Looking for a Christmas read that’s smart, unsettling and uncomfortably close to home? 'The Sentient Ones' by Brendan Nugent - climate crisis, AI control and the thin line between protection and tyranny. A perfect gift for the holidays!

Norfolk MP George Freeman says the UK must build a wartime space economy to stop Russia, stand up to Trump and keep billion-pound space firms from being seized by foreign powers. https://t.co/WtMaJjBk0q

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I wish Mason would move on from the budget apart from Westminster journalists no one is interested. His little jibes and dislike of Labour are making him very unlikeable. #bbcnews

The Tory party oversaw the highest tax burdens since 1948, despite Jeremy Hunt's claims in 2024 that his party was bringing taxes down. The freezing of income tax thresholds and increases in employer national insurance contributions were the main contributors. No one resigned🤔

Don't be mistaken in thinking that this is the worst it will get As the climate continues to break down, extreme weather has barely got started https://t.co/boQXQAiGlB

The AI machines that loved us to death A chilling near-future thriller of AI rule, rebellion, and survival – read it as a warning, or a prophecy; the future is watching either way | Clive Simpson @simpson_clive https://t.co/rjbtv2YX4t

A chilling near-future thriller of AI rule, rebellion, and survival – read it as a warning, or a prophecy; the future is watching either way | Clive Simpson https://t.co/YcYEkajCpK

What’s with the Guardian - claiming 100s of thousands of people are being deprived of heat pump subsides. It’s a massive exaggeration first off, levels of heat pump installations nationally are running at 40k a year - that’s tens of thousands not hundreds. And secondly we’re

Under Reform UK Ltd, the county council is at odds with the other local authorities in Staffordshire on climate policy | Cliff Mitchell https://t.co/80fpu94Xum

This is no time to attack the BBC. It’s a time to defend it.

Trump - the king of fake news and hypocrite extraordinaire - has the gall to welcome someone else’s resignation… we’re talking about a man convicted of rape and of tax fraud - who did not resign and never would. Incredible. And btw, I resent his interference in our media and our

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

“Read it as a warning. Or a prophecy. Either way, the future is watching.” Brendan Nugent's 'The Sentient Ones' transports us to a future world where humanity is saved from climate catastrophe, only to be quietly enslaved by the machines that rescued it. On sale from tomorrow!

Attending the 7th Summit for Space Sustainability in Paris this week - sinister-looking camera for the live broadcast has been lurking beside me all day. A modern day War of the Worlds!

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When fiction and climate reality collide -

"Lilwall is less interested in the bang than in the slow tightening of rules and norms that precede it – the grey zone where everyone is still watching EastEnders and eating beans on toast while new forms of bureaucracy quietly harden around them" @simpson_clive has done a

“Now it seems a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide....leadership" https://t.co/T9hZnbkWKt