On course to end new HIV cases in the UK by 2030.

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov: “Putin told Trump that Tomahawks will not change the situation on the battlefield, but will damage the relations between Russia and the US and the settlement in Ukraine.” So the Tomahawks are both not scary but also scary enough to change everything. I wonder which one.

This is obviously stupid, but the really strange thing is that RFK believes trust is a feature of totalitarianism. Totalitarianism has nothing to do with trust. It demands obedience. Democracy, on the other hand, requires trust: you elect people you trust to lead you.

“In what universe is the world’s richest Fascist funding the UK’s most prominent Fascist not a massive fucking story???!” Well said, @sturdyalex.bsky.social The lack of proper media coverage of Musk’s interference in British politics is a huge collective dereliction of journalistic duty.

seeing as we're all talking about the proposed language requirement changes for visas: here's the email my wife was sent for her B1 test in 2018. imagine spending about £800 in total across 3 tests, and you're met with "YOU TEST DAY INFOMRATION"

Can we stop calling newspapers and tv broadcast news "the mainstream media" yet?

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes. We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves. And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

working on a feature on a similar character at the moment and the advance TL;DR is that these guys are pretty good at making themselves feel unavoidable and intellectually overwhelming, when their reactionary views are very often just incredibly pedestrian and unoriginal, it's their main strength

Here's a digest of new releases that have been caressing my cranium + a link to my most recent radio show. Featuring, among others, the ever brilliant Michael J Sheehy, an absolute peach from Brit-jazz young'uns Oreglo & silksonic Indonesian soulsters Thee Marloes. www.patreon.com/posts/whats-...

I still find it hard to believe that a party which has dominated British politics for centuries is dying. And the most extraordinary thing is that one charlatan, who has never held significant power nor any kind of vision, is destroying it.

I put five tests of how to define a "legitimate concern" (4) was my challenge to talk about integration in a way that can resonate with white, black, Asian and mixed race people in Britain - not in ways that only make sense to one group www.britishfuture.org/understandin...

Yeah Brexit was full on fundamentalist nativist politics. It was self evident the outcome was economic & social sabotage. And we can see the fruits of Brexit by simply looking at the discourse and IT HAS NOT CHANGED

Mad weird magical thinking was tried. Not “centre right ideas”

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values. Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

I’m not generally a fan of if-the-boot-was-on-the-other-foot counterfactuals, but can you imagine what the UK media would be doing if one of Corbyn’s closest politician allies was found to be a Russian agent? Why is Farage not being held over the coals for this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform in local govt, latest: www.ft.com/content/277c...

Anyone remember Reform promising to go into their new councils with DOGE-style units to slash “waste” and stop taxes from rising? Yeah, it went exactly as you’d expect if you put people in charge who have no idea how anything works.

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

Important point - announcements about "crackdowns" and "bans" are a way to try and convince people the state has power when it increasingly fails at basic tasks.

A lot of parties are acting as if the election is tomorrow as opposed to likely 2029 after which either Trump is out of office, or more concerningly, still in office.

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud: “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

The Guardian really has a anti-development slant atm, doesn't it? Yes, building new infrastructure means that some people are inconvenienced. But not doing it... well, you see the state of our rail system? And the housing crisis?

The only people talking about Palantir being involved or interested in HMG’s dogital ID policy were conspiracists. But sure, they’ve “pulled out of involvement” in a policy announced a week ago that’s not been consulted on, nor let out to tender, they they weren’t involved in to begin with.

Behold! A microscopic Viking longship riding a giant nematode! #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

Really interesting by @hannecl.bsky.social and Jon Stone. It was always the case that the 'Singapore on Thames' lot were totally out of touch with the views of them majority of Brits. We are in fact quite European in our attitudes on regulation www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

In every single group of voters in the poll data used to justify this argument, the median voter is unsure whether Farage is racist. They are literally in the most persuadable group.

Nobody who fought the Nazis in the war was racist, which is why racism didn't exist in the UK or US after 1945

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

Correct. Unless the government is going to impose limits on the number that can go to university, it's meaningless. (They're not).

Weird how The Times had Farage's "shocked" reaction to Starmer's speech published before Starmer's speech.

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Discussing Bluesky migration in terms of liberal flight misses the simple fact that most people use social media for fun not influence and this platform, unlike X and cruddified Facebook, doesn’t feel like you’re wading through shit to reach your friends. It’s not that deep.

Strong moment as Keir Starmer calls out the racism we’ve seen in recent weeks and months: "Labour is proud of Britain's flags but if they are painted alongside graffiti telling a Chinese takeaway owner to 'go home', that's not pride - it's racism."

No, it never existed, and then the imaginary target was scrapped by the Conservatives years ago anyway. The rise in numbers going to uni was entirely down to higher demand from students.

Three weeks into the school run and my new radicalising thing is cars ever so gently rolling forward as my daughter scooters over the zebra crossing. What are you doing. Take your foot off the accelerator there’s a fucking four year old in front of you

Drivers, don't do this. To anyone on a zebra crossing, not just little kids going to school. You're supposed to *stop*, not slow down to a crawl and play chicken with the pedestrians. Related, if a driver does this to me, I start walking extremely very slowly, all the while maintaining eye contact.

I feel like Threads, an app dedicated entirely to judging strangers based on crumbs of partial information, is inevitably going to aid in the destruction of humanity even if i can't immediately work out how.

Yes, there’s a reason alright.

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew." "Commentator of the Year"

A thing to watch for, discourse-wise, is racism-deniers & facilitators in ‘mainstream’ media trying to detoxify ideas that have been beyond the mainstream pale since the Eighties. The Liddles & Littlejohns openly relish the opportunity that Farage offers them to remove what’s left of their masks.

I do think we sometimes forget: 1. We need high-skilled migrants to keep the NHS working, and to grow the economy 2. High-skilled migrants have a *lot* of choices over where to go And 3. We’ve been getting less attractive as a destination for years anyway (wages here famously suck)

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Yet another example

But lemme tell you - every citizen's, every interaction, with every arm of the state being comically antiquated, slow and frustrating, is NOT without cost. Both economic as it presses down on productivity, and psychological as it makes people feel embattled. All of which help outfits like Reform.

Why does it take years, Amazon?