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When radio became popular, people worried children would sit around listening to it instead of playing outside. The same happened with TV, the internet and smartphones. But none of those stop children playing outside. Only cars do that.

UK Elections, 7 May 2026, latest in @northeastbylines.co.uk As the UK media smear machine against the Green Party Leader goes into overdrive, Zack Polanski shows his support for Newcastle northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

President Obama & Mark Hamill just delivered the most iconic May the Fourth message ever — and the dad jokes were strong with this one.😂 May the Fourth be with YOU! The Obama Presidential Center opens June 19. 💙

Nice to see that the Bone Saw Golf Tour looks like it is going to collapse. A pox on all the golfers who signed on with them.

UK government: we have the most advanced and sophisticated digital tools to protect children from online harms three kids in a trenchcoat:

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BREXITER PROMISES: ❎️ £350 a week for the NHS ❎️ Take back control of immigration ❎️ Easiest trade deals in history ❎️ Brexit dividend and sunlit uplands REMAINER WARNINGS: ✅️ Lower GDP ✅️ Lower business investment ✅️ Lower employment ✅️ Lower productivity ✅️ Higher inflation ✅️ Higher costs to the UK economy

Dangling prosecutions is not justice, it is mob-style leverage. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u...

Election Campaign Latest: Announce something unbelievably petty to stir up outrage while delighting the dregs of society, knowing that it is utterly unworkable and could never be implemented.

Most of the cruel, racist stereotypes now being propagated about Muslims and immigrants were originally crafted as antisemitic attacks on Jews. The language and sources are in some cases exactly the same. Prejudice against any minority endangers all minorities. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So essentially, it's just yet another example of Reform shitting into a tin bucket, and everybody getting excited about the noise. Labour will probably announce their own version by lunchtime tomorrow.

An exhibition of photos taken by Peter Benson around #Teesside from 1968 through to 1999, at the Heritage Gallery in Middlesbrough My latest article for @northeastbylines.co.uk Benson: Welcome to Teesside northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

One political leader made hissing noises behind his Jewish classmates; another is actually Jewish. Guess who our billionaire owned press accuses of anti-Semitism? (Hint: it's the one who wants wealth taxes.)

Fraser Nelson, it must be remembered, is part of the problem. His Spectator provided platforms for all those people who pushed Brexit and all the other racist, xenophobic and worse ideas that made Farage.

This over-blown story of a mentally ill person running amok needs a rest, but Starmer is just stirring the pot in a disgraceful attempt to recoup votes in local elections. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For £200,000 Farage will promote your company and get his councils to buy your products. Just imagine what he’d do for you if you gave him £5,000,000. Because it wouldn’t be nothing. It’s never nothing. He’s in hock to his donors and if he took power, we’d all be. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s not just that he’s a boorish, corrupt tyrant protected by unprincipled men and submissive women. He’s a serial rapist who brags about “killing Roe,” the one safety net we had against men like him. He’s an entitled cruel patriarch who belittles any woman who dares question him. We’re done.

Phew! No mention of the fact that it was a Reform supporter. That's the sort of journalism we need.

Polling good for SNP & Greens. But you still have to vote. We will not win otherwise. Do not think it's a done deal, or think one vote less won't matter. Use your two votes intelligently. Vote for a progressive, community minded government. Vote for Scotland not WM. Vote for Independence.

EXCL: Reform UK’s leading figures have repeatedly promoted new pothole-fixing machine by construction company JCB, while party received £200,000 from British digger maker @rowenamason.bsky.social reveals www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

Oligarchs and extreme wealth inequality are your real enemies. Not immigrants. Not Muslims. Not China. Not gay or trans people. Not the "War on Drugs" or "War on Terror". Billionaires are the enemy. Destroy them.

Classic moral panic. You take a problem, then inflate it, and sensationalise it beyond all reason. Meanwhile Farage has been the political face of it all - despite being the man who said that unless we left the EU... this very thing would happen. There were no migrant boats before Brexit. NONE.

Any other politician. Any other party. This would be wall to wall media scrutiny. Farage and Reform shouldn’t be able to move without this being thrown at them. Venal brokers to crypto billionaires and fossil fuel magnates. A corrupt man leading a corrupt party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My fellow Green MPs and I have written to the Foreign Secretary expressing our grave concern at the dismantling of structures needed to monitor and respond to possible violations of international law in the Middle East. This decision must be reversed.

Iran/Ukraine, what's the difference

Nazis and banjos - together at last😱 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Foreign Billionaire Christopher Harborne paid Nigel Farage £5 million to stand in Clacton. Vladimir Putin paid Reform's Welsh leader £40k. A foreign criminal paid Robert Jenrick £40k to lead the Tories. Conclusion: Reform UK are TRAITORS FOR HIRE!

Trump is such a corrupt moron. where Trump got this origin is anyone's guess. it comes from the hospitality industry.

The Times now written by your depressed auntie

We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and brown voters. The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated — it guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.

"I have already changed the law and I won't hesitate to do so again" The home secretary in response to being asked if she'll [further] restrict our right to march in support of Palestinians and against Israels genocide & our govts complicity in it

The next episode in the story of plans to cover the countryside north of Darlington with concrete and tarmac. Courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk The gang of four: How a cabal of property moguls is laying waste to the Tees Valley (Part 4) northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

So if you live in The Tees Valley your local authority has just decided to spaff away £2bn, and continue to vent 240,000 tonnes of CO2 per year into the atmosphere Stop Incineration North East (SINE) and the Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (TVERF) project northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

"Hanson bragged about receiving a Cirrus G7 plane, worth $1.5 million, and thanked...climate sceptic professor Ian Plimer for a donation of $500,000. Plimer is employed by billionaire Gina Rinehart." Truly a woman of the people. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Blast from the past there. Whatever happened to Lemon Top?😂

Trump’s FCC is moving to review Disney/ABC’s broadcast licenses all because of a late-night JOKE. If the government can yank TV licenses over political speech, NO outlet is safe. Wake up. Speak up. Fight back. This affects ALL of us. 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/Adi_WU_5cRNm...

Houchen is full of it. I wouldn't believe anything he says.

there is something genuinely clarifying and useful about this kind of stuff. they are totally hoods off and proud of it, which means we should not hesitate to describe them accordingly

Ben Houchen Teesworks jobs special: How it started

Atheism isn’t about hating stories. It is about distinguishing them from facts. More at suchanek.name/texts/atheis... #atheism

How it started

Tony Blair’s assault on the anxious, depressed and those with ADHD www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04...

Many people are aware of 27 September 1825, when George Stephenson drove Locomotion No1 from Shildon to Stockton. But less well known is the 8-mile rollercoaster train ride that preceded that famous run. The ups and downs of the Stockton & Darlington Railway northeastbylines.co.uk/region/north...

Thank you - look forward to reading it. I was thinking of using Teesside as a bad example in a U3A discussion group. Sounds like I may have a good argument, with your help 🤔

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Alright folks! Which one of you lot is gonna go crack some whips over at the TVCA? I have a feeling @raycasey.bsky.social and I are barred from applying 👀 northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...