The cuts that Trump imposed on foreign aid will kill many and so will the 40% cuts to our foreign aid budget coming in next year. No one voted for this UK aid sector braces for spending cuts in 2026 - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Day 3. That moment coming out of a difficult feeling is joy. When we’re able to: get a glass of water, go outside for a stroll, text a mate, enjoy tasting something, or big belly breaths and relaxing. They don’t sound big, but they all happen when we start to feel joy. www.bishuk.com/about-you/ho...

It was a hit and miss show but I love the new Mitchell and Webb sketch which renames it "the crying shed". It's barely even hauntology because there's barely anything of a futurity to what gets repaired, it's excellent craftspeople devoted to reproducing the saccharine banality of the same.

Look, I like Repair Shop but don't like the cloying nostalgia, the compulsory melancholy, and how it's all about a very particular kind of family. Make it much more about the repairs, make the background music more like (eg) Haiku Salut and focus on what (else) the repaired thing can now do

How about we end the year in style? See you there! 💚🎄

It's day two. Not betwixtmas, or the interegxmas, or the Christmas perineum, or the festive gooch. Hope you're able to enjoy some capacity to act today (and to do what you can to increase this for others too). www.bishuk.com/about-you/ho...

It's day two. Not betwixtmas, or the interegxmas, or the Christmas perineum, or the festive gooch. Hope you're able to enjoy some capacity to act today (and to do what you can to increase this for others too). www.bishuk.com/about-you/ho...

And *another* stretch target!! Thank you everyone for all the money raised already for Calais Appeal. Merry Christmas. 🎄 t.co/xoSTghGQCQ

Watching the total donations shooting up after the Xmas Day Message is so beautiful. Thank you all! 💚🎄 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

It’s not always possible for people to be clear about what they can or can’t do. Also it should be okay for people to change their minds at any time. This means that you have to allow for some wriggle room. So maybe look at your festive plans and knock 20% off.

If you've watched it on ITV tonight and want a rant about it...

It’s not always possible for people to be clear about what they can or can’t do. Also it should be okay for people to change their minds at any time. This means that you have to allow for some wriggle room. So maybe look at your festive plans and knock 20% off.

This guide is to help you bring a bit more consent into your celebrations. Consent isn’t just about sex and it’s not just about yes or no. We can all have more consent in our lives, and thinking about how to do this can mean we can all have a better time. www.bishuk.com/relationship...

This guide is to help you bring a bit more consent into your celebrations. Consent isn’t just about sex and it’s not just about yes or no. We can all have more consent in our lives, and thinking about how to do this can mean we can all have a better time. www.bishuk.com/relationship...

Here's me for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social arguing that the only way to forestall a Reform government is to make a more decisive break with neoliberalism than Starmer is ever going to, or most of the parliamentary 'soft left' still seem capable of imagining. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

It’s another ‘Cultural Artefact’ episode and in this one I’m ranting about Love Actually. It’s on ITV X this Christmas so this makes the Watchalong episode I did last year more relevant, which you can find here at the Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/118365... soundcloud.com/culturesexre...

Also: open.spotify.com/track/6EEGlQ...

A diary with BISH advice and guidance about you and relationships for you (or someone else) to print out for you. 13 pages of niceness. All free, ad free, and AI free www.bishuk.com/about-you/bi...

"People fearing that their job is going to be made obselete by people using AI and also boasting about how they use AI" Breaking News — Lyrics and Discussion share.google/hharzitgT64N...

The reviews are in for this episode "super useful" "challenging" "quite beautiful"

You could also stop misogyny and harm by telling people with substack newsletters why that website is awful. And refuse to engage with work published on it. People need to understand that harm isn’t stopped by a back insta square or a pink hat. It is by every day actions and being reflective

🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there. ✍🏼 Dear cabinet....

I think we were doing pretty good at tackling misogyny but then they bailed out the banks and cut the funding for local authorities until the youth service was pretty much destroyed. The answer is good RSE. Here are some blogs for practitioners bishtraining.com/category/you...

