Robert Jedrick was Minister for Immigration.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

“Apparently he’s since decided to head further into Essex and film The Witham Man”

“Apparently they’d been looking for LIDL Bo Peep…”

We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

Hard to tell if this is an Epstein reaction or a cut scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

“Apparently their Government’s warned that the lack of flights is driving them Caracas”

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

However MAGA chooses to explain this away will be one of the most extreme examples of cognitive dissonance theory in the history of ever.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

“Learners have been warned they could soon end up failing with a Major…”

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home". "What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.

I don't think a doctor or nurse coming here to work in the NHS (for example) needs to be able to discuss the theme of futility in Heart of Darkness. Which was my A-level English question.

History repeats.

youtu.be/bSYZSFiLKJY?... RIP #patriciaroutledge

Patients deserve safe & quick access to their GP Any economics student will explain if you need quick + safe, it won’t be cheap But GP costs under £140 per pt per year - less than your pet insurance Less than the cost of 🍎 a day! & we know continuity of care saves lives 7/x

We lack the resources, capacity and capabilities to meet the needs of our patients if we can’t switch off online requests when we are full Not to mention mandating we MUST contact the patient THAT SAME DAY no matter how many patients contact us 🤯 Not safe 6/x

Not just opinion of @BMA_GP but also @theHSSIB I wonder what @CQCProf & @gmcuk think? This break’s Jess’ Rule 5/x

On average 88.9 submissions per 1,000 patients in August 2025 The range = 0 to 884.8 online consults, per day, per practice Why do @NHSEngland @DHSCgovuk insist on treating all practices the same? Why can’t we temporarily pause online when we are full? This is not safe 4/x

According to this data 💥5,967 (over 96%) of practices in England have at least one online consultation system   💥5.1 million patient online submissions occurred in August 💥3.5 million clinical, the rest admin (For context every A&E nationwide offers 67,000/day) 3/x

And guess what? @NHSEngland own data from August: I’ve just found the following dataset: digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor… “Submissions via Online Consultation Systems in General Practice, August 2025” Well well well… 🕵️‍♀️   2/x

If @wesstreeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital We are the science museum! ➡️Electronic records since 1991 ➡️Online triage ➡️Ambient scribes ➡️SMS ➡️Online bookings ➡️Electronic prescribing ➡️Online referrals ➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown…. 1/x

Absolutely. Might want to trust us on lots of other stuff, too.

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

What would it have cost to say, "Free speech is our right in the UK, but I cannot support any march led by a man whose bigotry is a matter of clear public record, and this country is for everyone."

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

#00sTop30 7: Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós (2005) youtu.be/JAYb8ZyjzD0?...

Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.

🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy. Slava Ukraini!

This about covers it.

Every piece I read about a spouse losing their partner to ICE but remaining MAGA, I remember that Trump’s trick was making Scientology affordable. Something to believe in, something to hate, no barrier to entry.

This is absolutely key to what's happening. The soft left fought hard to keep its house in order and to defend its values in the Corbyn era. But the soft right has basically completely collapsed, organisationally and ideologically.

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

Hugh Muir recalls the response of London Mayor Ken Livingstone to 7/7 from Singapore. I agree that, despite his flaws & failings at other times, that this was an important message www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ironically this isn't even the first time this has happened *with Personal Independence Payment*. George Osborne insisted that PIP should replace DLA with the goal of saving 20% of DLA costs (in fact costs went up).

The country of free speech

Thank you @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social for your thoughtful, calm, compassionate articulation of the argument for assisted dying to be a legalised human right in this country. I was very moved by the outcome of this vote - to reduce suffering at the very end of life for those who choose it.

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

This is vitally important, and deeply concerning.