This week on Streaming Wednesdays, Derek sets course for the second star to the left. Join us from 8pm!

🎵 Now I'm falling asleep And she's calling a cab While he's having a smoke And she's taking a drag Santa Claus is coming to town

Teatime With Matt returns on Christmas Eve! 😯🎄🎁

The Christmas Tree Railway is once again open for the festive season!

Welcome! 💚🙌🏼

Blimey! 😳 There's a lot of you liking this aren't there? I did follow through!

...ok, fine, I'll become a member of the Green Party.

To be honest, its a relief to see this government doing something that isn't batshit insane and/or totally fucking evil.

As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.

Happy Thanksgiving, traitorous colonials! As you're in your monarchy era now, we'd like to offer you the option of coming back into the fold of the empire and having an actual king! Just say the word and we'll send the troops over to inva- uh, "liberate" you! #MAGBA

At the risk of making myself very unpopular... the budget isn't totally shit. Quite a lot of it actually makes sense. This government is, of course, still a stack of shit, laying the foundations that will enable full blown facists to take over and roll out their own shit that much more easily.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to introduce a wealth tax of 1% on assets of over £10m & 2% on assets over £1bn & if the super rich want to leave the UK because they are being taxed a tiny amount more then we should wave them goodbye Thatcherite John Redwood says 1% isn't a tiny amount.

Come on everyone, stop staring at this post! We're off to find a hill and scream into the void!

I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth

What the actual fuck?! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Awww, GB News are having a carol concert. Hope they tell the story of the refugees arriving in Bethlehem to be told they can apply for permanent right to stay after 15 years but Bethlehem will still probably tell them to go back where they came from because the we prefer LOCAL messiahs. 🎄 🎅🏻 🎁

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

A brilliant evening's entertainment at 'Out of Plot' @chickencasanova.bsky.social 's Doctor Who fundraising extravaganza. Rory and Ellis loved it!! Thank you to everyone involved and to the fantastic audience - it was so lovely to meet so many of you in person for the first time.

This week on Streaming Wednesdays, Matt's built a Dalek prison cell out of bits he had lying around, and now he's going to get frustrated because he can't get the camera angles he wants. Join us from 8pm!

"You are now about to witness the strength of the catholic church. Straight outta Vatican! Head of the Catholics, Leo 14! From Chigaco, Pontiff Supreme! When I pontificate, a million people listen! Leo now, but Robert Prevost I was christened!"

Good news, everyone! Operation Don't Buy Anything was... uh... a tremendous success? That doesn't sound right... 🫤 I did get to see some lovely samples of things though!

From Private Eye

This headline is blatantly false. It's not trans people who could be barred from services. It is anybody that the challenger believes could be trans, which inevitably will include many more cis women than trans women. (Trans men are unlikely to face any such challenge.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We’ve lost over 8000 doctors in the past two years. 8000. Not only is anti-migrant rhetoric disgusting, dehumanising, cruel, and racist; it’s also painfully self defeating and actually harms those push it. Hideously stupid.

"We are standard people!" #QuoteOfTheDay

It will take literally one court case where a company gets sued by a cis person for denying them access to toilets on suspicion of being trans for this all to fall apart. And this guidance makes that case inevitable.

Shot - chaser - finisher The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork. Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes. Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans. A recipe for utter chaos.

I hate this framing. The dispute is about whether there will be a guard on the train or not, not "who opens and closes the doors". Guard on the train, please. See what happened in Huntingdon!

Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste! ➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow #asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights

No Streaming Wednesdays this week due to railway business. Next week, however, Live From The Works features something... completely different... see you next week!

The solution was to say: "we will provide legal routes and the resources to process these claims faster." Instead we have what Labour disgorged into the discourse: totally rotten stuff that will only make things worse. We can all see it, yet somehow it evades these people who run the country.

The Brexit Benefit of small boat crossings.

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Shabana Mahmood asks MPs to stop mentioning Tommy Robinson's name (in relation to his support for her policies) as "he doesn't even think I am English. I find that offensive."

“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them". How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration

“How many refugees have been granted asylum in the UK?” Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth. Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.

"If fascism is popular we will implement it" is such a blunt and perfect summary of liberalism delivered with absolute clarity

Oh, get fucked! Literal ghouls, the lot of them. I'm off to join the Green Party. Fuck these guys.

What's a movie you never tire of?

Fuck it, just install Farage in No. 10 at this point. He's already setting government policy, why keep up the fucking pretence? Horrible, spineless cunts, the lot of them.

British.

People should be kind to one another and realise that how others choose to live their lives doesn't impact you and isn't any of your business.

Steam Engine Lunch Break? Steam Engine Lunch Break.

Six months since I last flagged this one, but turns out it's still appropriate.

"It's the finest place to live on Earth!" @mrjamesob.bsky.social defends London from 'racists and freak shows'.

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

Baby pigeon mystery. My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...