This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

My son, playing the last post at the remembrance service on South Parade Pier, Southsea, UK this morning. Proud dad moment. We will remember them.

@alanallport.bsky.social yeah, it’s finally arrived. Am so looking forward to reading this.

I’m looking forward to my evening with @pompeyhistory.bsky.social and the legend that is Simon Inglis. These books do need an updated version. Perhaps a question I will ask

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’ The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

Perhaps rather than endlessly promoting Mr Farage, the national media could highlight what his local councillors are doing - as demonstrated here by @northantstelegraph.bsky.social www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

Perfect Private Eye cover

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

This should be put in front of Robert Jenrick during every interview

The GOP wanted to impeach Biden for a fake $5M bribe from Ukraine that was made up by a guy sitting in prison for lying about it, but they’re cool with a $400M plane from Qatar. Do I have that right?

The two “mindless” men who cut down the historic Sycamore Gap tree on a “moronic mission” have been found guilty.

Bezos caved faster than it took me to type that.

Ultra-processed foods reduce life expectancy. They reduce healthy life expectancy even more. And yet the government is doing nothing to end the addiction to them that their manufacturers are deliberately creating. Why is that? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

"We have an FBI director who received $25,000 for appearing in a film, executive producing a film, made by a Ukrainian-American-Russian who worked on a propaganda project that was financed, in part, by Vladimir Putin's office." "Why this isn't a bigger story, I don't know."

Macron shook one hand.

Ooh look #sophiefromromania we’re in the back of the @theguardian.com dogs supplement!

Trump’s Art of the Deal: Start by giving away your best cards Sell your partner down the river Lose patience and fold within 100 days No wonder he’s gone bankrupt so many times

A reminder: Russia signed a treaty with Ukraine in 1997, accepting that Crimea was part of Ukraine. In 2014 Russia infiltrated Crimea and seized it. Now Pres Trump proposes that Ukraine should accept the loss of Crimea, and blames Pres Zelenskyy for refusing this peace deal.

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

#OTD in 1990, the Soviet Union finally accepted responsibility and expressed 'profound regret' for its massacre of 21,857 Poles at Katyn in 1940. Denial can't last forever. 🗃️ #history

“Now the British economy is indeed smaller than it would have been if still a part of the EU, and the British government is locked into a doom loop of cutting spending and raising taxes meet commitments that were affordable with the EU growth path, but which are out of reach post-Brexit” @rte.ie 👍

It's amazing how few people in the UK realise that the last time the world went in to a massive financial tailspin, albeit one not directly caused by the President of the USA, it was Gordon Brown & the late Alistair Darling who provided the sort of international leadership desperately needed now.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

My second article on the chartered accountants who served in SOE has been published in Accounting History. The link is here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

Seems clear the UK's 'national interest' is not in trying to go it alone, but in standing shoulder to shoulder with Canada, the EU and others.

Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

“He’s a right knobhead that JD Vance…” #Gogglebox speaks for Britain

“The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week” - Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application. - Denied doing it. - Denied the plans were classified. - Denied the plans were plans. - Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." 1984 - George Orwell

🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.

From last month... www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194...

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

A reminder that in 1933 the Jewish population of Germany was about 2-3%.

Your lede ought to make it clearer that the children didn’t ’flee alone’ because their parents wanted it that way: it was because the British government, egged on by the same anti-refugee prejudices that animate the right today, refused to let them in.

Labour cleaning up the Tory sh*tshow. Isn’t it nice to have some good news…:)

Portsmouth tried to leave Fratton Park during the mad, manic money years before everything fell apart. Now they would never want to play anywhere else. I went there to write a piece on home, identity and anti-homogeneity. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 33 MILLION!!! 👏 LETS DO THIS!!

& then the Canadians turned the heat.... UP

True facts.

They should go on strike for better terms & conditions. I’m sure all the right-wing gobshites clutching their pearls about VAT will be right behind them…

Thank you, Prime Minister Trudeau. For your hard work, for your leadership, and for your great service to our country.

Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.