So Labour watched the Conservative Party sink into a civil war of instability, infighting, lack of direction, shuffling around multiple Prime Ministers on deck chairs, and pointless navel gazing, all while the country went to the dogs. And eventually they decided: 'We need a bit of that.'

Hopefuly we are getting to the point that the PM will just be a giant wicker figurine that can be burned ritually every year to stop the crops from failing

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

Anybody have any clue who this is? I’m baffled

The Quest for the Purple Fleece?! A snippet from my heatwave show at Hay this year, looking at the different versions of the Golden Fleece myth, and Medea… Off now to listen to The Cure 💜 📗 No Friend to This House, out now in all good bookshops

#writingcommunity #writesky #author #amwriting #booksky

1/ Below is what I reminded and wrote to Anna Turkey Labour Chair today. I am writing to you as Labour Party member number ............ regarding the debacle unfolding under your watch and before our eyes.

The skeleton of a Stingray www.tumblr.com/wewantnothin...

😂 The Jetsons lied to us

This is how this supposedly serious stats account responded when I attempted to engage it in a serious exchange about tactical voting and seat projections. I will be blocking this nasty individual later, I recommend you all do likewise.

Just in time to mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum with a seventh Prime Minister in that time. Whoever took back control, it wasn't the occupant of 10 Downing Street.

'An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken. But ...' No further comment required.

“They are in it only for themselves” …can’t think of way that stampede of Labour ministers and MPs forcing out Starmer could do more to prove the populists right. Want better government? Not bit of it…it’s about saving our jobs!

A handful of Labour MP's have posted pompous missives instructing Starmer to set a timetable for stepping down. It's clear they're co-ordinated and are intent on creating their version of the Labour party, a version set in the 1970's where the working class all wear flat caps and work in factories.

The so-called 'left' in Britain has betrayed women. From trade unions to self-identifying 'socialist' parties, the ill-read posers and dilettantes jumped on a bandwagon that exposed their ideological-illiteracy as much as their misogyny. www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...

I take great pleasure in how well this story has aged. 'Boardroom bitches may be good for TV ratings. But businesswomen deserve better' Louisa Symington Mills, The Telegraph, 19 December 2014. web.archive.org/web/20250127...

Jaysus! He 'let wife'. 🚩for the Metro headline writer.

I'm sure you saw this. I read it aloud to my husband and had to keep pausing to collect myself. Absolutely hilarious and delightful www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/15/b...

Lovely stuff

If history teaches us anything, it's that half of this will happen.

Trump reads "deceased" like it's actually the name of one of the Medal of Honor recipients

A different take on that statement from an archaeologist 💯💯💯🎯

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

Every single one of the 130 MPs who signed the EDM against adoption of the EHRC guidance is happy for this man to be allowed into women's single sex spaces.

The social media ban is going to prove one of the iron laws of politics: You can’t make reasonable, workable policy which balances individual rights with what society needs when the key voices in the debate are the parents of dead children.

Gorbals boys, Glasgow, Scotland, January 1948, photo by Bert Hardy, Picture Post photographer.

'They built a [lesbian & gay rights] movement ... Then they called that love a heresy and rented the flag to any corporate taker. Pride comes before a fall. But the cause beneath it, love without shame, truth without fear, solidarity without sale, remains.' labourheartlands.com/pride-and-fa...

From June I put MusicChallenges under here as I was "told off" B4 for putting songs under someone's post. To avoid this catastrophe again I place all #music challenges here Howard Kaylan 🎵was my 1.🧡 & it will B my last 🎶of the future & 🎼of the past John Miles cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0az...

'Heil Honey I'm Home!' ¹ Cancelled after one episode ² Not my 'favourite' TV show in any sense

"WellBN clinic did not practise healthcare, they practised gender affirming care. The reckless disregard for children's health & safety is a feature, not a bug, of the gender affirming care model." Full independent report link & analysis for everyone who cares about children's healthy development.

Squirrel asks human for a drink of water.

Thread.

Astrid Kirchherr (1938-2020), German photographer and artist, known especially for her iconic photography and styling of The Beatles #WomensArt

Standing ovation for Rep. Beatty, who sued Trump over the renaming of the Kennedy Center, took him to court, and won!

Ah, we’ll miss your fringe & perpetual dismay, Tosh

Trans Activists Can’t Hold a Single Line 🔗

In a way I wish I'd seen this. Except, I was 16, and I wouldn't have appreciated it for the masterpiece that it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hex...

Thierry Henry's expression is priceless...

Extremely sad, and extremely important.

Farmers are figuring out that you can have solar panels AND still grow food, as this farmer is. He has mushroom production in the shade created by his solar panels. Dual use = dual incomes from the same space, less mowing and maintenance. This is a win-win-win recipe know as agrivoltaics!

This story brought to you by the world's first trillionaire. We should all feel very proud.

Lovely obituary.

Maybe Tracy will get to name the new cheese. I hope she goes for Comehomebert #TheArchers

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

NEW: "WellBN GP practice was inappropriately prescribing medications to children and young people for the clinical indication of gender dysphoria.... potential harm has been caused to... 78 children and young people." www.surreysussex.icb.nhs.uk/ipsi-wellbn-...

New for @josimarfootball.bsky.social: Fifa's favourite megastar Shakira will perform her new WC "anthem" "Dai Dai" at the opening ceremony tomorrow. All proceeds to go to charity? No, despite the pledges: she and her co-writers, including Ed Sheeran, stand to make a small fortune from the song.