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Enjoying your deep early interest in Eurovision even though it’s not till next may ;)
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I made a chart you can share to any citizen concerned about the "cost" of immigrants www.datawrapper.de/_/fGPis/
We don’t all share the same internet. The personalised algorithm has siloed us into parallel worlds
FINALLY
“This country wasn’t broken by fascism, by the cold war, by terrorists. Of course there are problems, but this is a country being lifted up every day by the people who love it" Gordon Brown in 2008 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hopefully this will application be killed
Middle aged women tend to disappear rather than go fash
Some useful organisations: @hopenothate.org.uk standuptoracism.org.uk hopenothate.org.uk
Very good piece
Must happen
So sorry/angry Ian!
I’m a broken record on this, but — there are so many examples of famous people radicalised by midlife career/personal knockbacks. Ant Middleton was on yday’s march. He got done for tax offences and lost his TV work. Now he’s mates with Tommy Robinson.
Libdems filling the void
Grateful to MPs that have shown leadership in the face of yesterday’s assault on our values. Eg @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Let this be the nadir
This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.
“A row of men lean against the metal shutters that keep them out of Westminster tube station, as they piss through the bars directly onto the steps on the other side. Nearby a furious man in his early 30s yells ‘bring the cocaine here now, mate’. It is not yet 2pm.”
I can’t say this any more simply. There were not enough of us yesterday. Unless you want a fascist Farage government in the UK, which will take away your rights and your NHS, please join us. #standuptoracism
This would be welcome, but if the government is to change energy taxes and levies the most effective thing to do would be to apply the polluter pays principle and tackle how there are more levies on electricity than gas. www.thetimes.com/article/b75b...
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.
BBC News reminds me of when I was 14 and a kid in my class wanted to be American so badly she started speaking with a (bad) seep south accent. In London
Happy birthday!🎈
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Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.
Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?
Huge thanks to the 5,000 patriots standing up for our nation, its beautifully diverse citizenship and British values of respect, compassion and fairness — against the racist traitors who would tear us apart
This is bad on so many levels, and reflects just how "normalised" and "mainstreamed" far right, racist, ideology has become. The lesson for politicians here must not be to pander to them, but to ensure they are combatting and challenging their hateful and divisive rhetoric.
Child: if you could speak any language you don’t know now, which would you choose? Me: maybe Chinese Child: I’d choose cat language
Cashews are not legumes so does that mean political violence is right? Confused
Well this is very interesting!
People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.
Can’t imagine this would be possible. But if so let’s hope the next one is truly up to the task this time given the crises we’re living in
Great Paul!
This is the only sort of news I can deal with right now
I’m going to have to save up…
Take this cash. Put it in "Britbonds" to fund a sovereign wealth fund: housing, infrastructure, enterprise investments. Guarantee a level of interest equal to an instant access saving account. Share returns between savers and taxpayers. Better than giving it to fund managers. on.ft.com/42pX45G
£450 though!
The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
This is very cool!
There was a great dark series called Nighty Night about 20 years ago
Refuse to educate myself in groypers as an act of resistance against this stupid time
Always make sure your kittens tessellate perfectly
I see that the BBC's Chris Mason has discovered that when N=2, he can draw a straight line that fits the data perfectly.
trump and the zero stages of grief
Weird things start to happen when a two-party voting system tries to cope with European-style voting patterns. “People are voting as though they already have proportional representation" - head of the Electoral Reform Society when I chatted to him after May's local election
The ignorance response: What we don’t know can’t harm us, right?
Things (in my life) that AI was getting better at -- autocorrect, spam filters, internet search -- it now seems to be getting worse at.
Agreed
Lack of ambition from Labour leadership is just stunning … @europeanmovement.co.uk
Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson. Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer. What a carousel of cronyism
BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.
