It's not a coincidence that the four most damaging politicians of the last two decades (Cameron, Osborne, Johnson and Farage) are all the products of English public schools.

Nearly 673 million people in the world go to bed hungry. Food insecurity is both a driver and a consequence of conflict. There can be no peace without food.

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dark Swell Watercolour 25% of price to @newcastlefoodbank.org www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

People of Norfolk, come and spend a cosy winter evening with me, @themarshtit.bsky.social and @timholtwilson.bsky.social as we talk birds, landscape and history at NWT’s Cley reserve on 5th Dec. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-b.... #NorfolkWildlifeTrust #NorfolkNature #naturewriting

It’s a generalisation, but there's an almost impossible combination right now of huge numbers of people desperately needing help from clinical services, at the same time as people working in clinical services at the limits of coping & exhaustion. This isn’t ‘news’, but it’s important to say it.

Tom Allen is new to gardening and has recently discovered how therapeutic it can be! I share his wish that everyone could just calm down! 😂 youtu.be/1REJNMAiJFs?...

This, from the Guardian, is Ryanair at its very worst. It's not good enough for them to insist that they're a low-cost airline and everyone knows the rules, in circumstances like this... I wonder if legislation is needed?

If you need a smile today this is it. Stormzy wanted to show you something he’s been working on ❤️

Buying #Christmas cards or presents? Shop with small independents (like me) instead of the big high street names. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk Are you a small business? Reply with your link. Let's support each other this Christmas.

Am having to limit what I read about #Covid19inquiry because the reminders make me so mad and sad it can’t be good for me. 😡

“Sorry” isn’t the hardest word.. when you don’t mean it.. eh voila👇🏼 Gove apologises after Covid report alleges 'toxic' culture 😡🙄🤷🏼‍♂️

Quick reminder that on average, an email costs an average of USD $0.35 in hosting, device lifespan, and manhours. They probably spent more than 50% of the cost of the book sending you emails.

Earlier on the expedition we found the most beautiful flower, and here, my friends, is the biggest: Rafflesia arnoldi seen in full bloom today in the Sumatran jungle. This is the largest flower on earth and one of the greatest wonders of the natural world.

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

👋 How confident are you in your museum’s welcome for Deaf visitors? 1 in 3 UK adults are Deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus - and for Deaf families, an inclusive welcome makes all the difference. 💷 £25 per place:

BREAKING: The FBI trainee that was fired for displaying a Pride Flag is SUING the government, saying his removal was illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Love how some people are giving you advice Christina! 😂

Retailer:1. Thank you for your order. 2.Your order is being prepared. 3.Your order has been sent to the courier.Courier: 1. We have received your order. 2. We are preparing your order. 3. We are dispatching your order 4. We will deliver your order on….(wrong) Aaaargh! All for a £4 secondhand book?

Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK. What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.

Also thanks to @scalzi.com for the line - ‘the failure mode of clever is asshole’

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

We are all one war, one hurricane, one military coup, one wildfire, one drought, one economic collapse away from becoming an "asylum seeker".

We don't need to "protect our borders" Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us. From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws. The threat isn't the "outsider" It's the concentrated power already inside.

We were not asylum seekers, but nearly 50 years on, my mum still wistfully talks of the jewellery she had to sell to pay for the plane tickets that got us here. Aside from this policy being unconscionable, it does make me wonder how many asylum seekers will have any such belongings to confiscate.

The current raft of measures is the only thing that Shabana Mahmood will be remembered for in years to come. It’s no coincidence either that the poisoned chalice was handed to the daughter of immigrants.

The plan to take jewellery from refugees is a new low for the Labour government. Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/refugees-jew...

If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”

Listening to Radio 4 and the reporting on people seeking asylum is factually incorrect on multiple levels, including overstating channel crossings in comparison to other routes to seek asylum. No wonder people don't understand the situation when the media reporting on it is so poor.

This is not accidental. It's deliberate.

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

Being compared to Enoch Powell and endorsed by Tommy Robinson - I wonder if this is how Starmer was hoping things would go

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

This headline gets a free pass www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...

Absolutely disgusting

This new asylum policy from labour is vile and betrays labour values. It ignores the reality of refugee peoples’ lives, aspirations, families… it betrays our obligations to help the most vulnerable and IT WILL NOT DETER SMALL BOATS. It’s a grim day.

👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rachel Reeves needs to save money - how about 💰renegotiating wasteful old PFI contracts 💰NOT introducing new ones Right now 🏥Hospitals are paid for up to 27x over 🏥NHS trusts spend more on PFI debt than on medicines Sign now, deadline Tuesday 👇👇👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...

Private finance means that you - as a taxpayer - pay many times over for the same thing. Say no to new NHS private finance. Make sure your name is on the petition 👇 vist.ly/4eai4

Wes Streeting is the poster boy for everything that is wrong about NewNew Labour.