph Media Group, and The Guardian (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/reach-prin…
Trump has done more to accelerate the energy transition than anyone else alive.
Fossil fuel companies bankrolled his presidential campaign to stop the transition in its tracks.
-- But when you back a volatile narcissist, unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time, you shouldn’t expect to control the outcome.
It’s not that the fossils are suffering yet.
As prices have soared since Trump and Netanyahu attacked Iran, oil executives have been selling sha…
"Amid Trump threats, Copenhagen also sent over explosives intended to blow up runways, according to Danish media"
Denmark reportedly flew blood bags to Greenland in preparation for a US attack | Denmark | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/denmark-prepared-for-us-attack-donald-trump-greenland
A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger
Why is the Maga project teetering? Because not even Trump supporters voted for this dysfunction (Moira Donegan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/21/maga-project-teetering-trump-supporters-culture-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p36#a260421p36
This is how you judge the Starmer government.
Weapons more important than child health.
No morals. Just panic.
Some of the world’s poorest countries to lose UK aid due to 56% budget cut | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardi…
Bodyguards for Azerbaijani president, in town for Trump's Board of Peace, attack protesters in DC (Joseph Gedeon/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/azerbaijan-trump-board-peace-protestors
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p97#a260220p97
Well, at least he tried.
#GazaGenocide
#Lebanon
Bernie Sanders’ effort to block US weapons sales to Israel fails in Senate | Bernie Sanders | The Guardian
Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, is leaving the outlet after 13 years in senior roles and 10 years as editor; David Munk will serve as acting editor (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb
'Don't go to the US - not with Trump in charge': the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks (Jenny Kleeman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p4#a260221p4
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 174 people who were renewing their protections from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program,
the head of the agency has said in a letter reviewed by the Guardian.
The letter, written by ICE’s acting director, Todd Lyons, and sent to the Illinois congressional representative Delia Ramirez, also confirmed that a total of 270 Daca recipients were arrested during that same timeframe (the first ni…
Donald Trump is teaching the world a lesson
- but not the one he thinks.
The attack on Iran was meant to be a dazzling display of military supremacy.
It has instead illuminated chinks in the US’s armour.
The US president’s formidable arsenal cannot summon up an insurrection from Iran’s tyrannised and leaderless opposition.
It cannot force merchant ships to run a gauntlet of missile and drone attacks in the strait of Hormuz.
The government in Tehran and th…
The UK proposes new rules requiring tech firms to remove nonconsensual abusive content within 48 hours or risk blocking and fines of up to 10% of global revenue (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/f
Judge indicates he might shut down Trump’s $400m White House ballroom plan | Donald Trump | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/trump-white-house-ballroom-plan-lawsuit
Sources: Sky is in talks with IMI about terminating the Sky News Arabia brand, after accusations the UAE joint venture is involved in broadcasting propaganda (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/18/sky-news-arabia-imi-a…
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy vows to grant the BBC's demand for a permanent charter, replacing the 10-year cycle, to protect it from "culture war" attacks (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar
Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…
Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-gaza-military-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p33#a260219p33
Disney announces InfinityVision, a new certification for big theaters; Avengers: Doomsday will debut the same day as the third Dune film, which has an Imax deal (Jesse Hassenger/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/17/hollywood-big-screen-imax…
Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-t…
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office (Jamie Grierson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/19/police-former-prince-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-sandringham
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p31#a260219p31
The battle to be the absolute worst Trump henchman can feel so closely fought.
But in the end, it’s always JD Vance, isn’t it?
You would say Stephen Miller,
but Miller’s too hidden to qualify as a front-of-house henchman among the US president’s court of grotesques.
Stephen’s clearly been judged so wantonly horrifying that the administration must keep him out of public view.
