I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Too soon?

But of a test here for what remains of the British news media. These proposals are mad, racist and economic suicide. Will they be reported as such? Or will they be reported as a reasonable suggestion?

1. Reading lots of independent blogs I collected together myself on Google reader via RSS was the best way of doing the internet. 2. Making everything online free but with ads was a horrible mistake.

The nation's favourite sitcom is Friends?!?! What?!?! Who are you? Who are you people?

Sarah Andersen, contemporary US cartoonist and illustrator #womensart

Tbf, nothing will ever beat the GW website front page at that time. "The Queen is dead: PREPARE FOR SKIRMISH COMBAT!"

Here's a lyric video for my song Shoot Every Ghost. I do not know exactly what all the lyrics mean. youtu.be/UpZNj_H_6WE

My MP wrote back to me about the sad England flags hanging at half mast from the lampposts near me. Apparently they're fine and we should be concentrating more on potholes (??). But someone* pulled them all down anyway. So fuck him. (*Not me. Going up a ladder? With my knees?)

Overrated: saying things Underrated: shutting your stinking pie hole

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

Sad to hear about the death of Tomas Lindberg. At The Gates released one of my favourite 90s albums in Slaughter of the Soul. Here's the wonderful hymn to satanism Under A Serpent Sun. youtu.be/lO3_jACS7TI

A couple of weeks ago I walked past a bee hive. It was swarming. At the same time I had a weird little rhythm going through my head. So I recorded a very short song about it.

A couple of weeks ago I walked past a bee hive. It was swarming. At the same time I had a weird little rhythm going through my head. So I recorded a very short song about it.

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When 90s albums get reissued, instead of deluxe expanded editions they should do versions cut down to a nice tight 40 minutes or so

I mildly regret putting Rajan's name in this now. A lot of people just being mean to him in the replies. I don't necessarily disagree but I don't think the specific presenter actually mattered.

Why do I put the Today Programme on in the morning? Just heard Amol Rajan agreeing with his guest that not everyone on the fascist march was a fascist, even though it was organised by a famous fascist with an even more famous fascist as a guest speaker.

Sounds good to me. I'd also bring back generous student grants and let people spend them on a wider range of things than just study.

Because you’re a cunt.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

English people really need to stop talking like Americans now it’s so fucking embarrassing. Watched a TikTok this morning of a man walking round a retail park in Ashford going on about ‘antifa’. What are you doing.

I have started blogging. Gods, nymphs and pixies help us all Here is a post about the dreary cheap flags that are still hanging around the lampposts near my house. It is also about some English things I love. tomslatter.co.uk/2025/09/11/w...

swear to god, if it turns out I'm currently "living my best life" I am going to be fucking furious

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

Not saying political journos are bad at their jobs, but well before the last election I heard people like @jemgilbert.bsky.social saying Starmer would be hugely unpopular and his faction were mainly motivated by securing their own jobs. But all the journos seem surprised. Gleeful, but surprised.

This is not acceptable. I demand this be changed.

I have started blogging. Gods, nymphs and pixies help us all Here is a post about the dreary cheap flags that are still hanging around the lampposts near my house. It is also about some English things I love. tomslatter.co.uk/2025/09/11/w...

Livin' on a razor's edge, balancing on a ledge, livin' on a razor's edge, you know, you know...

Peter Mandelson has resigned in disgrace? I am shocked.

Today is the ten year anniversary of my proudest ever achievement in publishing, RUSHOMON: the time I got both a Rush Hour Crush and a Good Deed printed on the same page of the UK Metro, both of which told a single, horrifying, story from two different angles. It's been all downhill ever since.

hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together

Slightly diminish a book. Of Mice

Slightly diminish a book. A Tale of A City.

it's real support from actual racists

My best loved piece on Medium explaining that SF writers don't own the ideas and shouldn't fight turf wars - but that Ian McEwan's understanding of SF requires an electron microscope to find. #Booksky #books medium.com/@stephen.cox...

The UK summed up in one image ...

www.mixcloud.com/emma-chrysop... This week's #Sonikmyst on Deep Nuggets Radio is now ready for those who may have missed it or want to check if what happened was real or an illusion created by too much reality. if you want to catch the live set Every wednesday on www.deepnuggets.com

Any termite that falls this is an idiot and deserves what they get, imho. Yeah, I said it.

"Sauron pushes the boundaries of ring technology" - Gondor Telegraph

Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.

Skip to the end

"Made with British Water"

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

So patriotic

I've got a new song! When The Lights Go Out by High Wire Act. It's full of riffs and it's all about psychopaths. open.spotify.com/track/2CNLfB...

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Same. ... Except I don't have any fame

Anyway, when you die, if a pop singer was to lazily alter the words to an existing song as a crap tribute, rather than writing a new song, which song would you want it to be? And how might the lyrics be slightly altered? I'm thinking 'Hit me with your rhythm stick...'