If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

I just saw this posted (elsewhere) with the heading 'The Slug and Lettuce' and I genuinely guffawed.

Can’t believe we are still doing this

'rIGhT aBOuT EvEryTHiNg.'

And not by management or her colleagues, but by the British press as part of a years-long hate campaign now increasingly focused on harassing and harming individual members of the public

Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids", but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd". Someone whose opinions ought not receive either an airing or people's eyeballs. Why is he published?

Just a total collapse of the right's cordon sanitaire! A Tory MP and the Tory leader in the London assembly are both on the board of this movement!

I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.

Forget driverless cars, we have the technology to create carless drivers.

Really good thread explaining how LLMs like ChatGPT function, why they don't think and why that car wash post isn't the gotcha it looks like.

Couple of things... First, as far as I know, Gavin Williamson and Susan Hall are still on Lowe's "advisory board" while being Tory members. Second, the more the right bloc splits the better for Labour/Libs in the short term.

Latest news about the guy who decided he should personally step in to prevent the Labour party choosing a leader from an all-women field

This is so spot on

Not Jewish, and not a Green Party member, but I do think you should listen to your Jewish members and friends on stuff like this.

“It’s an unbelievable disaster and also none of us were ever wrong, about anything” really has been the smash hit of the 21st century. Join in at the chorus.

The deal that made it all happen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 Over 50 leading academics have sounded the alarm on the UK's voting system ⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before 🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Two weeks ago, Peter Mandelson told us he had no recollection of planning to buy a £2m apartment in Rio via a Panama holding company and a Brazilian company. Yesterday we found notarised incorporation documents for the Brazilian company, with Mr Mandelson's signature.

this feels like a spoof from The Day Today

An operator for new cinema at troubled Lewisham development has been announced. Arc cinema are set to open a nine-screen cinema www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/02/13/n...

It's quite extraordinary that they thought any of these people would do a better job than Karen Pierce, who did not need to be replaced! It wasn't like there was a vacancy that had to be filled.

Cllr David Wimble, Reform Cabinet member for economic development at Kent County Council, says he might defund Margate's Turner Contemporary Gallery to spite the local MP Polly Billington.

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

trans policy aside, it makes me so angry that the government are choosing to lie about a fundamental aspect of the British political system in this way.

We're at #LewishamCentral Assembly tonight, getting updates on various things related to the hyperlocal area of our council ward, so I'll share anything interesting from that in this thread…

It might feel more "mutual" if they were both standing down www.gov.uk/government/n...

Terrific piece this. Something that Yvette Cooper said the government would do that seems to have fallen by the wayside is to release this data *themselves*, but instead they've seemingly quit the field leaving it only to bad actors (and now, thankfully, Anoosh)

This is so weird, who on earth could be bothered to pretend to be Mainstream and do this?!

Seeing lots of commentary along the lines of 'no-one saw the Mandelson scandal coming', which just isn't true. Some of us have been warning about it for years. Here's what I wrote two years ago bylinetimes.com/2024/01/04/k...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

The Bannon/Farage/Johnson plot to topple May looks pretty damning by November 2018, but starts that summer when Johnson resigns. 15 July Bannon goes on Farage’s LBC show to lambast May. Epstein texts: “Good work on LBC”. Next day he tells Epstein he’s in “London with Boris”

Exactly no (0) people go on the record to talk up this guy, and the people claiming he’d be a nightmare for the Tories are *the actual Tories*, but you’d be a cynic if you thought British journalism was basically a plot to mislead the public

Cannot wait for unions to start using their new right of access to all workplaces, and for all social care employers to be bound into collective bargaining

The Times, eh

On @channel4news.bsky.social, a piece about how dangerous and unmoderated content on the big social media/video sites is, followed by a clip of an interview on the subject which you can watch by going to their YouTube page 😬

Not just any online nazi, one of the most notorious online nazis in the country

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

Anas should call for Wes to release their WhatsApp chats. For transparency of course!

6 Music Festival smaller than ever this year, no more Victoria Warehouse. Probably the right size though, and possibly slightly more events than last time? (Still not over them settling in a single music-rich city instead of taking music to cities which might not otherwise have the profile though)

Sorry, what exactly is this bullshit on BBC News? The third one down is sponsored content for fucks sake!

‘That is why diversity in leadership is so important.’ That is why I, a man, need to be leader.

Good job Wes Streeting has defeated the rumours that he was friends with the pal of a convicted paedophile by releasing a load of texts which show he was friends with the pal of a convicted paedophile

A Scottish party leader calls for an embattled PM to quit but his cabinet rallies round and backbench MPs bang desks to show their support....

arguably the biggest news of the week that Lisa Nandy is currently doing something related to her brief