Just a hard working little journalist up against a deadline and desperate to protect his dealer. Sorry, sources.

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills. The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

He is far from alone. Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?

It should be obvious to everyone that if Bridget Phillipson wins the deputy leadership contest it will be used as a platform to double down on the anti-trans crusade being waged by the Labour Party, and she's hiding that because she knows it's unpopular with their shrinking membership

Twitter used to be good, and then deliberate changes over time, ending in the Musk ownership (which just auto-correct to Muck!), ensured that it wasn’t. So, it became time to leave. It isn’t that much harder than admitting to yourself that a band or artist that you once loved is no good any more.

Goodnight screen goddess and style icon. 🙌 Diane Keaton - R.I.P.

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There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech. We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

They’re not *like* Nazis, they *are Nazis*. Posobiec is an advisor to the WH.

Every time I think this stuff gets too obvious for the US media not to ring the alarm they prove me wrong, but god, it feels REALLY hard to ignore now.

Of course we know exactly what Jenrick means, not least because he just told us. 'Integration' to him means dispersal (of small numbers of black faces) among the majority white population 'so they can't congregate, talk foreign languages, drag an area down and generally threaten us'. It's grim.

Time and again the UK Right is desperate to ape the US. Anyone in possession of a brain wouldn’t want politicised judges or indeed an ICE-style ‘removal force’. I doubt it’s a vote winner (although obviously some really bad things do win votes).

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

Abysmal shit but again, this is just a much more crass and blunt version of the type of stuff you would’ve heard being expressed more obliquely five years ago, ten years ago. The move has been from I’m Not Racist But to Yes I Am Racist, And.

i too cry when cutting up an onion but it’s with the happiness of knowing i’m releasing the joyful soul trapped within

The Economist tends to be very well-briefed when it comes to matters of British security. This is the second article I have seen in as many days warning about Russia‘s hybrid warfare against the West. I would take this seriously.

Atlantic halibut has been so seriously over-fished that the species is not expected to rebound until 2055. Another issue with Atlantic #halibut is that, like most large #fish, it's very high in #mercury and could pose a #healthrisk if regularly consumed. www.tastingtable.com/1982486/fish...

Thomas Skinner has left to spend more time with anyone but his own wife and family.

Bosh.

It's not a war until you've faked some photos of soldiers, Piers

"Polarisation may be an unhelpful term .... It implies that both sides are becoming equally extreme. Arguably the real dynamic is that elements of the right have hardened, embracing positions that would have been unacceptable a decade ago" on.ft.com/46TGRHs by @henrymance.ft.com 1/

Charlie kirk gets killed by a white man, HBCUs get bomb threats. White man shoots up a white church, people talk negatively about the Black Panthers. People get mad about alleged latin american drug cartels, a predominately Black apartment complex gets raided at 2 am I'm seeing a trend

Time for my old ECHR Venn diagram, yet again.

Like The Bell in Glasgow exposing the neo-Nazi behind the far-right "Tartan Team", it's clear that local journalists are the people doing the work to expose the scammers behind the flags springing up across the UK.

Ryan Bridge has become a familiar face in Stirchley lately. He's one of two "company directors" of raisetheflags.org, where he collects donations from £10-£500 for flags.

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

"You should never overestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices." – George Monbiot

"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you." RIP Patricia Routledge.

"I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard" RIP to the greatest to ever do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

This cunt too.

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew." "Commentator of the Year"

These scumbags like to whine that they’re not allowed to say anything these days but remarkably are still able to do so whereas Jamal Khashoggi was murdered & dismembered by agents of the Saudi government at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for criticising his regime. Fuck them.

MAGA: "The violent left needs to tone down the rhetoric!" Also MAGA: "WE CHOOSE VIOLENCE!!!!"

A very happy birthday to Tracy Thorn from Everything ButThe Girl.

Even though it’s bullshit the media is running COMEY INDICTED headlines which is how Republicans win messaging every time. They’re hoping most people won’t know the difference between this and a real indictment and the media helps them by not plainly saying “Trump Forces DOJ To Indict” in a headline

When I say in today's post the Tories are struggling to find competent staff + have had to cut back their press team this is what I'm talking about... bsky.app/profile/robe...

Thalidomide was on the market for five years before the risk in pregnancy was identified. Paracetamol has been sold for almost 150 years. Even by Farage’s standards, this is disgraceful. The assault on science, facts and ‘truth’ by the Right in recent years is just relentless.

Nigel Farage is shameless, imagine kissing the ass of Donald Trump so much, that you choose to follow his ludicrous statements. Another clear indicator as to why he cannot go anywhere near number 10. The man is a nutcase, an idiot, a racist, an incompetent fool and not fit for office

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

I’m no historian but I think they’re supposed to get the Elbow a bit more straight to be really doing it properly.

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.

It’s a beautifully quiet and sunny Sunday morning, full of birdsong. Question - at what time is it acceptable to start pressure washing a patio?

I’ve seen other people express this far better than me. But if, like me, you’re finding the ‘free speech’ hypocrisy of the right unbearable, you have to remember they know what they are doing. It’s not that they haven’t realised how illogical and hypocritical they are. They know,they just don’t care

Real, practicing Christians can have very nasty views (I know firsthand). But it’s also really funny how much of the “Christian nationalist” crowd doesn’t actually do anything religious or participate in religious communities.