If you’re ever wondering whether person (x) is reasonable or whether they’re just a hooting wingnut crackpot, then I have always found “do they have serious, very aggro beef with Amnesty International” is one of the best indicators.

The Battle of Corporation Street, Hull, 12th July 1936 when 10,000 people of Hull turned out & rallied against Oswald Mosley & his British Union of Fascists. 👇 BBC News - Forgotten battle saw Mosley's Blackshirts driven out of Hull - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vintage poster, but still relevant.

Crucible of Britain: ancient migration and the deep roots of mixed-heritage families Yorkshire’s repeated historical intersections of migration and cultural exchange remain, engrained in the DNA of its descendants By John Heywood

Daily Mail poll going hilariously south for Nigel Farage.. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

In many ways Anne Widdecombe helped to usher in this culture of people with despicable views being tolerated because they're 'so funny!' that's led us to where we are now. A miserable legacy but one I suspect she would be quite pleased with.

Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has been absolutely killing it, and here's another one

billions in economic losses and a long-term destruction of the UK’s research environment and its last important export, all to attempt to assuage people who would never have voted for labour anyway and who don’t care about net migration because they’re actually mad that (racial slur)s live next door

So, I see the UK government has looked at the bin fire that is their HE 'system' and decided to reach for the kerosene. Great.

Never start a land war in Asia, or an electoral war with a bin.

On my way, Clacton.

Great to deliver a speech & answer questions at the Local Government Association conference. Whilst Nigel Farage continues this farce against a man with a bin on his head, local councillors are getting on with making real changes in their communities. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Passing this most excellent image on

Nigel Farage is not the most verbally and physically attacked MP ever. Jo Cox and David Amiss would have something to say about that but they’re DEAD Oh and Sadiq Khan is the politician who has had the most threats against his life

Yachts. thelifeofsharks.com/product/yach...

Honestly everyone else should just not run in Farage's personal little narcissism election except Count Binface.

'The names of 9,909 British Indian Army servicemen are now being added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) casualty database after they were uncovered by researchers.' 1/2

Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Although I generally hate being given a link that takes me directly to a pay wall, this juxtaposition from the Sunday Times did amuse me.

I love a glazed brick frontage (side, back, top, etc)

“None of them seem to understand that an apprentice needs an employer.” - fantastic piece on why the UK’s politicians keep calling for apprenticeships while providing fewer and fewer:

It is that indifference that is the most disgusting. This cannot stand. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

Crucible of Britain: ancient migration and the deep roots of mixed-heritage families Yorkshire’s repeated historical intersections of migration and cultural exchange remain, engrained in the DNA of its descendants By John Heywood @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

Hey Bluesky crowd! You also should be signing our petition opposing the announced redundancies at the University of Exeter. 📢 We're 17k and growing! Redundancies ARE NOT necessary and we must #DefendExeterUni 🩷 c.org/RFqMvrKb6z

Weird how so called brexiters won't stop vacationing in the EU.

I’m not patriotic, in the normal sense of the word, but I do feel a deep connection to Yorkshire. This attachment stems not from national pride, but from a lifetime of familiarity with its unique landscapes, history, and people. My piece for Yorkshire Bylines. #Yorkshire #SenseofPlace

How many CIS women have experienced violence at the hands of a trans woman? Almost all anti trans hysteria seems predicated on the assumption that trans women are men. And we already have laws in place to punish men for assaulting women (however poorly enforced they may be).

A reminder that Brexit's architects admitted in parliament that their key argument for Brexit was entirely invented. (From The Decade In Tory)

Annex all the quasi-British tax havens and make them fully official parts of the UK. Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Gibraltar, bits of the Caribbean, etc. Do it as suddenly as possible with troops and forensic accountants, lock 'em down for a few days and find out where the dodgy money was going.

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

A very strong message against hate. It's time for hope

Brexit 10 years on: as bad as universities feared? A decade after the #Brexit vote, universities are still grappling with consequences in research and recruitment. We take a deep dive into how the research sector has fared. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

How in the world could a UK government think a result like this indicated agreement? = Ten years of misery.

America's emperor has lost the mandate of heaven

My enduring memories of Starmer will be designating harmless retired vicars etc. as terrorists, and aping the populist far right with its discourse on immigrants, the environment and more. It was morally and politically disgusting and legitimised vile positions and violence.

Absofreakinlutely 💯%, This Here... 👇👇

SHAC Petition against compulsory redundancy at SHU c.org/k7N4GG4NkW #LoveSHAC #HallamSU

Zack Polanski on the climate crisis, and toxicity in politics, "Temperatures are rising, we had a heatwave in May, the hottest May on record" "It is noticeable that when Reform UK's candidates are under scrutiny in a by-election, people go: actually, I don't want that"

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Take my money, curse you!! #RedHook and #LovecraftFiles :) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Don't want to be picky, but isn't the Pope "America's most powerful Catholic" being as he is both American and - how to put it? - the actual Pope? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

So many more than 50 ways... Hide in the cave, Dave

That's kind of the revealing thing about the transphobic hate campagin: It has the backing of some of the most powerful people on the planet, two huge right wing media empires bankrolling it, several evil billionaires in thrall to it, and it still barely works.

What an amazing story.❤️