When cassowaries spruce up for a night out
North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds
Time to reclaim our country from the racists
The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference
Big stand of mince pies greets the unwary entrant to Sainsbury’s. How soon arrives the winter of my discontent…
Windsor this morning 👀
A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS
🌊 GOOD NEWS: The UK has begun the journey to ratify the High Seas Treaty, a landmark agreement to protect our global ocean. But we must move fast! With 56 countries already ratified (and 60 needed for it to come into force) the UK risks being left behind 🧵 1/4 🔽 www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Good that the Guardian is calling Kirk “far right” and showings its readers his views - not “common sense”, not “conservative”, but far right conspiracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates The world produced enough calories in 2020 to feed 15 billion people – but only 50 per cent of those calories ended up reaching people's plates. www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
Brazil shows how it’s done in a democracy
Helpful!
Yikes, 10yo is asking for help with her Govian grammar homework...😬
Vian Ruma, a 30-year-old opponent of a geothermal project on Flores Island, was found dead under circumstances his family says point to foul play. His death highlights Indonesia’s long and worsening record of attacks on environmental defenders.
Places where we live are becoming more dangerous #NomadCentury
There was a time when party leaders were intellectuals — books were compiled of their speeches
The shocking thing is, we don’t even know whether it is 0.8 million or 2.3 million non-native gamebirds that are being dumped into the Welsh countryside each year during a bird flu outbreak. Time for the shooting organisations to be publicly held to account. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wait, Mandelson *leaked his own emails* to the Sun in attempt to preempt Bloomberg but get better coverage?
This is a strange way to headline a story showing only 17% of people agree with Nigel Farage’s scientifically illiterate belief that climate change is nothing to worry about. Almost as if The Times has an agenda. www.thetimes.com/article/d92d...
Fuel for litigation!
thank you for your service!
“Vanuatu has warned that Aust’s move to expand a controversial gas project could breach an international court ruling on the responsibility states have to address climate change. The Woodside..project received conditional approval from..Murray Watt earlier this year” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Bring back knee faces immediately!
Why did this go out? Will commit to bringing it back today!
Really useful update from Bob Hawkins on Long Covid in England from the annual GP survey bhawkins3.substack.com/p/long-covid...
The BBC news headlines tonight led with the state of the king’s relationship with his son, followed by news of riots on the streets of Paris motivated by rising inequality and the failings of the political class. It’s possible that the eighteenth century is back.
It says a lot that those hounded out have been women, who are clearly seen by some as the weakest link. There just doesn’t seem to be the same pressure on male politicians, or if there is, it’s not reported as strongly. So the weight of public opinion is less
Yup :(
Context
For Rayner to go but Mandelson not does not look the best…
Very good write-up on the EU’s new extended producer responsibility rules for fashion and textiles: www.voguebusiness.com/story/sustai...
Not sure why the US shooting is top story in the UK
Reminder that Kim Darroch was forced to resign as UK ambassador in Washington for telegrams being leaked that showed he was doing his job by providing his honest views but embarrassed the government. It’s inconceivably absurd to consider Mandelson’s position *more* tenable than Darroch’s was.
Just a reminder, before you get bamboozled about what side of the political spectrum in the US has a gun violence problem. fivethirtyeight.com/features/ext... www.reuters.com/world/us/whi... ccjls.scholasticahq.com/article/2697...
Just incredibly bad judgement AGAIN
Unliveable temperatures #NomadCentury
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Keir Starmer says Peter Mandelson "has repeatedly expressed his deep regret for his association with" Jeffrey Epstein. When asked about Epstein by the Financial Times in February, Mandelson said: "It’s an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off. OK?”
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Developing a crush and don’t even know what he looks like
The oldest known human structure is Tell Qaramel in Syria, built around 10,000 B.C. It predates agriculture, which was long thought to be a prerequisite for civilization. If someone gave you $1,000,000 a day, every day, since Tell Qaramel was built, you would get $6.6 trillion 6,000 years from now.
It's World Suicide Prevention Day. My mum killed herself in 2002. I know there's a feeling that words are meaningless w/out money being put into mental health but I keep thinking about something my dad said recently: that if mum had been ill in this destigmatised climate, she might have been alright
Russia and China sign MoU for Power of Siberia 2 mega-gas pipeline, which would reroute gas volumes once destined for Europe before the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ugh
More lives lost including 1 woman & 2 children. Government have just closed refugee family reunion (RFR) safe route. 56% of grants for RFR were children & 37% were women. So the number of women & children crossing, and dying, is going to soar. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
