When I hear Farage talking about rounding up and deporting hundreds of thousands of human beings, and threatening those with leave to remain or settled status, I cannot help but think of the schoolboy sidling up to me and telling me that “Hitler was right” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have complained as well. Perhaps others might wish to complain as well, fwiw?

To any of my cis followers who might be wondering what's wrong with the BBC's phrasing... - "biological male" is deliberate misgendering - it also implies that trans people are somehow being deceptive, because "biology" - no trans person "identifies as" *anything*. We just *are* Hope that helps.

Flying should be a premium way to travel. It should be taxed harder than any other form of transport. This world is topsy turvey and it's killing us.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Labour will take money away from literally anyone except actual rich people, it seems.

Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

It's not just a ban on trans people, or a ban on people who other people think are trans - it's a license to harass people and ban them because of baseless accusations. *Anyone* could be accused of being trans and would have no definitive way of proving it. This guidance must be withdrawn.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

They appear to have leaked this guidance to the Times so that they could publish it on Trans Day of Remembrance.

Makes sense, considering Musk is pretty much a Nazi.

Those remaining supporters need to remember that this Labour government went after trans healthcare in Week 1.

Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card. AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.

I don’t know what to say anymore other than to remind those in power that refugees are human beings with equal rights who, along with their children, deserve a safe, stable & integrated life in their communities and that what they’re breaking now with this performative cruelty can’t be fixed later.

People are rushing to tell me canals etc wouldn't handle the load of modern freight. No problem: *tell us that*. But don't ignore that it's there. (I suspect I'm more than averagely aware because I lived in Birmingham for 16 years and Stoke on Trent for 7 years)., canalrivertrust.org.uk

When you behave as if the current UK asylum & refugee situation is normal or unavoidable, you are completely failing to understand that the Tory party literally made it happen, on purpose. Not just in the broad sense of Brexiting us, but in actually breaking the existing asylum process.

Turns out both DownDetector and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe use Cloudflare so are currently, themselves, down

Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?

If Christ is King, nation-states are not.

However, 'yoke', 'zygote', 'yoga', 'conjugal', and the German 'Joch' meaning a col or mountain pass, are all related!

For those who don't realise how dark it gets in winter in the UK... It's more northerly than you think. I'm not even in the real north of the country and I'm approximately at the same latitude as Edmonton in Canada. The days are short. And the skies are almost always covered in a sheet of grey cloud

Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery? Of course. Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church. Here she is:

theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or

Every Labour minister should now be asked, every time they appear in public, "Minister, can you confirm that it is now your government's policy to steal from refugees?"

There is NO “BBC captured by Stonewall/the trans lobby - it’s an absolute LIE perpetrated by ‘gender critical’ transphobes & the right-wing trying to make trans people “controversial” and their own bigoted selves the “victims” for not being able to vomit their bigoted “free speech” with impunity! 😣

When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

BBC Bias is often in the eye of the beholder So let’s stick to measurable facts During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority 47 were from UKIP/BP 23 times Farage

What a truly vile and hateful set of people we have running the country.

hey babe, wake up, new time signature just dropped

Spoiler: all users of this app will be texting with Satan, premium users will just be the only ones who think they're doing so

If the first message from AI Jesus isn't "Throw your phone into the sea and go help the poor and oppressed" you should do that anyway.

It's so embarrassing to see them still seemingly trying to do this, after more than a year of totally failing to appease the right-wing press, or the Xitter mobs. Just desperately trying to ingratiate themselves with people who will definitely always despise them. 😬

How many budget rumours is it now to go before budget day? 25? 40? I've lost count.

I've said it before, but this really completely refutes the argument that "if you raise taxes on the rich, they'll leave the country". They won't even leave Massachusetts.

This.

So the "report" about the doctored Trump quotes was itself doctored.... www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

I would like to speak to the smug legalists who assured us this could never happen

*screams*

Siri, what's one way that I could prove the lack of basic logic inherent in transphobia with one stupid, ironic choice?

Goddards of Greenwich, established 1890. Still family run. Bloody marvelous.

BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December. It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris

Oh thank FUCK (Does it mean that they won't on another case? Not necessarily. But every day it's safe is a day it's safe, and every flimsy pretext they deny is reassuring for the rule of law in the land.)

realistically, they wouldn't know proper news (nor how to write it) if it were delivered by a wet kipper being slapped about their snouts.

I really hope that Tim Davie and Deborah Turness' resignation from the BBC will be an opportunity to break the Corporation's terrible news record recently. But given the absolutely daft reason for it, I am not holding my breath.

Can’t wait for the nuns’ reaction to this one.

The forces of evil really do fear the power of prayer

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...