Let us have a rapid global campaign to have the Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan referee at least one match in Canada or Mexico. FIFA should facilitate, not impede, that. The Canadian/Mexican government should pursue it too

Badenoch (2023) Equalities Minister challenged a "fundamental misunderstanding". "There are no protected groups in the Act, only protected characteristics. A white man is just as protected on characteristics of race+sex as a black woman. Yet many believe the Act is just there to protect minorities"

Scotland fans get it

The tick-tock of this clock is getting louder and louder - this is where it starts, it is not where it ends. Reform UK is a clear and present danger to LGBTQ+ people.

You know you’re doing something right when you attract contributions to your show of this quality - listen to this brilliant text sent in by Carl in response to why the notion of ‘two tier policing’ is gaining traction….

Four percent of the sand on Normandy beaches is shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks. See the smooth sphere? It's shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. #WW2 #HISTORY

Nigel Farage has re-tweeted JD Vance’s racist tweet about the Henry Nowak case, which presumably means he also believes that even if you were born and raised in the UK, you count as a “migrant” if you are of minority ethnic heritage.

And yet Nowak's family are of Polish descent, yet that's fine by Farage and Vance. I mean, I can't qwhite put my finger on what the difference is

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

You don't need to listen. I'll just reiterate the point that there is no "two tier justice system" or at least not the one Farage, Vance, Musk and Tommy Robinson would have you believe. And the reason this tragic story is headline news is because it's so horrific and unusual. 1/2

A Septarian nodule - this explosion captured in stone is actually a fossilized mud bubble. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Letter in Times today

The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.

⚠️ The money flooding into Reform UK is a danger to our society and our democracy. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/04/it-is-unsustainable-reforms-billionaire-donors-inspire-panic-in-westminster

Get out and support Sunderland Pride tomorrow (Saturday)!! Support for Pride was banned by Sunderland's Reform Council! We need to show the bigots who run the council we refuse to go back to the 1950s!! #FvckReform #Pride #SunderlandPride

My job is DE&I - I don’t recognise at all the characterisation of what I do. It’s become a political football without reference to the actual sort of initiatives or strategy. Deeply upsetting when we can make material positive impact.

In the lineage of this classic:

Imagine having a megaphone that large and pretending you’re silenced.

Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk #R4Today

The ability of Grok to strip women and children was not an accident. Safeguards could have been built into the chatbot, but its creators chose not to. I'm launching this High Court claim to pursue accountability for those choices.

Another excellent thread from Debunking Queen @monkemma.bsky.social (official title). Note the deliberate use of FURY in the headline, aimed to manifest the outcome. Our media is an abomination.

David Tennat, "Did you see Robert Kenyon's remarks on the BBC?" Chloe Petts, "He had to say: I've not made sexual remarks about Carol Vordenman" "Which I think is like if you put Bill Clinton's I did not have sexual relations with AI, and said, make it British"

"The US has nothing to teach the UK on policing. Deaths at the hands of police in the UK are extremely rare. In the US, around one person in 315,000 is shot dead by police each year. In the UK, the comparable figure is one in 25 million."

Starmer suggests US ‘trying to interfere in our democracy’ over Nowak claims. No 10 responds after US vice-president blames UK teenager’s death on mass migration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Again, the people saying this stuff may be "influential figures on the right" but what they really are is racists and in some cases Nazis. It's not your job as a public service broadcaster to both sides Nazism

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

Link to report here: Who Is Labour For? thinklabour.co.uk/thinking/who...

It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her

20 years later and it happens again! Rob Kenyon. He went to the BBC looking for a job as an MP and ended up being interviewed live as a political expert. 🤪

‘Banned in store’s’ what? Don’t leave us hanging mate, tell us the secret.

I’m old enough to remember some rightwingers calling out Obama for having an opinion on Brexit, presumably they’ll be shocked by this

How Musks incitements, payment systems and embracing of bots and paid foreign influencers distorts any trend you’ll ever see on his site

Haven’t used Facebook Marketplace since we sold our old flat. It continues to be an amazing source of “Good lord!” moments:

In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.

While the men use their money to build rockets that explode... women get on with trying to make the world a better place.

🌈 Pride is NOT a crime 🌈 The Hungarian prosecution has dropped the case against Géza Buzás-Hábel, organizer of Pécs Pride. Pride is not a crime. It is our right. This is a major victory for LGBTI* rights and the rule of law. Have a fantastic Pride season everyone 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺❤️

what a chart www.ft.com/content/368d...

Since our political leaders and media have decided that the only reason Henry Nowak died was because the police are too woke, here are my two cents, based on what I've read of the public information 🧵

Just a reminder of the Facist Frogs' response on the murder of Sarah Everard by a white policy officer:

Today, I’m launching a High Court claim against xAI, the company behind Grok. I am just one of thousands of women and even children who have been the victim of abusive and sexualised AI deepfakes. This should never have happened – and xAI must be held accountable. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Stewart Lee was brilliant tonight: "If you're unsure of which toilets you can use feel free to shit in a bag and mail it to Graham Linehan, he sorts through them by hand"

Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

This headline is a travesty. It's not a protest and it's got nothing to do with Henry Nowak. It's a racist riot. Call it that.

I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.

Shameful from Reform and a good example of why you should never share anything by that godawful aggregator account, which just happens to be run by a Reform councillor. Obviously prostate cancer is a particular problem for black men, who are twice as likely to suffer from it in their lifetimes

Zia Yusuf claims that white people are the biggest victims of racism in Britain despite the fact that a black person is 16 times more likely than a white person to be a victim of a racially motivated crime and an Asian person 9 times more likely. Reform, never letting the actual truth get in the way

Utterly disgusting that this killing is getting hijacked and used in this appalling way. These people should be ashamed of themselves - only they don't know what shame is.

Vickrum Digwa, 23, will be sentenced on Monday having found guilty of murder by stabbing of Henry Nowak, an 18 year old Southampton University student. Hampshire police has referred itself to the IOPC after initially handcuffing the victim at the crime scene www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You need to read Mamdani’s “Mayor’s Order” repealing kids’ bedtime so they can watch the Knicks in the final. This is how to do politics with joy.