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Some of us do.

'For relaxing times, make it Suntory times'...

Ridiculous sane-washing of Trump's UN spew drivel on R4 right now - unlistenable.

Trump at the UN: "I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law." This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law. This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.

Reading this atm and it’s reading more like reportage and not a lot of fiction. In my second ever publishing job I had to phone Ray Bradbury to ask about an interview request and I remember my hand shaking as I made the call. He was very friendly.

I am saying this to EVERYBODY, but @originstorypodcast.bsky.social on Powell & 'Rivers of Blood' shouldn't just be on the national curriculum, it should be required listening for all. Esp ANYONE commenting on Reform/Kirk/Yaxley-Lennon. Cannot believe we're wading through this much ignorance again.

V interesting research on children and audiobooks a from @literacy-trust.bsky.social tinyurl.com/43pnr7bf #KidlitUK #Edusky I'm speaking on this topic at the @thebookseller.com conf next week, looking forward to the discussion a lot!

A warm, cosy, candle-lit, romantic, bohemian nook of a library, this is not.

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If he's talking 'beyond vaccines', he's talking Irn Bru, no doubt about it...

Mark Carney is in high demand ahead of UN General Assembly. More than 700 requests flooded in from foreign leaders, CEOs, company representatives and others who want to meet with the prime minister.

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

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Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

Dear media Nigel Farage simply cannot 'set the daily political agenda (again)', as you have just gleefully reported on Sky News, without your relentless, drooling daily (hourly!) help and support. Your wilful dissonance is exhausting. Thanks An utterly jaded UK population

Some player. And thanks for the loan, Spurs. We will take good care of him. Lovely to hear it was thrilling for him to have his name sung out by the crowd for the first time. Nice kid, terrific footballer. #pnefc

😂 news.stv.tv/west-central...

Tell me why I don't like Mondays? Where to bloody begin...?

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

Ed Davey gently rolling a sarky Nick Robinson around between his thumb and forefinger on the radio this morning. Lovely to hear.

The world has gone stark raving mad. It feels like I'm living in an episode of The Twilight Zone. When I was younger, there were signs of hope -The Good Friday Agreement, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now, it feels the very worst people in history are in total charge and the media are complicit.

God bless, Stapes, Rochdale’s finest. They don’t make them like you any more.

The annoying thing here is that the Lib Dems talk policy quite a lot and get ignored by the media, which is what Davey's stunts were a response to in the first place. I don't think he's addicted to stunts. I'm sure he'd love it if his policies got covered www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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I enjoy an artist's hospitality rider most when it states 'Basically just some food to nibble on before the show'. Other bands do take note.

Just clocked Van Halen's cover of 'You Really Got Me' on the radio and must admit I like it better than the original - more welly on the backend and more throttle in the vocal - love it when a song long unheard comes back to entertain you.

Uk joins Canada and Australia in recognising Palestinian Statehood. It's long overdue but to be welcomed.

Canada 🇨🇦 recognizes the State of Palestine.🇵🇸 www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

I find the Twitter vs. Bluesky thing very boring but as it's come up again I will share my one opinion: not-far-right people who have remained on Twitter and are critical of bluesky are obviously trying to assuage their own guilt about using a far right platform

Fucksake, this #discourse AGAIN? Yes this platform is smaller, very observant. But I don't spend all day being force fed Nazi slop or getting harassed by Nazis on a Nazi platform specifically engineered to amplify Nazis. It's not a hard decision, let's all just move on.

This is very good. Very well pitched and sensibly placed.

This thread is just making me want to go to more gigs! 🤣 Had a lovely surprise this week when my friend reminded me I'd already bought us tickets to see Willie J Healey in November ages ago. Felt like a present to myself. Try to catch bands early and support local venues - they're all closing.

Just call it the Pants Party and have done with it. Works on many levels....

Aha,into the good ship @gallovidiabooks.bsky.social drops another signed edition to enter the Grand Author's Signature World Cup. But what to make of the immensely talented Gareth Rubin's swaggering 'G' and 'G' only, might we add? Short on time? Short on ink? So many questions. 6/10 for the bother..

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If you have ever tried to knit fog from the wild, assorted word salad from some needling, provocative anonymous randomer online, this from @iandunt.bsky.social is, inarguably, for you...

"An American university launches an investigation into an archaeology professor suspected of being an “antifa” activist." 😂

'We should, like Humboldt, pay a bit more attention to the data.' But also recognise that the data alone won't sway most minds. Stories too matter, and are richly available: eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

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And the regular news slots on 6 Music soil what is otherwise a remarkably grown up and progressive radio station. It has become horribly jarring for listeners.

Awesome opening to tonight's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert... youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw

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All the "free speech advocates" mean by "free speech" is their perceived right to their "free speech" by which they mean their right to be racist, transphobic, misogynistic hate mongers. The rest of our free speech was never packaged into the deal, and anyway, they have nothing but contempt for it.

Trump Press Conference. And you can almost detect the exact second where he loses focus, gets foggy and simply rambles about this and that, blaming all and sundry, wittering, glaze-eyed, his voice all forlorn and disconsolate: beyond odd.

As straightforward a case as you can find of being cancelled not because of spewing hate or celebrating murder but because the most powerful political figures in the land did not like being criticised: news.sky.com/story/jimmy-...

Accurate comment. The questions are often direct and coruscating and utterly diminish the questioned, showing the individual for what he or she is: see Farage, RJK and now this witless specimen.