Indeed. I think it's hugely underrated that broadly speaking, the era of democracy is the era of radio and television, and of shared cultural references and understanding. Becoming a billion tiny villages talking past each other about curated news and niche shows is not good!

Did no-one else see this at all? Are we in an episode of Doctor Who here? How long do we have to save Earth from whatever just landed in Surrey Quays?

What just happened over central London exactly?!

Did no-one else see this at all? Are we in an episode of Doctor Who here? How long do we have to save Earth from whatever just landed in Surrey Quays?

What just happened over central London exactly?!

Or yknow the 400 labour MPs could just run a government between them

Not just the lies. People have been chatting shit since time immorial. It is the failure of people in positions of power to push back on it instead of acquiescing.

It is overwhelmingly clear that non-white Brits are much more likely to be stopped, detained, disbelieved and mistreated by the police than whites, yet the BBC has spent the entire week giving oxygen to the far-right fantasy that the complete opposite is the case. Here’s what I think is going on

Maybe it is time to replace Broken Windows Theory with Broken Social Contract Theory

This post has led to an utterly weird story that is coming tomorrow morning on London Centric. Sooooo a gamble just for Bluesky: If you're not a subscriber but you sign up before I publish, I'll give you a third off. If you don't like the story DM for a full refund: www.londoncentric.media/5cf0224f

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

Sometimes the old nerd tricks are the best. OneDrive's logging had gone wild and filled my whole hard drive, and a few online fixes didn't seem to be sorting it, so I deleted the logs folder and put a file called "logs" where it was. Now OneDrive can't create a folder with the same name. No logging!

Starmer is absolutely right about this, but he would also have been right about it had he said it two years ago. Why has it taken him so long and why is his Government still using X as its primary message delivery platform? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

• "Starmer accuses Musk of 'trying to whip up division' in UK following Henry Nowak murder • "Starmer backs MP suing Musk's AI bot" So Starmer will stop using the platform Musk does all this stuff on as one of his government's main official comms channels now then, and leave X himself too, right?

@vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social Hi Vicky! Thanks for being on here. As my MP please could I ask you to do whatever you can to persuade the government and your colleagues to leave X, which is now purpose-built to inject outrageous far-right views into political discourse, spread hate and foment riots? 🙏🏻

I've launched a Bluesky account which announces every time I publish a new blogpost. That's all it does. It's at @diamondgeezerblog.bsky.social if you fancy following the blog. Or you can just assume there'll be a new post every morning, because there will.

I wonder if we need to find more accurate language about racist X posts "going viral" – we wouldn't say the content a newspaper editor puts on their front page has gone viral but, when X boss Musk chooses to push this content at everyone using his outlet, it's still seen as somehow organically viral

I realise thatsaying this is essentially pointless, but it is worth stating that unlike the cases in BLM the horrifying murder of Henry Nowak: 1) was done by a member of the public, not a police officer 2) was immediately followed by the man's arrest 3) was followed by the man's swift conviction

They used to say "because of a passenger incident" but Southeastern's patience has run out

When you're just not picking up on the signals

I had completely missed the origin of the "meep meep" that George Fouracres' Keir Starmer does on SNL UK – and if someone had told me Starmer had once literally made that noise at the dispatch box in parliament, I'm not sure I'd've believed them www.reddit.com/r/livefromlo...

This but for left wing political parties

I get their emails for some reason and every single one of them is basically "X wants to do Y, here's how to object", infuriating

Peter Murrell bought 108 toilet rolls just hours before then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the public against panic buying during the Covid pandemic.

Nigel Farage, who used to hold weekly press conferences and pop up on every media channel going, has gone strangely quiet over recent weeks. Here's what I think is going on www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/making-no-...

Interesting news about one of the four reliable new replacement escalators they closed Cutty Sark DLR station for 11 months to install

A politician who in opposition had a huge amount to say about community (some of it in my view mad) whose opinion on the funding and managerial crises at the BBC, the most important anchor of our shared culture and information environment is “can’t someone else sort this?” 🤯

one day we will learn that Lisa Nandy has been in a coma following a devastating accident, or locked in a cupboard or something. then you'll all be sorry

Fits the theme of so much AI publicity, focussing on what it can almost do and will definitely be able to do fully very soon. It can almost be a Question Time panel! But not tonight. So many AI capabilities are like the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Any day now!

Restore founder Rupert Lowe has insane reach on X — a sign of how Elon Musk’s support for the far-right nativist party translates into political and financial capital Lowe has had 10 posts w 10mn+ views since launching Restore in Feb. Farage, with 3x followers, has had 0 For @financialtimes.com

i would love to see some analysis of gender make up of council leadership following the local elections, now the AGMs are done. it certainly *seems* like there are more male leaders and cabinet members than previously but that’s just my impression, not backed up by stats.

If I were the government, I simply would not be directing eyeballs and the political conversation to a website run by a guy who has explicitly said he opposes the PM and is visibly fighting an information war against me.

This should be the format of all debates

In which I learn that one motivation for his sacking was the criticisms of Powell coming from right-wing newspapers!

It is getting increasingly harder to just have a laugh on the playground that is the Internet

Excellent news, although perhaps the Conservatives should have assessed whether a legal challenge would be possible before promising one to voters

Is it bad to admit that only when I saw this post did I realise that Rishi Sunak is still an MP?

Another reason why him popping up now is deeply unhelpful – great way for Reform to downplay their £5m if they can use this to suggest everyone's at it/everyone agrees donations don't cause lobbying obligations (however invalid the comparisons)

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

"A party source said 'Only four people in the world knew about the donation'" – because nothing says "entirely innocent and apolitical £5mn gift from a pal that it would never cross your mind needed declaring" like keeping it an absolute secret from almost everyone you know and tracking who you tell

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Man, I just want to hang out with people I like, whether it's online or the real-world. It's not that fucking complicated.

normal people are not on social media to get into days long arguments with Neo-Nazis and it's actually weird as fuck for you to think that. i'm here to talk to my friends and post my cat

Part way through watching this and it's already excellent. Jack White makes a great Sidekick Simon, and as well as some The Day Today parallels I think there's also something quite @eddiemair.bsky.social about the way Colbert finds the opportunities for surreal humour in a medium he clearly respects

On the P4 bus from Brixton to Lewisham, once again wondering why this overcrowded, rickety, circuitous mess of a service is the only direct connection between two of south London's biggest town centres 🙃

*giving ChatGPT access to all my bank accounts* Oh boy, I can't wait to see what kind of insight this thing has into my finances. "You're right! Spending $3,600 on candles IS a perfectly reasonable household expense. Your family will be fine. Don't listen to the haters."

Thought this was a good read on Burnham, his record in Manchester, and his prospects as prime minister

Oh, was Phil Foden meant to apply to join the 2026 England squad back in 2024 but also didn't bother?

See this is why I like the podcast format: hacks will go on there a little too relaxed, a little too eager to look savvy & impress Armando Iannucci, and before you know it they’ve accidentally said too much. bylinetimes.com/2026/05/22/t...

I was the Londonist 'politics correspondent' during the Johnson mayoralty and I will say this: pay attention to the regional people who were paid to pay attention during the periods when the national media weren't paying attention.