If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

i wish i could have been in the room when they were brainstorming how to solve the housing crisis and someone raised their hand and said "what about 50 year mortgages?"

I went to see John Shuttleworth last night with a friend. I was bored. I don't understand the appeal.

"If convicted of upskirting, Fox faces up to two years in prison and could be placed on Sex Offenders Register. Section 66A of Sexual Offences Act 2003 relates to ‘cyberflashing’ and makes it illegal to intentionally share a sexual image of someone without their consent." metro.co.uk/2025/11/14/l...

Superb letter

The British press doesn’t mince words. 🇬🇧

The world needs is even as the universities collapse. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

That @zarahsultana.bsky.social and, by extension, @yourparty.bsky.social has signed up to the deeply misogynistic demands of 'Trans Liberation Group' is beyond stupid. The demands wipe out women's rights & legislatively, socially, personally, politically prioritise men. Images from group's website.

A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.

Please sign and share. "Fifteen penguins are trapped underground in central London, cut off from sunlight and outdoor access. SEA LIFE London Aquarium keeps them in a windowless basement, pacing under harsh artificial lights while tourists pass by." action.eko.org/a/sea-life-l...

BBC report on tribunal hearing of Darlington nurses yesterday referred to trans colleague as someone who was born male and now identifies as a woman. As close to accurate as it's been in a long time. Hopefully other editorial policies will change & there'll be no more referring to rapists as 'she'.

"[The BBC] isn't perfect, and in an ever more chaotic world full of misinformation and bad actors, it's going to make mistakes from time to time. But it's been under attack for years, by people that would love to see it fail, replaced by GB News or Fox." act.38degrees.org.uk/act/bbc-dg-o...

Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

Ok I thought no that’s not real. /

Budget better, live within your means, tighten your belt ... like people on £80 a week are told to do.

The far right and right wing media have a really easy time demonising trans people thanks to men like this. These men need to be confronted - and women need to be protected from them and defended when standing up to them. Sadly, trans rights activism currently means he's beyond reproach.

Holy crap! Please vote!!!

Is it all the hairspray and perfume?

Whoa! There must be so much more to be revealed. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....

Just throwing this out there: my teeth aren’t great because I grew up poor (they look okay now because I could afford better dental care as an adult than I had as a child), and this shit makes me feel bad about myself every fucking time I see it. Growing up poor isn’t a moral failing.

This suggestion that poverty means stupidity is pervasive and ugly. It's the wealthy Americans with perfect teeth leading it's current political shit show.

Train worker hero credited with saving lives in the Huntingdon knife attack named as Samir Zitouni.

Just watched a video of Pat Karney. I don't think I'd heard him speak before. He sounds like Grumio from Plebs!

Forget Farage, Polanski, Your Party. If I rule, I'll ban fireworks.

"Class politics, not identity politics must be core of our strategy to change society. We must unite a broad movement, not divide it by presenting a purity programme made up of a long list of demands [...] rather than appeal to the whole of the working class." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stak...

I tell you what, no matter what your thoughts on Lily Allen, it's hilarious how much she's angered the tragically online misogynists. I've had fun as a result. Credit to her where it's due. 🤣

I teach students about the contradictions ever-present in women's magazines. They promote empowerment dependent on women's and girls' insecurity and consumerism. Glamour - celebrating sexist stereotypes because they're embraced by men who declare themselves women - is a perfect example. 1/2

South Park's parody of The Exorcist with Cartman vomming was brilliant.

I actually like Dallas Major on Lily Allen's new West End Girl album. I'm not just being nosey.

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Poor old Laurence Fox. At least he can pay it from his well paid acting career... Oh wait. 🤣

Impossible to comprehend how anyone thinks this is progressive: it's men smashing windows to demand access to women's single-sex spaces. Bash back targets women's hard-earned rights!

This is a really fascinating read about the guilt of documenting social wars and the need to start closer to home. "People used to write me letters, saying, “I want to be a war photographer.” I’d say: “Help yourself – it’s in your cities.”' www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Really interesting take on the Lily Allen drama/album. "Allen’s is a gold-plated contribution to a confessional economy we have all been buying into for quite some time. We beg for famous women’s secrets, only to performatively recoil once they are offered up." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Peaceful family event, aye? "One flag bore the slogan Unite the Kingdom and another sign showed support for the far right fascist political party Britain First." www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

I'd not realised how addicted I am to The Conners till I found season six on Netflix and the twitching stopped.

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

If I die please describe me as a premature victim of the exertions of my superior mind.

I find this Reach plc celebrity clickbait habit disturbing, disrespectful, downright ugly. The headline shocks but ... Du Beke was stabbed in his youth not in October '25, the Grotbags actor died in 2017, the Shadrach actor died in 2022. It's a despicable way to drive engagement imo.

Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun? Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage

Updating my LEGO White House

They really do let him get away with everything. Is he selling bits of rubble as souvenirs yet?

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

This is appalling! Bury Times journalist turned away because, it would seem, she's local. A royal Comms rep told her: "It's a tough world, I get it, but these people have come up from London." Local journalism is important ... even outside London! www.burytimes.co.uk/news/2555946...

"Nothing illustrates the cynicism of Keir Starmer’s shameless journey from human rights lawyer to war crimes apologist with greater clarity than his decision to take up the cause of the violent racists who support Israeli Maccabi football club." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/macc...

Lazy journalism/commentary infuriates me. Nick Clegg's joke 'don't bring your authentic self to work' falling flat is blamed on woke, millennial workers. Blame the bosses who promoted this inauthentic request for years! We've had decades of being encouraged to live for work. Suck it up, buttercup.

Waitrose trades on its charity work while exploiting disabled workers. Staggering that @waitrose.bsky.social thinks it's okay to have a disabled worker volunteer for 4 years, then get rid when his mum asked for him to be paid. Meanwhile, disabled people are told to find work and their benefits cut.

This is beautiful! Tommy Robinson's decision to support banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans by wearing was the 'final straw' for the club and it decided not to sell tickets for Aston Villa. Now Birmingham won't have to deal with the thugs. Starmer also looks like a fool (again). Beautiful.