How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

Today: 5 lessons, dashing home for HA webinar to find road home blocked, dashing back to work to do webinar, dashing home from work for bedtime, Pilates, Morrisons for groceries, eat my dinner, sit down to Slow Horses and then there’s a power cut affecting the whole area. Thank god for nice candles.

Is there a primary teacher still up and not attending my webinar who has a spare 10 minutes please?!

Completely normal country where I wake up every day and see some polling asking people whether or not I should be allowed to live here and and exactly how much of a scourge to society I am. Very cool. I feel great, actually.

I've no other way of putting this than fuck right off. What the ever loving hell is this? The "autism problem" Please yeet yourself into the sun post haste. Trump's diatribe was rooted in eugenic conspiracy theories aimed at eliminating autistic individuals, like myself. Fuck right off.

A crying shame that Ryan isn’t on Bluesky so that we can make sure he reads this so he can see that no one has an iPad… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We have always been at war with Tylenol

I have songs from KPop Demon Hunters in my head so often that I’m pretty sure the movie was telling us the truth the whole time and demons are in fact possessing me.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

For anyone who isn’t aware of the issues that women face in healthcare and being taken seriously, I am currently crippled from ovulation pain, unable to walk due to pain in my lower back and numbness in my leg, but now that going to a doctor is just going to be a waste of time.

Next Monday begins my webinar series focusing on disciplinary concepts in primary history. @histassoc.bsky.social #teaching #history www.history.org.uk/primary/cate...

With thanks @harpercollins.bsky.social , we have a copy of How I Cook by Ben Lippett to give away with one of our 12" Prospector pans. Follow us, share this post and then find entry details here www.netherton-foundry.co.uk/competitions

Have I missed something about US television? Why is it that people on Fox News can do and say whatever they like but Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled? I mean last I checked he didn’t say anything like homeless people should be killed…

Sitting well behaved children beside children who struggle with behaviour might seem like it’s helping you, but please think about the effect on those children. Signed, a parent who is getting a bit fed up of her child being used as a behaviour management tool.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Free speech only applies when you’re a right wing media personality being racist, misogynistic and homophobic. This is absolutely terrifying. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

On the merits of debate in general: I urge you to note that Suzanne does not care at all whether any of this is real or what she’s saying about it is accurate. She’s having a whale of a time in her mind, her editors are happy to let her run riot and her colleagues don’t give a fuck, at very best.

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Completed the MacMillan Mighty Hike on the Northumberland coast. Absolutely stunning scenery and raising money for a great cause.

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

🚨 Large far-right demo in central London today, organised by Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) under the banner Unite the Kingdom. HOPE not hate will be monitoring closely. Follow this thread for updates throughout the day.

@skynewsrss.bsky.social You know that his name is not Tommy Robinson. You know that he is a convicted racist grifter, not a political leader. Stop covering this far-right rally as if it is a political event. Stop normalising racism.

I have to say that I would absolutely hate having to read like this. Would love to see the evidence to back this up rather than sheer compliance and control.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Also. FAO Daily Telegraph: this is the Penshaw Monument, not the Pembroke Monument. Penshaw is in the North East of England. Pembroke is in West Wales. They’re about 350 miles apart.

The front page of the Sun was running with the "a trans person killed Charlie Kirk" nonsense. I somehow feel that they won't be running a front page contraction, allowing yer da to continue on in this delusion.

Everyone should be held to the same standards.

Anyway, away from the very depressing news cycle, I am hiking a half marathon on Sunday in what looks to be thunder and lightning for MacMillan Cancer Support. If you can donate anything at all it would be greatly appreciated! www.justgiving.com/page/newmins...

So now that it’s confirmed that none of the messages on the bullets were pro-trans, maybe we should have a national conversation about how multiple newspapers repeated a lie about us on their front pages hours after doubts had already been cast over it?

I assume since the killer was a white man from the USA he had mental health issues and it’s not domestic terrorism, or is that only the excuse when it’s school children attacked?

Yesterday I deleted someone from Facebook who declared that CK was a vessel of God. Frankly I wouldn’t want to know that god.

Charlie Kirk was not a “free speech activist” and any outlet that tells you he was is lying to you. He wanted unlimited freedom for himself and as little as possible for the people he hated, ie anyone who wasn’t a white male conservative. His values were trash

This. The wall to wall coverage like this wasn’t someone who spreading hatred, misogyny, misinformation and targeting his videos at teenage boys especially. Be appalled at the violent act but don’t pretend that he was something he wasn’t.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

My daughter got a Blue Peter badge today and is absolutely buzzing! And I’m very excited for the free entry to lots of places for her 🤣

For the past 5 years I’ve been working with Kirstie (my fave online bookseller @foxlanebooks.bsky.social) to do signed & personally dedicated copies of my books! If you’d like one as a gift for a loved one, or for yourself, just contact Kirstie

Hey #historyteacher can you help me decorate my department's classrooms? if anyone has any migration timeline wall displays to share that would be magnificent! Or displays showing key individuals related to migration (KS3 or KS4)?

On Sunday I am taking part in the Mighty Hike, a half marathon hike along with some colleagues. Any sponsorship is greatly appreciated! www.justgiving.com/page/newmins...

There were no education events at Reform conference. Their only policies appear to be giving private schools their tax breaks back and changing the history curriculum to trumpet the benefits of empire.

And I am done. Idiots. Cowards. Complete bunch of charlatans.

Trying to nap but being woken up by the Red Arrows #newcastleproblems

Customer feedback this week; ‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’ Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.

Incredibly poor customer service from @britishgashq.bsky.social Been told I am £7,000 in debt despite being in credit in December of 2024. Raised a complaint 3 months ago, which got an initial response and gone nowhere. In mean time direct debit is now £815 (x3!). Any help to escalate further?

An unrivalled talent for blowing up his life at every opportunity and making his defenders look dreadful

Just passed two young guys speaking the most incredible mishmash of Arabic and English, both spoken with a heavy Sheffield accent. I love this. I just do not understand why people feels this threatens their identity in some way. I only wish I could slip between languages as easily. #LoveSheffield

"We are the patriotic party" says Nigel Farage, who just spent the past few days slagging off his own country to a foreign superpower, while encouraging them to impose sanctions on our economy if we don't do what they say