It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

A #Motability customer has launched a legal action against the Treasury over budget measures that he says will put at risk the mobility “lifeline” the scheme provides to disabled people. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-c...

Monty Python gets it in one

Stab it, mater

Not sure who needs to see this but...

So Nigel Farage popped over to Shetland and it went well for him.

I love the smell of insider trading in the morning 🇺🇸 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Traders placed $580mn in oil bets ahead of Donald Trump’s social media post on Iran talks

You are not alone. I too have a kitchen drawer entirety devoted to USB cables which seem to fit nothing x

Out of a shortlist of 5, 4 were women with decades of experience of public service broadcasting. And one man with none at all: Matt Brittin. But that maybe the least of his problems... 2/

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

from Fraser Nelson:

📢New cohort of physicists alerts the Science, Innovation, and Technology committee: "If the measures go ahead, they will 'de facto imply the end of UK international leadership in fundamental science' and 'destroy the Hawking and Higgs legacy'". 🧪 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

🧵 These stories really are coming thick and fast at the moment🙄 Guess what? The Canadian school is NOT 'banning food at lunchtime' during Ramadan🤦‍♀️ Obviously... And if you BELIEVED it to be true, then you need to ask why you would choose to believe such an obviously ludicrous headline? 1/20

youtu.be/ETW5MUKuEj0 What a maiden speech by Hannah the Plumber on International Women’s Day!

This is a critical story, because it ties in to the pocket rescissions approach that Russ Vought used last year at a small scale. This may be a bigger run at it after Congress passed a roughly normal science budget this cycle. 🧪⚛️

Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

The reporting of this did the rounds a week or so ago but I think it’s nice to hear it from the horse’s mouth if you will. What a great and warm thing for him to have done. I hope people who might not have ever considered the importance of learning about others take something from it.

Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid £4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. He’s an embarrassment to the club and game.

#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci 🧪🛟 💊 In September 25 FDA approved leucovorin suggesting it can treat autism. Now, the biggest clinical trial cited in that decision was retracted.

I just saw someone post a great quick review of the documentary, Melania. "If Melania was shown on an airplane, people would still walk out..." Heh...

ICE chases Minneapolis protestor.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

Brilliant joke from Andy Zaltzman, comedian and official scorer in Test Match Special. He says the Prince of Darkness has become Mr Peter Mountbatten-Darkness.

Good Q @SarahKSilvermam

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

It is worth recalling that the position of U.K. Ambassador to the US was not vacant at the time the Prime Minister chose to appoint Peter Mandelson to the role. A highly competent and respected woman was replaced.

Christ above. These pitiful fucking cowards.

Breaking news: Kettle has strong thoughts about blackness of pot

There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2 Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?

I genuinely don't know what to say about this stuff anymore. It's deliberate disinformation. There can be no other explanation.

Incredible to brag about the modest rise in the Universal Credit standard allowance without even hinting at the *huge* cut - nearly 50% - to Universal Credit's disability element from this April www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” Mexican proverb

As with half my community, this breakfast I’m researching car wading depths Came across this comment on a Skoda Kodiaq forum. Made me chuckle: “Why don't you lease a Kodiaq? I've heard the wading depth of a lease car is double that of one that is privately owned” 😂

ALEX PRETTI’S PARENTS: “He was a VA nurse who cared about people deeply, and he was very upset with what was happening with ICE... kidnapping children, grabbing people off the street — he knew it was wrong. He loved this country." (H/T @katiecouric.bsky.social )

Is there a formal definition of “domestic terrorist” or is it just “someone ICE has shot”?

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Undergraduate essay question: How can Reform be so good at social media yet so bad at social media?

'If you’ve broken the rules then those around you should be saying 'you’ve broken the rules'' Senior Labour MP Emily Thornberry urges the UK government to condemn Trump's military action in Venezuela

Here is a mama dolphin with her baby and extended family for those of us who may need a little something to make us smile today. #Nature 😊 🦑

And apostrophes.