This makes for disturbing reading and is shameful that we treat fellow humans this way. They’re desperate and it’s only a matter of time until a tragedy takes place. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Technologically advance a band. The Cyborg League

Refugees are quite often a product of our arms industry - perhaps there should be a special tax on the arms industry to go towards expenses related to refugees ?

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...

49.2C at Jeddah is the new WORLD RECORD HIGHEST TEMPERATURE between Sept 16th and Dec 19th !

If you haven't discovered @monkemma.bsky.social yet, they provide unparalleled scrutiny of wild headlines and their accompanying unscrupulous, unreliable and generally inaccurate articles...

Jeepers.

I don't think I'm particularly stupid (though I have my moments), but for some reason I'm surprisingly pleased and oddly reassured that my feed on here occasionally features posts that I do not understand one little bit.

People ask why so many asylum seekers are young men. 🧵 Because in war & persecution, young men are the first to be rounded up, conscripted, silenced or killed. Families often send a son first. He’s the one most at risk & the one strong enough to attempt the journey then hope to bring others later.

24 years ago today America was attacked by zero Afghans, zero Iranians and zero Iraqis. #NeverForget #September11 #911Anniversary

I cannot imagine why anyone would travel to the US, for any reason.

Just what was the point? We could have just had some more Tory government..

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

It's such a shame that absolutely nothing can be done to stop this ethnic cleansing. If only we had some kind of consensus on war crimes, say, and the desire to stop them immediately.

And there will be no pushback from politicians, the media will continue to hang on his every word - and women will still vote for him, even as he proposes sending other women to almost certainly be tortured and killed.

This is what I'd prefer journalists cover in mainstream news, rather than how much our politicians love flags, or whether they really love flags.

The Glory of N Irish footy pt. 3382: Just drink this in...

Oh my. This is SO TOUCHING. Beautiful, poignant and wonderful. This is Britain’s at its best and I want more of it. Not the incessant Faragist cruelty and stupidity. More of this.

I'm not entirely sure why it falls to ordinary people like @richfiend.bsky.social to do the BBC's journalistic due diligence for them. Platforming someone found to have been "fundamentally dishonest" was definitely not a good idea. Source: www.insurancetimes.co.uk/builder-pays...

Been thinking this for a while now. We are entering (or have entered) an age of mass migration, thanks to climate breakdown and its knock-on effects (increased desertification, water shortages/flooding, associated crop failures, disease, conflict, wars - and more). 1/2

Hip hop is 52 years old. At a back-to-school party in the Bronx in 1973, Jamaican-American deejay Kool Herc introduced the technique of playing the same album on two turntables and extending the drum section, which became known as the breakbeat. 🧵⬇️

You did it. The neo-Nazi gig planned for Great Yarmouth has been CANCELLED. ❗ Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share

This is the sort of thing Labour should be tweeting and generally shouting about, not cackhandedly trying to appease Reform voters:

It's just brown people, isn't it? There's no actual pretence at following due process any more. The enforcers are lawless now.

Israel's cheerleaders are the most depraved monsters of our age

So to sum up… The “story” is that a working-class, Northern woman (hated by the Right), bought a house, paid the right amount of Stamp Duty, AND declared and paid the additional Council Tax she was required to pay. Yup, that’s it. That’s the story that’s dominated for several days now🙄 16/17

Grimsby Town FC's entire squad cost less than a tenth of what Man Utd paid for their goalkeeper Andre Onana alone. Mad.

Farage owns four homes: Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce) Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd) One investment property in Surrey (rented out) Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home #NigelFarage

I've written about the concerted effort by the combined forces of the right to turn convicted race hate monger Lucy Connolly into a victim, a saint and a martyr. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...

This hasn't dated at all. Nor, I fear, will it.

Congratulations Grimsby. I've already seen someone suggest Blundell Park be renamed the Theatre of Breams. But that mascot... is hauntingly creepy.

Grimsby Town now hold the right to have Blundell Park referred to as The Theatre of Breams from now on.

If anyone has concerns about runaway rates of UK public sector pay after a few high-profile stories, my net pay today was £4.1k, (including the recently-negociated 3.6% pay rise, also backdated to April as a one-off. I'm a paramedic, and have been at the top of band 6 AfC for about a decade).

A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is. The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.

If your concern is that a white person who pleaded guilty received a sentence within the guidelines maybe you *want* two tier justice.

As the UK media refuses to do its job some context on a convicted criminal currently all over it. 1. She pleaded guilty 2. To an offence introduced by Thatcher 3. And was sentenced under Johnson’s guidelines Now tell me again about the terrifying left wing, free speech denying, authoritarians.

11. I have to apply the Sentencing Council Guidelines for this offence. 12. In relation to your culpability this is clearly a category A case – as both prosecution and your counsel agree, because you intended to incite serious violence. Judge's summation.

This. Exactly this.

I see tons of these videos on my feed from various US accounts. I know it's easy to pontificate from a distance - but yanks, you really really need to start pushing back on this.

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

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.

Adil Ray, "Robert Jenrick has decided to join a protest where some there are far right" Jonathan Ashworth, "When Jenrick was immigration minister, his policy was to refuse to process asylum seekers, so they ended up lumbered into hotels, eventually being sent to Rwanda"

We just learned about a 3rd dimension of how Covid can affect our arteries. erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-and-...

No, #MOTD isn't the same without Lineker. But - the new presenters are doing a fine job. Intelligent, insightful, light-hearted. And plenty of white, male, balding, ex-footballer pundits to maintain a sense of status quo.

Wow at 1pm today on this sunny Sunday, solar is providing 41% of electricity. Let's get sharing the good news. #NetZero #LoveNetZero via grid.iamkate.com