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If you put waterfalls in your game and there are no caves behind any of them, your game is instantly worse than it could have been I don't make the rules

Black people up to 48 times more likely to be stopped and searched in richest areas of London Research found extreme disproportion in use of police power in districts such as Richmond-upon-Thames via @vikramdodd.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Can we talk about Epstein now?

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

"the ceasefire in Gaza.. was a diplomatic sham, a tool to make sure that Gaza slipped out of the headlines and for the genocide to continue under the guise of diplomacy" @yarahawari.bsky.social on the reality of the so called ceasefire 🎯

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein

Takeaway and delivery restaurants should use proper stainless steel containers and collect them, so they can be used again. If there was a national standard for the containers they could be returned to any restaurant, or even supermarkets, for recycling.

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FB recently altered their algorithm to promote conflict by boosting content into people's feeds they'd disagree with. The unexpected side-effect? My old page, shadow-banned & dormant since 2018, took off. Tons of trolls + sexists, yes. But also 1000x more eyes on my climate content than before 🤯

Thames Water are overcharging me due to a faulty smart meter. I noticed it when they charged for 300 litres when I was away. I flagged this to TW and they said an engineer would come in SIXTY working days. That's 3 months! They want me to keep paying my bill as normal obvs. Joke company.

Reform UK are now down on average five points in the polls from where they were six months ago

"Which is remarkable" Mark Stone reports that Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has suggested American foreign policy is being dictated by Israel.

That YouGov poll yesterday: Britain's working age population 18-65: 🟢Green 26% 🟣Reform 21% 🔴Labour 16% 🟠Lib Dem 14% 🔵Tories 13% Britain's retired population 65+: 🟣Reform 33% 🔵Tories 26% 🔴Labour 15% 🟠Lib Dem 14% 🟢Green 6%

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse. 1/2

Genuinely shocking

15 US military aircraft have left the Rota and Morón air bases after Spain refused to allow them to be used for operations related to Iran, Reuters reports.

This is the reason the culture wars exist.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE! On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules. Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel. If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

"Let's be blunt. Let's be brutally honest with ourselves. When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them, what were you thinking? You look at yourself and ask, what were we doing?" Keir?

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

Labour MP Andy McDonald: "The party has to come to terms with the reality that factionalism fails the party and more importantly fails the country... "It is the political approach of the Prime Minister, his former chief of staff, and of Labour Together, which has cost Labour this safe seat".

GNU Rob Grant. 💔

It’s been a long, slow, dirty road. So glad to see this happen.

This is a massive scandal. Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them. How can this even be legal?

The Labour Party seem happy to lie and deceive voters in order to win the Gorton and Denton by election. They currently have an effective working majority of 168 😐

In Gorton and Denton, vote for Hannah Spencer & the Greens. There is only one way we will defeat Reform: by working together.

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

How does he sleep at night?

For comparison, this is more internally displaced people than Niger or Mali.

I’m more interested in the State of Gorton and Denton, if anyone can tell me about that?

Start your Tuesday cheerful with this evidence of the life-changing work of @londoncentric.media. Incredible stuff.

ITVs John Irvine went into Gaza with the IDF He tells viewers the peace is imperfect (no mention of the 600+ Palestinians killed by Israel & the near daily attacks by the IDF) & the IDF remains "alert", implying its Palestinians who are responsible Shameful reporting.

Our latest tactical voting advice to stop Reform: stopreformuk.vote/parl/gorton-... Parliamentary by-election 26th Feb 2026 🟢 Gorton & Denton = GREEN #Manchester #ByElection

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Master! They’ve ARRESTED the Dark Lord! They’ve done fucking what? Yup, Mandleson is behind bars Wormtongue you bastard. DON’T do that to me!

The role of Musk's X in the 2020s is remarkably similar to that of Rothermere's Daily Mail in the 1920s and 1930s. It pushed a narrative which claimed we were being "swamped" by "aliens" (mostly meaning Jews), undermining British interests and values, threatening "our" women and children ...

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

Woken up to lots of unhappy messages about us keeping on this story Sorry but if a political org - run by a now Minister - hires private intel to smear journalists then takes these baseless smears to security services, I will investigate it. And keep investigating until accountability happens

Watching the livestreams of the fascist march in manchester today and it's pretty disgusting. The greater manchester police have pretty routinely facilitated these fuckers in feeling emboldened for months, targeting asylum hotels in the wider area. Today they're here in numbers to press forward.

Do they though

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology