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Sack it off and turn it into a skate park.

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Wes Streeting is not going to solve that likeability problem

We’re all preppers now: the Becky Barnicoat cartoon

Morgan McSweeney always looks like he's just been crying

Yes! Until you become someone who *needs* a bench (for me this was having kids), you don't see how the world excludes, denies, blocks access, with stairs, high curbs, no benches. Capitalist landscaping that intentionally welcomes the strongest members of society and excludes the rest.

it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone

Always nice to get a letter from school threatening you with fines and custodial sentences! A mood lifter. "Money raised from fines goes towards aggressively pursuing parents with threats and fines" – a circular economy!

I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening now is an invasion. This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention. @CaroleCadwalladr for the Nerve Link 🔽

Lisa Kudrow’s stoney face as Jimmy Carr says he has a whiskey company called Muff Liquor 🤢 He’s Walliams stock.

Can we cancel Jimmy Carr please 🤢 #theclaudiawinklemanshow

A “crisis tax” where the govt can tax energy firms making a vast profit during energy crises, with money put into a support fund for businesses and the public affected by spiralling energy costs.

They just can't help themselves!

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

HS2 is projected to cost £100billion. The line no longer goes to central london. It will go from Birmingham to Old Oak Common. I lived in London for 36 years and never went to Old Oak Common. Perps must go to prison for this scam! Time to cut our losses & turn it into a cycle path/nature reserve.

This says so much about the right wing mindset. Look away from the mess you've made, deny it, pretend it isn't happening. The intoxicating promise of trump and farage is that climate change isn't real, there is no cost to our lifestyle. We can carry on like this forever and everything will be OK!

Paperback out this week! Grab a copy here if you fancy it, great toilet read/breastfeeding read/gift for new parent etc etc uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cry-...

We need more schemes like this! They make the state money and ensure world class creative talent can become world class creative talent! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Maybe calling out Reform as the party of billionaires fails as a slur because alignment with billionaires feels glamorous, exciting, and aspirational to many people?

A reminder that Reform's candidate for Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, has still not explained what he meant by this claim that developments in genetic science will make younger generations more right wing as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters. #archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Do you want to see people executed on the streets of the UK defending children and their families from immigration raids? If YES, vote Reform!

the great David Gutenfelder who’s photographed so many of the world’s most intense conflict zones in the past three decades now reporting from his home town www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

This is chilling www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Every time a Labour minister carps on about immigration, a labour voter dies and is resurrected as a Reform voter

Is this logo in some way meant to summon the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci?

I'm reminded of a line in The Twits by Roald Dahl.

If you are left-brained you see a threat to the future of our planet. If you are right-brained you see a chance to make a quick buck.

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“All episodes available now” is such a TV red flag. If you had a great show you’d eke it out, make us wait for it. It’s got ‘just gonna dump this mediocre thing I made here, and move on’ energy.

As far as the political class is concerned, the BBC has always been Batman at the end of the Dark Knight. “We’ll hunt him. Because he can take it.” Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

The BBC hold powerful, corrupt people like Farage, Musk and Trump to account, of course they want to destroy it.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

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Well played, Merriam-Webster! Well played.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Argentina suffering the terrible consequences of propelling a viral, hard-right political disruptor to power. "Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to! 😭

Farage's massive over-exposure relies on him not really getting on with anything else. The bind is that any serious politician couldn't do this much publicity without sorely neglecting their actual job. So the least serious one gets the votes. I know it's obvious, but it's v depressing.

My timeline is packed with the same clip of Farage questioning the safety of Paracetamol. It's just so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.