My home is fairly new by UK standards at 80 years old. I have a table, chairs and drawers passed down to me by my grandmother that she probably bought second hand and are now over 100 years old. I use a ladle for cooking that says “made in West Germany”.

It’s normal to try and relate unfamiliar things to what is already familiar to you. The problem with the US and their users on here is their country is so big that they confuse things that are specific to US culture with universal norms, and then make value judgements accordingly.

Being respectful in other languages is really hard. And most people don’t care because you’re making a massive effort to speak their language. I’d probably struggle in Colombia because I never use the formal Usted. And intermediate speakers of English from Spain misgender pronouns all the time.

but this is... every language...

In actual disbelief at how many people think Ronaldo is better. It’s like thinking Gerd Müller is better than Crujiff. Have they even watched football? The short form video thing could be an indicator. Aside from the gulf in technique, Messi has always been much more of a team player.

Don’t panic. Argentina and Spain both had stinkers in the group stages and went on to win it. And besides, this was more the case of Ghana defending really well. England are still a top five team. (I don’t love a right-footer at left back though.)

Gosh, listening to the FT political fix podcast and they said that Makerfield was 29th on the list of Reform target seats based on 2024 results. That further highlights how abysmal the Reform performance was last week.

Puts hand up - this is probably why I've previously been a Green and a Lib Dem member, but held off from joining Labour even when I was voting for them. I am not ashamed of being socially liberal and anti-authoritarian first.

He should’ve held on for another few days, just so all the journalists covering his resignation had to hang around outside Downing Street during a heatwave

bsky.app/profile/lewi... and if you don’t want to take my word for it, read this excellent analysis by a legal academic explaining precisely that

And the flip side: I spoke to a young left-wing voter from Bexley who voted Tory in the locals to prevent Reform from taking the borough/ council, and said all of her friendship group had done the same. She felt sick and angry about doing this but was terrified of the predicted Reform gain.

Not sure this counts as it’s a TV series, but Three Body Problem.

This is incredible, though I am attaching below a post critiquing the framing on TikTok…

And the guy whose idea it was to start a sovereign wealth fund from the oil riches in Norway was an Iraqi immigrant.

Isn’t it time that Cristiano changes his name to Ronaldão?

When I was little I heard that then Zaire were the worst team to ever play in the World Cup. Well if that were ever really the case that definitely isn’t true now. What a performance!

Absolute scenes at the fan park in Lisbon when they equalised

The EHRC trans code explained: What it does, how it works and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/the-ehrc-t...

My grandfather was born into a middle class family, but given their property was expropriated, their citizenship revoked, and he became an unaccompanied refugee at 13, I’m unsure how much privilege his class background denoted.

Babel by RF Kuang. When the main character ponders why Britain colonised whole sub-continents, but didn’t use spices in their food. Also, it’s terrible.

They let him get away with open transphobia on air for the last 4 years, and it was a license for him to get worse.

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

Currently EDM 240 is the most likely route to blocking the new trans segregation rules, as difficult as that will be. It seemed to have stalled over the weekend but has now been signed by 119 MPs with increasing numbers of Labour MPs now signing it. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Keir Starmer has condemned the riots in Belfast, encouraged and promoted on X by the platform's owner, by posting his statement on X.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

Let's have a check in the head of the EHRC's defence of its Code of Practice:

You couldn’t find a place more open to middle-class, “just asking questions”, platformed in the Guardian-style transphobia than Hampstead, and yet this is the reaction to a decade of relentless campaigning.

Red Wall discourse has so clouded Labour’s mind that they’re sleepwalking into doing to university towns what Thatcher did to mining towns

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

Sabíamos que iban a llegar al punto de considerar gay que te gusten las mujeres.

Wow PSG are such a good franchise. But I digress, congratulations to Qatar!

Last year I got a takeaway (had a cold, was too tired). I contracted salmonella and had to spend five days in hospital. Would be good if we can strengthen our food regulation and standards. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I hope people realise that some of this guidance in practice could lead to deaths, especially the part about the denial of medical treatment. This is in addition to evidence showing that cumulative discrimination, direct or otherwise, leading to worse life expectancy.

I’m not really an England fan so it’s easier for me to say this: These players are of a higher technical ability and tactical awareness than when we were growing up. There’s also a manager trying to learn from past mistakes in terms of selection, like not trying to play Lampard and Gerrard together.

Screenshotting not to pick on anyone but because it represents a much wider issue - in the context of the Makerfield by-election, the Greens specifically *are* better than Reform, because they sacked their candidate for saying vile racist things on social media whereas Reform defended theirs! (1/5)

This. Normies urgently need to understand that this country is becoming an extreme outlier on trans rights and they can't rely on the domestic mood music in the media and online to judge where "normal" is any more

Wondering which scandal will wreck Phillipson’s career once it becomes clear that policy on HE and trans rights has a broader set of knock-on effects than she realised.

This affects every corner of trans people’s lives. The ability to exercise, engage in almost any leisure activity, be admitted to hospital, heal after being raped, stop at a station toilet when going to visit family or friends.

To put it as politely as I possibly can, fuck you, Arsenal are champions and I'll piss where I want.

Round of applause for both the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Minister of Equalities for drafting guidance that protects bigots more than it does minorities.

This is a licence for lawful bullying. Not just of trans people, but anyone that does not present gender in a conventional way. Utterly abhorrent for a supposedly free society.

Among other things, I do recommend withholding your vote from Labour, without exception, until they stop persecuting trans people. We did try to send a message earlier this month but apparently this wasn’t loud enough for them to hear.

It’s time for the people who haven’t said much about trans rights because it’s a bit inconvenient and might cause tension with gender critical colleagues to actually say something btw

I’m really confused about how this is in any way better than the interim EHRC guidance from last year? Seems to be the same content but couched in a ton of legalese and ambiguity to make it sound less bigoted than it actually is.

Don’t be surprised when a government that will happily jettison certain minorities for possible political expediency will then do that for other minorities or causes as well.

It’s an unpopular view but Arsenal’s title is the story of considerable overperformance against wealthier opposition - City’s higher wage bill is the equivalent of more than five Sakas It wasn’t always pretty but it is maximising everything you’ve got www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

The amount of shit us Arsenal fans have had to eat to get here. We deserve this so much!

I have to say, when I envisioned us winning the league, I thought I'd be watching it. Not cowering on the sofa, watching Spurs in case I jinx it.

#Arsenal 🔴⚪😭

Post-local election bounce for reform might already be deflating then.