I'd be seriously concerned if @katebevan.com goes for a walk in a Royal Park

24hrs after ID cards were announced the first petition is heading towards a million signatures. Starmer really has the reverse Midas touch - everything he does turns to shit. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

BEHOLD! My first ever choose-your-own-adventure game! "i will strangle a horse" - over seven and a half thousand words of absolute nonsense, as you help Martin Jenkins on his first day at The Farm. brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran... Totally free to play! I mean, you can pay, but you can also not!

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Has anyone *ever* had any luck with getting a claim against a retailer under the Consumer Rights Act 2015?

So, swan pate on toast for lunch - heading off to the local park in a moment (non Royal). Wish me luck I don't get a broken arm... or is it geese that can break your arm? Anyway.... SWAN.

New details have emerged of the French ultra-endurance cyclist's current conditions and circumstances surrounding his arrest. Sehili was detained just 200 km from the end of an 18,000 km world record attempt, near the China/Russia border. escapecollective.com/sofiane-sehi...

Just having a lemsip. My bravery knows no bounds.

Nigel Farage is essentially declaring war on not just every immigrant in the UK, but on the post-Brexit immigration system. An immigration system brought about by… Nigel Farage

Starmer: “what Farage is suggesting is vicious, racist, and reprehensible in so many ways, and we will fight to stop it with every fibre of our beings.” I wish…

Whatever you might think of Owen Jones personally, what Basel Adra says here is important and should be listened to.

Recognising Palestine is not a substitute for stopping the genocide. When I was in the West Bank, No Other Land’s Basil Adra told the devastating truth.

@weownit.org.uk any reason why you still have this on you "share it" options? No "Blue Sky" option? And really, "X"?

I've just accidentally drunk a bottle of wine. I also have a stinking cold and feel like shit but was totally engrossed in @aptshadow.bsky.social Bee Speaker so all is good with the world. Well, almost.

I wrote about the genocide, about the danger in Not Saying The Thing, and uncritical Far Right Platforming. It's about speaking to the structures and motives that are driving apparently organic social trends, and how telling a fuller story can appropriate proper blame. medium.com/@patchgaley/...

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

An old classic

12 years ago today we brought home this gorgeous girl - rescued her from an abusive home where she was being terrible treated - Hattie Long Legs she was called, due to her model like legs... she's on her final days with us now but she's given us years of absolute joy.

‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders - at least £70.7bn in dividend payouts between 2010 and 2025, rather than reinvesting that money or reducing bills. Story by Matthew Taylor www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's "no" isn't it? It's always "no".

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Queen

More 💩 from Trump Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course has breached sewage contamination limits 14 times since 2019 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@jonnelledge.bsky.social Malta has been booked - any recommendations gratefully received. Staying in Valetta.

🚨Watch as police confiscate van showing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Windsor amid the US president's state visit

WELCOME TO THE UK DONALD TRUMP 🇬🇧 The British public welcomed him with THIS gigantic banner right outside Windsor Castle where he is staying with the King this week. Paid for by 1770 members of the British public.

We pay taxes to provide kids healthcare and good schools. Instead, they’re sending our taxes abroad to fund a genocide.

This is a huge scandal, positively Victorian in its stupidity. Cardiff man still in prison 20 years after stealing mobile phone - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Managed to pick up one of our tawny owls on #merlinapp last night - she was very vocal for about 5 minutes - fantastic stuff 😍

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

You know you can take photos of cheques to pay into your bank accounts these days? Can you do that with £10 notes too?

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

It’s a genocide, and this Labour government is complicit www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Madrid: Thousands demostrating against the Israeli team’s participation in Spain’s cycling ride They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it

THIS👇

Ricky Hatton.... Used to share a greasy spoon and a barbers with him when i lived in Gee Cross when he was an up and coming boxer. Sad, sad day.

The only obituary of Charlie Kirk worth reading: ‘He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. He had children, as do many vile people.’

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

It's on a par with the polling questions asking respondents which notable politicians they recognise - the outpouring of grief about his death does not match with how little these people know of him and his "body of work"

Israel is systematically destroying every building in Gaza City, erasing communities and making the city unliveable. Hani Mahmoud reports.

Ireland will not take part in 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if participation of Israel goes ahead, RTÉ Director-General says

Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.

it is not overstating it to say that a person capable of doing this is a mass-murdering psychopath

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.