@pombalstoat.bsky.social I'm gutted and I bet you are too

On the other hand…

Ready to preorder the small press short story collection with this cover RIGHT NOW.

Not nice, not nice at all. A Nouvelair A320 passed over an easyJet A320 lined up for departure in Nice by just a few feet last night. The French BEA is investigating what it classifies as a serious incident. Details and data: www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

“He doesn't care about British people, he doesn’t care about our country - he cares about his own bank balance” Lib Dem leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk says Elon Musk should be held to account and claims the tech mogul is only concerned about how the Online Safety Act affects his profit #Peston

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

OK so Labour Conference hear this - Your ONLY job is to 'Stop the Votes' going to Reform. Don't engage in the usual futile infighting left of party vs right. The best you can do to uphold Labour values supporting working people is to keep Reform away from power, anything else is time wasting.

A Labour source said: “Farage’s not even half-baked announcement has already fallen apart. Yet again, Reform have no credible plan and their only answer is ‘don’t know’.” OK agree, but it'll take more than that to 'stop the votes'. Get a grip, take the high ground and shut Reform out !

RMS Queen Mary arrived in her home port of Southampton for the first time in 1936. The excitement was simply too much for nine-year-old Denis Pike from Bournemouth... 📸: Daily Mirror, 28 March 1936.

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Looks like we will be getting some storm impact from former Hurricane Gabrielle next weekend. Heads up to all the keen journos who will be rushing to pre name the storm from the conveniently listed storm names from the Met Office. Problem being the Met Office usually keep the original name.

This week we are exploring the Electricity Showroom, which appeared in the nation's high streets in the 30s, often in an art deco or modernist finish and looking to sell new fangled electrical and gas appliances. Read more in Power to the People www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/power-t...

Kemi Badenoch should throw Liz Truss out of the Tory party. See my letter below 👇

First get your stool pigeon, preferably a shallow character who wants to get very rich, get him to preach that the rich aren't the problem in taking your livelihood away it's people even poorer than you taking the mickey. Then don't just take make life poorer but erode any freedoms to fight back

There seems to be an extremely serious problem with the definition of 'Free Speech'

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Extraordinary for the Tories to ally themselves over recognising Palestine with Netanyahu, a man bent on destroying the possibility of a two state solution, rather than with Australia, Canada, most of the Commonwealth & the rest of the world.

‘Law & order’ latest.

[in mary poppins court] clerk:call the witness for the prosecution *spoonful of sugar walks in* medicine: oh, shit

Not much of a marcher, and not an especially political poster, but the anti-immigration bellends came to town today, and you have to draw a line somewhere. We outnumbered them about three to one, we think

'Southbank Puddles' linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle #womensart

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during some operations.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade called for homeless people to be killed by 'involuntary lethal injection' Now there is a mass shooting of homeless people. Fox News is owned by the Murdochs.

“Wouldn’t you know it! Now the Hendersons have the bomb.”

Bit depressing seeing excitement about early voting opportunities in the US. Surely it isn't just me that thinks that, based on the available evidence to date, the current regime won't just sit back and get voted out at the ballot box ?

Who'd be a high sided vehicle on a day like this eh !

I fancy being a Knight, can you make me a Knight Chuck? Or a prince. I'd make a great prince, probably the princiest prince ever. Everyone would love me. In fact, people often say to me, "You know Donald, you'd make a great prince!"

Sponsored by Mr Kipling

I asked for one of those Rough Guide's at the bookstore and a Brownie jumped out and kicked my head in.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

September 2020 #Johnson

@petagna.bsky.social Marco, Any idea why Cardiff has the qualifier 'Bute Park' when no other cities so do ? Thanks, alan

Ian McKellen, 1968

This is remarkable. Thanks to @wildobliquities.bsky.social for posting. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Genius idea to put police messaging in the hands of this man. ".. please follow Sgt Messenger's advice - travel at a suitable speed and allow extra space between your vehicle and others." Sgt. Owen Messenger is a Devon and Cornwall Police Sergeant in the Road Casualty Reduction team.

… and when that peace does come, we will be standing with Ukraine still 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.

My latest, based on an oddly unimpressive MI5 assessment document.

This is a bit curious isn't it ? Are the Sun any more secure legally by blocking out the name whilst showing and referencing an image ? Is that what is going on here @davidallengreen.bsky.social ?

@boudicca.bsky.social Defrosting the freezer was a good decision, I'd forgotten the mincies. #AMincePieIsNotJustForChristmas

Music FACT: Placebo were originally a Cure tribute band

"Reform’s opponents need to expose every one of these gaps between Farage and the electorate, recasting Farage as a figure of the fringes ... you cannot delay – otherwise the freedoms you thought would last for ever can vanish" @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ha, ha, This didn't age well.

This would be the single most effective & best targeted way to reduce the scandal of child poverty in Britain. Go @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social! @backbridget.bsky.social 🤞

Ben is spot on here. LDs targeting E & EE would be a disaster, much of their vote last time came from misrepresentation of statistics. The Tory incumbent stands a low chance of keeping a majority with most previous support going to Reform which would strengthen the need for a non split response.

Amazing what I've learned online today - 'Filling up your vehicle at the petrol station is an important part of car ownership. Without fuel, cars simply wouldn't function, which means millions depend on filling stations throughout the UK daily.'