Sixth visit of the week to hospital beyond the M25 to visit a poorly parent. I hope those who have stuck up flags on the way here - and the local politicians too spineless to challenge them - have the good fortune never to need the migrants/offspring of migrants who are keeping this place going.

I would genuinely like to know who the hell in the No.10 comms team thinks: 1) that a comms strategy from 1995 was the way to do the big 'unite the country' message 2) that leading it with 'our opponents were right' was a good plan At least its in the Telegraph so no one will see it

Remembering Linda McCartney on her birthday 🎂 Paul & Mary, with self-portrait, 1969 "It is hard to reconcile her eye for liveliness with an untimely ending, just as the early deaths of some of the performers she chronicled were confounding." - William Zimmer Don't miss Martha in the background.

Our politics and media have become viciously obsessed with immigration. Farage has made sure of it. And in that obsession, they’ve all lost sight of the people they target. Fellow human beings trying to live and belong somewhere. Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity (Letter,Times)

Truly astonishing that the policies advocated here are defined as ‘hard left’. It’s basic social democracy. The right has become so extreme it now sees common sense policies as ‘hard left’. This explains the destruction of British society

"So Nationwide are just like us"

They each became involved in the progressive world, too. Bob became a major figure in the NRDC environmental group. Paul, who made it on to Nixon's enemies list, later was a part owner of The Nation magazine. They were each gracious, smart, and engaged. They entertained and enlightened.

Yes, yes you are. Stop cosplaying "legitimate concerns". When you join a far right rally, organised by well known far right leader Tommy Robinson, with a host of speakers who outright say they are far right, you are a racist. No ifs, buts or maybes. There are no excuses for being there.

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

First rule of Introvert club is there is no introvert club. Thank goodness.

@weare1of100.bsky.social Stuff by Mark! Can't wait!

Mid-morning on Sunday, after the capital's streets were full of a coked up, drunken mob and a warped, tech bro calling for regime change. Starmer's reaction...silence. The man is a nothing, vacuous, a void, he's sucked the life out government and now the country.

Something to cheer you up

Landed! Cheers Richie @weare1of100.bsky.social

@zackpolanski.bsky.social I'm in. Just joined. Onwards and upwards!

Still stunned by how quickly this got brushed aside.

“In May 2006, police in Palm Beach, Florida [filed that] Epstein should be charged with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and one count of lewd and lascivious molestation. One of the alleged victims was 14 years old. Later that month, Mandelson messaged him: ‘What’s cooking ?’”

Reminder that Kim Darroch was forced to resign as UK ambassador in Washington for telegrams being leaked that showed he was doing his job by providing his honest views but embarrassed the government. It’s inconceivably absurd to consider Mandelson’s position *more* tenable than Darroch’s was.

The first episode of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was originally broadcast on this day in 1979. This BBC2 screening was swiftly followed by a two part omnibus repeat on BBC1 during Christmas 1979

It's World Suicide Prevention Day. My mum killed herself in 2002. I know there's a feeling that words are meaningless w/out money being put into mental health but I keep thinking about something my dad said recently: that if mum had been ill in this destigmatised climate, she might have been alright

Fascinating that Mandelson (and Streeting in defending him) keep using passive language, “ever having been introduced to him”, when being introduced to him was never really the issue, it was literally becoming his best friend.

"Collectively, these people constitute a government that is absent when required and violently invasive when not." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bloody brilliant, keep it up @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Yvette and Ed under their Union Flag duvet 😱

Letters in The Times that sum up Labour’s deeply inadequate response to the perceived immigration ‘crisis’. Cruelty as policy and performative patriotism to try to pacify (rather than challenge) the frothing right wing press and the baying racist mob. It’s all just so gutless and wrong.

Yvette, I'm confused.

Medieval parents trying to make their kid get up and go to school on the first day back after the summer holiday.

L'Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni

Szoboszlai, genius at RB without the lazy arse bit

TAKE THAT SET PIECE, YOU SET PIECE TWATS

TAKE THAT SET PIECE, YOU SET PIECE TWATS

I'm receiving treatment for cancer. I was treated this morning. Every person who I interacted with, bar one, was born outside this country, including 3 Filipino nurses. This behaviour is disgusting.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

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Carragher click bait bore

That's how you win a league

Bluenoses going full plastic

and there's the attack line from here on in..... This is what Reform policy is, this is how it'll affect you..... and they're deader than yesterdays fish! It's time their policies, not their idiot supporters were held up to scrutiny, ALL DAY EVERY DAY!

FFS! The bad Bootle UKIP meff is back

🚨Read and weep, world🚨 This ⤵️ is possibly THE most accurate as most accurate description of the US in its current state and #Shitler in all his decrepit vitriolic creepiness that I’ve ever read. Below the substack of the wordsmith who created this historic truth🎯 substack.com/@oliverkorne...

THIS

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this humorous illustration of a cat herding geese on a flake of limestone. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

Morning walk

I’ve been thinking about this since I first read it this morning. It reminded me of the three trips I’ve taken by car from the East Coast to the West. I traveled cross-country in 1981, in 1990, and again in 2015. The first time, I was semi-running away just after high school, grabbing a ride…

Lieutenant Beefheart

John Oliver on Dean Cain joining ICE: "You know, there’s an old saying in Hollywood, 'If all you can get is Dean Cain, you are f*cked'." "On the plus side, no need for that guy to wear a mask because the chances of anyone recognising him are f*cking zero."

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest