Whenever I panic about the world, I imagine some future in which loads and loads of Brenda Hales make all the decisions, and then I feel fine, more than, really www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

This is good from Sadiq x.com/MayorofLondo...

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Who could possibly have foreseen?

Nearly started crying at this photo & I'm not even a Green. Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social

my god, Philippe Sands has the patience of a saint

This is terrific

Helpful information here on how to talk: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Sad to hear Starmer cite changing the Labour Party as one of his major achievements. Sure, it's changed, in so far as everyone in it feels alienated and drained of hope but it's not very classy to brag about that.

These people made me glad to be alive www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Absolutely unarguable statement in Nesrine Malik's devastating piece www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In fact, ages before this fash-inflected anti-trans movement, I always hated being called a "pregnant woman" because a) it was tautologous and b) my gender wasn't the point, the point was the pregnancy. Nobody calls me a journalist woman.

oh my god

This second letter is just gorgeous (first very well argued) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

There's a nice, practical distinction between hope and faith at the end of this, and a rally: you can take action without hope, but you can't have hope if you don't take action

Important news regarding the spread of fascism via institutional complicity.

Everyone come to this www.tickettailor.com/events/stopt...

Bernie Sanders here, being a legend www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It feels very disrespectful to the dead, to invite someone onto the Today Programme to scream that they're not dead and it's all a lie

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

This is so dismaying

*As ever*, I put some feelers out thinking I would meet a load of weirdos, and instead met some great, interesting, thoughtful, unusual, original people. When will I learn &c &c www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

exciting new kara swisher interview with the wunderkind who's gone bankrupt 17 times and just invented a habeas corpus crypto app that lets you take your ecivil rights anywhere you're renditioned

This is thought-provoking and good www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

Neat headline

But also, no shade on @dylandifford.bsky.social, people with values who believed in the Labour Party as a left wing project for change and renewal and love were right, maybe even righter than political scientists

Did not expect to start crying before I'd even done wordle

'Island of strangers' has the feel of Angela Smith and her 'funny tinge' remark - colourless seniorish ppl get wheeled out to say 'it's not racist to have a proper conversation' & God alone knows what authority they think they're bringing, but they just taint themselves.

In which we wish David beckham a happy 50th by publishing loads and loads of photos of him in his pants www.theguardian.com/football/202...

They think they've got this in the bag. But they're not ready for people like you showing up. Use your vote today to prove them wrong. 🗳️ Find your polling station: wheredoivote.co.uk

I've been sending my kids links to Guardian articles since they could read, and this is the first one they've ever clicked on, and afaik, every state-school kid who does NOT get extra time in exams is crushing on it so hard www.theguardian.com/education/20...

If you happen to be voting in locals today, it may be useful to remember that some politicians are just a hell of a lot nicer than others

This is absolutely devastating www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If Nick Robinson asked me, as leader of my party, whether it mattered that no one knew who I was, I'd reply, 'If only there were some way to disseminate this kind of information about politics, perhaps via some PUBLIC SERVICE FUCKING BROADCASTER'

me and my sister are like this

Listening to one interview after another, capsized by the subject of who can use which public toilet. This question is purpose-built to wrong-foot trans allies, but the anti-trans position is absurd. For the love of God, please, someone make them spell out what they want

Hey come to this everyone it'll be good events.bl.uk/events/ozemp... ps that photo byline is quite old, don't judge me

This is incredibly good www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

Listening to Onay Kasab, I think most trade union training now must be in 'sublime forbearance'

Shirley Manson said ahead of the interview that she wouldn't be turning her camera on, which normally would be a problem but I wore it this time as a kind of collective media atonement for all the bullshit that's been said about her appearance over the years. Then when we picked up the phone, she>>

If you want a pristine example of how absolutely everything in this country is distorted by the perceived need to perform for right wing voters, look no further than the question of permission to work for asylum seekers

Join us at British Library on-line or in person Fri 9th May 7pm to hear me @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social @kimberleywilson.bsky.social @christinaavogel.bsky.social discuss GLP-1 based therapies for obesity 🥗🍰. Tickets via: events.bl.uk/events/ozemp... @imperialbrains.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social

@maxread.info Hi there, could you follow me for a sec so I can DM? Or actually I could just tell you here, I'm writing a feature for @theguardian.com and would love a phone interview with you

I definitely would not ask you to watch a booklaunch, but please just go to minute 26.08 on this if you're at a loose end, because I think Prof Tim Jackson makes the most profound point cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...

Listening to the song in Hamilton where he goes 'I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry', & my kid said 'you're just like your country, old, broke and arrogant'

If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use: t.co/E8QB6EDi9o Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!

New dawn, new season, new podcast, this is all just swell open.spotify.com/episode/13qu...

Btw PIP fraud was ZERO last year. #Labour #Disability