Also if you wanted to address misogyny and harm in schools, you’d probably not have skirt length policies that policed femme bodies and ended up with girls being told their skirts were “disgusting”. You’d have uniform that allowed comfortable trousers. And girls would tell you that if you asked.

“The decision to sever ties came after HarperCollins’ former chief executive, Charlie Redmayne, suddenly stepped down in October and was replaced on an interim basis by Kate Elton.”

The reviews are in for this episode "super useful" "challenging" "quite beautiful"

🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦖☄️ (I love this ep so much.)

Your last chance to get a 10% discount on this course (which also includes the Big Bish Download). Just email me by the end of the year saying 'hey Justin can you keep a space for me, thanks'. bishtraining.com/advanced-rse...

Please join Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and many others in signing this call for an academic and cultural boycott of the UAE, in relation to its complicity in genocide in Sudan. spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

I got a request to talk about 'Limerance' from a listener who was also kind enough to share their experiences. Whilst I'm not a fan of 'Limerance' I am a fan of feeling strong connections and 'love' in our lives but just not limited to sexual / romantic love m.soundcloud.com/culturesexre...

It's very good and fun!

I got a request to talk about 'Limerance' from a listener who was also kind enough to share their experiences. Whilst I'm not a fan of 'Limerance' I am a fan of feeling strong connections and 'love' in our lives but just not limited to sexual / romantic love m.soundcloud.com/culturesexre...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We need to work on the adults first because far too many misogynistic attitudes exist in school adults. And that includes internalised misogyny that women use on other femme people who aren’t “valuable” in this society. The adults have to change first

"Together, we hope Lullaby will also help keep Gaza very much in our hearts and minds" Artist and songwriter Brian Eno reports on Together for Palestine and the campaign propelling an Arabic Lullaby into the charts www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

I hope it will be good, but I have incredibly low expectations. As I outline here Taking Relationships Education Seriously - Bish Training - Sex & Relationships Education share.google/jjPSnWrbqdBK...

They're wheeling in the telly to show Adolescence

I hope it will be good, but I have incredibly low expectations. As I outline here Taking Relationships Education Seriously - Bish Training - Sex & Relationships Education share.google/jjPSnWrbqdBK...

Think of it as a present

The Ministry of Justice is still refusing to meet with the lawyers or families of hunger strikers being held on remand. This is a shambolic dereliction of duty. I have written to David Lammy, again, imploring him to do the right thing before it is too late.

Huge news and probably the most significant win for the UK left since Corbyn became Labour leader in 2015. A comprehensive rejection of Starmerism by the country's biggest union and Labour's largest affiliate.

"DfE's newly published pupil experience data should stop us all in our tracks... The child isn’t broken, the system around them is." schoolsweek.co.uk/pupils-told-...

Your regular reminder that bad sex ed (or youth work) is worse than none. Also, if you have staff, train them. Lots.

Today on Gone Medieval I have an episode about the Jewish community in Medieval Norwich. I went up last week to interview my mate Oren Margolis and I am really proud of this one. I just wish it wasn't so timely. It feels weird. Anyway, check it out. share.google/PkLRhPHXoise...

Trump's comment about Rob Reiner, a beloved American, really demonstrates the rottenness of his character.

☔️ As another storm system pounds Gaza, heavy rain is flooding makeshift shelters where millions of displaced Palestinians are exposed to the elements. UNRWA says it has shelter materials for 1.3 million people waiting just outside Gaza, but Israel still continues blocking their entry, along with...

Love Actually is on ITV 2 right now (and on ITV X). So here's my sex ed guide to it (from last year). www.bishuk.com/your-call/a-...

As you can see each month has a bit of BISH guidance with snippets from some of my favourite articles about relationships and you. (There’s nothing about sex in the diary, so it’s chill). www.bishuk.com/about-you/bi...

Just let people go for a piss, for Christ’s sake. Do you have any idea how insane it looks to have a cadre of mean-as-fuck official toilet monitors as your national equalities regulator.