THIS! Check out Byline Times for proper investigative reporting needed now more than ever. Keeps you ahead of mainstream news outlets for a couple of quid a month. And no, they're not paying me!

Great interview on LBC this morning with @matthew-wright.bsky.social with @peterjukes.bsky.social exposing the Russian links to cuddly old NiGel's party. More of this!

Ing Hell Indeed.

They want to control our words more than they control guns. Isn’t that something

I was a stand up in the 80s, a time when ironically some people thought the new wave too politically correct. Always loved US stand up. Never thought I'd live to see a US comic fired for the political pleasure of a president. Dark day for the US and for true free speech.

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

Readers of Becky's first book, Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You, will know to expect useful anti-scam info in highly entertaining form. I'll be getting this. (Probably from a different retailer though, if poss)

I have visited The Bull at Charlbury several times. It's a great pub with great food. Even better now.

The excellent Tax Justice Network explain financial reality vs the myths.

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You’re so Venn

Excellent thread here. I remember when The Telegraph was respected even by centrists and left wingers. I'm pretty old.

Titles to include the hand lion.

Argument on Today was "narrator gets in the way." Only if they're bad, otherwise why would they? And if audio is intrinsically bad, should we not read to kids? Well done for an excellent defence.

USA today.

Truly we are living through the fable of the scorpion and the frog for our social media age.

Well, that's my weekend off to a cracking start.

Disunity Mitford did not bungle her answer. She knows how it will be clipped by their client media. This is not idiocy, it's policy.

Panorama has been around for so long it's easy to forget what an extraordinary programme it can be.

This is my surgery. A really good one, proven success. Being handed to a private company 100s of miles away because ... (strokes chin) Whaddya reckon?

One of the best features I've read this year.

Quite.

Best post of the weekend. A woman I aspire to be (and I'm not far off)

This is what you want on a Sunday morning.

Facts. Unfashionable, but still compelling. Why net zero is not the cause of high fuel bills

And a million authors said "oh."

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Insomnia last night. "Just have a scroll through the news on Bluesky" I thought. Yeh, that really helped.

And today's internet winner is:

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Haven't we all.

So…lock them up?

Courage.

Me too.

Just heard a travel expert on a mainstream UK show tell visitors to the USA to cleanse their devices of anything that might be seen as critical of the US government, or risk detention. Advice was, essentially, only travel there if you have to. Man...

Can’t make this up.

Just closed my two accounts at the other place. Hadn't used either for months, now they're gone. Feels... pretty good.

Humans as goods. Not new, but an expanding business.

Can't believe I've only just discovered this account...

Friday night, time for a laugh. Even a bitter one.

Has tRump deported / banned tourists yet? Actually, no need, we can probably handle that one ourselves.

"Planning to fund". Wonder where that will come from, then? It's a puzzler, I tells ya. 🤔

Caught the repeat of this today. What an astonishing woman. And what a relief to be reminded that compassion and determination can still rise, even from worst of circumstances. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Ironically, this is one week when I'd be genuinely pleased to see Farage on a mainstream media platform, being questioned on recent events. And, more ironically, the one week he won't be there.

Please read. The only conclusion for the current plan involves the words "selling" and "river".

British territory WAS occupied during WW2 @mrjamesob.bsky.social, in the Channel Islands, and people like my great aunt died as a result. Please don't talk us out of history.