We are concerned by the ongoing targeting of people from the Global Majority, including events in Southampton in May and more recently the violence that erupted in Belfast and Glasgow (1/4)

The houses of ethnic minorities in Belfast didn’t ’go on fire’ last night - as my radio has told me - they were set alight

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

Oh fuck off, BBC. The passive voice? Really? Choosing to make it sound like it just sort of happened and these weren't grown people who had planned to go out for a race-oriented pogrom? You're beyond not fit for purpose and I despise Labour for not going in hard on you and all other media.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

Pogrom, ethnic cleansing, paramilitary terror. Use those terms.

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Media: Stop calling the people setting fire to the homes of people of colour in Belfast “protesters”. This is a pogrom.

poetic that this was published on the day of a pogrom in the UK

You can't "legitimate concerns" a pogrom.

How is this not happening today?

Tip Toe is the first present-day UK show I've seen that fully voices the sense that things are getting very bad very fast. It's hard to take, but then so is the news

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

This reads like the opening scene of a pogrom

Just been to the M.C. Escher show at Somerset House. I think he would have found the architecture sympathetic (if a little conventional).

I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

Someone posted about BBC FOUR rerun of Carla Lane's Butterflies. What a remarkably nuanced, morally complex and intelligent comedy it was. Such things were mainstream, popular, and assumed their audiences were sophisticated enough to read them. Also major lifestyle envy for single-earner household.

Interesting developments West of the border, especially considering that Wales no longer has a Labour government.

The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo

Not beating the “North Korea-style propaganda machine” allegations.

I'm putting this up a third time, because it's sad that so many folk like the gloomy stuff and only two may have listened to something that is bound to make them happy.

I am embarrassed for The Economist. This nonsense is beneath them.

The BBC initially got the nationality wrong. They said he was Somali. He is Sudanese. Their sources prob X “migrant crime” accounts

Wales has a Future Generations Commissioner, whose responsibility is people not yet born. Enshrined in law:

The world should boycott these games. How much does it take to show that?

Brutal, brilliant music-theatre from the Manchester Camerata and Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

Young people won't believe this, but there was this thing once called 'the Internet' and you could use it to find businesses that were actually near to you.

UK’s fragile heirloom: ceramics sector calls for more help to save ‘vital industry’

If this doesn’t get your #IndyWales #Annibyniaeth juices flowing.. ❤️‍🔥🐦‍🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Sir Richard Burton, discusses the need for an independent #Wales #Cymru This interview was recorded over 5 decades ago! ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 What a Cymro 🫶 #YmaOHyd🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head dies at 72

This made me *purr*. How reassuring - and pleasantly surprising - to read such a vigorous defence of writing from this source.

I honestly just find the fact that we are even debating this *utterly* baffling.

Seen the Val Doonagan show & Peters & Lee show both very good

Jerusalem: "No pride in Apartheid." Activists protest against Israel’s use of pinkwashing to mask the injustices and crimes committed by the state. Video by Oren Ziv, in partnership with @mekomit.bsky.social.

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

I've been writing a bastard essay for The Lead on just how Brexit created Reform UK for WEEKS because there just aren't enough words or reader attention span to fully explain how badly Brexit fucked everything up

Genuinely, the idea of the police being anti white is utterly ridiculous and any journalist who is actually a journalist could thoroughly and plainly debunk it. But they're not doing that. Ask yourself why they're not doing that. Why they're not actually being journalists.

In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing.

1/5 The way the right talk about George Floyd as if it were some sort of moment of victory for ethnic minorities is so twisted His murder was traumatic because almost every black family in the UK has experienced or been fearful of police harassment or police brutality from a young age

jesus fucking christ

"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow." The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

Three quarters of universities in deficit, tens of thousands of jobs being lost, & the government tells us there’s no money. They can, however, find close to the entire budget allocation for teaching from the Office for Students on a private theme park.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field

This remark alone should requires all US Amabassadors to be summoned before the Foreign Ministers of all other NATO countries.

People who chose to simply ignore the geopolitical shift that we are living through have nobody but themselves to blame. The signs are out there. Pay attention.

In case you missed this outbreak of sanity.