@brianbilston.bsky.social happy new year and thought you’d like this, it’s beautiful and awful and picks up on some of the themes in your back-to-front poem Refugees www.facebook.com/share/v/14U2...

From yesterday: The Home Office’s unsafe journeys policy is dangerous | Hamish Dick

Republican bullies deploy more threats against the UK to protect their big tech corporate allies.

The Nesin Mathematics Village in western Turkey was dreamed up by award-winning mathematician Ali Nesin to engage his students

10/10 for headline, FT, a++ No notes. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

so that went well: “Venezuelan government launches wave of repression after ousting of Nicolás Maduro” www.ft.com/content/b3a2...

Decent enough report of the CSAM / female undressing pictures on X by the BBC, yet almost all the BBC presence is there, not here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Latest monthly visa application figures are out. Skilled workers? Still dropping. Health & care workers? Still dropping. Slow clap.

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

NEW When is an order an ‘unlawful command’? And why has Trump reacted so furiously to six members of Congress correctly stating the law? By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (In which I go and look at the actual law and guidance in US and also UK.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

By way of background, here is my @prospectmagazine.co.uk post on when is an order an "unlawful command" about that video of the six members of Congress. bsky.app/profile/davi...

John 11:35 and likewise FML: “Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

die kleinste Kopie von Capital weltweit (DDR Museum, Berlin, 📸 by my boss) for @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social, sadly you probably read the full size version for @originstorypodcast.bsky.social

The great isolationist ‘America First’ GOP President Donald Trump has in less than a year in office declared himself the ‘owner’ of Gaza and the ‘ruler’ of Venezuela.

*sound on* 🔉 2025… it was a good year, and I’ve been a good little worker bee! Huge thanks to everyone who helped me find the joy

Exciting news!!! YOU’RE DEAD TO ME returns tomorrow for series 11 We launch with an episode about Emperor Nero, with the stellar cast of @wmarybeard.bsky.social & @pattonoswalt.bsky.social It’ll only be available in the UK on BBC SOUNDS for the first month, then globally on other apps after

Who'd have thunk it?

The Hague is notable for being the only major court composed of sequential letters from "the Human League."

What makes this decline even more remarkable is that NYC has around 1.2m more people than it did in 1990.

Mamdani really hit the ground running

Happy New Year. THERE. I said it & I really mean it, even though the odds are it will be every bit as challenging & frustrating as the last one.

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and in 2025 we came a step closer to finding it

If this is how @washingtonpost.com is trying to woo back people like me who canceled their subscription after @anntelnaes.bsky.social had her cartoon censored, it ain't working.

Flocean, a Norwegian company, is set to open the world’s first commercial-scale subsea desalination plant, an approach that could cut the cost and energy used to make seawater drinkable

History is a constructed narrative, not an objective truth, and with that in mind, I cannot wait to read Lee Anderson's first textbook.

One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)

“London is a long way from fallen… It is ever more vital to call out those who truly have fallen – those politicians who most ostentatiously wrap themselves in the British flag, while cynically and dishonestly trashing their own country’s greatest city” – superb pc by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

US retreats from Trump’s pasta tariffs, Italy says ft.trib.al/cFcqSIn

Where does all the Christmas cardboard go? ft.trib.al/Jh7W7P5

Trump sued the Pulitzer Board, and it just backfired spectacularly. Now they’re demanding his psychological records, medication history, and tax returns. 👀 Read the full report here:

"Now the cover-up is out in the open." — @aoc.bsky.social Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just torched the DOJ’s failure to fully release the Epstein files, calling for Bondi's resignation. Read her full scorching response here:

The problem with Streeting (aside from all the other problems with Streeting) is that he appears to want to be PM purely for the fact of being PM as a win & of in itself. It’s hard to detect any kind of sincere ideology, or even ideas really, other than whatever he thinks will get him there.

Loved this ep so much, brought back many memories…I was in USSR / the CIS five times that year for work and my former boss was actually in the White House (Moscow branch) during the coup… is even a photo of me with Gorbachev at a party… 🤣🤣🤣 #СлаваCоветская

Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May. Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...

But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.

Make America Healthy Again my ass.

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have spotted the first hints that they are real

Finally, a foe worthy of her talents.

In case you missed it: New legal aid rates for immigration and asylum work to take effect from 22 December 2025 | Sonia Lenegan

Snowflakes.

@sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social @london.gov.uk are there any plans to repair all the broken bus time displays on stops across south London? eg the one at Jebb Avenue / Brixton Prison (stop BD 48895) has been out for months. Thanks

the “action faction” & the “praxis axis” – pure Dr Seuss or even Danny Kaye in The Court Jester: “The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true” @iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social could not stop laughing, re-listened 3x

Welcome to the second Origin Story episode of the week as @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of the New Left. Listen to Part Two: Children of the Revolution here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #originstory #thenewleft #Gramsci #politics #podcast #history

@mrjamesob.bsky.social non-dorky TV dad for next time, starring Bill Bixby (who later played Bruce Banner in the best Hulk series with Lou Ferrigno) m.imdb.com/title/tt0063...

It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.

I'm hoping to unite Left and Right - they'll all hate my piece in today's Sunday Times, saying that successive Budgets have overtaxed the highest-earning 20%, and under-taxed both the median earner and the richest 0.1%.https://buff.ly/BqRFpJr

Oh fuck off.

It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn. It's hardly a massive difference.