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Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters. Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?

Completed my 400th #parkrun today, at my regular event, @oakhillparkrun.bsky.social. Had a lovely sociable run with my friend Vicky who was doing her 300th run today. #loveparkrun

Same energy.

Is she filming her mum at the end without telling her *why*?

WTAF? Italy investigates claim that tourists paid to go to Bosnia to kill besieged civilians www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dumpster diving for art? Naaah, will pass, thanks. Be more Leslie, be a normal human. Don’t be the tech-bro.

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

People of London! PLEASE SHARE. I lost my necklace last night (10th Nov), and I'm hoping someone has found it. I caught the Northern Line from High Barnet to Leicester Square, then walked to the Prince Charles Cinema, then the same back again. I only noticed it was gone when I got home.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Lovely walk in Kent today (Holly Hill & Coldrum Long Barrow) after dropping the 15yo at Folkestone for an Armistice Day trip to Belgium with Air Cadets. Started in fog, finished in sunshine. There may have been hills!

Friend on FB declaring she's not paying her TV licence next year because the BBC are a Hamas propaganda machine. As she shares a post from GB News 😬

"excluded from the world of informal exchanges" got me. That's the bit we still do really really badly. African scientists unable to get visas to attend conferences, mothers struggling with childcare, class exclusion. If we turn it into a "theft" narrative it's easy to say "oh well I don't do that".

Contrary to popular belief, she was a huge part of what really was a team effort, but she should have had way bigger acknowledgement of the part she'd played. I wonder if her legacy would have been different if she hadn't died so tragically young?

Love this!

Is it just us or was Alan Carr KILLING IT in last night's #CelebrityTraitors? Like a true butterfly, he transformed to show his true colours! 1/6: #TheTraitors

Aaah, the relief!! After a day of self-imposed no TV, no radio, barely any phone (OK, I was hanging out on LinkedIn I was that unable not to scroll somewhere) I have finally caught up on #CelebrityTraitors. OMG, what an ending!! Loved the whole thing. Amazing, emotional television 😂

Just received a work-related marketing call on my (personal) mobile (which already annoyed me), then the salesman called me Mrs Ellis throughout the pitch. Yeah, nah, they won't be getting any business from me.

[through gritted midwestern teeth] congrats nyc

“New York’s next mayor will be an immigrant born in Uganda, a Muslim and a socialist…a walking, talking repudiation of everything Donald Trump stands for. Mamdani talks about freezing rent, affordable housing and cracking down on bad landlords – all personal issues to a property developer President”

I am *not* coming up, and I am most definitely not gonna get any party started.

Alexei Sayle scoring only 1 pt as an actor who has appeared in two or more episodes of The Young Ones is astonishing. #Pointless

🚨NEW - Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim Click for more: open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

“The BBC is not an American broadcaster, and it doesn’t owe any obligation to shareholders determined to close deals and make profits. Its clash with Trump is a chance to show the advantages of being a public broadcaster by standing up for the truth. It should seize that opportunity.”

A friend has managed to make himself sole Admin of a FB group of Reform-supporting knuckle draggers. Posts end up in my feed as he trolls them. They are full of people demanding overthrow by force of the government, and they all sound absolutely insane (even though it's "just online").

It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago. I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.

Looks like Wednesday and Enid's bedroom.

I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN ON CHRISTMAS THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS THAT IS ADVENT WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

Absolutely. Can you imagine the reaction from the usual suspects if ads were filled with visibly disabled people.

I recently chatted to someone that was about to start a job as a train driver. I made the "just pushing buttons" comment, and they told me about the massive manual they needed to learn, which was mostly about "what to do when things go wrong".

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Absolute perfection. #Reform

31min pacer at @oakhillparkrun.bsky.social this morning. Difficult job at the best of times, let alone on the hilly B Course. Either managed my best pacing ever, or missed by a few secs, depending on how promptly I started my watch and whether there were funnel duckers. Time will tell! #loveparkrun

I assumed this was a faked satirical headline. It is not.

I remember my mum buying this for my dad for Christmas or his birthday or something. I don't remember what he did with the poster. It's possible I put it up on my wall.

Since hashtags are not really the same kind of thing here as they were on Twitter, I'll use this thread to collect any of the Ozymandias-related gems I come across in my timeline. If the name doesn't ring a bell, here is the original. 1/

Origin story!

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this. At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

The mind boggles. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What would have been isolated voices on their street or in their community can easily find others like them on line. That way they build a critical mass that creates legitimacy - and snowballing influence amplified by algorithms.

personally, I think meerkats with suspect Russian accents are wildly over-represented in adverts.

The Sixth Formers give hope, though it sounds like they won't be sticking around.

If I'd seen this person in, let's say, a café, I would have nudged my companion and whispered 'look, it's Gorgs Prc'

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So ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration now extend to the number of black and brown people on TV ads

One reason I still use a camera and don't use my phone by default. I also make annual photobooks, which is a lot of work, but they are such a joy to browse through. BBC News - I lost thousands of photos when my phone crashed. Now I print them out for my daughter www.bbc.com/news/article...

I did as instructed and spent a while wondering what on earth it was that posters were so shocked by. And then... O.M.G.