You can become disabled in an instant. People think those of us who are sick did “something” to deserve it. We didn’t. The just world fallacy is a lie. It just takes one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck to forever change your life. Disability is not a moral failing.

If you can’t change Prime Minister because of the bond markets, then the bond markets *are* the Prime Minister.

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

I feel like male violence against women is so acceptable - that a man bombing his partner and himself to death in Bristol isn’t being treated by media, pundits and politicians as being illustrative of a national emergency and an act of terrorism- It absolutely is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC Projected National Share of the vote for the local elections with the change from last year. Despite the fanfare in the media for Reform this echoes their steady decline in the polls. Reform 26% -4 Green 18% +7 Labour 17% -3 Conservative 17% +2 Lib Dems 16% -1

Liverpool this season constantly default to a backwards step when the opposition has the ball and a backwards pass when we have it. So passive, especially when one goal up.

It feels fucking emotional to now live under a Green council. It’s no secret I worked for the Greens for 5 years. Most of that for the magical @carolinelucas.bsky.social. It’s easy to see this as an overnight boom. To belittle the wins as nowhere near enough. But this has been years in the making.

I know we’ve got our third choice goalkeeper in, our second choice left-back, fourth choice right-back who’s also a midfielder & no fit forward, but I really can’t understand how we look so disjointed.

Going to be an outstanding final between Man City (130) and Chelsea (74). Never could we lovers of the game have ever imagined a showpiece with over 200 outstanding charges.

Trafford would never

If only I could live with a fraction of the freedom of Curtis Jones playing at right back in a suffocatingly tight away derby #LFC

To clarify: you'd be stunned at how little most ntl tax authorities, all over the world, understand about the methods rich people use to avoid taxation (without breaking the law) or to evade taxation (breaking the law, but in ways that are very costly to prove). It's a real David & Goliath sitch.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

It's gone wild because Liverpool reacted extremely badly to adversity (as ever this season) and then started thinking about Wednesday.

It's the resignation from the team this season once we hit a bit of adversity that's hard to stomach

this platform was built by trans people and for all its flaws I am very glad that it’s one of the few places left that is still willing to tell the world to fuck off when it tries to destroy them let’s keep it that way

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

How to counter the far right's constant fire hose of lies with impeccably reasoned argument

Not sure how this goes anywhere good from here. Fatigue will be kicking in hard, Brighton have dynamism off the bench to exploit the holes we'll leave chasing this #lfc

participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.

Each member of Liverpool's starting front six had more xG than Galatasaray tonight (0.18).

Newcastle is a good example of the anti-Liverpool. They're better than the sum of their parts, getting spanked by a team who are likewise, but with much better parts. Liverpool are currently waaaay worse than the sum of their parts.

Every now and then I'm brought up short by the thought that not a single person responsible for two of the biggest corporate scandals of the century - the Horizon IT system and the Grenfell Tower fire - is in prison. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watching LFC close out a close match...

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore. If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote.

When the fascists began to set up their news networks, people understandably laughed at the amateurish nature of their initial efforts: they should also have spent much more time thinking what fascists could achieve with the near-limitless funds at their disposal.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

At this point halfway through the second half, I have no idea who my MoM would be #lfc

I'm having one of those days where I am frustrated because for most of the major political questions the issue is not that we don't have answers, the issue is that people with money and power simply ignore the answers because they don't like them

This is why polarisation is such an unhelpful term as it encourages this kind of horseshoe theorising Starmer's vision may sound grownup but it's one where politics should be in between democracy and authoritarianism, racism and anti-racism, transphobia and trans rights and fascism and anti-fascism

As @samfr.bsky.social pointed out the other day there is now relatively little room for Labour to manouver on policy given the time left. The only big policy leaver is really immigration. Which is why they should very, very publically boot the Immigration Bill into the sun - and apologise for it

Doesn't it annoy you that we have to work so hard to beat Reform? Because they chat so much rubbish. People need to do better! My patience is running thin I guess

Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere. It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

The Guardian: "tightly contested race" The Byline Times: "Huge victory" It's almost like they're talking about a different election... The Guardian has to do some serious introspection if it wants to even pretend it stands against the far right

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

The conservative candidate in last nights election was known literally for one thing; she led the anti trans activity in the police. Seriously that was her background, and why Badenoch backed her. And what happened? It’s time to give up the lie that transphobia is popular

Big test for much of the media today as to how this victory is covered vs a Reform by election win, or any revolt on the populist right. It’s as important and as meaningful. Something tells me the tone might be a touch different!

UK games journalism has been hollowed out by venture capitalists and vultures. They've replaced talented, experienced writers with low-quality slop and a treadmill of shitty, inaccurate AI guides. The job I loved has been turned into an insulting mimicry of something that fucking mattered

We're rightly saying that Rio changed the game when he came on. But Joe's long throws had just as much impact. Cranked up the pressure, squeezing CBs and goalkeepers into their 6-yd box, back foot defending that ended with Murillo on his own goal line dropping it to Macca to volley in. #lfc

The video was *at worst* inconclusive, no need for VAR to change the decision. But absolutely looked to me like it was off his back. The refs in the portacabin can get in the bin

Not an easy watch today, are we lads? #lfc

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

That celebration looked like the start of the goodbye, somehow. Love you back, Mo #lfc