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Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

Worth an MBE, at minimum. BBC News - Chelmsford tongue-in-cheek signs must end, says Essex Highways - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Probably the world will end.

With all these hot people following me on here I must be ultra attractive.

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal. He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing. No one believes you, Nigel. Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

Very good. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

BZ.

Who knew?

BZ Gary Neville. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

OK, let's take this seriously. I had an odd half an hour and via Apple Books had a quick look at the three claims I knew most about - two re the post-Brexit bilateral preferential trade agreements replicated from the EU versions and one about cheaper bananas. All are wrong or wildly implausible. 1/n

Tied herself up in knots. open.spotify.com/episode/0hWv...

Brass neck alert. BBC News - Tesco boss warns Reeves against further business taxes - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely awful to have to re-circulate @onthemedia.bsky.social's Breaking News Consumer's Handbook on Yom Kippur, but here we are. Stay safe, everyone.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Thanks @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social for taking time at #Lab25 to meet us. We discussed the importance of ensuring that earlier leukaemia diagnosis is prioritised across the NHS.

If it's uncrewed, why has it got windows? 🤔

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

Quite.

Oh, BZ.

BZ Peter Kyle.

EXCLUSIVE: The Papua New Guinea Courier's UK correspondent on Nigel Farage bringing the UK media to heil open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

Yep.

National populism exploits the diminishing ability of nation states to protect the national interest.

In his newsletter this week ( open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/w... ), @jonnelledge.bsky.social recalls of an old viral tweet, pictured below. Which means I can’t now help but riff on how our current government would respond if Reform said something similar. So let’s imagine. 🧵

Yep.

If you're rich and need to dodge tax, then you're not as rich as you say you are. You're just cheating - like being top of the class but only because you were "smart" enough to sneak the textbook in. You're just screwing over the rest of the class/country who actually work hard

A good read. substack.com/home/post/p-...

BZ to this. Even Herself (Mrs L) says so.

There is another country. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the thuggery, sanctimony and hypocrisy of the last fortnight, and how Starmer should lead in articulating an alternative version of patriotism to that of the far-right: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/ther...

BBC News - The US is at a dangerous crossroads after Charlie Kirk shooting - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I back delivering the New Deal for Working People in full ✊🌹 Add your support: labourunions.org.uk/newdealinfull/

Completely hatstand.

The last sentence.

Someone followed the Notional Guard around DC playing the Imperial March from Star Wars.

Far right protest today: 29 - police officers injured 9 - protestors arrested Proscribed group protests: 0 - police officers injured 1,600 - protestors arrested We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly

Quite.

This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!