People who use smart glasses with cameras should be called specs offenders

I'm not sure a film trailer has ever made me this anxious

Numerous UK media groups, including the BBC, wrote articles dedicated to naming and shaming a random trans woman, including posting her photograph, because she made an uncouth remark about Ann Widdlecombe getting merked. What the fuck?

Michael Gove has always been central to the escalating radicalisation of the British Right

Grotesque

Do non-migrants have any idea how *utterly terrifying* it is for those who have IDL in the UK; have built a life here, have British kids & forged a sense of love & belonging to be bombarded with news that a sizeable % of the population & government want to be able to take that away & deport us?

"Five years is too short a time to obtain the indefinite leave to remain" No, it's not. It's a long time, and 10 years is a very long time. In 10 years I've got a PhD, changed cities and jobs multiple times, got married and become British. 5 years is not a short time, and 10 is even less so.

Sex Matters says gender-critical voices are being silenced. Yet when Amnesty International UK published research critical of them, they didn't publish a rebuttal; they threatened legal action. Freedom of expression isn't a one-way street. We have responded to Sex Matters' email:

JK Rowling has used her wealth to stoke the fires of a worldwide pogrom against trans people to where she's silenced a Holocaust scholar after JK engaged in Holocaust denial & now done the same to Amnesty International for their warning about trans eradication, but keep buying your Harry Potter crap

The fact that not a single MSM outlet has reported on JK Rowling threatening Amnesty International into silence & forcing them to censor factual reporting is horrifying & shameful. There’s not been a more egregious attack on free speech & human rights in the anglosphere’s recent history

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

Like sorry but Let JKR take Amnesty International to court. Make it a thing, thats the fight, was words all they ever intended to give? If your whole thing is exposing human rights abuses, no greater platform than actually being taken to court. Let these fascist freaks actually be scrutinised

Why don't most Europeans have air conditioning? Dumb? Woke? No - WE DID NOT NEED IT UNTIL FOSSIL FUEL BURNING CAUSED THE CLIMATE CRISIS More info 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...

12 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected extreme right-wing terror plot against an Islamic gathering in Suffolk The UK Ijtima, which hosted 15,000 Muslims for a programme of talks and discussions, was closed and evacuated by police on Sunday

Starmer's nature plan is pathetic. Burnham must do better. I've written about the government's '30by30 Delivery Plan', out today, which isn't a plan & won't deliver 30by30. I suggest some policies Burnham should pursue instead, amidst Blackadder gifs: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/starmers-n... 1/🧵

treating the natural world, which we depend on for our entire existence, as an afterthought! in the year of our lord 2026!

Meta Glasses: • expensive • impractical • people may judge telling your peers you have visited The Museum of English Rural Life: • free • highly ergonomic • people will instantly fall in love with you

abolish the Home Office

Berlin

Amnesty is a globally respected human rights charity that once won a Nobel Peace Prize and campaigns against, among other things, torture, the death penalty and unfair trials, yet on exposing the GC movement’s anti-rights approach to trans people, suddenly they’re making it up and not to be trusted.

Fair play, very funny thing to say in defence of a party whose primary campaigning strategy is to wait for a horrific tragedy to befall a town, community or even individual family, and then roll up and go, "We sure hope nobody burns down a mosque over this—though we'd sure understand if they did!"

It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.

When will Labour apologize to all the climate protestors it ignored or imprisoned?

I, a human, wrote and drew this cartoon with my human body and sent it to human art printers who printed it with their human hands and you a human (?) can now buy a ltd edition print of it in my shop! Link in bio

oops I just accidentally booked tickets for the last night of ezra collective tour 😳

As of today, Henry, the author of this essay, is on Bluesky, so give him a follow: @henryfudgeofficial.bsky.social

Dawn Foster forever

Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zoiks, Scoob! I guess it turns that tribune of the working man Nigel Farage - who addresses the most legitimate concerns of the average punter - was just a wealthy stockbroker with ugly fash politics, whom takes enormous crooked bungs, wearing a mask

this coming out the same day a bunch of men are bellyaching about how everyone needs a pristine dating history to be in congress now should tell you something thehill.com/homenews/hou...

We asked the party leaders to speculate on what Farage's 2PM speech could entail Andy Burnham: Well, I- Keir Starmer: Fuck off Andy, you're not in charge yet Ed Davey: Hopefully he resigns Kemi Badenoch: My best friend was killed by a Sega Mega Drive

i'm sorry what

Well there goes NATO, totally worth it 🥰

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

If a bit of mild Noticing Things that were already known is enough to drive him apeshit, could we have Noticed them before he e.g. deliberately created a large number of inflammatory racist panics?

just catching up with a really good briefing to the scottish parliament about university finances - every word of this applies south of the border

I picked up a 1975 oscilloscope to make cool visuals with and holy shit it is so sick 😍

Louis CK - cancelled just because of his words - oh no - hang on , for his wanking in front of unsuspecting young women - meanwhile, Chapelle’s work that led to the false notion of cancellation was on NETFLIX in the first place, you nasty bullying hypocritical rag

You know the Douglas Adams bit where you would die if confronted with your smallness in the scope of the universe? That’s how it feels to be a western-trained academic at an Asian scholarly conference in 2026. This is not an anxious point at all, just an observation. Western theory is out of juice

My point isn’t to fear it or embrace it, just that it is wild how unaware western trained academics are of our increasing provincialism in the greater world of scholarship. The days of non western academics needing to dutifully cite critical theory are long gone.

reminder that despite valiant efforts and alternative proposals, the University of Essex now only offers Spanish & French to new students — cutting German, Portuguese and Italian + our all non-credit language classes many of our students are local & many are the first in their families to go to uni

Going from “Getting caught setting private investigators on the Sunday Times and trying to report them as Russian stooges”, to “inexplicably pardoned then given a Times column to knife his pals and promote a new PM” and then “oh wow, uh, Head of government policy unit” is quite the career path.

NOT GUILTY Another seven Just Stop Oil supporters acquitted after slow march. When juries hear the motivations for peaceful protests, that motivation being to save lives, they find defendants not-guilty. This is why juries matter. It’s common sense! juststopoil.org/2026/07/03/a...

I am an absolutely huge fan of the guy who publishes our local travel newsletter travelloglewes.co.uk

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Huge respect to the bravery of E. Jean Carroll. Trump is a rapist and his quislings deserve a lifetime of scorn.