Sad to see LibDems MPs still peddling this cynical disinformation. Farmers still get the first £1m tax free, and the rest at half the rate everyone else pays on an inheritance. Either we tax inheritance or we don't - rural landowners shouldn't get special treatment.

Corbyn and Sultana spend months in a leadership fight. Both lose. People these days can't even wait until December before they start delivering Christmas miracles 😤

Dear @the-independent.com - I have not read THIS article yet, but you've made it virtually impossible to do so. Just ghastly UX. 🤦‍♂️

We, the transgender community, receive a lot of flack for apparently erasing the word, 'woman'. Yet, I increasingly see in the press, transgender women referred to as 'biological males' (slur) AND cisgender women referred to as 'females' rather than women. Who is really erasing the word, 'woman'?

Glorious. 10/10. No notes.

@telegraph.co.uk tax nightmare stories are ... what's the charitable term? ... a complete fabrication. A malicious invention? A lie? What a surprise.

This batshit weirdo wants us to go back the 4th century? How could anyone think this was worth uttering? Let alone that it might constitute a 'point'? She has absolutely melted her own brain on X.

I mean, yes? People don't like that his politics are being a massive racist bellend all the time?

Sad to see LibDems MPs still peddling this cynical disinformation. Farmers still get the first £1m tax free, and the rest at half the rate everyone else pays on an inheritance. Either we tax inheritance or we don't - rural landowners shouldn't get special treatment.

The gaming industry is in a very bad place. Today I cannot play a game because the launcher cannot show me a CAPTCHA. Jesus wept.

Could have been done a year ago, but good news nonetheless!

It beggars belief that Labour are taxing universities’ most lucrative revenue streams at a time when three quarters of them are in the red

I'm quite uneasy with this Prostate Cancer Screening discourse. Either we let scientists make informed decisions and trust them, or we let politicians take it out of their hands. Genuine Q: Why do politicians believe that they know better in this case?

Great to read this table, the week after my institution announces a voluntary severance programme, to see the government introducing a policy that will cost us an extra *£13 million*

Donald Trump is gunning for the BBC, and Farage is cheering him on. Want to know why? Follow the money…

“Polls suggest the most probable result is a loss for the party’s candidate, a former government minister understood to have been handpicked by the PM. “Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

A BBC investigation finds asylum seekers trapped in dilapidated hotels, spending years in administrative limbo, indebted to criminal gangs and yes, moved arbitrarily so that they have to take taxis across the country for routine GP appointments. Government response? Stop the taxis.

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Who could possibly have foreseen this /s cc @cyberleagle.bsky.social

Can we go back to the days when politicians said that they really wanted to help people but it’s very hard and takes time, rather than saying that they want to hurt people and can do it quickly?

Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete Under future rules Renew status? 1995, 98 x6 Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012) Citizenship 2013 news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...

I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning. That's who you've joined. Tommy Robinson.

truly one of the skeleton keys for our modern age.

Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC Bias is often in the eye of the beholder So let’s stick to measurable facts During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority 47 were from UKIP/BP 23 times Farage

This idea that the UK is "excessively generous" is a flat out lie. Countries such as France have far higher support for this seeking asylum for example. It's a myth used to try and defend the indefensible. Britain has never been welcoming, it has only got more hostile novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...

100% this. FWIW I think a single earner on minimum wage should be able to buy a cheap terraced house in Chatham, as was the case when I was a kid, growing up there, in that sort of family. Build more f***ing houses! More power to @stephenkb.bsky.social

Let us hope that Michael Prescott's review of Michael Prescott's memo is every bit as critically rigorous as Michael Prescott's review of the edition of Panorama. Perhaps he could write another memo.

And as Rich says very eloquently, HMT may see this as a way to reduce bills in the short term, but it is a false economy. Fewer heat pumps = importing more gas for longer = bad on many levels Fewer upgrades for fuel poor homes = more fuel poverty

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.

I use a VPN for work because, like many people, I work remotely. I also use a VPN because it's fundamental to managing online trust: it's none of my ISP's business what I connect to: their job is to provide me with the bandwidth I pay for. 1/2

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

Good for us.

“Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.” ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! #GNUPTerry #Discworld

The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. Political leaders across the spectrum must defend it.

This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it

There's also the fact that landlords are not offering people a product at a price they're happy with. Nobody is happy with the price they're paying for housing, or with paying exorbitant costs to pay off a mortgage for someone else. The rental market is a case study in market failure.

Sea lions don't look like lions. They look like dogs. Smh.

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

Progress in the Isle of Man! Let's hope this news brings energy to addressing the same problem in Westminster, where 26 Anglican bishops also enjoy reserved places & voting rights – the only denomination (& of one religion) to have such a privilege.

We have been tracking people’s experiences with gendered spaces and our new report looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.

So much of Labour’s comms is just weird and confusing at this point. Surely it’s really, really easy to decide to offer congratulations/support to a wildly popular left-wing candidate who has just pulled off a historic electoral victory

Elon Must won't stop. I wrote this for @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

Wikipedia's featured article is about the 1858 case in Bradford of sweets being made with Arsenic powder instead of (also unsuitable, but less so) Gypsum. I think that is definitely how I would have died if I was in Bradford in 1858. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Br...

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI