You would think most immigrants to the UK were asylum seekers if you listen to the Media but it is less than 4%. And the housing shortage? 1945-1979 - 5,000,000 council houses built. 1980-2025 - 250,000 council houses built. That's why.

Russia won the Cold War Pt 846....🙄

Anti-racist and Watch "twitter" intersect. Glorious history thread from the ever-sartorial Derek Guy.

Great thread on who really has the rights to our roads and why language matters!

@aircanada.bsky.social Hey Air Canada folks, I registered for your Aeroplan triple points offer and booked a return trip London to Toronto last month. You only gave me normal points though... Can you send me the triple offer as confirmed please? Thank you!

Who called it the Dunning-Kruger Effect and not The Bell-End Curve

Scary when you realise the Johnny Mnemonic movie was set 4 years ago.... @greatdismal.bsky.social

I fancy doing a drawing game. Post a photo of an object from your home (keep it work safe) and I’ll turn as many as I can into quick 5-minute spaceship sketches…

Crikey! Watched "Philadelphia" for the first time since release (1993). That's a hugely powerful movie. Strewth.

Always a tweet.

Sadly trashed the wonderful Eurosport along the way....

I'm getting strong hints here....

Switch the framing: White collar wages have stagnated over the last 15 years and the inflation-driven minimum wage highlights how squeezed the middle really is. 🤷‍♂️

‘This is not a political party. It is not democratically organised and run. It is administered as a business, and volunteers are treated as employees. You will pledge your loyalty absolutely, you will not speak unless spoken to, and you will do what you are told.’ Very good interesting read

The Vatican now has an American pope. While the White House has a Russian president.

My family found a home here after fleeing the pogroms in Ukraine. This country accepted us as refugees when we had nothing except the shirts on our backs. We've seen what can happen when we don't speak up about the dangers — it's time to raise the alarm now.

For all that Reform UK insist their candidate vetting processes are now watertight, @hopenothate.org.uk don't seem to find it hard to uncover some fairly off-piste views among their ranks. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/04/30/r...

"Criminal says "What?""

Bugger

Is there a more Saturday night movie than "Critters"? "Tremors" maybe?

Oh my god the replies are gold!!!!!

Yeah nah. Time to do a Harvard then Breturn.

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Commie Old Party literally the "Reds under the bed" now. So *that's* why they swapped colours in 2000 election. 😂 Remind me which party had the witchunts and McCarthyism again?!

Always nice to see the barbican of Anglo-Saxon capitalism and never a full-throated supporter of our union, the Economist, recognising a truth long known: The European Dream is real and has been for many years. 🇪🇺 #LandOfTheFree www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Land of the Fre... Fascists.

It's fairly terrible as is the 3. They completely lost the plot after S. Sadly that's what happens when product development requirements are subordinated to the whims of one person. See falcon wing doors on X. That's when the rot set in.

And then China can drop the T-Bomb.

US economy is screwed.

Brexit was the UK's "Liberation day" both just as damaging as Trump's tariffs and just as helpful to Vlad's overall aims of weakening the West. That Labour are still held in thrall to this Brexit nonsense is astonishing. The World has changed. Move on.

It's uncanny how much Donald Trump resembles Old Biff Tannon

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform USA: Hold my beer...

We've now ended up with non-tariff barriers on our biggest trading partner and tariffs from our second biggest trading partner. I'm not sure 'benefit' is the word I'd use to describe that outcome.

They aren't "RECIPROCAL" you moron.

Oh dear. Awful take. There's always a "tweet".... bsky.app/profile/publ...

« Quand allons-nous mettre en place l’inéligibilité à vie pour tous ceux qui ont été condamnés pour des faits commis à l’occasion de leur mandat ? » ➡️ https://go.publicsenat.fr/N8m

"Politicians convicted of embezzling public funds should be banned for life" Marine Le Pen on French television network @publicsenat.fr in April 2013

Has The Times got a list of crimes that right wing politicians should be allowed to commit with impunity?

Disappeared. Quite simple. US is lost.

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

Banana Republic

Perfect analogy

The biggest financial disaster self inflicted by wealthy politicians who would be immune from the consequences. Time to rejoin in some form urgently. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

@edconway.bsky.social Just got today's Material World newsletter. Marvellous as ever on Aluminium. The former British Aluminium plant at Lochaber is epic. The diversion works are something else too. One of many such hydro wonders we built in the Highlands in the 50s-60s.

So called exoskeleton is in fact garnish

But he's still bombing hospitals and another ten cities last night.... just not power plants. Err ok. Don the Clown. Arse of the deal.

I mean fine, but it’s only because of France that the United States exists.