My analysis of the fiscal impact of the "earned settlement" proposals, based on government's own data. The direct savings are a fraction of the Home Secretary's misleading claims, and likely to be offset by the substantial costs of lower work-related migration. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

JOIN US! this Wednesday, the 15th of April at 8pm BST, as #TheFilmCrowd raids the vault of Boris Karloff's THRILLER once again. The great IDA LUPINO directs an adaptation of an August Derleth story, MR GEORGE! Link👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5OL...

Together with @friends-earth.bsky.social and @pscupdates.bsky.social, I have handed in petitions signed by over 40,000 people against the Government's sinister proposals that would give police new powers to restrict repeat protest. Greens will always defend the democratic right to protest.

New #Unison report says more than 20,000 #NHS posts are going to be axed in an effort to close a £1.1bn budget deficit socialistworker.co.uk/news/thousan...

More Brexit benefits coming on the 20th April .. the ELO..you need a EU vat no - and ideally an account with the French douane . Along with ESS for uk passports . And customs. And ICS2 . Just to cross ..

@ladybaroness.bsky.social Israel dropped bombs on the historic Citadel of Tyre in southern Lebanon. Not a military target. A UNESCO World Heritage site — one of the region’s oldest surviving monuments. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

Aside from the Pedo in Chief sending JD Vance to campaign for Orban, did you know that Israel Netanyahu also sent his son to Hungary to campaign for Orban...

Let’s end the Guga hunt for good!

Very pleased to tell you that I will be appearing in human form as part of the Fiends In The Furrows folk horror film festival panel discussion, here in Edinburgh. I’ll be joined by the illustrious Drs Catherine Lester and Jonny Murray with host Morvern Cunningham. Full programme and tix linked 👇

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

So here is the video of the question I asked Goodwin, and his response The key question - how much he will lose financially if MCC is wound up - is not answered www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7OP...

A papal representative on his way to meet the US president

And this, friends, is why we do not support Amazon under any circumstance. Just no.

🚨🇮🇱 : The International Court of Justice has just ruled that Israel has committed genocide. Israel’s actions violated the genocide convention. Now we need concrete action by the World against this Zionist travesty of a State

NEW SERIES / BROKEN VEIL II Starts this week. Listen by joining the Broken Veil Patreon channel. Patreon.com/brokenveil #brokenveil

We can’t allow powerful men to use the law to shut down legitimate reporting or silence abused women and survivors who tell their stories 👇 https://goodlaw.social/tgln

I’ve written a bit more about this: PROFILE OF A VERY MODERN MARIE ANTOINETTE brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/profile-of...

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 13, 2026 ~ The long goodbye. "Gray whales are beginning to break their long-established migration patterns, venturing into risky new territory like San Francisco Bay as climate change disrupts their Arctic food supply." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

A lot of people are quick to say they *can't* give up Amazon. Okay, don't. Just don't make it your default. That thing you threw in your basket that you can get elsewhere? Get it elsewhere. If everyone still buying from Amazon reduced their spending by 20%, Bezos would be screaming bloody murder

Launching our MRJames manuscript project this Thursday on Kickstarter! Bit.ly/OhWhistle to pre-register.

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

A beautiful illustration for Australians, and the rest of us. A simple bar graph that depicts how far you can go on a #$AUS with petrol, and how far with electricity. (BTW, the refining of oil into petrol uses a metric sh!t ton of electricity) More info: elitre.com.au/dollar

A crucial article, but one quibble. I've been arguing since 1997 that Frank Furedi, Claire Fox and the rest of the gruesome "Revolutionary Communist Party" goons were NEVER on the left: the RCP was a far-right front from the outset. No surprise when they started working for Orbán, Farage & Johnson🧵

As climate change warms sea water, it spells disaster for oysters + other cold-water shellfish: share.google/uUIhX0X2cEYs...

Yep: just kept getting away with it, right to the end. On a happier note, it’s also the 182nd anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Balloon-Hoax’, when he published a ‘report’ in New York’s The Sun about a gas balloon trip across the Atlantic which had taken three days – which he had entirely invented

Parliament is debating Palantir's NHS data contract on April 16. I've emailed my MP asking them to attend and push for the break clause. Email yours too: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pa...

📌 ICYMI — From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries. So why don't we hear more about them?

BBCNews fails to mention Orban being "right wing" let alone authoritarian, once in this article. Apparently Orban just "ran out of steam". Nothing about him dismantling democracy, politicising the courts & universities, or banning independent media. No mention of Putin! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

A reader suggests that repealing the squatting laws could mean that the empty homes around the country are put to good use.

🐦‍⬛Lots of lovely Victorian hand-coloured engravings of little birds have fluttered into my Etsy shop! Why not buy a little something for spring and support my writing! etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

I am going to go. Will see what I can do to get a recording, and at the very least there will be a thread here on Bluesky.

Bumping for Monday people…

Hey all, now we’re in purdah - which means the broadcasters HAVE to give (by law) coverage to all the parties with significant numbers contesting the local elections in England and the Scottish & Welsh Parliament elections. Let us know what you perceive because they’ll still find ways to spin.

I missed @reactorsff.bsky.social posting this update to their policies re: use of "AI," but I am happy they did, and not surprised by their position. It's a good position! reactormag.com/practices-re...

The Israeli prime minister is hopeful that his trial can once again be postponed on the basis that he is dead, I mean preoccupied by the war. www.normalisland.co.uk/p/netanyahu-...

Financial adviser struggles with new visa rules to retire to Spain after voting for Brexit

Shooters will almost certainly be lining up to keep the seasons open for as long as possible. So if you have time, please do have a look at the consultation. protectthewild.substack.com/p/the-govern...

Apparently, it would have been Oliver Postgate’s 101st birthday today. Proust can keep his biscuits. This voice transports me to the 1970s...

You'd think this whole bizarre affair would be a far bigger story

Tell Me Lies By Adrian Mitchell

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

Renewables could rescue the UK economy.

Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime. No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.

On Thursday (16th April) join me and author @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for a live online conversation to mark the publication of 'FINDERS KEEPERS: The Secret life of Second-hand Books.' Free, and all welcome. If you haven't already been invited contact me via davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

Almost walked into this trap on Friday while strolling towards the West Kennet Avenue nr Avebury. Be careful out there... (1/2) #StandingStoneSunday #FairyRingFriday

Woke up and chose violence www.katiematherwrites.com/the-gulp/goo...

This is NOT what I voted for