Rachel Reeves gets heckled by some lout and Reform take the opportunity to confirm they’re right behind threatening, intimidatory behaviour. While of course whimpering about Farage’s need for £5m worth of “security”.

Lads, Harry Hill is a legend

Oh, yay, I can’t wait for my teenage daughter to be harassed in toilets and other public spaces for not looking enough like a teenage girl to meet the approval of bigots. Very much fuck these people and fuck this party. Trans women are women.

There’s been a lot of love for my #Blackburn designs. I’m an illustrator based in Manchester but I’m Blackburn born and bred. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk/hometown

Cesc Fabregas tells a story about the Arsenal squad being invited to the palace after their "invincibles" Premier League win. he expected a polite "and what do YOU do?" from Queen Liz. instead she joyously interrogated him for 20mins about key moments in the season. (she was an Arsenal fan)

Absolutely fucking not.

Have done a day back at work. Am exhausted now. Never wanted UBI more, I could definitely have done with a few more days off but bills must be paid.

I am interested in this so if you are a LibDem with VIEWS please DM

Such an awful debate in every respect. We don't want young people with aspirations. University might be bad for you. Was good for us the successful ones but you don't deserve the same. Mostly because governments have made a mess of financing.

I have been saying this for years now about my area in the NE. Coal and ship building gone with nothing to replace them and voters who really only hear from their councillors or MP when it is almost election time. They feel ignored, taken for granted, forgotten.

CARE WORK IS HIGHLY SKILLED WORK and only paid so poorly because of the failure of successive governments to value it properly

Read the comments and changed my mind about 20 times. A Little Life To Kill a Mockingbird The Stand

Marshalling on the last corner again at Rising Sun #patkrun this week. Lovely sun, lovely runners, lovely start to the day.

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

Just one of the greatest songs

Aside from the medical aspect of it, I have quite enjoyed my 2 weeks off work and getting back to it on Monday is going to be hard.

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Transgenders rejoice 🎉

This leadership shit, even now, is still not as important as the fact that FIVE MILLION QUID HAS BEEN PAID TO THE LEADER OF ONE OF OUR BIGGEST POLITICAL PARTIES

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I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Before Labour got into power they were careful to get the message out “there’s no money” with Rachel “fiscal rules” Reeves constantly lying to us that the finances of a nation state need to be managed on a short term basis like a Monzo current account

Replacing an unpopular and dishonest rightwinger who has a Mandelson problem, with another unpopular and dishonest rightwinger who has a Mandelson problem is not going to save Labour from oblivion.

“We can also speak to friends and loved ones on the other side of the planet essentially whenever we want. When we worry about the role social media has played in our problems, we should try to hang on to that bit, too."

Wars around the globe are drawing comparisons with the late 19th and early 20th Century, when Great Powers clashed in an atmosphere of nationalist populism. Professor Odd Arne Westad joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to discuss whether we are on an inevitable march toward war. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

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Wes Streeting supports the Cass Report and Palantir's UK govt contracts. Either he lacks the critical thinking skills to evaluate the evidence/arguments against them, or he ignores these things for ideological or other reasons. Either one makes him unfit to be PM in my view. (Not going to debate it)

A new name for PCOS that gives a more accurate reflection of this often missed condition. A tiny bit of progress in women’s health is something to be excited about in this climate www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

The primary benefit of getting rid of Starmer should be the opportunity to get rid of Streeting.

Blur released 'Modern Life Is Rubbish' 33 years ago on May 10, 1993 | Discover where it ranks in our readers' poll here: album.ink/BlurPoll

This is my hill and I will take everyone on. The idea that I somehow didn’t go on holiday because I didn’t leave the country till I was 18 is classist bullshit. Come at me.

George Michael released his third studio album ‘Older’ (1996) 30 years ago this week | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @beyondtheencore.bsky.social here: album.ink/GMichaelOlder

Obviously no running allowed so I volunteered at a soggy Rising Sun #parkrun this morning.

What Labour should be thinking right now: “Huh; maybe spending 16 months endorsing Farage’s policies while horrifying and alienating the base was a bad idea…” What Labour WILL be thinking right now: “Hmm. The racists still don’t like us. We’re obviously not being racist ENOUGH. BE MORE RACIST.”

waking up and reading about the results of the locals and feeling very

Our results won’t be up till later and we only had 1/3 voted on so we won’t be a Reform-led council tonight. But there’ll be councillors. And people will be called racist and stupid for voting for them (& I don’t fully disagree) but the background is so much more. And that will be ignored again.

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

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Here's Nigel Farage's "Tiktok guru" and adviser, Jack Anderton, telling GB News that he would be "worried" if the Jewish population was growing in the UK. When do we start seeing all the coverage about the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

You see it, you repost it. I don’t make the rules.

I spent a few hours on the campaign trail with the Greens in a Reform-y bit of Newcastle and found it oddly... inspirational? So.

Good morning to everyone except people voting for Reform today. Bored with empathising with disenfranchised working class people and confused 2nd/3rd generation immigrants. I grew up with a Radio Rentals TV and Matchstick trainers and I'm not a fucking dickhead. No excuses

Going to shuffle myself along to vote later. I predict a low turnout in our ward - no canvassers, no leaflets, the only way you’d know there was an election is the polling card sent weeks ago. No effort to win votes from any party, an apathy that will be reflected in turnout. No one cares about us.

Happy 30th Anniversary to Ash's debut album '1977' originally released May 6, 1996 | Discover where it ranks in our Britpop readers' poll here: album.ink/BritpopPoll

Happy 30th birthday to “Bully Boy” by Shed Seven. Great set of live tracks for b-sides.

The NHS is wonderful. Home, minus a uterus. Let the binge watching/listening and reading commence.

The rising 'children need to get used to being uncomfortable' anti-neurodiversity discourse is at once evidence of improved visibility & understanding (which always provokes dissent), & also lazy, pathologically incurious, harmful propaganda, mostly not from frontline teachers, pushed by the media.

Hoping my surgeon today has a steadier hand than me, who has just smashed a bottle of milk over the front step. 🤞