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Conservative Party Conference Ventriloquist Act Goes Down Well … “Gottle of Geer” “Gottle of Geer” “Who’s a racist boy then?”

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... an excellent contemporary telling of Wakefield

www.bmj.com/content/391/... Pay for performance might embed inequalities V v much so Care needed in design

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Not one word of this is written as justification for the war between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas. The people of Gaza have suffered beyond imagination horrified by the decisions of the Israeli government … Hamas is not some benign agent of resistance www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

You couldn’t make this 💩 up Goody bag chocolate mis-spelling “Britain” They missed a trick NOT having CVs with Dr Badenoch’s fake Stanford University offer So few Tories there + she’s lied about it so often they could have had an original each www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Conservative Party Sentence Completion: It’s not that Honest Bob *unlawful by reason of apparent bias* Jenrick is racist but … In a functioning democracy Honest Bob would be barred from standing for public office because … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Excellent (short) piece about the difference between experiencing only good feelings, and developing the capacity to experience all feelings. And helping our children to do the same.

Speaking at a fringe event at Tory conference, Andy Burnham says Manchester was the place for “24 hour party people until Downing Street took that crown off us during the pandemic”

CBI welcomes Tory shadow chancellor's calls for fiscal prudence but adds: “Business will however be concerned by reactionary proposals to scrap key pieces of legislation, like the Climate Change Act, that have done much to boost confidence and underpin investment in high growth sectors."

🧪🏺 "My work takes up the theoretical challenge first posed fifty years ago that reliance on agriculture is responsible for a Neolithic increase in disease" Brenna is one of the most modest AND most sharp scholars I know - this project will be fantastic!

Most village cricket matches would attract a bigger crowd that the Tory conference rally for the countryside* *ministerial replacement conference speech service

My inner bibliophile is doing the happy dance. Got this gorgeous bunch of items from the @terrypratchett.bsky.social kickstarter project. The graphic novel is beautiful and @colleendoran.bsky.social has outdone herself!

I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.

This evening, at 19:00, I'm delivering Christian Aid's Annual Lecture, 'Directing Economic Growth: A Common Good Approach’. I’ll explore how govts can combat our interconnected challenges on climate, health & biodiversity, if informed by a new economics of the common good. caid.org.uk/AnnualLecture

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Something significant people might have missed on Nathan Gill’s indictment for bribery… “conspired with Oleg Voloshyn, and with others” Maybe sentencing in November will make this clearer www.spotlightcorruption.org/wp-content/u...

I'm, at NYCC this weekend at Artist Alley Booth I-01, at the front of Artist Alley! A recent commission, watercolor with ink and shell gold. The commissioner wanted me to dream up a “sandman Universe” version of Poison Ivy, so I imagined her as a fairy tale like denizen of Queen Titania’s court!

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✊🏻 Gary Neville www.theguardian.com/football/202...

👀 This 👇🏻

Sorry I keep talking about this but I’m genuinely alarmed by the growing narrative that poverty is a cause of racism. First it’s super insulting of people on low incomes. Second it normalises & excuses racist takes. And third it deters real action on racism by shifting the whole focus to economics.

“Don’t give up” Impossible not to be moved by Jane Goodall’s gentle words of encouragement here (and she was right about gathering all the worst monsters on this earth and shooting them into space on one of Musk’s rockets) From ‘Famous Last Words’ on Netflix

Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH

Power corrupts?

Shabana Mahmood in 2014 via X (x.com/ShabanaMahmo...):

🚨BREAKING Dr Badenoch announces Conservatives to negotiate new treaty with Mordor … details to follow … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

www.nytimes.com/athletic/668... Pep Guardiola voices support for pro-Gazan demonstration in Barcelona: ‘We are witnessing a live genocide’

👀 “too heavy for me to bear” Husamettin Dogan, 44…sentenced to nine years in prison for raping Pelicot, has appealed against his conviction Dogan told the first trial…he thought it was just a game. “I’m not a rapist, that’s too heavy for me to bear,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Bravo.

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists." The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

“his role as shadow housing secretary, may raise eyebrows …” Or, it might if he wasn’t Chair of the Tory party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🖤 Missed that Danny Thompson died 10 days ago … For that and for many other good reasons, today might be a day to listen to his performance at Transatlantic Sessions accompanying John Martyn: I Don’t Want To Know About Evil ✊🏻🖤 youtu.be/WuCqlrLpHwE

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👀 The Hack? ✍🏼 the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

🚨Labour double down on flags* policy 🏳️ Waving White (of course) Flags to racists 🏳️ on a daily basis (BNWT 🚩 to be sold off on Vinted) * all Made in China™️ obviously www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

👀 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ being 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ are brilliant

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

The Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, in his conference speech promises the Labour government will introduce laws to completely ban fracking permanently. "It will not create long term sustainable job." "It will not take a penny off bills." "It is dangerous and will trash our climate commitments."

Jane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.

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Q. Nigel Farage: what are schoolboy racism claims – and why have they resurfaced? A. Ooh. Is it he was racist as a (public) schoolboy and to the surprise of absolutely nobody he’s still a racist now? Or not? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I would like to see Matthew Goodwin walk up to Maro Itoje and tell him he’s not English

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

👀👇🏻 Wes Streeting may be correct that the Chancellor won’t add VAT to private healthcare bills It isn’t for other ministers to make announcements on tax The Treasury reserves this right for themselves Private health is parasitic and needs urgent treatment www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...