…vanilla flatness… is spot-on.

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Spent a good chunk of today explaining to a local MP about the depth of the digital divide and now this…

Bandwagon Andy strikes again.

.. and most importantly that both Reform and Conservatives -and much of the media- are using irregular migration as an excuse to attack the rights of legal migrants to the UK, using both language and the policies of Enoch Powell, and that there should be no tolerance or appeasement of this racism.

John Constable's watercolour of Old Sarum: an Iron Age hill fort, taken over by the Romans, before becoming the early medieval Salisbury. The site was abandoned when the city grew too big for the enclosure. #HillfortsWednesday #Constable #landscape #watercolour #medieval #Wiltshire

Imagine being so naïve as to think a party planning to deport people who have lived in the UK legally and entirely blamelessly for decades, and which would happily send Afghan women back into slavery, would never come after you or yours.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

“…Sultana has accused Jeremy Corbyn of overseeing a "sexist boys' club"… “ > perhaps the scales are finally falling from her eyes! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Tomorrow at the Dry Dock in #Weymouth from 10am - 2pm: @wessex-water.bsky.social will be holding a drop-in session to answer all your water-related questions. To find out more, visit www.wessexwater.co.uk/community-drop-ins.

Stephen is correct as usual but also i'm glad he's called out the utter bullshit about eCoNoMiC aNxIeTy

My X account has been lying dormant since January but, after yesterday’s events, I have deactivated it completely. For more than a decade, I loved twitter because of the people it brought me into contact with: today I have abandoned it for that very same reason.

A thousand years and* a thousand steps apart. *fewer than

To be clear: this is bad because Sir Keir fired the ambassador who was close friends with an infamous paedophile child sex trafficker, which proves the British government correctly believes the US President was also close friends with the same infamous paedophile sex trafficker.

Me neither.

Turns out fewer than half the people in this country have a functioning moral compass.

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

This makes it even more stark that GB is in the same club as Belarus and Russia:

…considering *and deciding against* defecting etc etc

…considering *and deciding against* defecting etc etc

The Return of the Proletariat.

It seems that Jeffrey Epstein was even more successful than Jimmy Savile at grooming The Establishment.

More extraordinary still is the sanitising of Kirk's politics. Kirk was - and this is just a straightforwardly factual statement - a far right activist. And here's a former British Prime Minister not merely mourning his death or condemning his murder but actively *praising* his politics.

Policy Exchange highlighting that the immediate custody rate for robbery last year was only 55%, but missing that's because very few child robbers get custodial sentences. For adults, the custody rate last year was 85%.

Too many drones to call it an accident. Putin is doing what had to be expected. A tentative attack on a NATO country to test out what happens.

High crimes and misdemeanours at Dorset County Show.

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Only 50 years after the Sex Discrimination Act…

Great historical bilingual pun. Last week I learned that the French left wing would caustically refer to the appeasement-pushing British PM as “Monsieur J’Aime Berlin”. I mean, that’s classy.

there’s a tweet for every occasion

I’d quite happily emigrate to support Bobby J’s plans. In fact it was my lifetime plan to do so. Unfortunately, Bobby J and his crew made my plan unworkable. More joined up thinking needed, BJ.

Such a busy part of the city, such an iconic site, such horrendous news.

Must-read piece for Europeans still clinging to the hope that Trump will do the right thing eventually in a European crisis: he won't. He supports authoritarians abroad because he wants to be one of them at home. Protecting democracy anywhere is not on his agenda.

Finding key information shared at council meetings takes time and effort. Today, we've launched a tool that allows you to search verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland, without the need to watch long recordings or sift through extensive notes. council-search.bellingcat.com

The risk of making family reunion harder, while not implementing safe routes*, means more people will bring their families on dangerous journeys, more women and children will be crammed onto small boats, and more people will die. *caveat, they should not make it harder anyway

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

To opt out, search ‘settings’ for ‘emergency alerts’ & turn off ‘Severe alerts’ & ‘Emergency alerts’. On some devices, search settings for ‘emergency alerts’ & turn off ‘Extreme threats’, ‘Severe threats’ & ‘Show amber alerts’. If these changes don’t work, contact your device manufacturer. 2/2

This is very pleasing 😁

I spent the first two weeks of one school summer holiday in bed with chicken pox and the first two weeks of the following summer holiday in bed with mumps (and a gashed knee). Lucky, lucky kids who will never have to know the misery of endless itching and scratching while the sun shines outside.

His leadership lead to the Dissolution of a Union, a host of get-rich-quick schemes and never-ending conflict. So yeah…

In that he's massively miscalculated and going to unleash a set of changes he didn't remotely intend?

Superb thread with the correct conclusion …

Things by which I am not surprised number 5214

We can have more crumbs from the table where we once sat...

Imagine the attack Blair would have whipped up from this.

Switching on the end of QI and catching this exchange: Toksvig: « Mark Twain once said, « When one has tasted watermelon, he knows what the angels eat ». » Davies (deadpan): « You can tell he never had a Crunchie. » 😂😂😂

It would be messy and chaotic and crazy expensive but ultimately Reform can override courts if they have a majority and I don't see why, say, the Taliban wouldn't sign a returns agreement to get back people they would like to torture and kill. So yes it could work.