If you enter the store, Miller is the only-for-the-initiated entity alluded to in a …
Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation (Julia Carrie Wong/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/jeffrey-epstein-cbp-officer-st-thomas
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p106#a260219p106
The Guardian updates its GenAI policies to focus on educating staff, creating in-house tools that incorporate its "values", and committing to transparency (Chris Moran/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2026/mar…
Middle East crisis live: Israeli officials push back on US claim that Trump knew nothing about gasfield attack (Lucy Campbell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/19/iran-war-live-updates-oil-prices-gas-field-strikes-pentagon-more-funds-trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p75#a260319p75
A look at the US tech industry's effort to influence Californian politics: fighting the 5% billionaire tax, super PACs, and seeking a new tech-friendly governor (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/californ…
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116239533364949562
“I don’t give a shit about Iran. I don’t want to pay higher gas,”
Kevin Dass,
an underemployed father of two,
told the Guardian in Detroit last week,
after paying $3.49 per gallon to fill up his veh…
Q&A with CNN's Frederik Pleitgen about being the only Western TV journalist in Iran during the war, facing criticism from the Trump administration, and more (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/cnn-frederik-pleit…
Sources: the English Premier League extends its South America and Caribbean broadcast contract with ESPN through 2031 in a £450M deal, up 25% from the last deal (Matt Hughes/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/f…
Major European allies decline to join first meeting of Trump's Board of Peace (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/trump-board-of-peace-first-meeting
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p107#a260218p107
Nancy Mace draws White House ire over independent Middle East rescue efforts (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/nancy-mace-rescue-efforts-americans-middle-east
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p124#a260318p124
Judge declares mistrial in Texas 'antifa' protest case over attorney's T-shirt (Sam Levine/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/judge-texas-mistrial-antifa-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p39#a260218p39
Middle East war: why attacks on gasfields like South Pars are a major escalation (Peter Beaumont/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/middle-east-war-why-attacks-gasfield-south-pars-are-a-major-escalation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p133#a260318p133
Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? (Lauren Aratani/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p46#a260418p46
Channel 4 Chief Content Officer Ian Katz plans to step down in October after nearly nine years, making him Channel 4's longest-serving programming head (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/16/ian-katz-leave-role-c…
Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions (Ashifa Kassam/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p42#a260218p42
Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: 'We are Americans after all' (Timothy Pratt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/ice-detention-center-warehouse-georgia
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p93#a260218p93
CBS News staffers say they believe the network has decided to retain Peter Attia, who issued an apology for his inappropriate Epstein emails, as on-air analyst (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/14/cbs-peter-attia-jeffrey-epste…
Middle East crisis live: tanker reports attack as Iran closes strait of Hormuz; French soldier killed in Lebanon (Taz Ali/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/18/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-warns-it-will-close-strait-of-hormuz-if-us-blockade-continues
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p21#a260418p21
Warner Bros. won a record-tying 11 awards at the 98th Oscars, followed by Netflix's six; Apple, Disney, Focus, and Neon had one each, while Paramount had none (Catherine Shoard/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/m…
CBS News workers hold 24-hour walkout for new contract (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/17/cbs-news-workers-24-hour-contract-walkout
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p93#a260317p93
UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/uk-security-adviser-attended-us-iran-talks-and-judged-deal-was-within-reach
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p75#a260317p75
Federal judge blocks RFK Jr's overhaul of vaccine recommendations (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/judge-blocks-rfk-jr-vaccine-policy-changes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p88#a260317p88
Epstein ranch in New Mexico bought by family of 'Trump Republican' candidate (Sara Braun/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/epstein-ranch-new-mexico-purchase-republican-candidate
http://www.memeorandum.com/260216/p89#a260216p89
Trump relied on unverified intelligence to blame Iran for deadly school strike (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/trump-intelligence-iran-school-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p78#a260317p78
'Maman is finally free!': French widow, 86, flies home after ICE detention ordeal (Kim Willsher/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/17/french-widow-86-flies-home-after-ice-detention-centre-ordeal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p79#a260417p79
'Trump is aiming for dictatorship'. That's the verdict of the world's most credible democracy watchdog (Martin Gelin/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p34#a260317p34
Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-failed-vetting-but-foreign-office-overruled-decision
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p49#a260416p49
Democrats file articles of impeachment against Hegseth for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' (Uwa Ede-Osifo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/15/democrats-pete-hegseth-impeachment
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p52#a260416p52