Adopt a rescue. Genuinely the best thing anyone can do. Especially if they're a lurcher! Such lovely characters and they deserve happiness. These two - Rogue and Whisper - are my life's purpose, and I'll always be grateful to have them! Xx

Warms my heart to see the audience response to Billy's points, I do not think Reform remotely represent the majority opinion in the UK, as much as many media organisations try to make it so.

I remember going on holiday with a family whose son was a complete spoilt brat, tediously egotistical, boasting about everything. It was memorable for all the worst reasons. He now works for a charity so must have improved as he grew up. Whereas the President of the United States is still a child.

Indeed, the unacceptability of political violence is reinforced, that even open racists and bigots should not be murdered for political ends. Free speech advocate, open racist and bigot Charlie Kirk never resiled from being himself, why is he being portrayed differently after his horrific death?

The toxic internet may turn out to be the most consequential event in history. Encouraging the worst aspects of human nature, plus bots and trolls affecting elections and then leading to the resurgence of far right fascism. And STILL the UK govt seems to do nothing about X. That is unacceptable.

Democrats: 'but let's not get too heavy in our response'

We all thought the Terminator would come through a time wormhole but actually all it took was a small screen that transfixed us as the world decayed (and I'm not ruling out apocalyptic nuclear war as the way it ends...)

If dogs were mafia bosses... "Don't mess with me mofo, or you'll be buried in cement!!"

Returning home. Where my heart is. And my two besties!

This is a lovely article, well worth all of two minutes of your time. Have just told my friend that he's my copemate!

"We are going to have to live here with each other" is one of the most revealing things he could have said, because it ignores the fact that many people in America have had to live in the same streets and towns as those who dehumanise them - and to accept that grim reality - for their entire lives.

If only all policies were based on evidence of what works (and indeed if only all policies had to include evaluation to show what works), the world would be a better place and we at the UK Evaluation Society would be happy!

Can't help thinking the biggest contribution to UK policy and world peace would be for the king to turn to Trump at the end of everything and tell him that he (Charles), his wife, his mother the previous Queen and his whole family think Trump has no class, tacky taste & they consider him an asshole.

Absolutely love this. I'm no longer a Londoner but I loved the time I spent there and its diversity is not just a strength but it's what makes London London. Wherever you're from, London can - and should always - be your home if you want it to be. AND everywhere else in the UK.

Undoubtedly in the way that Hitler was in the twentieth, what should disturb everyone is Trump is happy if he is also recognised as the same as Hitler. We have more than three years to go and there's every chance he'll start a world war, too.

Just a reminder that life under fascism is first and foremost, immoral, violent and abusive. But for those who are not killed, it's also incredibly dull. It's so dull it's not even two dimensional. No variety in anything.

Just seen passenger carrying small dog in backpack, very cute. Reminded me that there's something wrong with the saying "gone to the dogs", it suggests bad, but I can't think of anything better than dogs (sorry, humans!). Missing my two gangsters who are having a short break while I'm away...

So confident is he of his popularity that he has to remind HIS followers on HIS platform that when he says "favourite President", he's referring to himself and not every other president, all of whom have had better ratings. The definition of a blatant lie that he hopes suckers will believe.

Genuinely could not happen to a more deserving, lovelier person. He's super talented but he also comes across as a great human being. He's what the UK should be proud of. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

TLDR: Make racism shameful again. While you’re at it add fascism too.

Given the name of things like this is usually done with an eye for the acronym, is this high level trolling by someone - APANE, phonetically A Pain. BBC News - UK and US unveil nuclear energy deal promising thousands of jobs www.bbc.com/news/article...

'There is nowhere in the Bible where we are taught to honour evil and how you die does not redeem how you lived. You don’t become a hero in death when you are a weapon of the enemy in life' – Rev. Howard John-Wesley on Charlie Kirk. Powerful and necessary.

The best column I've read on Kirk, BBC and many others could do with reading it and thinking about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As people of colour and immigrants, we were informed that we must eat endless shit so that the people who want to kill us could make their voices heard. That even though their contribution to society is nothing but hatred, their bigotry had more value than our lives.

The idea that there is a PRO FASCIST RALLY happening in London right now, with lead white supremacists speaking at it, goes to show just how much these violent people have been coddled by white centrists and liberals. They were told their ideas had value and they SHOULD have platforms.

This thread should be read to politicians and the media every day until they start treating fascists and racists like the fascists and racists that they are.

What I find interesting is Starmer was clearly an interim leader and was never expected to be PM until the Tories so spectacularly capsized themselves. I can imagine him being good at leading the CPS but to be a national leader who doesn't do ideology and vision seems bound to cause problems.

The one thing we can be confident of is that God hasn't blessed America and if anything, seems to be withdrawing any previous blessing. (Lapsed Catholic here, now an atheist, so I don't believe in any gods, but hard to see any evidence for any god/s blessing anywhere and anything in 2025)

In what way, in what world, did Kirk and the whole MAGA extremists ever respect the dignity of the human being!? Shooting people dead because of their views is abhorrent and wrong. So is the torrent of racism that came from Kirk. His views were vile, completely disrespectful. And he revelled in it.

I'm still taking it because I'm immunosuppressed. I'm pretty sure it saved me a couple of years ago from either death or very nasty Covid. And I'll keep taking vaccines because they work. Spreading LIES about vaccines risks people's lives. Shame on Reform.

Putting "if you ask me, how are you going to do this? I can’t really give you an answer" on tape is a gift that his opponents should be making famous for 4 years

Impressively outcringes Truss and her pork markets and Theresa May's horrific ABBA dancing. Bring back sober, sensible, dull politicians....

Absolutely nuts, farcical but also deeply disturbing that these two people, the whole table including BILL GATES FFS, have so much power. Humanity is genuinely fucked.

I've always been a big fan and this reinforces what a decent person he is. It may not be much but it still matters.

It is bizarre to have "zero tolerance" for racial abuse in football and cricket from government, media & governing bodies, yet infinite tolerance - simply silence in media, politics & inaction - for unlawful racial hatred online against elected representatives of every party & other civilians.

Forget Greenland, there's a significant number of supposed English patriots who would be keen for a Trump dictatorship to take over the UK. Literally an enemy within except one spurred on by sizeable portion of media and given succour by a PM who also toadies up to the orange Hitler.

Beautiful

This is a piercingly accurate analysis and takedown of Trump. To go from this to being his VP shows that Vance is just as bad, if not worse because he knew exactly what he was supporting and how evil it is. This should be put on every billboard around the world, and especially UK during Trump visit.

Reform UK MPs are bloody Nazis!!!!

Find yourself a dog that looks at you like this...

"Why are these boots here and not on your feet!?!? I demand you take us to the field right now, manservant!"

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

"Are asylum seekers the biggest political issue in Britain?" Asks radio 4. "We interview man who is determined to make it the biggest issue in Britain. And make it a headline every morning until it definitely is"

I've watched a lot of TV this year and I'm not sure there's been anything better than this. If you haven't watched the first season, please do, and then watch this. It's superb. Vive la France! Dark Hearts, Series 2: Episode 1: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002gtbt

Says it like he knows the stats and data but he clearly doesn't. Same with climate change. Lots of people (according to lurid media headlines not hard evidence) may have the same opinion but it doesn't mean they're right. Look at the evidence, then form an opinion www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Tyson in Dark Hearts Season 2 is such a good boy! The whole series is fantastique, superbe. Half way through and hoping they get Sab back and that Tyson makes it to the end, I'll be gutted if he's killed.

That face. That look. Lurcher love! What more could you want on a sunny Sunday morning!? Besties.

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".