It's almost impressive nltimes.nl/2025/11/07/w...

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Good to see a new outlet for quality writing (Part Two) www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Good to see a new outlet for quality writing

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/

When AI systems are being tested, they pretend to be dumber than they are. Eek. Also contains (a few) laughs.

Trouble is, there is no trace of the business on Companies House. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/red-flags-th...

It’s out! I spoke to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social about migration, the realities, the challenges and how to confront the real threat of far right takeover of our country on a platform of fear and disinformation. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

It's honestly depressing how bad previously respected local news media have become. Fortunately places like @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social have sprung up offering actual reporting, rather than whatever this is

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Debacle is the right word. UK governments between 2016 and 2024 lived in a fantasy world with regard to trade and EU relations that was damaging and expensive. This one is more realistic but has to pick up the pieces. www.politico.eu/article/brex...

🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨 I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America. In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi... 1/2

His bijou pad does most of the work for him

Project fear. NB higher UK inflation is a major factor www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is the maddest thing I have read on here today, and bear in mind that I’ve blocked three people and muted twelve. Keen to find out how precisely how many deleted emails might equal one turned off tap

Morning all. Photograph by Shirley Baker/Mary Evans Abersoch, North Wales, ‘DANGEROUS' 1967.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 In one of the most fascinating episodes we’ve ever done @hern.bsky.social, A.I. writer at the Economist, joins @nndroid.bsky.social and @zoegrunewald.bsky.social for an ultra-deep dive into the truth about A.I. and what it means for our future ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

McArdle’s reward for Croydon failure: £1,200 per day in Brum insidecroydon.com/2025/07/28/m...

Repost with a cool song that's under 2 minutes www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjlY...

Just stumbled across this, and it took me back. Me and the guy I worked for at the time helped to arrange a Motörhead tour of Russia in 1997, and I remember us being faxed this rider and marvelling at the sheer quantity of alcohol required in the dressing room PER NIGHT

"New Genesis album lads. Boxer shorts? Ok. Pub." bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/...

An incredible episode of The Midnight Special from 1975 has just landed on YouTube. It's hosted by Billy Preston who has Labelle and Rufus with Chaka Khan among his guests, plus he gets to play the mind-blowing Tonto synthesizer. Watch the full show at ▶️📺 youtu.be/JeA7LPHhUko

Stuck on the runway for two hours yesterday afternoon was purgatory but then I realised I could have been watching Rod & Lulu doing Hot Legs

My latest, a deep dive into the Stewart report into HS2.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

A writer pal of mine died five years ago. Today a post suddenly appeared on his Facebook account, some auto-generated AI slop posted by whoever or whatever has got control of it. Annoying and depressing in equal measure.

I'm always supportive of sustainable transport investment, but: Has anyone noticed that the investment announced today matches exactly the allocations announced by the Conservative government in October 2023, following the cancellation of HS2 phase 2a? www.bbc.com/news/article...

I still think represents the most shocking void in the UK’s COVID response - when the largest biomedical facility offered to undertake testing (many universities did the same) the government didn’t even answer. The cost would have been minimal. But no profit for private companies… is that it?

🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control Must read from Foxglove's Rosa Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...

Really good article on the issues facing grassroots music venues and work done by @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social in the weekthat Sheffield Leadmill lost their appeal www.nme.com/news/music/u... #musiclive #grassrootsmusic

Interesting article on energy prices and standing charges across Europe. www.euronews.com/business/202...

Labour does not have to "fight for the right-wing". Take the "for" out of that sentence: that's what you're FOR, you poll-obsessed, focus-grouped, question-asking, legitimate-concern-addressing, bedwetting fucking airbags. Give voters a choice: Ladybird Britain, or Redistribution of Wealth.

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Britain wakes up every day, aims the gun at its feet and pulls the trigger. Just a prolonged exercise in meanspiritedness and self-harm.

RIP the great Clem Burke (here pictured with Manuel, for some reason). If Martians come and quiz me about the peaks of human achievement, I'll point them in the direction of Clem's drumming on Union City Blue.

Farewell to Clem Burke who knew how to fuse Keith Moon with Disco, soundtrack to my childhood air drumming. Such a big part of Blondie’s sound. youtu.be/Hvqgb1D6Opw?...

Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

If your definition of "Woke" is broad enough to cover both Greta Thunberg and Vladimir Putin, it has perhaps exhausted whatever rather dubious descriptive usefulness it once had.

Wouldn't of. Eugh. Expect better from the BBC.

Curtis Sparkles, our KING. Undone the repost and reposting again because this might be the best single-shot gag on Bluesky ever. His idiot face thinking "yeah, nailed it. Sick Boy's definitely one of the Railway Children..."

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics. I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Pretty sure that’s not the right SAS 😂 #heathrowclosure

I was really pleased to find out this morning that Bournville Radio Sailing and Model Boat Club and Boating Lake has been granted Grade II listed status by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England. Built in 1933, the Cadbury family funded the construction.

I’m sorry to add to our woes but my friend saw this

I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.

Lovely @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social on this week's pod. And, infuriatingly, David Fucking Quantick makes up a stupid poem that's funnier than mine. Q: if Gromit shits recyclable plasticine, how long before their entire world is made of plasticine shit? pod.link/1774465485

HOLY SHIT you guys, check out this AMAZING song, Hostile Government Takeover, by @agiftfromtodd! He's singing truth, and this tune slaps. Give it a listen and repost to share.🙏💪

You’re one of the first people to see my posts on here. Exciting, eh? 🤷🏽‍♂️. My album collection show is for grown ups who enjoy stuff like, oh I don’t know … Dylan, Jackson Browne, Springsteen, Bowie, through to current faves like Decemberists and Ferris & Sylvester. Give it a go, you might enjoy it.

Hooray! It’s a Top Of The Pops repeat from the era that we nicked the pre-show rundown from. youtu.be/UBsLy5ayHU4?...