“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

Personally, I’m finding it immensely comforting to think of my body as “like a carefully constructed onesie for an octopus”. A fascinating post.

Glasgow School artist Margaret MacDonald, Embroidered Panels, 1902, silk appliqué and bead decoration on linen, in her pioneering Art Nouveau style #WomensArt

We have finally reached the Ultimate Absurdity Singularity where white people are accusing Native Americans of being immigrants.

Oh this is good. This is very good.

Nurse! Nurse!

I’d love a t-shirt with this image on

Always a welcome way to end a week but especially first week back: submission of a chapter This 9,000-worder, written with my splendid UEA colleague @crwerren.bsky.social, will be in an edited collection "Human Rights in the UK under the Conservatives" by Conall Murray & Adam Ramshaw later in 2026

We shared a phone line with a neighbour, so we could only make & receive calls when they weren’t on the line.

Perhaps they’re hoping to recreate the celebrated Footlights College vibe?

Every day, the Labour Party gives me another reason not to regret resigning my membership. Every single day. What an utter shambles they are.

This is the American far-right’s way of telling people that this was a white woman that it was *ok* to kill.

Very saddened to hear of the death of Welsh football legend, Terry Yorath. He was 5 years ahead of me at Cathays High, Cardiff, and was already a school hero by the time I left in 1974. RIP.

Jeremy Bowen really is an outstanding broadcaster. He's a reminder that public service broadcasting can be objective and impartial without needing to be balanced - indeed that balance makes objectivity impossible. I imagine they'll get rid of him soon.

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

Not now, you monkey overlords, not now! (Another slow news day in Norfolk)

Pathetic

So far today, and epic fail on the intrepid front. Took one look at the conditions outside and said stuff it! #starting2026asyoumeantogoon

Not commenting on Venezuela is one thing, but Starmer's ministers not even being willing to say "no of course the US shouldn't invade a peaceful sovereign democratic NATO country, which is one of our closest allies" is quite another.

Gee, that’s a helluva lot to live up to, 2026.

Yet another BBC drama with loud ‘music’ drowning out the dialogue. So fed up with this practice. #TheNightManager

This would be an incredibly stupid move.

Love this

Much more honesty about what just happened from inside the U.S. than from outside. The world is full of dishonesty and cowardice.

Both Starmer and Badenoch have decided that the situation is too fast moving to comment upon. What is it, precisely, they feel they don’t currently understand?

Translation: she wouldn't give me her Nobel peace prize /s

Non-zero chance that the person who won the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize at the draw for the 2026 men’s football World Cup in Mexico/Canada/the US ends up being the reason said World Cup cannot take place

Plenty of other countries have already called the action out. It's not complicated: you can't kidnap a foreign world leader off the streets and spirit them away to stand trial overseas, no matter how horrible they are. Will make the world MUCH more dangerous because it's a green light to tyrants.

Chocolate teapot Keir Starmer just can't bring himself to condemn Trump's actions against Venezuela. Cowers behind "establishing the facts" even though there's endless videos of the attacks on Venezuela on social media and Trump explicitly boasted that the US went in and captured Maduro. Shameful.

Zack Polanski nails Keir Starmer

They’ll be fine. They were going to Caracus.

Told you

Bang goes the international rules-based order. Good luck Taiwan.

Starmer anxiously enquiring whether there’s time to arrange a focus group before he responds to the US’s unprovoked, batshit-crazy attack on Venezuela.

The #FIFA Peace Prize entitles you to one free military campaign in the CONMEBOL state of your choice.

Every time you use Chat GPT, every time you use Co-Pilot, Gemini etc, you’re feeding the beast.

Anybody know why, when posting on here, the letter A (upper & lower case) keeps being autocorrected to À, and how to stop this happening? It’s most irritating!

Can’t decide whether this is performative ignorance with intent to troll, or just ignorance 🤷‍♂️

So an adviser appointed by a government elected on one third of the popular vote is somehow able to identify the legitimate concerns of hard working people and distinguish them from the distractions of fringe stakeholder groups. Thank goodness democracy is safe in his hands.

Dear God

This is sub-Cummings shit. "stiffened spine and renewed purpose". Oh yeah? To crush the saboteurs, is it? The government has run aground because it lied repeatedly, promised the earth, didn't do its homework, kept saying "change" without knowing what it meant, and then repeatedly shat its own bed.

“another two-bob Malcolm Tucker wannabe” Ouch! 🔥

Just like the Tories, Labour's centrist hacks think themselves omniscient and infallible - they cannot fail, they can only be failed. So when they do fail, they blame everyone else. We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA

This story doesn't even bother to mention the dozens of people killed in the Channel in 2025 by our government's shameful asylum policy - instead reproducing and tacitly accepting the Home Office framing where the "shame" is that 41,000 survived to get here. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Their intellectual rigour and judgement is also extremely dubious - these are people who basically think like Matthew Goodwin. They are unfit for public office, let alone national policy roles. That the PM chooses, listens to, and supports such people is an indictment of him and his whole project.

This ignorance is indicative of who these people are. They've never lived at part of the UK's multi-racial working class and they think these social justice struggles unimportant simply because they are not directly impacted by social injustice.

...they see these as superfluous distractions to be jettisoned in favour of working solely within a political agenda set by the far right, and mimicking its policies and rhetoric.

The breed of Very Clever (white, male) Wonks Starmer surrounds himself with and invites such "analysis" from are barely politically literate and not capable of grasping the fact that defending human rights or fighting systemic racism might actually be foundational to progressive politics...

These are basically people whose political analysis and galaxy-brained response to the far right consists of dismissing any and all concerns about social justice and the rights of marginalised and minoritised groups. Nadine White touched on this here 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That the Today programme and the Guardian feel this political amoeba's "analysis" worthy of broadcasting and studying is a clue to the wider buy-in this perspective has among allegedly "progressive" elements of the UK's political elite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...