This morning's Palestine Action judgement doesn't help Romeo's candidacy either. The Home Office lost due to its inability to follow policy and procedure for which she as Perm Sec is responsible, and that doesn't help her case to be Cab Sec.

UPDATE: I've had a response from the Cabinet Office! "the statistics cited ‘19.2 million British citizens registered with X and 10.8 million families using the platform’ were provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself."

RefUK now has #LiarJohnson’s - Chancellor - Communities sec - Culture sec - Attorney general - Political sec - Skills minister - Northern powerhouse minister - Health minister - Parliamentary private sec - assistant whip - Scottish minister Truss & Patel next? The liar himself? So many egos…

🎵 You're just Tories, You're just Tories, YOU'RE JUST TORIES IN TURQUOISE (in turquoissssse) You're just Torrriiiiiesss in turquoise 🎵

Some words about why my colleague bishops, our diocese and I are no longer posting on X: southwark.anglican.org/news-events/...

With snow forecast to fall in the high areas of the county, Oxfordshire schools are being asked to use a secret codeword when deciding weather-related closures, to prevent prankster children emailing the County Council claiming that their school is closed.

There's a whole map, made by Matt Brown at Londonist, which shows Lewisham londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...

For anyone wanting to see the original, it’s from Matt Brown: londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...

Anyone looking for the full map or wondering who made it, it’s the work of Matt Brown and it’s here. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

If you like this map you should follow @mattfromlondon.bsky.social as he made it; a detail Mark neglected to highlight.

LOL. GB News issued a live apology to Meghan’s mom, Doria Ragland, but later deleted the entire show from YouTube to suppress the embarrassment. Carole Malone was threatened with a lawsuit unless she apologised.

With enough anatomy to keep Susan Hall happy #GingerBread bsky.app/profile/kpw1...

I've had enough

Didn't someone once describe the post-millennium Telegraph as the Daily Mail for elderly Tories with long arms? It will now be true. bsky.app/profile/jim....

High Court *refuses" Epping Forest Council's attempt to close hotel being used by Home Office to house asylum seekers www.judiciary.uk/judgments/ep... > PDF judgement www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u... > PDF court press release www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

#NationalTrust #NT members have followed the board's recommendations and elected sane candidates to the NT's Council at the 2025 AGM The right-wing #RestoreTrust candidates were defeated again.

The transphobic bigots LGB Alliance have a stand at the Tory party conference #CPC25. Well, of course. bsky.app/profile/matt...

... and there'll be a Saturday evening version with minor royals doing 'Intercourse Castle' bsky.app/profile/news...

For those unfamiliar, there's a wonderful OFCOM document that lists the public's perception of "rude" words being used on TV and radio. 37 pages of it, including words not in English ... PDF: www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r... bsky.app/profile/jame...

Bluesky is not a porn site. It is a social media site that does allow sex workers and doesn't automatically censor sex-related (including explicit content). Bluesky says it will now block that and other content unless you have scanned your face, identification documents, etc.

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

The #Glastonbury #BobVylan performance was not 'broadcast' by the BBC but instead narrow-casted/ streamed. If Ofcom wishes to investigate streamed content, I look forward to it taking similar action re non-broadcast content distributed on TalkTV, Piers Morgan, GBNews etc. bsky.app/profile/news...

"New Sunday evening drama on BBC1: Ban Pride with Prejudice" bsky.app/profile/adam...

#BlueSky has the juice! Take the roasting of @smartdublin.bsky.social for it's AI tourist bot: 👇 Bluesky post: 1.4k replies, 817 quotes, flamed bsky.app/profile/smar... Xitter post: 👇 28 replies, 25 quotes. x.com/smartdublin/...

Shows a remarkable similarity to another survey I did recently

Looks like Altar Mitty Calvin Robinson has exited Xitter too

WAKE UP GIRLIES, CALVIN ROBINSON HAS BEEN KICKED OUT OF ANOTHER CHURCH

Once again, not the picture that the media wants you to see

UKIP's candidate for London Mayor, Peter Gammons, who believed there were "4,000,000km of secret tunnels and chambers hidden under London" that could "ease London's congestion problems"

so uhh, this means you can build a feed that only shows posts that governments want banned in their country. Turkey says a post should be banned? What about a feed that shows all posts that the gov wants to be banned instead?

After X’s repressive actions, hundreds of thousands in Turkey joined Bluesky, seeking a freer space. Reports of government censorship here are deeply troubling. Don’t squander this trust. This is a critical moment for principled leadership—not silent compromise. @jay.bsky.team

I know this isn't the biggest point, but note the complete absence of criticism for Bukele wearing a black sweater, instead of a shirt and tie. It seems if you are "the world's coolest dictator" and willing to become a US prison annex, turning up looking like a pimp in an off-Broadway musical is ok.

I've got a joke about Argos, but you can get it through the catalogue yourselves bsky.app/profile/hutc...

Ok if true, this is genuinely dumb as hell

No one tell Trump about Welsh

"Laurence Fox charged with sexual offence after ‘sharing upskirting photo' on social media" www.lbc.co.uk/crime/lauren...

No, Penelope Keith didn't shoot JFK ... she was a decoy for the real assassin ...

Looking forward to DOGE exposing ICE's OnlyFans subscriptions bsky.app/profile/jose...

It would probably be a pointless gesture but the King should invite Zelensky for a very public meeting on his way back home.

If the BBC is editorially independent of government, what is the purpose of this question? Other than permitting Tory BBC bashing? The last Tory gov stacked the BBC with it's own cronies (DG, Board, news leadership) and still isn't happy. bsky.app/profile/comm...

Ah yes Henry Bolton's girlfriend. The inspiration for this classic

An interesting fact: since Clacton's been dragged through the media mud by our association with this bloke, property prices have plummeted. There were 3 flats under 190k when I bought mine, now dozens. Homes on sale aren't shifting. Tourism is down: the Pier is cutting their hours and staff. Cheers!

They're back ... there's a valuable lesson here about British heft on this platform vs the USian mods ... who says we no longer have influence in the world? bsky.app/profile/vizc...

Do follow @mindcharity.bsky.social on here. It does hugely important work, and it's important that charities can rebuild their communities after leaving X.

Interesting to note that 15 of the councils seeking to defer local elections from 2025 to 2026 are run by the #Conservatives. BTW, the Conservatives are expecting to take a hammering in the 2025 local elections, being squeezed by LibDems and Reform. bsky.app/profile/alex...

If Carswell is a full time college CEO in Mississippi, then presumably he looks forward to his deportation back to the UK? "Douglas is now settled in Mississippi,..." mspolicy.org/staff/dougla...

Update on a favourite ongoing story. Newport tip Bitcoin guy denied both access to Newport tip to find his missing harddrive AND £495m compo by the High Court www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'd like to see the Speaker demand Actual Intelligence in the UK parliament not artificial. During this Speaker's tenure the quality of debate, contributions and behaviour has continued to decline bsky.app/profile/comm...

Tribunal orders release of the confidential citations Boris Johnson supplied to justify giving peerages to Charlotte Owen & Ross Kempsell, following my 18-month FOI battle with House of Lords Appointments Commission.