Actor Noel Clarke arrested at family home in London

one thing i think about @moiradonegan.bsky.social's point is that you never hear people go from "male loneliness" -> why don't we get men involved in collective projects of meaning for the most part. instead it's usually a discussion about how society is too "feminine"

<IN LETTERS OF FIRE ACROSS THE SKY>

I don’t know about you, but I’m still sort of processing that the US president stood up in the UN and declared that London is about to be under Sharia law, and the response has been “actually, that won’t happen” rather than “Jesus, that is insane.”

Being antique, I am old enough to remember when not having to carry ID was one of the perks of being British, so unlike those damn continentals (NB only right to note that being white and middle-class significantly reduces my chance of being stopped in the first place. But still).

Not a war, but I really feel like there's room for some truly dreadful takes around the continued use of the term 'Byzantine'.

More and more such incidents happening daily www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nigel Farage won’t say 'privatisation' out loud, but his plan would collapse the NHS via a staffing crisis. 1 in 5 NHS staff are non-UK nationals. Farage wants to scrap funding the NHS through taxes. His alternative is clearly privatisation. #r4today #BBCBreakfast #GMB #SkyNews

Modest proposal: STOP LISTENING TO CALLS ON SPEAKER ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT

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Christopher Rådlund • Waterfall • night Venticelli •

Johann/Johannes/Hans Wechtlin • Allegory with an Owl •

WOW WOW WOW, this is *amazing*. Truly amazing stuff! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Marc Bloch will be admitted to the Pantheon in Paris! The date for the "Panthéonisation" is set for 16 June 2026. Meanwhile, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social has launched a website to keep track of the many conferences to celebrate the event. Some of them start this month. marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr

The dreamer https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/the-dreamer-1840

In other news, the Maritime Agency has concluded that water is wet.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Surveys show a mismatch between what tier most physician assistants think they can work at and what tier most doctors think they can work at. There is a mismatch between physician assistants and doctors in confidence and competence www.bmj.com/content/390/...

This is really dangerous territory for Farage. He's being pushed towards crankery by the radicalisation of online support.

My son found a swastika drawn on our road the other day. In one of the most left/liberal constituencies in the country.

My grandfather was Antifa en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_R...

Claudia Cardinale, l’égérie du cinéma italien, est morte à l’âge de 87 ans

On the money here.

Let’s take a quick look at LOTR from Sauron’s perspective, where it resembles nothing so much as a counter-espionage spy thriller.

Anyone from New College (Oxford) here?

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Whoever filmed this is a genius.

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

The UK: take London's name OUT of your demented mouth, you venomous waste of space

It is with profound sadness that The Yorkshire County Cricket Club announces the passing of Harold Dennis “Dickie” Bird MBE OBE, one of cricket’s most beloved figures, who died peacefully at home at the age of 92. Read more: yorkshireccc.com/news/harold-...

A customer just came into the shop and bought 12 books for her friend’s birthday. She’s going to wrap them individually and write a different month of the year on each one, so her friend has a new book to read every month until her next birthday. And I think that’s just the most thoughtful gift.

Surprisingly good from Streeting.

Mood

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Holy shit

Never mind The Rapture, I'm holding out for The Sublime #theCulture

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Flights have been halted to Copenhagen Airport after multiple drones were spotted over the Øresund Strait, Reuters reports.

I'm no expert, but the last sentence does rather read as though Kimmel threatened to sue their backsides into the ground and Disney's lawyers caved.

lol. lmao.

They want you pregnant, in the kitchen, and ALSO in terrible pain. Just in case this message isn’t getting through

“The effect on the NHS and social care workforce would be no less than catastrophic, with thousands of essential, dedicated staff being shown the door. It'll be impossible to maintain vital public services."

“These cruel proposals from Reform UK will cause chaos, leave the economy reeling and tear apart communities." UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea on Nigel Farage.

Unworkable shouldn't be the objection. Immoral should be.

Love the stage of an incipient cold where my throat closing up tells me that feeling tearful earlier wasn't solely hormonal....😷😷😷😷

Bus vignette: there is a woman on this bus perfomatively laughing at her call (on speaker, natch, which is how I know it's not that funny) and force of the loathing being directed at her by everyone else could solve the energy crisis.

To remove indefinite leave to remain from people who already have it they'd have to dismantle our entire system of rights legislation and probably end judicial independence. But they could do that with a majority. They've said they'd do that.

They always start by saying it's legitimate to be concerned about flows, but ultimately the rage is about the stock. Think I've first said this as a silly quip ten years ago, and well, here we are

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.