Awareness campaigns like this work, I knew to call 999 when my husband showed signs of a stroke. Because we got him to hospital within an hour he recovered with only minimal loss in one hand - it could have been much worse.

REVEALED: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has been campaigning alongside racists and far-right activists in his bid to win the seat. Read the full story: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...

Rest in peace, Robert Duvall. You had many famous roles, but you tried, bravely, to capture Fred Waterford, The Commander in the original film of The Handmaid's Tale.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Sharing this - the symptoms of stroke. Someone important to me didn't recognise loss of speech as a sign, to their cost, upsettingly so. Know the signs: F. A. S. T. Dropped side of the FACE Inability to raise both ARMS SPEECH slurred or impossible Act FAST, call an ambulance #Stroke #StrokeAwareness

Restore Britain have their first ever councillor, Maria Bowtell, ex-Tory & ex-Reform a longstanding Lowe associate (& an employee of Restore). She told me she "fully supports" Conor Tomlinson's proposal to ban all ethnic minorities from parliament & propose a Restore Britain policy paper on it

Inspired by your brunch, but recognising my limited ability, I made this for dinner. Pretty tasty IIDSSM.

It’s a U.K. passport anyway If you want to make a political point, even a fascist or neo-Nazi one, get your facts right And Susan Hall is a useless politician who was roundly beaten at the last Mayoral election in London

Yay all of Matt Goodwin's weird posts on his substack are coming back to bite him, because saying insane reactionary shit for your subscribers is red meat (and easy journalism) for the papers

Susan Hall defecting to Rupert Lowe’s Restore Racist Britain?

It's the world view of rich white men who employ nannies and send their kids to boarding school

Start your Monday right:

No need to listen to a billionaire who moved to Monaco to save paying £4bn in tax. Caricature by @bjennings90.bsky.social.

Sunday lunch - poha. Rice flakes, cooked with potato, onion, tomato, peas, garlic, ginger. Cooked with Nigella seeds (khalo jeera), Fenugreek seeds, Cumin seeds (jeera), fennel seeds (saunf), yellow and black mustard seeds, and turmeric. Toasted peanuts, coriander leaf, and bhujia/sev. #FoodSky

Weston/Stoecker gold medal in new Winter Olympics event.

I have a Wuthering Heights theory. Nelly (Ellen) Dean had a childhood crush on Hindley Earnshaw. #WutheringHeights #BookNotTheFilm

Even Reform are admitting now that it is a straight fight between them and the Greens. Labour is a wasted vote.

Sunday lunch - poha. Rice flakes, cooked with potato, onion, tomato, peas, garlic, ginger. Cooked with Nigella seeds (khalo jeera), Fenugreek seeds, Cumin seeds (jeera), fennel seeds (saunf), yellow and black mustard seeds, and turmeric. Toasted peanuts, coriander leaf, and bhujia/sev. #FoodSky

Racists for Rupert

These people are the standard-bearers for antitrans hatred: rape-apologists and latent kiddy-fiddlers, who because they’re life-members of the commentariat club, are treated by the rest of the commentariat as if their filth is normal.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Good morning, crocus popping out in the sunshine at Wakehurst Place - it was super bright yesterday ☺️ Happy Sunday 🙏

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan, through introducing a new criminal procedure code, has effectively legalised violence against women. www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-a...

Nadhim Zahawi's "I saw a man who hadn't slept" story is so hilariously pathetic that I doubt even he believes it www.lbc.co.uk/article/lond...

This, Small Prophets, is a lovely comedy drama series. Quirky, with humour and heart, and without the cliches of so many sitcoms. (Yes, I am looking at you, "Can You Keep A Secret".)

Why has British media not covered the General Strike in India? 300 million workers participated. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover

Roses are red Violets are blue Autism is nothing to be afraid of And antivax rhetoric kills children

Bring back global warming! There seems to be a growing political and journalistic class that want to simultaneously reverse any kind of social progress from the past four decades and push ahead with technological progress without any kind of breaks and guard rails. /1

Home made chicken karaage. A Japanese Izakaya classic. Chicken thigh chunks (skin on), marinaded in garlic, ginger, soy sauce, and sake. Dusted liberally with potato starch and fried in the wok. #FoodSky #FoodBluesky #FoodieBluesky

Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954), Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia), 1928 Oil on canvas

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley. Crashed Northern Rock and still argued for less regulation. Born with a silver spoon and unable to learn anything dispite the best education.

BREAKING: People in the West Midlands awoke today feeling alarmed by the sudden appearance of a burning light in the unnaturally blue sky

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Don't put this in your GCSE English essay, kids!

Pffft. Red roses for Valentine’s Day? German supermarket Edeka is out here making sausage bouquets.

Matt Weston wins first Team GB gold medal at this Winter Olympics in the skeleton. Track record. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter...

In tribute to The Skids on #TOTP with Into The Valley, the classic Maxell cassette advert. youtu.be/Gib916jJW1o?...

Brooklyn Beckham has been in the news. But let's take a wee moment to watch this from Cruz Beckham and his band The Breakers. Resurrecting the 90s Britpop feel here to good effect. Watch to the very end, the boy's got a sense of humour. youtu.be/Q3s8EJAOeL0?...

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

Adam Ernest Pickard has won the UK Pun Championships at the Leicester Comedy Festival... punnage alert: 1. ‘The song Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII. I’d play some of it here, but it’s not royalty-free.’ www.chortle.co.uk/news/2026/02...

This is illuminating. The Merle Oberon/Laurence Olivier film adaptation of Wuthering Heights is, for many, their favourite. But had Oberon's racial identity been known, she could never have been allowed to be cast. youtu.be/cuDiAnDjAR8?...

Clare Grogan, lead singer of Altered Images, was many an 80s' music lover's crush. Turns out she is the inspiration for Spandau Ballet's mega hit "True", because Gary Kemp was infatuated with the perfect pop poppet. Queen. inews.co.uk/culture/musi...

Matt Goodwin posted a video on his YouTube channel in November 2024 which has the former academic warning that “many women in Britain are having children much too late in life”. What women do with their bodies, Matt, is none of your business, you misogynist. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Joshua Woo reimagining Dido's "Thank You" as if it were performed by The Smiths is musically accurate, lyrically humourous, and well worth a few minutes of your time. His Moz impression is pretty good, too! youtu.be/j-GJc8lE-Hc?...

The fact Nigel Farage's company is called Thorn in the Side Limited is instructive. He doesn't want to run things; too much work. He doesn't want to solve things; too much thought. He just wants to be an annoyance. The classic backseat driver.

Presently thawing out Mystery Sauce I found in the freezer. I have no recollection of making this at all, so no idea what it is. Guess we'll find out soon enough! 😅 #foodsky

Nigel Farage has been making the incorrect claim that "one million people living in this country don't speak any English at all" Facts here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

CCTV video captured the moment a huge sinkhole swallowed part of a busy road in Shanghai, China on Wednesday. Authorities said the cause was a leak at a subway construction site.

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...