A good 5 degrees above the 90th percentile of historic temperatures for this time of year. Haven't checked but wouldn't shock me if we're pushing records today
Ben
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🇺🇸immigrant in LDN recovering academic Trying to understand humanity with data, music, libations Might not be looking in the right places – currently: Head of Data @lakaHQ previously: @bbc @futurelearn @funandplausible cf assemblag.es/@alsothings
![Screenshot from the Guardian. The text reads, 'But at the same time, such is the dislike of Starmer among some of his MPs that in a straight contest with Streeting, even some leftwingers would back the health secretary. “I’d pick Andy if we go later, but if it’s now, it’s Wes,” one said.
Some MPs and ministers say Streeting and his team have done the hard work on policy preparation, and would be ready to govern. [highlight starts] And even his detractors acknowledge that he is a significantly better media performer than Starmer. [highlight ends]
None of this matters, however, if Streeting either never launches a bid, or – like David Miliband – he enters a race and loses. Even now, some allies of Starmer argue there is more hype than substance, not just with Streeting but also possible contenders on the left '](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlk6og5kv7h6gri4xlppmmhi/bafkreibrjz2od6lcstw77njb6aa7bigfpyrydsfyfk2i7ej62fykii2uoi)
![a screen grab of a post from Harry Eccles (@Heccles94) over on Xitter. It reads:
"First they came for the refugees, but I did not speak out - as I was not a refugee.
Then the [sic] came for the people of colour, but I did not speak out, as I was not a person of colour
Then they came for the disabled, but I did not speak out, as I was not disabled
Then they came for the Trans community, but I did not speak out - as I was not Trans
Then they came for the rest of the JGBTQ+ community, but I did not speak out - as I was LGBTQ+
Then they came for the socialists, but I did not speak out - as I was not a socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists, but I did not speak out - as I not a trade unionist
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.
This is a warning, take heed.
Adapted from the original poem by Martin Niemoller in 1946 following the horrors of WW2](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlk6og5kv7h6gri4xlppmmhi/bafkreif5apxycrjinkftq4dnsw4wqglgbmrtzbwpixwjsofs3d7ayfvdey)
![Screen grab from a Guardian opinion piece by George Monbiot. It reads:
"[...]were it not for what happened in 1953, when Winston Churchill’s government persuaded the CIA to launch a coup against the popular democratic government of Mohammad Mossadegh. The UK did so because Mossadegh sought to nationalise the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company: to stop a foreign power from stealing the nation’s wealth. The US, with UK support, tried twice to overthrow him, and succeeded on the second attempt, with the help of some opportunistic ayatollahs. It reinstated the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1954, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company became British Petroleum, later BP.
Fury about the 1953 coup, combined with ever-more vicious repression under the shah’s dictatorship, triggered the revolution of 1979, which was captured by the ayatollahs, with horrible consequences for many Iranians. They would not be running the country were it not for our governments’ violent crushing of democracy for the sake of oil."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlk6og5kv7h6gri4xlppmmhi/bafkreiekhgmopfcln7vppbrrfmv2fyzrt4dql2y4m675c6l4y7kjbd4ry4)
