no one says “you bet your sweet bippy” anymore, because of Woke, and you know what? Woke got this one right. that was a weird thing to say

Choral music, looking round old churches and increasingly Waitrose, probably

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

The Right: whyyyyy aren't (white) women (& let's face it, girls) having more pink baaaaabieeeessssuh? Also The Right: bitch you need to suffer more, or the heir you're brewing like a womby Starbucks might come out with a flavour of foam we've decided we don't like

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

i feel like we’ve underestimated the power of being able to just… lie. “paracetamol causes autism” no it doesn’t, that isn’t true. so what are you, a journalist, going to do about that?

the rich he hath sent empty away

Sir John Curtice clearly knows the important cultural moments of #LDConf "Thank you all for coming, I know I stand between you all and the Glee Club, so I will tread carefully"

If you want to show people in your life why doctors say Tylenol DOES NOT cause autism, here are two straight forward explainers: medicalnewsbulletin.com/acetaminophe... medicalnewsbulletin.com/autism-is-no... #AutRes #EduSky 🩺📊 medsky, 🩺,⚕️ #SciPol 🧪

Martin Luther:

As with his Ordo Amoris ‘interpretation’ (that the Pope’s deputy schooled him on!), Vance’s impression of what Jesus’ priorities are re: nuclear families are just wrong. ‘Say goodbye to your father and mother’ - hello?! If you put marriage before God too (which he’s not alone in doing): nope.

Not exactly new for anyone who has read "Jesus and John Wayne" (2020) but it is striking how the project here uses Christian language and imagery in service of a religion of father-lordship rather than chastity, charity, prudent, temperance, kindness, diligence, etc.

Genuinely believe SW1 is addicted to elections and political drama after the last decade of instability in Westminster because a whole generation of politicians and hacks got into politics or reporting on politics during that period

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

Realise that fact-checking isn’t hugely effective when it doesn’t reach the right audience, but pretty much everything Farage said about migration and benefits earlier was complete bollocks, so it would be helpful if the coverage led with that

“Many experts are sceptical” is a weird way to spell “most experts say this is totally delusional horseshit” but you do you BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really pleased that the CAC has seen sense and this v important motion will be included in the priorities ballot on Sunday - it’s under ‘Supporting Families’ so if you have a vote, please do back it.

A good sign, I think, when someone leans over enthusiastically on the train to tell you that you HAVE to go to the restaurant you are discussing for dinner.

Pleasing tentacles through time serendipity on the timeline

It is genuinely absolutely bonkers that one year into a massive new government majority, all the discourse is about what will happen under the allegedly inevitable majority by another party. Much of it is the govt’s fault but not all - this very much has not happened under past unpopular govts!

I quite like immigration.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

'Jesus calls us to love both our neighbours and our enemies and to welcome the stranger. Any co-opting or corrupting of the Christian faith to exclude others is unacceptable.' - Grateful for the courage & voices of all those who signed this.

Worth remembering that there has been very little outcry about the family migration rules splitting families up since 2012. People don’t see it if it isn’t happening to them, and that’s a real problem.

Husband’s family are all dual nationals, and it’s, um, noticeable that it would be MUCH easier (I’m not saying totally straightforward) for me to go to the US with spouse, though obviously at the moment we have no intention or interest in doing so. But that illustrates how hostile the U.K. is.

Think it’s worth noting that people often talk about the Rapture as “mediaeval superstition” (ironically often an anti-Catholic trope, a prejudice Darby et al definitely shared), but it is in fact a very modern phenomenon.

Good thread. If anyone wants to know more about this rather depressing story (in which a peculiar, marginal, and harmful way of reading the Bible gets transformed into what a lot of people think is intrinsic to Christianity), there’s a good In Our Time on Darby, Schofield, and their legacy.

Wikipedia is what the internet was meant to be and one of the few online places that hasn’t got worse. It’s a miracle

This is just the perfect encapsulation of the total, catastrophic victory of Thatcherism. This entire model exploded on the world stage in 2008, but our entire population is steeped in the ideology, and everyone in power is wedded to it, so we’re stuck smashing the ‘Thatcher’ button over and over.

Find me the most German meal you can, no that's too German

MASON VS PRINCESS SUPERSTAR - PERFECT (EXCEEDER) IN A MARKS & SPENCER ADVERT I AM SO OLD

The annoying thing here is that the Lib Dems talk policy quite a lot and get ignored by the media, which is what Davey's stunts were a response to in the first place. I don't think he's addicted to stunts. I'm sure he'd love it if his policies got covered www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Hey, @theguardian.com, why are you presenting a far-right rally which left 26 police officers injured as something Guardian readers can disagree about in good faith? I’m so angry with you right now. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Reminding me of when we refused to explain what pegging was to the boyfriend’s mother. On the first time we visited his parents.

This is exactly what I would say if I were in a sexist boys club. Also, I’m not interested in an allegedly left-wing movement which uses the phrase “identity politics” as an insult.

Matcha has been getting more popular for a good few years now but this summer it really took off - with sales doubling in UK cafes vs 2024. 4% of drinks sales are now matcha-based, according to Square payments data🍵

I find the Twitter vs. Bluesky thing very boring but as it's come up again I will share my one opinion: not-far-right people who have remained on Twitter and are critical of bluesky are obviously trying to assuage their own guilt about using a far right platform

Oh hai just one of the oldest printing presses in the world NBD

Wait are the manosphere against cleaning your teeth now

Belgium update: the inevitable has happened, namely consuming a lot of mussels for dinner and feeling slightly like a snake that had ingested a small rodent

Great thumbnail on the BBC homepage

why economy bad? why not economy good for little while, where good economy go

Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.

I WAS JOKING

How is someone from The Sun on a serious news programme, complaining about a comedian's opinion not being factual, not laughed straight off the fkn set?

Pleased to find SOMEWHERE* celebrating immigrants, and for who they are, not just ‘their contribution’. As it should be! *BELvue Museum in Brussels

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content