Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

We might have FINALLY met our match… #WorldBollardAssociation

Superb

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

Quite the sting on Elon Musk here! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

*taps sign*

The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey

The fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is no fall at all. It comes ELEVEN years too late and has only happened as a damage limitation exercise. We need to start having a grown up conversation about monarchy... and I'm starting it here. Me @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/cast-into-th...

Letter in Times today

This, by Will Lloyd, on the increasing absurdity of the monarchy, the irrelevance of 'Windsorism' in an age unmoored from God and deference, is just such a fantastic ride. Beautiful writing.

I adore Emma Thompson

So the words may be racist, but the person saying them isn’t. Have I got that right?

Reform candidates should be made to demonstrate that they can speak Welsh to A level standard before being allowed to live in Wales.

Pure barbarism.

🤯 x 1000

Not quite sure why the media is presenting the Caerphilly result as a disaster for Labour, rather than as a perfect execution of its electoral strategy. That strategy for *months* now has been to tell everybody who might otherwise be inclined to vote for them to fuck off. And off they have fucked.

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The welfare state could be "an essential tool to maintain the social fabric of society, rather than a cost to be reduced"? Why did no-one mention this??

Thinking about starting a Gen X "Shit Old Days" group. For reasons unknown, been having flashbacks to 80s comprehensive school, and honestly I think most people have memory-holed just how racist, homophobic, misogynist and violent everything was. Also: DOGSHIT EVERWHERE (cc @tudoracid.bsky.social)

Well this is a proper head scratcher. But yeah, fiddling around with tax and getting rid of consumer protections should sort it. Wonder what those ‘former chancellors and prime ministers’ had to say about this shitshow. Any mention of Brexit at all?? (Times and Private Eye)

Never forgetting George Osborne as one of the most destructive figures of recent times.

I'm gonna try to articulate something I've been thinking about for a while, regarding *why* disillusionment, distrust, & dissatisfaction with democracy are rising. Almost everything I read takes this phenomenon as an exogenous shock, assuming no one chose to make it so. I suspect that's incomplete.

Lunacy

Hadn't realised lots of trusts were no longer prescribing gluten-free food for coeliac kids. My son is coeliac and his food is so much more expensive. We don't get on prescription because we can afford it but for a family in poverty that's a massive issue. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Not even the worst part of it. Is he saying that all scumbags are immigrants, or all immigrants are scumbags?

Far from being a distant colleague, insiders told Byline Times that Reform's former Welsh leader, convicted of bribery, was a close Farage aide and worked on the Kremlin's plan to crush Ukraine

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An excellent point. The terms migrant, refugee etc are being used to dehumanise

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

The express poll asking whether reforms migrangt visa plan is racist is about 91% "no" so it REALLY needs your help - this is a direct link to poll xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Dutch late night TV has its take

Once said ‘Sorry… excuse me’ to Meg Ryan

Private Eye nailing it again

Racist rhetoric has dire consequences. Raping a young woman in a ‘racially aggravated attack’ speaks volumes about the far right’s “claims” to care about women & girls’ safety. Those fronting up far right politics know it’s just a pretence for their own hateful agenda. news.sky.com/story/sikh-w...

Ah, yes, 13 September. 53rd anniversary of French hypermarket Carrefour encroaching onto UK soil by opening a flagship store in Caerphilly. Obviously Not all that remarkable in itself, perhaps, but its 6th birthday was one to remember – what with the 40ft, three-ton animatronic gorilla and all

Useful insight here if you’re interested.

The meaning of flag-ism being called out starkly here: here:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/10/immigration-debate-country-remigration-right

Very good

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

The BBC are constantly fawning over Farage's every move despite Reform only having four MPs. Our national broadcaster should reflect the whole country, not just one man’s ego.

We need to talk about the threat X poses to our shared values as a country. This is bigger than just one platform: it’s about the way our democracy is being reshaped by an engagement model that rewards outrage above all else. 1/7 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

it's real support from actual racists

Philomena Cunk couldn’t have put it better.