The UK actually has top tier weather. Four distinct seasons. Never too hot or too cold. No extreme weather disaster stuff either. Not many places have it better.

Pretty devastating takedown of American political science, and its inability to acknowledge anti-liberal forces harpers.org/archive/2026...

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

OPINION: An interpreter does not merely convert words from one language to another. They carry meaning across the chasm between us ... and make split-second ethical and semantic decisions that could preserve dignity - or shatter a survivor. 👇

great piece. related: I'm a freelance audio/radio/podcast producer, with work available at jaycowit.com. Open to new opportunities in 2026 to add to my schedule.

On Christmas Bin Day, the greatest gift you can give your neighbours with kids is a message saying: "There's space in our bins of you need it"

'Ten Best Cumbrian Boundary Disputes'

I think this statement sums up the horror Bondi and the horror of the world succinctly

I don't think a lot of people get quite how bad the situation has got with targeted attacks on the migrants rights and refugee sector. My wife would be very happy if I left the sector I know that for sure. It's also just getting worse, stoked in no small part by government rhetoric and policies.

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

No, this ruling isn’t ‘secular indoctrination’ — it’s human rights | Andrew Copson via @humanists.uk humanists.uk/2025/11/27/n... #HumanRights #religion

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Here is your friendly occasional reminder that as a Tier 4 then Tier 2 immigrant, I could not access any benefits (and this was printed specifically on my visa), could not vote in any UK election (not even local council), and paid an NHS charge with the amount linked to the length of my visa.

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

The micro-aggressions are daily, the abuse regular, and the threat of violence constant. I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who feel different. Because only then you might glean what those flags going up signify to someone who looks like me. 3/

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

Playing the closing theme to Camberwick Green, just because everything is awful and it blocks things out momentarily

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous

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Good to see women speaking out on this. Harder borders and more deportations will not make women and girls safer. We need resources going into justice, support for survivors and education.

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

“It is a portrait of two Britains, one of which barely comprehends the challenges facing the other.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

In the most recent edition of my weekly musings, I explore what the recent USUN confirmation hearings and the withdrawal from UNESCO tell us about the emerging contours of U.S. policy towards the UN. casquebleu.substack.com/p/the-emergi...

Correct. Aspire to have a house people want to be at. To be able to knock up a dinner people remind you of in the future. To be able to, without planning, say ‘seeing as you’re here, would you like to stick around for dinner’ and throwing something really delicious.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

I offered an "initial damage assessment" of Trump policies at the UN in a virtual talk @balsillieschool.bsky.social this week. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmE...

If you missed today's Untaxing, on the unintended consequence of 1965 tax avoidance by the Beatles, you can catch it here: buff.ly/fu7OqQz

Excited to be joining Faiza Shaheen this evening to talk about how our immigration system has got it so badly wrong! Residents of Chingford & Woodford Green area do come along & say hi 😊😎

If you live in London, are PMC and have some liberal axe to grind, the Observer will basically publish it for you. It’s Reddit for the Hackney dinner party circuit.

... in a world where the frustrations of day-to-day life are made worse by download-this-app and your-call-is-important-to-us machinery, anything that appears to continue this trend is not welcome. Where is the political programme that promises to make life easier? (2/2) #AI

No one carries double denim as well as Shakey #totp1981

There are a million ways social media has rotted our brains & drained our energies in society. But one of the biggies for me is the way it’s convinced us we are politically active because we tweet. It excuses us from real action & makes it scarier cos someone is bound to a thread of criticism.

The Secretary-General is about to give a press conference on the launch of the UN80 initiative (09:00 AM New York time). webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1b...

If you're at the point of anti-woke moral panic that you're questioning whether NORTHERN IRELAND needs public investment in equality and inclusion initiatives, it's safe to say you're out of your fucking mind.

Chas and Dave were the true precursors of Britpop.

You've heard all about the farmers' protests... But you haven't heard about this one theconversation.com/the-uk-farme...

also means you have all these politicians going "agh immigration is getting less and less popular what can we do, what's going on" when like, yeah, if you've got lots of people making the case against something and none making the case for it, what did you think would happen?

The funding cuts to the UN by Trump 2.0 have thus far mostly been felt in voluntary funding. But cuts—or even a pause—to assessed contributions are likely. In this new piece, I look at what this could entail, and measures that can be taken to mitigate the impact. [1/2] cic.nyu.edu/resources/pr...

@overunderpod.bsky.social another excellent podcast this week. Worth the monthly Patreon just for Gary singing Chas and Dave alone. Keep up the good work

1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

Remembering liberalism

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.