Well, I for one, feel a lot safer now she’s off our streets!

Even in the post-war UK in the 1960s Oswald Mosley was knocked down as he attempted to sow his hate and division. Farage got some milkshake on his suit last year and people yelled “waaah, where will this terrible violence end…” 🙄

Wikipedia. Not unproblematic, but still perhaps the greatest thing to come out of internet utopianism and optimism about collective behaviour. And they want to destroy it.

Reading the story in the Guardian about the consultation on the Hampstead Heath ponds and I don't know how the anti-trans side could make it any clearer that they want to drive trans people out of public. The ponds have allowed trans people to swim, the transphobes have tried to block it and been

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Every time you use stupid ChatGPT, a thing that I once saw get a long multiplication sum wrong, it uses ten times as much electricity as searching the same thing on Google and the server cooling systems mean each use consumes half a litre of water.

REMINDER: Israel may temporarily accept Trump’s proposal to pause attacks until the captives are released, but is expected to resume its genocide on Gaza afterward. Meanwhile, it is likely to focus on intensifying attacks and targeting areas across the West Bank.

Tory-yawnathon update: Jenrick’s lot plots to oust Badenoch. Badenoch plans to scrap Climate Change Act and leave the ECHR. And it feels unbelievably tedious to even comment. This Tory party is over. Their brand is fucked. They reek of too much failure to be taken seriously. Plot away. No one cares.

Zack Polanski: There is no contradiction between condemning violence against British Jews and condemning violence against Palestinian families. The Labour Party: 🤮

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

🚨 BREAKING | Starmer would LOSE leadership election if Andy Burnham challenged him for the leadership. 🔴 Andy Burnham – 68% 🔴 Keir Starmer – 32% (Source: @YouGov)

Sarah Mullally has really broken the stained glass ceiling.

Did you hear about these Right Wing terrorist attacks that were prevented? No I doubt it. But now you have.

Big win for feminists!

The attack on the Manchester Jewish community is devastating. No ifs, ands or buts. People being killed through hateful violence is abhorrent. My heart goes out to the victims, their families & everyone living in fear because of this cruelty. Grief must bind us closer not drive us further apart.

UK Electricity price 2023 - Highest in the World UK Electricity price 2024 - Highest in the World UK Electricity price 2025 - Highest in the World Energy is the most profitable Industry in the UK making £130bn, ahead of Banking on £82bn and Landlords on £80bn You pay for it all

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rape crisis centres are closing due to lack of funds. Violent misogyny is skyrocketing online and off. But gender based violence is only weaponized against migrants and trans women, never tackled and taken seriously in its own right. apple.news/AjjROSc0kSGS...

Loved Grand Designs tonight. No multi-millionaires. Just slightly eccentric people doing their own thing and working with the planet. Back to the beginning I think. ❤️

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Nick Robinson on Today this AM was completely wrong to suggest that pumping more oil & gas from the North Sea would lower bills, something even former Tory Energy Secretaries have accepted. We’ve burned most of the gas and export the vast majority of the oil—and oil is basically what’s left…

"OpenAI spent more on marketing and equity options for its employees than it made in revenue in the first half of 2025." on.ft.com/3Krg4uC

Cutting the half time 🍊 Starmer is just really really weird (or is it his puppeteer McSweeny?)

Rape crisis centres are closing due to lack of funds. Violent misogyny is skyrocketing online and off. But gender based violence is only weaponized against migrants and trans women, never tackled and taken seriously in its own right. apple.news/AjjROSc0kSGS...

So Labour’s plan for education is that working-class young people should get back to apprenticeships whilst the middle- and upper-classes go to uni?

Is Tony Blair going to be Emperor of Palestine now?

Starmer says Farage is racist because he wants to send all migrants home. Starmer says he isn’t because he just wants to send home the poor ones.

Well said Sasha Roseneil!

University senior leadership and employer body representatives (UCEA, UUK) should be in the media saying things like this every single day. Where are they?

I think they just want to be paid properly so they can work in the NHS. because, unlike Wes, they don't receive enormous bungs from private healthcare interests.

Now. And always. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

UK inflation is caused by profiteering Since the pandemic electricity generation companies hiked profit margins by 198%. Electricity/Gas supply margins up 363%. Shipping up by 650 times. Health and social work up by 118%. People impoverished. Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.

Maybe he should stop agreeing with them on everything then?

Will the contract for ID cards be going to Palentir I wonder? To put our data into the hands of Peter Thiel so he can increase his ££$billions? How much will that cost the taxpayer (when we could be spending money on youth clubs to stop young people becoming tribal and stabbing each other)?

Maybe he should stop agreeing with them on everything then?

And make more money for the tech bros along the way …

The man with the contract for our NHS tech folks 👇

Besieging then bombing 1.4 million people. The world will never wash this bloodstain off its hands

And make more money for the tech bros along the way …

Agree, and glad he's calling for a major review. It is noteworthy that VCs somehow only do this when they're retiring or about to retire though. Please just use the lobbies that you're part of to actually effect change rather than soothe your conscious when you're powerless.

Went to see #ToKillAMockingbird at #LeedsPlayhouse tonight. Really excellent production and very thought provoking for the current moment. Would highly recommend.

Tax the rich

I’m hearing one academic department has over-recruited 500 students. Double the planned number and not enough staff to teach them. Whilst another department has recruited 2 students even after clearing. Who is going to sort out the shitshow that is UK HE?

I’m hearing one academic department has over-recruited 500 students. Double the planned number and not enough staff to teach them. Whilst another department has recruited 2 students even after clearing. Who is going to sort out the shitshow that is UK HE?

Is Chris Mason at the BBC a paid up member of Reform?

Keeping the Tories’ fiscal rules is essentially being Tory. Politics is how you spend money. And how you raise it.

Unclear how far back this would go and if would attack settled status for EU nationals. But clear that we must oppose this because mass deportation is a crime and an attack on basic rights rather than "unworkable" or "bad for the economy". It is your family, friends and neighbours he's coming for

Literally the whole of Reform is millionaires trying to keep their taxes low whilst pretending to be barrow boys 🤷‍♀️

Thomas Skinner identifies as “the underdog” on #Strictly. He must be the only underdog from £56,000-a-year Brentwood School he shared with Keith Allen and David Irving. Wonder where he learned that accent!?