"Ordinary Britons" don't go to Nazi rallies

Agreed, if a party has a candidate that resigns within 30 days of winning a local election then their party should be fined the cost of running the by-election to replace them. They put up the candidates so they should bear the responsibility if they aren't serious about the role.

Excellent.

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

Why do we have to tolerate such unadulterated bollox from this hideous man? And why does the media give it all a veneer of potential respectability? Farage is pathologically corrupt and obscenely greedy. He’s a national security threat, a liar and a racist. Just say so. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Now we are six. Happy Birthday to Mabel. The force is strong with this one. ❤️🐾

The May is out! 🐇🐇

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On chapter 4 of the new Hawthorne book by @anthonyhorowitz.com and I just have to slow down… I LOVE these books, and this one has started so well. Excellent jokes and lots of Hawthorne already. I’ve got to pace myself or it’ll be over too soon. What a treat. Thanks ‘Tony’ ❤️

Exciting news for The Dipping House! 📣 We have been awarded £150,000 from Arts Council England’s Creative Foundations Fund! The funding will support essential improvements to The Dipping House, our atmospheric found space venue on the former Spode Factory Site.

The success of The Dipping House has been driven by a close partnership between Claybody Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, @artscouncilengland.bsky.social and the local community. Thank you to all who continue to support this important cultural venue! We can't wait to share more soon...

Iran could make the unconditional release of the Epstein files a requirement of the ceasefire.

Operation Recall: A Reminder This Easter Weekend The countryside might look like the perfect playground but for farmers and wildlife, it’s a delicate and busy season. Be the kind of dog owner others respect and use a lead around livestock, other animals and wildlife. #OperationRecall

This is an extraordinary front page for a British newspaper to run. Donald Trump’s delinquency, derangement & imperilling of international security is somehow a stick with which to beat our own Prime Minister, who has negotiated the current horror show rather well. It is actually sickening.

This may well be the most wholesome news on the internet today. All is not yet lost.

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate

Working visit with Mabel to the Yorkshire coast (our favourite) with early morning walks on Cayton Bay, a seal spotted in Scarborough harbour and a super hagstone - great find!

Working visit with Mabel to the Yorkshire coast (our favourite) with early morning walks on Cayton Bay, a seal spotted in Scarborough harbour and a super hagstone - great find!

This poor man. A terrible injustice to the end. How do those responsible sleep at night?

Well, if this isn’t the most wholesome thing you see today, I envy you! Someone at CBeebies give this kid a show

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood shifts government language from addressing legitimate concerns to "legitimate grievances" and the legitimacy of "resentment" of asylum seekers & spending She does contrast this with a view she will exclude as illegitimate, which is "hating everyone who is not white"

Chris fukking Mason repeating the racists' "what is known as family voting" NO. It is not "known as" anything, it is a phrase invented yesterday to say "foreigners, but we can't say that"

anyone familiar with British politics will know that any news that isn't entirely negative will be closely followed by a sustained bombardment of misery that will make you want to fucking die. but currently it's Friday, it's payday, and the fascists have lost

It’s a bittersweet victory - the victory of a progressive, left wing candidate tempered by having to hear what Chris Mason thinks about it.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Rehearsal chaos incoming 👀 Five actors. Multiple roles. Maximum mayhem. We're having the best time in rehearsals for The Grand Babylon Hotel! The Dipping House now has a waiting list for every show, but you can still see us on tour: www.claybodytheatre.com/tickets/tour... 📽️ by Andrew Billington

Excellent. 👌

In honour of the woman who, more than anyone, is responsible for this moment of transparency with the #EpsteinFiles, we're removing the paywall from this profile 🟨‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/v...

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Imagine if Keir Starmer’s name was in the Epstein files. But no it’s Farage’s. So nothing to see here.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Both Penguin and President appear to be lost.

If you: 1. Need to get guests to studios, and back home after, or 2. Need to get staff safely into work or back home after the tube has stopped running You need to use taxis or private hire. If you do that via contract, it’s cheaper than paying full price each time.

Mabel and the moon. Our morning walk today - phot can’t capture the beauty of the low setting moon. It was a stunner. #Staffordshire

Staffordshire Solstice.

Politicians wringing their hands over why teachers are leaving the profession. The truth is, we'd get more people staying in teaching if our various Governments understood that the real purpose of education is *not* to build a compliant workforce, but a society of well-rounded individuals...

And those who had rather die than live in war-torn, famine riven, or repressive countries had better “do it! and decrease the surplus population!”

Strong agree. Get out of your own way. The story happens in the mind of the reader anyway.

Lunchtime dog walk listening sorted!* *I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻

Entertaining Mr Bennett, a FREE film at the Dudson Centre, Hope street, Hanley. 6th December. A compilation of archive films and recodings of things Bennett found entertaining and sometimes used in his writing. Famous stars he knew at the SAVOY HOTEL.

Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime. It is not justified, period. I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.

I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.

Is it just people who have an arts background and move into politics that are considered to have failed? Or is it applied equally to all politicians - failed lawyers, failed investment bankers, failed landlords etc.

Nothing says keep the BBC more strongly than Farage, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu saying it should go.

Somewhat archaic use of the word ‘overlooks’ also… unless they were implying something else? Or perhaps a new definition of the word entirely - one that means ‘showing up and paying respect’?

If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....

Excellent. I hope so!