Steph Morgan QPM

The internet is 99% garbage. But if you know where to look, it’s an absolute goldmine. Here are 50 legendary websites that feel illegal to know and will save you thousands of hours👇 1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery 2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky 3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time 4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms 5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time 6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes 7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet 8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space 9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second 10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted 11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries 12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago 13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps 14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers 15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world 16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities 17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth 18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places 19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences 20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe 21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D 22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser 23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day 24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free 25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data 26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data 27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world 28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data 29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data 30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database 31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software 32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired 33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world 34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive 35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive 36. dp.la — America's digital library collection 37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home 38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution 39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks 40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history 41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education 42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection 43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres 44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era 45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio 46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well 47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events 48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news 49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers 50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖 Follow @Zenith_coder for more useful websites, AI tools & tech resources.

Proposals have been floated today for the merger of England & Wales’s 43 police forces into just 8-10 mega forces I oppose enforced mergers to create just 8 or 10 mega police forces, replacing the 43 current forces which are mainly based on historic counties. Each mega force will cover around 7 million people and merge around 5 existing forces into one Mega forces will be distant from local communities, resources will get taken away from rural areas and towns into large cities, the transition will cause huge disruption to crime fighting and there is no evidence larger forces are more efficient or more effective - the Met itself is the biggest force in the country by far yet has one of the lowest clear up rates, despite the highest funding per capita

🚨Labour’s Bill Would Let Energy Firms Dig Into Your Tax Records and House Value So They Can Charge You Extra to Subsidise Others Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh introduced the Energy Independence Bill last week that would hand energy companies access to eight government databases, including your HMRC tax and income records, child benefit, property value and pensions. This is a major expansion beyond the limited fuel-poverty data they already get. Official assessments openly plan “progressivity”: discounts for some households paid for by extra levies on those judged better off. Nothing happens until the bill passes and ministers create a scheme through further legislation. Her department calls it targeting support. The unmistakable purpose is giving private firms the power to inspect your private finances and raise your bill to subsidise everyone else. This is not support. It is a deliberate decision to treat your private tax records and property value as legitimate tools for deciding who gets charged more, then hand that power to private energy companies. Once the machinery exists, Labour will expand it. The only real question is how far they intend to go.

A one-way ticket to the past. Nationalised rail services are poorer than when they were private. This is what happens when Labour politicians try to run things.

Britain's first poppies weren't made in Britain. 🇫🇷 In 1921, every one was shipped over from France. 🚢 Back home, thousands of men had come back from the trenches without an arm, a leg or an eye. Many couldn't find work. 💔 One wounded officer, Major George Howson, had an idea. Britain's poppies, made by Britain's wounded. 🌺 He wrote home: "I do not think it can be a great success. But it is worth trying." ✍️ In June 1922, five disabled men sat down at a bench on the Old Kent Road. 🪑 Within two months, they'd made a million. 🤯 By 1924, twenty-seven million. Enough for more than half the people in Britain. 🇬🇧 A century later, veterans there still make the royal wreaths laid at the Cenotaph. 🕊️ So now, when you put yours on, you can also remember where it came from. 🙏 We will remember them. 🌺 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

🚨 DAVID CAMERON WAS COOKING EVEN BACK THEN! 😂 A throwback video of him taking a swipe at Ed Miliband’s friendship with Russell Brand is now doing the rounds. You’ve got to give it to David. THE MAN KNEW HOW TO DELIVER A POLITICAL PUNCHLINE! 😂

The number of businesses in Britain has fallen by 104,000 since 2025, taking the total down to 5.6m, government figures have revealed. The main contributor to the decline was the loss of 157,000 self-employed people. It's not surprising that the self-employed are quitting in droves. The mad "Making Tax Difficult" requirement to force them to file tax returns five times a year has pushed out many. The upcoming requirement to pay tax early will make cash flow very challenging and force many more self-employed out of the market.

🚨 NEW: The Government's "Black Sky" contingency plans for a national water or power blackout - Around 100 BBC staff would be deployed to run an emergency RM radio studio stocked with enough food, water and fuel to keep it running for 3 days - The BBC would broadcast pre-written Government scripts through the studio, including how to ration water, what to do if toilets stop working and which food to eat first (see scripts below) - Radio masts would switch to diesel generators to keep broadcasts going for up to 72 hours without electricity - BBC teams would use satellite phones to stay in contact, with agreed meeting points and backup arrangements if those phones stop working - They would also report from emergency centres across the UK using satellite-equipped BBC vehicles to help keep information flowing to the public - Emergency services would have alternative ways to communicate if mobile phone networks stopped working - The Government is putting £70m towards aircraft that could restore mobile phone and internet coverage across the UK for over a week

just wow

🚨 NEW: The RMT has announced that drivers on the London Underground will strike for 24 hours on the following days * Thursday 26 November 2026 * Thursday 17 December 2026 * Saturday 19 December 2026 * Monday 4 January 2027 * Wednesday 6 January 2027 * Wednesday 17 February 2027 * Tuesday 23 February 2027 * Thursday 25 February 2027

So let me get this right. Mortgage up £330 a month. Rates up to 4%. Inflation could hit 5% next year. Savers finally get a decent rate and hear talk of new taxes on it. Borrow and you're punished. Save and you're punished. Who exactly is this country working for?

Asylum hotels were meant to be the expensive option. Now an MP's modelling says the MOD Bicester camp could cost about 2.5x as much per person, per night. Asked about it in the Commons, the Treasury didn't answer the question. So much for saving money… The refit is estimated at £269.7m. That's the cost of getting the site ready before anyone moves in. Over the full period it would run, the total comes to about £1.2bn, and policing adds another £1.7m. wrongplanwrongsite.org.uk/gr…

A man who raped and sexually abused four teenage girls in the 1990s has been jailed more than 30 years after his offending began. leicspolice.link/DWKPL

We'll need to spend money on Neets to get benefits down, Andy Burnham tells Times Radio’s political editor Anna Mikhailova. “I am prepared to take difficult decisions … there does need to be quite radical change in the way we support young people.” @AVMikhailova | @AndyBurnham