For the amusement of my 3 or 4 followers, you wouldn't spill his pint, either.

Former AC/DC frontman Bon Scott, 1979.

Decided to go for the kitchen roll after all. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A free post on Robert Jenrick's campaign to become the next Reform party leader. Plus UnHerd and English folk music open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Well worth remembering what these people are really like.

They were a child, that's been confirmed for hours and as of 16:52 BBC still hasn't updated. Nobody, absolutely nobody, risks a child's life crossing one of the world's busiest shipping routes if they see a genuine alternative. Labour needs to provide safety alternatives www.bbc.com/news/article...

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

I'm playing two chess grandmasters by mail. One as white, the other as black. I just send them each other's moves. They both think I'm a genius. Both invite me to their homes to make love to their wives as they watch from the closet. That's when I secretly charge all my electronics. Free electricity

Love it X

I tell you now, if things go on like this, you'll have to get a little book encoded with biometric data just to cross the UK border, and then where will we be? East Germany, that's where we will be.

Wow

On anti-Faragism, the point of the Lib Dems and Ed Davey finding himself unmarked in front of an open goal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Free entry- if you're early- as Bridges host a Community Day Three Bridges v Hastings United- free before 2PM on Saturday #IsthmianLeague #PitchingIn #ThreeBridges #Crawley

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

THANK YOU COLIN Colin Kaepernick is funding an independent autopsy for Trey Reed, a 21-year-old student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, after police initially told his family he died in his dorm. The move aims to ensure transparency and accountability. (nypost.com)

this is absolutely wild the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a) so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.

It's that time of year again. British supermarkets selling some top Qualität pop. Lidl's festbier boxes avaliable. Be quick.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

10/10, no notes

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

Whatever Kirk’s killer may be, don’t let the right or anyone else medicalize his behavior. It’s not mental illness. It’s programming. He was fed a diet of Christian Nationalism, extremist politics, gun idolatry, and violence fantasy. As such, this monster behaved EXACTLY AS DESIGNED.

Worth a read on the dystopian potential of the OSA.

Brilliantly economical bon mots. Lol

Police have said they are investigating a "racially aggravated" rape in the West Midlands. The Sikh Federation (UK) said the perpetrators allegedly told the woman during the attack: "You don't belong in this country, get out." news.sky.com/story/police...

I don't say this often, but if you follow me, I'm asking you to read this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Anthony Styles has enthusiastically protested against refugees coming to the uk for fear of protecting women and children. When they say "genuine concern" what do they mean?

On the same day in the Telegraph:

‘Privately educated man who once claimed (but now denies) he bought a farm to avoid paying inheritance tax uses column in Britain’s most read newspaper to be angry at state school peasant for not paying her fair share of tax’.

Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out And, the feathers it would ruffle My lovely followers, you know what to do: nationaltvawards.com/vote 🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep

If you are cis, please read this entire thread. It won't take much of your time

This is absolutely wonderful. RIP Pauline www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Certain parts of our media have fallen to a new low this morning. Since when it is OK to print/publish the quotes of a convicted criminal who pleaded guilty to stirring up racial hatred onthe front page of a newspaper or website & using that to attack a government who had no role in the conviction.

Brilliant

Bin the Blue Labour defensive identity bullshit, bin the "these people have a point actually" which just encourages the worst racists and narcissists, you were elected because you were supposed to be offering something more positive. Do it.

THIS. IS. THE. WAY.

Sadly, this is pretty accurate. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "There has been what can be described as an increase in community tension, the catalyst of which has been the use of The Bell Hotel to place asylum seekers. It is a problem that is causing great local anxiety." Or: organised far-right agitators are the catalyst. Hmmmm

"As the world wars slip beyond living memory, many anticipate the meanings of 1945 fading. Yet it matters that the next generation understand that the armies that won two world wars resemble the Britain of 2025 more than that of 1945 or 1915 in their ethnic & faith demographics".

Wrote down my thoughts on the UK OSA for @novaramedia.com. Many are understandably conflicted between wanting a safer Internet for children and seeing the OSA for what it is. Here's how to think about it from the perspective of child safety and public interest: novaramedia.com/2025/08/07/t...

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

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The problem with much of the centrist commentariat swinging behind the "Britain is broken" idea is not only that the right are weaponizing it to sell their xenophobic/racist narratives, it's also that despair itself has social consequence. Britain is great! It is also in need of public investment.

i think one of the things that makes 21st century right-authoritarianism distinctive is how much it's about shitting on your country. Hillary Clinton's "America is already great" riff was a failure and that was kind of instructive. One of the ways 'conservatism' has stopped being a useful term...

Love to see some mainstream coverage of this. Insurance companies ought to take the long view on risk. The pension schemes that own their shares require that. New fossil fuel projects need to be judged on that basis.

Coming soon