The Labour Party are bought and paid for. Lobbying, cash for access, vested interests. This is who they are. It doesn't have to be this way.

Would be v excited if Disney announced a season 2 of the astonishingly good Alien Earth but would respect Noah Hawley even more if they just left it there for us to finish the story ourselves

At this rate we’re going to have declassified the Yeti and Loch Ness Monster files before we hit peak lame distraction saturation point

After years of making the running on immigration, Farage may this week have handed the initiative back to his opponents'. @robfordmancs.bsky.social for @ukandeu.bsky.social on the unpopularity of Reform's proposals on ILR ukandeu.ac.uk/reforms-radi...

This looks great...

Trump giving off some serious 'Roman emperor'-style narcissism vibes with this monstrosity... www.dezeen.com/2025/09/23/w...

In bed suffering horribly with this season’s strain of Covid? I can highly recommend learning all about ‘Dialectic Materialism’ with @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/139541...

www.frieze.com/article/paul... Paul Chan has built a digital double – and now it’s on the brink of a breakdown

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... The more I hear about advisors linked to Tony Blair’s think tank the more I worry about who the govt is actually interested in legislating for

Seems like a pretty good attack line to me

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package. Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage? Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... worth another repost @iandunt.bsky.social gives an impassioned plea to Labour and even more important since Saturday’s horror show…

After travelling through South Bank on the Thameslink surrounded by beer guzzling hooligans draped in flags. I was pleased to be driving home again on Sunday. This was until the road was blocked by a load of sign-toting anti-vaxxers in Carlshalton. We are truly fucked…

I'd say it's as good or bad as if Trump had said it...

and would we say that's good

Labour carrying out ICE-style raids www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"Even in opposition we never spent time obsessing over polls,” a Downing Street source said. “You can’t govern or lead like that.” (Sunday Times). A surprising claim about Labour in opposition! (And government). [Though would be better to do it less in government]

Our Spanish sunset this evening

Me, looking at timestamp: This seems like a long time to get to the joke Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

2 items left on a picnic bench in an orchard this morning

Baby donkeys are so underrated... 😍

My message to the PM and No.10: Why would people smugglers care if you send asylum seekers back - surely they just make more money if they make the trip again. Unless of course its really a performative bit of wordplay to look like you're punishing migrants and throwing red meat to the far right?

Worthwhile a listen - good honesty about the state of the Labour Party by ‪@labourlewis.bsky.social

Worth a try... secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

www.frieze.com/article/kaya... Creative resistance - nurturing creativity and political solidarity in Erdoğan’s Turkey

Nice closeup of @squidgerugby.bsky.social on Sky just now - hope you’re enjoying the match mate!

Man cave back up and running after a major sort out…

Price of eggs in US is extortionate... shop.whitehousehistory.org/collections/...

Fixed it...

It's one of the greatest things I have ever seen.

What a frustrating #PoliticsLive that must have been for @pimlicat.bsky.social - Tominey refusing to let anyone get a word in - particularly on anything to do with benefits payments and Israel's breaking of the cease fire - certainly annoying from a viewer's perspective

Seems DOGE can’t account properly for their headline grabbing savings…

How Spain’s economy soared by embracing immigration and renewable energy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

He’s anti-democracy: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing Musk. ‘ “They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as Rage (retire all government employees).”

“the neo-reactionary movement advocates a form of “techno-monarchism” where the CEO-ruler uses “data systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced algorithms to manage the state, monitor citizens, and implement policies.”

This is utterly crazy and scary in equal measure…

Not entirely convinced that attending the inauguration as a "Canadian Mountie" was the way to go today Sue...

Embassies have a tradition of sending their contacts a little gift at Christmas/New Year. Often it’s a delicacy from their country (as a post-Soviet space specialist I get a lot of interesting vodka). This year the US Mission slapped a stars & stripes flag sticker on a bar of Belgian chocolate.

Labour could and should be doing much more. But the UK’s deep economic malaise can’t be fixed in a period of months Short-termism is a huge problem that results in quick-fixes and silly decisions that will make things even worse (i.e more cuts)

Bet Labour wish they hadn’t been so dismissive of PR now…

Yummy...

"Like a self-driving car that will eventually crash and go up in flames" - can recommend this edition of @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social 's Origin Story. Elon's timeline to becoming Trump's' IT shadow' is well worth a listen... www.patreon.com/posts/elon-m...

Merry Christmas folks

The richest man on the planet could probably solve child cancer himself using less money than he burned destroying Twitter. Instead, he used his influence to strip $190 million from the budget for pediatric cancer research. What a fucking asshole.

Question Time tonight - Green MP viewed far more warmly that Reynolds, Stanley and the Tory MP