How I define north/south as someone from Stoke-on-Trent #northsouthdivide #uk

Seen complaints from Americans about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance because it was in Spanish. Sounds like a skill issue to me 🤷

“Lee Anderson? Wasn’t he a member of the Labour Party?”

Five jobs I’ve had: - Shelf stacker - Bartender - Drummer - Tea seller - Journalist

Well worth a read. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

I drove through Snake Pass for the first time today, a hair-raising experience. It baffles me that this is one of the main road routes between two of the biggest cities in the UK I’m sure there are plenty of complicated reasons, but talk about “if it’s not in or connected to London who cares” jfc

The high medieval papacy, which incidentally got through a lot of (olive) oil, didn’t fight its own battles to protect its interests, it wanted the Holy Roman Emperor to fight them on its behalf This post is not about the high medieval papacy

Astonishing rendition of My Way by Jessie J on Hootenanny last night, and coming after her story of coming through breast cancer what a glorious and beautiful way to say defiantly “I’m still here” #jessiej #hootenanny

Do you like language, culture, and history? Then give me a follow over on TikTok where I’m posting regularly on language, culture, and a bit of news, history, and general nerdy stuff that I think is cool. If you’re very lucky I might even do a dance. #tiktok #bluesky #journalist

So I looked up the Christmas No 1 the year I was born. “Mr Blobby” by Mr Blobby Us millennials really just can’t catch a break can we? 🤣 #christmas

Estimates of 60,000 people murdered in el-Fasher in Sudan in three weeks. I’ll just repeat that - 60,000 people murdered, in three weeks. That’s nearly 3,000 people butchered every day - for three weeks. Where is the outrage? Where is the response? #sudan #worldnews #elfasher

Insightful and informative piece by @jessothomson.co.uk on the decision by the WI and Girl Guides to exclude trans women #lgbtq #ukpolitics #transrights

If you need me I’ll be in the corner rocking back and forth and crying at the mere thought of taking down the entirety of Hamlet in shorthand. #shorthand #journalism

If you had a guaranteed comfortable home and good quality of life on two days of work a week, what would you do?

I'm looking to get a TikTok going in the near future and I thought I would ask BlueSky - what do people want to hear from a freelance journalist on TikTok? #tiktok #bluesky

Well that can't be a good sign.

Unlike the US, Brazil has a dictatorship within living memory. In fact, Brazil’s current president was a key opponent of that very dictatorship. Worth remembering with the legal response to Bolsonaro’s attempted coup.

Well it’s not looking great.

As a 32-year-old I recently had an episode where I blacked out started getting excited about my new hoover. I came to while comparing life insurance policies.

Oh wow it's actually worse than I thought

This government has not taken a single meaningful step to tackle the causes of the horrendous inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, instead rushing to dismantle trial by jury. Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog. Ministers are not listening.

So let me get this straight, Labour's plan to resolve the appalling crisis in the criminal justice system is to undermine the right to trial by jury? Between that and anti-protest laws you could be forgiven for seeing an alarming authoritarian streak in Labour. #labour #ukpolitics #politics

Some absolutely insane context here. What on earth happened?

Let me get this straight - the same government that has claimed to want to protect asylum seekers from exploitation by criminal gangs now wants to pick their pockets? #labour #immigration #politics

Seeing Ahmed Al-Sharaa go from having a $10 million bounty on his head to being personally spritzed with cologne by Donald Trump is a surreal reminder of just how much things have shifted in Syria.

A brave and important piece by @jessothomson.co.uk on biases in the judiciary. Please give it a read. #uk #law #transrights

When I'm out and about in Manchester lately I often get this sixth sense of something off or hostile in the atmosphere, like a gut feeling? This is recent, and not something I would associate with such a welcoming and diverse city. It's unsettling. I'm sure I'm not the only person who has this.

Seeing how Dawn Butler was treated by the speaker of the House of Commons while responding to Sarah Pochin is appalling and entirely unsurprising. In the U.K. calling someone out for racism is treated with greater severity than actually saying or doing something racist. #ukpolitics

Absolutely disgraceful treatment of Bury Times journalist @lvalentinejourno.bsky.social here #journalism #manchester

Police forces across the U.K. regularly bar football fans of a wide variety of clubs from attending some away matches when police have reason to believe allowing fans to attend may pose a risk to public safety. That’s a decision for the police and should have been the end of the matter. #ukpolitics

Somewhere two metal detectorists who look eerily like Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones are muttering into the pints they bought with muddy loose change detected that afternoon

Trump announcing plans for an “Arc de Trump” Because sometimes you look at the news and think “god is it really April already?” www.bbc.com/news/article...

All of this is being put out to placate the right wing press... In the meantime, it's causing fear & confusion. As I understand it: ● this only applies to some people on skilled visas ● it's not "A level English" it's something called SELT ● much the same requirement exists elsewhere in EU

Write a 500 word essay on dominant themes in Dracula or we’ll deport you. “Dracula can be read as an allegory of the fear of foreigners and immigra-“ NO NOT LIKE THAT #ukpolitics

Happy anniversary of the Battle of Hastings to those who celebrate

The boy this man stabbed to death was just 16 years old and had fled war in Homs to find a better life for himself in the UK. Heartbreaking and horrifying.

Starmer in India: “This is the biggest trade mission that the United Kingdom has ever sent to India.” Not *quite* sure that’s true. 😬 #starmer #india #uknews

🗳️ Sir John Curtice has warned Labour that Reform UK is not their only electoral threat, with left-wing parties also posing a challenge. My latest for @labourlist.bsky.social here ⬇️ labourlist.org/2025/10/labo...

Was in Manchester City centre today and passed by outside the Tory party conference. A fair few police but not loads, and basically zero protestors. You’d barely know it was happening. Feels like it means something, though not sure what… 🙄 #toryconference #tories #politics

Absolutely awful.

Solidarity with Manchester's Jewish community today following the horrific attacks.

That feeling when your first invoice comes through as a self-employed person #business

Alarming behaviour from Labour in barring certain journalists from their party conference. Not a good look at all. #press #labour

This. Assad treated Palestinians in Syria like 2nd-class citizens and used the regime's tokenistic 'war' on Israel to justify expanded powers and intensified oppression against Syrian civilians, including Palestinians in Syria. You cannot be pro-Assad and pro-Palestine. Corbyn couldn't see this.

People who are in the UK on work visas pay tax & NI & aren’t entitled to claim benefits because visas are often tied directly to employment. Making taxpayers “volunteer” is patronising and feels alarmingly like making innocent people do community service, something we make criminals do. #labour

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

For Warhammer 40k fans in Manchester: What’s the orks’ favourite place in Greater Manchester? Krumpsall.

Court throws out Kneecap terrorism charges on a technicality www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Ahmed Al-Sharaa gives a speech to the UN general assembly calling for lifting of sanctions on Syria. He is the first Syrian president to address the UN since before the Assads took power. #syria #UN #ahmedalsharaa www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcyT...

Top three are probably: Radio 3 Champagne Eating game meat