This is horrifying and cannot be allowed to become normal. "A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues." https://bit.ly/44irJTE

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

An insightful analysis of why boys are feeling alienated by modern western society and what we can do about it

Sudan's hell - esp for young women/girls - never makes it to top of the agenda. Yet we're kinda complicit through relations w UAE supporting Arab supremacist RSF. *Millions* displaced. theconversation.com/i-have-to-ta... Here's the UNHCR donation link: donate.unrefugees.org.uk/help-Sudan/~...

A foolish and pointless decision which shows the malign influence of the agricultural lobby in the fight against climate change

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

So did it work?

A small glimmer of hope that our right to protest might not be completely lost #JustStopOil

@timpurches.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article... There is no shortage of man's inhumanity to man.

Despite more than 150,000 deaths, widespread war crimes and millions facing hunger and disease, the war in #Sudan, which United Nations has called the world's largest humanitarian crisis, seems to be almost completely ignored in the west.

Private Eye excellence…

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

The real life consequences of the media’s and mainstream politicians’ failure to stand up against the rising tide of naked racism

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

“…symbols change their meaning. My flag is lost.”

Straight title doesn’t indicate the wicked comedy in this piece (Stewart Lee among the righteous!) www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

An excellent thread (as you would expect from George Monbiot)

We’re going to do what the US is doing and destroy our country because we can’t seem to stop the hateful racists who would rather live in a shithole than share their lives with brown people.

A very insightful article on the ‘reactionary centrist’, and how they have captured the Labour Party and enabled the shift to the right in this country

These false beliefs do not arise in a vacuum. Yet we seem collectively incurious about their origins.

A wonderful, entertaining evening yesterday listening to Robin Ince robinince.bsky.social talk to Plymouth Humanists

A lighthearted but also insightful thread

Yet, on a personal level, most people don’t feel negatively impacted by immigration So how come they feel that it is such a massive issue at Government/ National level (at least right now)? (Staring hard at the media and Farage and Labour’s stupidity at feeding their toxic messaging)

Despite their popularity, honeybee hives harm efforts to protect wildlife www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"People have the right to peaceful protest. It is core to our country's values" - Keir Starmer, Sunday.

This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Well played.

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months 8% of people think it fell Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023 [It is falling further in 2025] Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

This is like telling those about to die on the Titanic to stop crying because they're contributing to the ship's flooding. www.thejournal.ie/uk-governmen...

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Nighttime thoughts - when Just Stop Oil protesters threw some soup at a painting or whatnot, we were very sternly told that this was counter-productive and made people less likely to support them. Has anyone revised their opinion on this now that it's very clear ...

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

BBC framing racist rioters as the victims here

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause. Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause. As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

The light musical comedy guy is here to warn us off talking about Gaza. “The more you know, the harder it is to speak clearly about [it], and the more you suspect that maybe you're not the right person to speak about it." Weirdly, humanitarian & human rights organisations don’t have that trouble.

Oh so disagreeing with the Supreme Court IS allowed then

Oh boy, $150,000!

Now that performative wokeness is no longer mainstream they can go back to being publicly evil

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

incredible collection of sentences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate change going to destroy the planet, but sure let’s keep writing articles like this you utter pricks.