I have a passport number, a driving licence number, an NHS number, a tax number, a National Insurance number, a council tax number, a Voter ID number. All have records associated with them. Just integrate it all into one system and move on. It's a ridiculous debate.

Weill/Hindemith/Krenek, Academy Wind and Brass Ensemble, Royal Academy of Music, 26 September 2025

Sixth visit of the week to hospital beyond the M25 to visit a poorly parent. I hope those who have stuck up flags on the way here - and the local politicians too spineless to challenge them - have the good fortune never to need the migrants/offspring of migrants who are keeping this place going.

Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.

This is well worth your time

Common Dreams @commondreams.org Stephen Miller Claims Simply Calling Trump Authoritarian ‘Incites Violence and Terrorism’ www.commondreams.org/news/miller-...

Common Dreams @commondreams.org 'People… Have No Idea What It Means': Hegseth Raises Alarm With Weird’ Military Meeting in Virginia. “This is either a meeting that could have been an email,” said one observer, “or something ominous.” www.commondreams.org/news/pete-he...

#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous & FL Surgeon General Joseph "Quack" Ladapo, after announcing end of vaccine mandates, dodge questions about whether they or THEIR kids get vaccinated. floridapolitics.com/archives/757...

Roderick Williams and the Carducci Quartet, Die schöne Müllerin, St Martin in the Fields, 25 September 2025

Not just old enough to remember when Oyster cards were creeping authoritarianism to allow government to track your every move, I'm old enough to remember when Leeds City Council introducing digital library cards to replace those old cardboard pockets was the precursor to the cold hand of the Stasi.

@clayhensley.bsky.social Since Alexander Heard, has there been a decent VU chancellor apart from Zeppos?

The @sun-sentinel.com is one of those #Florida newspapers that bars European eyes from reading its work, so we'll have to settle for the tweeted gist.

As mentioned earlier by @seatsixtyone.bsky.social the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train might be axed from December What's happening, and why SNCF never really cared about this train, but why alternatives are tricky, explained on my blog 👇 jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...

NEW The Prime Minister’s extraordinary and significant statement on MI5 misleading the High Court A practical example of the judiciary and executive holding the security service to account By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-prime-... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

Robert Hugill @hugillr.bsky.social Iphigenia in Tauris at Blackheath Halls @blackheathhalls.bsky.social: community opera dares to go where few UK companies do with a compelling account of Gluck's French tragedy. @blackheathhalls.bsky.social www.planethugill.com/2025/09/iphi...

I think not, @marcelias.bsky.social

Modern slavery laws have already been weakened to the point where victims are at serious risk. Further undermining them will be absolutely catastrophic for vulnerable victims. It isn't modern slavery laws which need changing. It's Labour anti-asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social The Spitalfields Bowl spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/25/t...

Just spoke to someone who works in a hospital. He said that patients - including those who are NOT pregnant women - are already telling their caregivers that they will NOT take Tylenol. The stupidity is already spreading like wildfire and there will be consequences.

They've lost the 9yos

My new book, POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT, comes out 10/7 and I'm going on a book tour in SF, LA, Baltimore, DC, NYC, and ATL! 10/07, SF: City Lights w/ Daphne Muse 10/09, LA: Skylight w/ Elizabeth Hinton 10/16, Baltimore: Red Emma's w/Judy Richardson 10/18, DC: Politics & Prose w/Judy Richardson

#Florida teacher ousted for daring to use a 17-year-old student's chosen name without parental permission has now been barred from even volunteering at the school. www.floridatoday.com/story/news/e...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Typo alert. Khan, not "Kahn". I can't send the message privately (as I always prefer) because I refuse to "age-verify" myself under the UK's new snooping law.

Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social 50 Things That Will Help Street Dogs In 2025 niallharbison.substack.com/p/50-things-...

Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Suresh Singh’s Tank Top spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/24/s...

Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social They're Going After Autistic People for a Reason. We're hard to deal with. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/theyre-going...

First step on the road to make membership compulsory, along the lines of the Hitlerjugend or Young Pioneers?

A day to remember the Millerites. No relation to Stephen, although his people have Sabbatei Zevi in the same vein.

I've no other way of putting this than fuck right off. What the ever loving hell is this? The "autism problem" Please yeet yourself into the sun post haste. Trump's diatribe was rooted in eugenic conspiracy theories aimed at eliminating autistic individuals, like myself. Fuck right off.

Every day, a new Trumpite quack.

I've noticed that charity shops are no longer taking rags for recycling and I'm now hearing it's because the bottom has dropped out of the recycled textile industry. So it's just not worth the overheads. Does anyone have info about exactly why this is happening now? #TextileRecycling

Is it only me that realises Tylenol is an anagram of Epstein?

To paraphrase the old Falstaff adverts, the choicest product of the embalmer's art.

I, for one, will hold off any celebration until after hearing what Kimmel says. Ambition and opportunism can be a powerful "re-educator".

A day to remember the Millerites. No relation to Stephen, although his people have Sabbatei Zevi in the same vein.

Art Jipson @artjipson.bsky.social Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org The Term ‘Lone Gunman’ Ignores the Structures That Enable Violence www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-the-...

Worth remembering many people will be unfamiliar with terms like "indefinite leave to remain" and "settlement". People know what immigration is + citizenship, but settlement is less intuitive So its important for those countering the proposals to put in schoolgate language what is being proposed

Reform is racist. Let’s just say it. Loudly and often. They’re racist. Don’t take them on on how they plan to fund their nonsense. They don’t care. They don’t say it because they’ve worked it out. They say it for headlines and for voters who want prejudice as policy. They’re racist. They’re failure.

As of noon ET, Fox News has not mentioned reports that its then-employee Tom Homan accepted a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents as part of a corruption probe closed under the Trump administration. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

Oh my god, they weren't kidding, I've just seen the warnings leaflet that comes with a box of Tylenol. How were they keeping this quiet?!

🧵10 ways MAGA is NOT like the Nazis🧵 The right wing hates it when people compare MAGA to the Nazis, as I’ve done in the past, based on their fascist behavior. But to be fair, I’ve decided to provide the other side. So here’s a thread with my list of 10 ways the MAGA movement is NOT like the Nazis.

If there's ever a memorial service for me for some reason, could someone please ensure none of the top speakers are known child rapists? Thanks.

Starmer: “the real problem with the Nazis is that they didn’t provide a fully costed analysis of the final solution.”

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

Stalin’s birthplace is simmering with anxiety and bitterness. My Substack 👇 open.substack.com/pub/theconst...

Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social Maybe Losing Is The Real Goal. It makes you wonder. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/maybe-losing...

David Allen Green @davidallengreen.bsky.social The curious dropped prosecution for Chinese spying. What late “evidential” change could explain this sudden decision? davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

The BBC News continues to serve fascism by misrepresenting Charlie Kirk as a 'conservative activist'. This is a blatant lie. Charlie Kirk was a pro-Russian fascist agitator, a racist, homophobe, islamophobe and transphobe. The BBC News is a dangerous threat to democracy.

#Musikfest, heute eine Uraufführung der 1929 entstandenen Oper "Parabola and Circular" von Marc Blitzstein. Danach dann Bernsteins 2. Sinfonie "The Age of Anxiety". Letzteres passt ja. Und der Bundespräsident kommt wohl auch.