Instead of obsessing over Rachel Reeves budget on November 26 I shall be watching Stranger Things. Because it’s my birthday and I don’t mind paying 2p more.

At @umfordschool.bsky.social discussion w @sbagen.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social Luke Shaefer and Christina Weiland talking about how social policy can be built around the principle of thriving communities and individual autonomy.

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The absolute tumbleweed from the media & gov shows just how much they want to bury how much disabled people fought and still fight for our rights.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

A win for typography methinks

Now do an in depth of what a Green government would do

There are now 625,000 people aged 90 plus in the UK. This is up by more than 50% in the last 20 years. Around 16,600 of them are centenarians (people aged 100 plus). This has doubled since 2004. 1/2 New ONS release out today: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

yes, we have no bananas. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The sad end of the cluetrain manifesto

Covid enquiry update, strangely not covered in the nationals apart from that bastion of investigative journalism, the Daily Star. Well done them. Cc @implausibleblog.bsky.social

Exclusive to all newspapers @privateeyenews.bsky.social

'give me the most French idea you've got' 'no, that's too French'

Fab

The world's in a bad way, but now and then something goes right

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020. $0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

Sounds like modern Life without Buildings @robertdallasgray.com

I thought the Queen died in 2022 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill. Farage is still silent. It’s deafening. #ReformRussianBribes

Which fictional police officer do you think would be most likely to get caught out by a Panorama sting operation saying something unacceptable?

REVEALED: bombshell evidence of the link between Tylenol and autism.

this exists it is called thinking

Why is BBC Any Questions platforming the bonkers right wing Sarah Elliot, wife of Matthew Elliot (of vote leave fame)?

Well, what did you think was going to happen? Colombia and Panama kicked him out.

This has to be a @privateeyenews.bsky.social cover

The trend over the last year in Nigel Farage's public approval suggests the media live on a slightly different plant to the public

Almost feels like an idea from some utopian science fiction work, these days-

Mel Stride is not up to much, is he?

I see all the media organisations endlessly parroting the "free speech under threat" rhetoric of the right are now staying completely silent as Reform and the Conservatives openly ban news outlets that criticise them from covering their events bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

Instead there’s a ‘four minute sit down’ with Tice on bbc london

Farage got his arse handed to him by a US senator but strangely this doesn’t seem to be on the bbc website.

Is there a Little Miss Shits

Rewatching Chernobyl. Decision making by fools eventually is trumped by serious scientist.

Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

Dear Sir, Imagine my surprise…..

Leon is channelling American Gothic

Yes please. Origami Ballet - Agnes Obel - "The Curse"

What fresh hell is this 🤮 www.businessinsider.com/diary-of-a-c...

After the nuclear bomb drops, the first sign of life will be: fruit flies

Sozzy

A masterclass in political information from Zohan

The benefits system is under resourced which is not the same as broken.

And, if pushed, invent a series of fictional social security benefit rules and benefit conditions because, fundamentally they can't marry their politics with the actual purpose of social security benefits for Disabled people and just end up with a variety of 'have you tried not being Disabled?'

Venice is beautiful

No I do not want to get your app

This is super interesting regarding the TikTok algorithm and radicalisation