Still reckon they're terrorists, Mr Starmer? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If the disease is susceptibility to wealth and power perhaps the treatment is limits on wealth and power. Or are we going to carry on being intensely relaxed about all this?

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

"The next time you go to Las Vegas, you’ll notice that there are no 13-year-olds in the casinos. The reason is not because a series of longitudinal studies proved to the satisfaction of the gaming industry that gambling causes anxiety and depression." www.platformer.news/social-media...

The @nationaltrust.org.uk has received the biggest cash donation in its 131-year history as philanthropist Humphrey Battcock has pledged £10m in unrestricted funding to the charity

Join us as we launch our latest report, identifying the points where crucial data on election donations gets lost in the system. This is a free, online event, part of our WhoFundsThem project looking into money in politics. Reserve your spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mysociety-... #democracy #anticor

I love that “family” is the unit of measurement given here, as though we all gather around the small screen to read the Twitters of an evening

Just listened to Ruby Tandoh (from Bake Off back in the day) explain why bubble tea is a thing! I always wondered... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Swiss public service, 1945:“What do we city dwellers really know about the work performance of a rural mail carrier,who does not know the 8-hour workday,who,all year round, in any weather,heat&cold,often heavily loaded, has to cover 30+km & is paid significantly less for it than his urban colleague”

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

Yes, *that* Jose Gonzalez! 🔴🔵🐸 🟡🟢⚫️🌁🌇 🎸📺

Good morning! Good news if you were thinking of applying for a Tenacious Journalist Award, but were worried it was going to interfere with your mince pie consumption rate — the deadline is now Friday 9 January 2026! 📆 www.tenaciousawards.org/about-the-jo...

Working from London this Weds, Thurs, and next Mon if anyone wants to offer free desk space / lunch recommendations / Lizzie Line vouchers.

Around two thirds of Reform's money has come from overseas | me with @catneilan.bsky.social 📰 observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Yesterday @pippacrerar.bsky.social reported in @theguardian.com that Keir Starmer is about to appoint another set of peers, including 25 Labour. Later Aubrey Allegretti in @thetimes.com suggested there would be 33 new peers in total. Three problems with this 🧵⤵️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Here's an excellent bit of arts/cultural spending mapping (try, e.g. Arts Council England funding per head... pretty stark!) culture.localinsight.org#/

I don’t want to get all conspiracy theorist, but it’s pretty suspicious that the @fairphone.com website consistently doesn’t work on an iPhone…

Last time I was at London City Hall it was in an armadillo nr HMS Belfast. Life comes at you fast. Here for the GLA25 event - to talk about role of local news in keeping mayors on their toes. Can’t find a hashtag..

Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

For any budding journalists in the south west, here's your chance! www.theprsd.co.uk/2025/10/29/r... (via @theprsd.bsky.social and @totnespulse.bsky.social and @westcountryvoices.bsky.social)

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Happy 30th birthday to Shetland News! 🎂 👏 🎉

🚄Excellent news - the government is freezing rail fares!🚄 Next we need REDUCTIONS as UK rail fares are out of control But this is a step in the right direction after 30 years of privatisation and a win for public ownership! 🎉🎉🎉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They’re now aiming at 200k members!

🎉 We've launched The Bristol Cable app – a world first! Independent investigative journalism meets open social networking. **What makes it different:** • No algorithms – you control what you see • No data harvesting • No advertising • Connects to Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads & beyond

Know a UK journalist (esp. local) who could use £10,000 to work on a project likely to have significant social impact? Please point them this way --> www.tenaciousawards.org/about-the-jo...

I'll be talking about how we should and could regenerate local news at Stroud Trinity Rooms, this Sunday at 4.30pm (but don't let that put you off, haha). There will be short films and everything! www.stroudtrinityrooms.org/event-detail...

“But it was also to grapple with their ideas, help them make the best version of their arguments and then to validate their voices by publishing them on the same page as our editorials” A paean to the value of letters pages. Finishes with a good quote too: www.notus.org/perspectives...

Never seen a Head of Reparations role before! From @jrct.bsky.social. Pioneers should apply here --> jrct.org.uk/job-vacancie...

LOLing at this quote from a megashed stan from this BBC news article in April. Majestic and wonderful, indeed.

Current status: awaiting a swan to leave Glasgow Central station so we can be platformed. 🦢

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Hey Rachel Reeves, please can we have swingeing taxes on fast food packaging? Or, like the French (possibly), ban it entirely? #FiscalRules

Wrote something for @powertochange.org.uk about the fact that government policy must include a new category - digital social policy - to address the social impacts of technologies. Tech policy has to be more than cutting-edge innovation and growth www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Kemi Badenoch during her visit to Blyth*... "A town once powered by coal is now powered by wind. And all this is creating hundreds of jobs. Blyth illustrates the promise of the clean energy revolution." "We know that growing our green industries is crucial to reaching net zero"

The folks @democracyclub.org.uk provide an invaluable service to democracy in the UK. They're such an important part of national democratic infrastructure. They've just started looking for a new Chair for their board. Read the spec and see if you're a good fit: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

I'm seeing so many takes around parts of the "ID card" melange, I have to add a few. It's not about cards. It's about registers. A register is a definitive 'true source' of data, about people, places, buildings, whatever.

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Mads Mikkelsen? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"...the rise of "workslop," which is low-quality AI content (reports, presentations, emails, etc) that requires another human to fix it and to diagnose what went wrong, which is killing productivity and making workers resentful of each other. Things are going great!" www.404media.co/email/641a21...

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

@exetercouncil.bsky.social hello! The gate to northernhay Gardens is locked at Northernhay Place… Could it be unlocked please?

“Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory.“ David Fickling in adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Your Party unauthorized mockumentary when? It's what The People want.

🆕: Leaders from the anti-corruption space have written to the new Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP and new Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper MP, urging them to continue the UK’s leadership on illicit finance and commit to hosting the upcoming international summit. Read our letters below:

"And so the politicians and pundits who now crack the whip on immigration need to be asked, right now, where this ends." Excellent piece by Jonathan Liew: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Apple kind of approaching parody now