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So glad I turned down the gig of choosing the “Satirist of the Year Award” … [also known as “The Pinocchios”] www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust (RBET) has launched an international fundraising campaign to save the historic farm where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne and more than a quarter of his entire body of work. 🥃

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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist

That bloke who claims he’s never been racist to anybody whatever everyone who remembers him from school says, will personally sign a black shirt for you … If you pay £249 for it … So don’t go making any insinuations …

“the most openly corrupt president in American history” sues news media BBC legal advice is don’t repeat the Reith Lecture quote “most openly corrupt president in American history” Free Speech my arse He’s “the most openly corrupt president in American history” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

👀 Sensible proposal (that was part of the original plan) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴 NEW: Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny Critics say “Orwell would have enjoyed the irony” of the former Conservative minister’s appointment bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Farage COULD have said, “I said some terrible things as a teenage boy. I regret that now, I’m ashamed, and I apologise unreservedly.” He CHOSE to dismiss it as “banter in a playground” And that choice tells you everything you need to know (C/W for serious hate speech in the attached article)

So we are clear welfare spending in this country is NOT “out of control”. It’s risen very little in 10+ years. Small increase due to ageing & ill population. But benefits to working age families & children have been cut severely. Over 70% of children in poverty live in working families #Budget2025

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56 years ago today, in 1969, John Lennon returned his MBE Your Majesty, I am returning my MBE as a protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against ‘Cold Turkey’ slipping down the charts. With love. John Lennon of Bag ✊🏻♥️

Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums

🚨📣 BBC FREE SPEECH Will “the most openly corrupt president in American history” sue the BBC for censoring Rutger Bregman’s comment in the first Reith Lecture of 2025 that Donald Trump was “the most openly corrupt president in American history”? Or not? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Diary of a bloke who definitely never said anything racist to anyone, and if he ever did he didn’t say it … “No, not with intent.” … He added: “No. I have never directly, really tried to go and hurt anybody.” 🤷🏼‍♂️ “… never directly, really …” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage is, and always was, a racist.

I never said anything racist I can’t remember what I said anyway I was never a fascist I never joined an organisation [paid subs] I racially abused people but “not with intent” So, that’s clear then www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

❗️ABOLISH THE HOUSE OF LORDS 👑 ABOLISH THE MONARCHY ✊🏻 NATIONALISE THE CROWN ESTATE etc www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Is there a native English speaking writer online that would be so kind as to let me slip into their dms and help me come up with a plausible sounding 12th century euphuism for a thing?

Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the bowhead whale. n.pr/4ocq6xG

✊🏻 FREE THE 🐁🐁 & 🐀🐀❗️ … and did your Careers Officer tell you that if you worked hard and got the right exams you could could get paid to experiment on them? Me neither … www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you, Cambridge Literary Festival! I had an excellent time 💛 The next place you can catch me is a fundraiser for Birmingham Hospice this week (just a couple of tickets left): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

🚨 Chancellor hints at plans to levy high taxes on 🪁🪁 flying in Westminster as a new income stream to balance the budget … www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Raise your right hand if you agree with Nigel At a 45 degree angle www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

- Rule-breaking by politicians and their advisers undermined public confidence in decision-making and significantly increased the risk of people not sticking to the measures being put in place 2/6

Boris Johnson "should have appreciated sooner" that this was a crisis that needed "prime ministerial leadership to inject urgency into the response". www.bbc.co.uk/news/l... 3/3

"Professor Susan Michie, Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, stated that the “initial secrecy surrounding SAGE’s membership, minutes and reports” was the “main reason” for the formation of Independent SAGE." 4/4

"This was an independent group of scientists set up to monitor and assess UK strategy and to “provide open and transparent advice about public health issues relating to the Covid pandemic”." 3/4

Independent SAGE is mentioned in the report of module 2 of the UK Covid Inquiry. "Much comment and expertise existed in the public domain, with Independent SAGE (see below) being one of the most visible commentators." 1/4

Human rights are not optional: why the SAS cannot be above the law My thoughts for @aoav.bsky.social aoav.org.uk/2025/human-r...

This is CDC now directed to push disinformation -which given RFJ been empowered to remove multiple staff has been made easier to do. For the avoidance of doubt extensive studies conducted by multiple groups show NO link with Autism #HealthPolicy 🧪🧵

This is explosive stuff. Evidence that Jeffrey Epstein not only ran a child sex trafficking operation for powerful men, he also seems to have advised & supported Farage’s far right political projects in Europe and the UK, including Brexit, via Steve Bannon. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Exclusive: Reform UK is under investigation by the Information Commissioner for breaking data protection law, @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal. Reform is accused of lying to the watchdog about a complaint from a voter over receiving unsolicited communications from Nigel Farage’s party.

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👀🚨 Couldn’t-Make-It-Up-Corner Some bloke with a name from France standing in as a “presenter [sic]” for a bloke whose name is from Arabic or French Huguenots does a story about alleged criminals with foreign sounding names … www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

So @KNEECAPCEOL in Liverpool was joyous A genuine high energy, high intensity, optimistic, proper political band The venue insisted face coverings must not be worn by punters @KNEECAPCEOL’s logo is literally based on a balaclava and they were on sale at the merch stall ✊🏻🇵🇸🇮🇪

👀🚨 Rachel Reeves to Tax anti-Farage protests ‘The chancellor is also expected to introduce a “milkshake tax” in the 26 November budget by ending the exemption that milk-based drinks have from the sugar tax, which had been mooted earlier this year.’ www.theguardian.com/business/202...

👀 Nothing to see here … Just *reform 2025 ltd* HQ instructing elected local councillors to act illegally … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Note that every piece of anti-migrant propaganda I take personally. No, I’m not playing good immigrant, bad immigrant. This hate agenda is bad for ALL of us.

Consultants leading Reform UK’s spending review could now receive up to £30m after originally costing £1.4m.

👀 THIS It won’t win the government lots of support or credit But, it is definitely the right thing to do www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

After the terrible flooding in Catcliffe two years ago, we’re pushing on with the development of plans to reduce the risk in the future: www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/...

👀 Your occasional reminder that 👉🏻 Big Tobacco* are scum * see also: Alcohol; Pharma; etc … www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

👑❌🚨 Official Punctuation Alert It’s NOT: Andrew Mountbatten Windsor From now on it’s: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor But you can still call him Nonce Andrew for short www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🫵🏻👀🎥 🎬 🍿 PALESTINE 36 Annemarie Jacir on 1936–1939 Arab revolt against British colonial rule 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 A film funded by a wide range of sources from several countries (inc. BBC & National Lottery) is the Palestinian entry for Best International Feature Film at 98th Academy Awards ✊🏻🇵🇸

Liverpool complain to BBC on use of Kelvin MacKenzie to comment on journalistic standards. MacKenzie edited The Sun when it lied about 1989 Hillsborough disaster The Sun apologised … in 2004 Sun reporters aren’t allowed at Liverpool or Everton #dontbuythesun www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

the evidence overwhelmingly shows that if you simply give parents money… they will spend it on their children’s needs. so, you know, just DO that.

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