is there a single recorded instance of a publication being wrong and engaging with their critics based on the historical record?

Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour

"All I did was embolden a series of anti-queer, right-wing and anti-trans hate groups, and now there are more anti-queer hate crimes! I am appalled" metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...

tellingly this is written from the perspective of the newspaper world being basically okay, instead of the frothing stew of insanity most of it actually is

Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for. Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope. Technology abolished your job? Nope.

and so why they’re in charge continues to be a puzzler

no it won’t but it will learn the phrase ‘authentic wonder’ and bullshit you that it’s seen the face of god in a dew drop or whatever

It would take me a lot less than two pages of a covering letter to set out my big plan to save the BBC: 1) bring back Top of the Pops 2) bin off Laura K and Chris Mason

No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?

are…those London bendy buses that got shipped off?

kind of obsessed that the Centenary of the general strike has a logo

as of now I’m no longer a salaried architectural historian. By coincidence this piece by @municipaldreams.bsky.social was recently reposted and is a brilliant encapsulation of my PhD work, from an earlier era of me doing research for free. Maybe I’ll do so again! open.substack.com/pub/municipa...

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...

every overpromoted person thinks they’re ’underestimated’

the sort of thing that if you were from Hexham you would rightly never stop talking about (but also remove those cars. What is it about English marketplaces and bloody cars?)

yup

A tremendous scholar, campaigner and bundle of fizzing energy who saved many fine buildings. If you can donate, please do.

tedious to see "the government don't actually believe in what they're doing, it's political strategy to neuter Reform" doing the rounds. it doesn't matter! if I stab you to impress some people watching, while assuring you that actually I like you and wish you no ill will, you've still been stabbed

Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed. But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people. 1/8🧵

I realise that I became informed about this shitshow pretty much exclusively from a piece in the *Museums Journal* somebody shared on here

Klarna boss says he’s worried about people buying things they can’t afford

first Park Hill and now this. I guess Urban Splash just hate Sheffield’s modernist legacy archive.ph/rRLH2

for context in 1975 it was elites that were despairing, rarely ordinary people who experienced record levels of income equality and real terms growth, and comprehensive social housing provision

free speech on campus stuff was a cavalcade of horseshit from the start, but the denouement is still as bleak as it gets

For the first time since it's founding there's an actual conspiracy that indicts powerful elites and there are actual documents that actually prove it and Infowars is like "nah"

‘it’s complicated/no magic money tree/we can’t have nice things’ is literally populism tailored for the author in terms he sets i.e. he finds it popular but it’s not true. It’s an important part of that psychic framework that Starmer must be perceived as a serious minded truth-teller

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

This really isn't the first dodgy @BBC edit but it's certainly the one that counts because delegitimising striking miners in 1984 or undermining Corbyn in 2019 apparently don't matter. Some thoughts for @LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

wealthy western elites have a patchy record on facing shame and horror tbh

Morgan McSweeney having fucked it, and having a terrible day is enough for me to be happy and log off tbh.

ADULT IN THE ROOM KLAXON

‘committed fascists and people who care about minority rights are the same. I am very clever’

staggering. Danny Finkelstein will abandon the meaning of language and any semblance of engagement with reality in order to avoid calling fascists what they are archive.ph/2025.11.12-0...

unlike numerous western poltical outfits, the CCP isn’t taken with the Idea of flying the plane into the mountain so it can govern the wreckage. It would quite like a living world to be hegemon of www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

do i look like a Marcus? My plumber has decided to call me that. Earlier this year the kitchen fitter decided I was Graham. Go for it guys, names are just so much bourgeois indulgence anyway. I’m just a soul in possession of a dicky boiler.

useful insights in Goodall’s piece but commercial outlets like News Agents, at liberty to be partial, still demonstrate the lack of self-awareness he bemoans. Maitlis and Sopel are brimful of just-so views that reflect their social world

good call

Labour are like the cringiest middle managers you’ve ever met. Nobody likes them. Incredibly off putting. Obsessed with AI. It’s easy to tell why they are so unpopular

yes they appeased the right wing newspapers but were also very right wing to their fingertips, so it’s a funny turn of events

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

whereas Darren Jones will successfully deliver a shovelful of shite to your doorstep, personally, and expect smiling gratitude

the phrase is usually can’t get ‘off the ground’ so I assume ‘out of the ground’ is used to emphasise this whole thing as a bad seed, too cursed to see the light of day

Howling at this Cynthia Nixon post about Mamdani

ah the past, no need for that to ever encroach on the discourse of the moment (see also: experiences from lands beyond the territorial waters of Great Britain)

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

attacking such an inadequate politician is fish in a barrel stuff, really pathetic of the Mail to do bin-rummaging stuff instead of anything substantive but this is the beast they are. The even nonnier non-story here: London letting agents are incompetent. Wow! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

one of these reports could be issued every minute between now and the end of time and the lads from the treasury would still say ‘spending money is bad, it means less money’

is it that their products are shit and immiserate the world in innumerable ways?