Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.

Thoroughly enjoyed the Belfast show this evening. If I had any business offering out recommendations, I would be giving it 5 stars and advising people in Dublin, Limerick and Derry to see if there are any tickets left.

My short tour of Ireland starts tomorrow night in Belfast. 300 tickets sold, with 100 still up for grabs for anyone who’s nearby and fancies it. After that, it’s Dublin, Limerick & Derry. Tickets here: brianbilston.com/events/ PS I have some book news to share with you tomorrow.

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

This weekend is a BIG one at Bridge Books. It's #BookshopDay on Saturday + our 30th birthday on Sunday! Here's what's happening. 20% off all day Saturday (+ online Sun, use code CELEBRATE) Lucky Dip Books from £1. Lots of Blind Dates with Books. Selected fiction 3 for £10 #BookSky

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

An extraordinary Telegraph article from 2014 that reminds us where Nigel Farage stood on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Mr Putin 16 years ago.

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

If the gov’t wants to introduce ID cards because they genuinely believe it will make life better for everyone, make that case. But… If they want to do it on the basis it will make life harder for desperately vulnerable people (& that’s what this is), they can get in the fucking sea & stay there.

JFC the President of the USA, repeating debunked conspiracy nonsense from behind the seal, that even his crank conspirasist health advisors are not claiming, relayed live all around the world. People will fkn die, because this shitstain needs the stories about Homan and Epstein to go away.

Understand MPs have complained to the whips about this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Farage's proposal here would crash the economy. An economy already struggling as a result of Brexit. Not only are the numbers false but it takes rights away from migrants who have lived and worked in the UK for years. Many who have British partners and children born in the UK.

So last night in Belfast, pregnant women had to plan alternative ways to access maternity services in Belfast because the far-right unlawfully closed roads and left people without public transport. PSNI said it was 'peaceful', but the same organisers were involved in a mobilisation .. [1/n]

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

Hear comes the Reform homophobia. Did you really think they stop with the trans?

The far-right is in its pomp. We will have to fight for our values like never before. iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

The Biggest Far Right March in British History. Worried? Here's how we stop them .... The Biggest Far Right March in British History paulmasonnews.medium.com/the-biggest-...

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Trump and Mandelson will dine at Windsor Castle next week, in the presence of royalty. Though, for once, it won't be Prince Andrew.

Sign this Lib Dem petition to get the BBC to have more balanced news coverage 👇 www.libdems.org.uk/bbc

‘Legitimate concerns’ www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...

Does anyone want to see a picture of a cat looking magnificent on a rock?

“Healthy-looking”

I see that the folk who stretched interpretations of law / politics to absurdity around Brexit are now doing the same about leaving the ECHR. Is there an Article 24 we can invoke? Read this instead... davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...

In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

The narrative that Tories/Reform/far-right has that things are out of control is absolutely now correct. But Labour is hell and a literal sea of incompetence from Minister to Minister. If they wanted to show that they don't care about black and brown people in this country, they've done it.

Have been sent this from outside a SCHOOL in Birmingham. Things are so out of hand and dangerous.

What’s up with all these flags at half mast? Has an England footballer died or something?

⚡️Do NOT let Musk get his hands on British utilities. He’s applied for a license to supply energy here. ✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that: www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...

Is this something to do with the efforts to save water supplies by not using data centres? If so, bravo Britain!

Well done, all pushers of “tinderbox Britain” bullshit. We’ve got the first case of “mob attacks paediatrician’s house” syndrome of the season. Plenty more to come.

I am the very model of a modern coast guard general I've information migratory, nautical yet mythical I know the fash in England and I invent facts hysterical From migrant boats to climate too, in manner unforgivable

"The anti-immigrant activists also carried a flag of Jesus of Nazareth – possibly history’s most famous refugee - and Welsh-born immigrant, St Patrick, .... songs by lifelong socialist, Luke Kelly.. One woman was dressed up as Anglo-Irish socialist revolutionary, Constance Markievicz." 🤌 beautiful

Apparently it’s Prime Day (even though it lasts 4 days🤷‍♀️). Bezos rents a city and goes to space. I'm driving a second-hand Mokka, drinking weak milky tea & raving about LFC. Buy a book from me instead. I'm no billionaire, but I'm charming, sometimes 😉. bridgebooksdromore.co.uk

The rot in NI politics does not begin or end with the masked youths holding bats and bricks. Contempt and loathing for migrants goes all the way to the top.

Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Jim Moir (Vic Reeves) held the door open for me at the petrol station in the Trowell Services on the M1 near Nottingham.

I hope that Los Tacos in Norway appreciate how forward looking this bit of marketing from 2016 was 🌮

There are some fish that have evolved to be most active at lunchtime when the fisherpeople are busy doing radio/TV interviews

Trump's two weekend thoughts - "why aren't Hollywood films like they used to be?" and "re-open Alcatraz!" - can only have been prompted by watching 1996's greatest action movie, The Rock. This features Marines and SEALs and is thus a War Movie. 👨‍⚖️ EMERGENCY REWATCH PODCAST?

‘If you strip out the effect of the last 100 days, you have growth’

Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Can someone explain to our former prime minister Tony Blair that carbon capture and storage does not effing work. It’s the shoddiest bit of crap misinformation from the fossil lobby that Tony is clearly benefiting from . . . allegedly.

Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.