Just fyi if you’re writing your news copy in response to Reform’s policy to throw legal citizens out of the country and you highlight it covering « migrants with the right to apply for things like benefits » you’re not reporting impartially

Already bracing myself for every political journalist trying to find a reform supporter in Liverpool next weekend purely so they can bash Labour with it in this « Labour stronghold »

Liverpool Almanac what’s on guide for the end of September. This is a curated guide with a few things to do that might not be on your radar open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...

I’m going, because I find it profoundly damaging to my mh, to step away from incessant comment for a few days. But if you look around your family, friends and colleagues and it is profoundly white, and you‘re also surprised by an apparent sudden rise of outspoken racism, widen your circles

Usyk is in Liverpool. Or at least he was five minutes ago at the World Boxing. He can easily be in Manchester by now. And I saw him and nearly cried

Fascists don’t believe in elected government. Still my astonished nerves

Genuinely, guys, I think we’ve got to turn the internet off

I rarely agree with Jonathan Jones (not like he’s arsed obviously) but this is bang on the money. Having said that a stunning programme could turn perception around in months www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

It’s been a long week. I’ve just accidentally played Vienna by Ultravox incredibly loud in my headphones and honestly I think it’s made things better

This by @hypnogoria.bsky.social is just delightful jimmoon.substack.com/p/the-devil-...

There’s a really good piece in the current New Yorker about the culture and importance of fact-checking. It is a culture and a behaviour that is rooted into the values of the media organisations that set their brand by it. It’s both outside and embedded within editorial and it makes everyone better

You don’t have to watch everything. You don’t have to see every piece of footage

Maybe Trump and Mandelson can blackmail each other

My MP. If Labour just wants to talk about Cuba and nothing else she's perfect

Jesus I wouldn’t be deputy leader of the Labour Party for a gold clock. Not that anyone is asking me to be

The normalisation of racism and deeply racist rhetoric isn’t just being facilitated but being amplified by white people in positions of power and authority who says it’s censorious to stop it. The truth is they don’t know (or care) about the impact it’s having

I was searching for a health thing a couple of weeks ago (don’t pretend you don’t google symptoms even though you know it’s insane) and one of the AI results was from a health centre actively lobbying against a specific female treatment. So that felt great and not at all worrying

This week has been a really good reminder to working class women of where you sit in this country

Working class people (not just politicians) are held to higher moral standards because they have fewer people with real power who can speak up for them and cause sway. It’s literally why collective action is so vital

The right wing hysteria on Angela Raynor is a classic British blend of classicism and misogyny. No, she doesn’t have tax advisors that have advised her family for a generation. No she wasn’t born into money so knows “how these things work”. No she doesn’t farm responsibility for her kid to others

A friend appearing on In Our Time was very much a highlight in our decades long palship. No word on the production team being maintained? Always good for a degree of continuity of the senior producer stays in place

My whole TikTok feed is Josh Homme and KJH brand makeup tutorials and I think I might have cracked TikTok

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

I’m re-watching Buffy on Disney (hi, kids) and the adverts for princesses in between carnage is so on brand for 90s nihilism I feel like it’s deliberate

Jesus can a woman not just be fecking happy?

There’s a hyper local argument on 5Live this morning about police provision on the Isle of Wight and I really miss local radio phone ins. They used to be the most wonderful thing. You haven’t lived until you’ve listened to two women argue about who puts the bins out on a side road

FOI everything, targeted adverts (online and offline) of your headlines telling the truth about the council so you know it’s reaching the audience, make it a campaign

I think that if we understand this whole thing as one perpetual, rolling fight to impose impunity for what these people did last week, what they’re doing today and what they might want to do one week from now, then that would not be far off the mark.

Another retail fraud story where you kind of think one of the biggest fixes might be having human being on tills as opposed to self checkout machines

Everton’s new ground looks epic. I’m very much looking forward to seeing it. It’s actively changing the landscape of the city (in a good way I think) and prodding at its limitations (the job of culture). Having said that when Salah scores there I’ll do a special dance and flip everyone the V’s

At some point the tools of the state have to recognise that politics has moved further to the right and that the fine balance they say they’re walking is a long way away from where it was even five years ago

Agriculture and farming is 0.6% of the UK GVA Creative Industries 5.7% of UK GVA Imagine if artists had the same amount of air time as farmers and that their voting intentions were taken as seriously

The joke I was going to quote skeet this with is a) possibly prohibited under an injunction and b) defo treason

Well holy shit. Was that even fifty seconds, Itauma???

It’s rare that I use Kirkby as an adjective but Nick Ball’s fighting style is incredibly Kirkby

A lot of people out in Liverpool have peaked too early this afternoon

The nursery over the road is having a really loud summer party that started at ten thirty. Gin, anyone?

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Virgin Media is run by Evertonians

Always feel a bit weird first game of the season when there’s amazing new players in the team. Like a group of cool kids have started at school and I don’t know where to sit in the canteen anymore

Deeply bored of how people who know nothing about boxing write about boxing. They always think boxing isn’t doing well if they don’t have a heavyweight. Deeply tedious. Boxing is in one of the best states it’s been in and the through line of talent is astonishing

Protect my Scouse prinny at all costs

The strength of these families is actually quite humbling

I’ve had a swim where an older white guy in his sixties slowly swam backstroke while eyeballing me, another splashed about and stayed in the middle of the lane, only moving for men, and walking home in the park another played classic rock with no headphones. Fam, kids are not the problem

If anyone knows how to stop this fecking thing coming up every time I fecking click on anything in Google fecking Drive I'd appreciate it

Dead Ink Books launches Outsider Classics republishing forgotten masterpieces and once-censored provocations to open the debate about the canon - who gets to create it, who gets excluded from it – and show that it is a malleable and changeable thing. @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Brilliant.

If Starmer’s idea is to foster racism to be able to turn round in four’s years time and warn people that the only people who can stop racism is Labour, then he’s not just an idiot he’s a dangerous idiot

It’s 30 degrees. If you’re getting public transport put deodorant on. Honestly when I rule the world this will be a ten year prison sentence, no parole

Cos nothing makes any woman feel safer than *checks notes* racists saying they’re just there to protect them My hijab wearing friends will feel so safe with these men looking out for them

Move everyone to the right to target a far right threat and you get a far right wannabe on the front of a newspaper using the same kind of language that got brown and black men literally lynched. But no, yeah, calling them far right is the problem