“So I leant over, tapped her on the cleavage with a pastry fork, I said my mother gave birth to twins in an unheated wash house and then got straight back up and finished the mangling, so think on.” RIP, Patricia Routledge.

"We honestly feel the whole institution could crash. You can’t cut and cut and then bring in extra students and even more pressure.”

Also even if there is Top Secret material justifying a ban, it’s very difficult I think to argue that retired GPs and Quaker students holding up a cardboard sign are party to that information or responsible for it

Let’s not kid ourselves there isn’t something very sinister about allowing city centres to be covered by tricolours erected by the Far Right in Ireland and few moves to take them down. The national flag is not the problem but how it’s being used as an intimidatory and exclusionary symbol.

Sweden's Greta Thunberg is dehydrated, under-fed and being held in poor conditions ans subjected to intimidation by the Israelis after being illegally kidnapped in international waters - and her government is saying nothing. As pathetic as they are spineless. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?" Older veteran: “87.” Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.” Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.” 🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

It’s happening. They’re firing on civilians in Chicago.

'Spanish police were investigating Bridge and seven other Brits alleged to have scammed hotels in Magaluf between 2016 and 2017. The group is suspected of helping British tourists to make bogus compensation claims for food poisoning via a WhatsApp group called UK Holiday Claims'

Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

Two tier policing when the police are basically escorting flag shaggers as they put up flags without permission using a cherry picker.

As the Global Sumud Flotilla near Gaza, my thoughts are with all those on board but especially my brilliant friend the activist and poet Sarah Clancy. This poem sums up her spirit, her bravery, her empathy. As she says on her video updates: Free Palestine. Free us all. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Thinking of Sarah. @simonharrisireland.bsky.social must intervene.

🚩Es muy fácil. Acabo de hacerlo. Hazlo tú también «Actúa por la Flotilla Global Sumud Insta a los gobiernos y ministerios de relaciones exteriores a proteger a sus ciudadanos y a exigir un tránsito seguro para la Global Sumud Flotilla a Gaza.» 👉🏽 www.newscord.org/action/gsf-f... 👇🏽

'ITV’s Long Lost Family: The Mother and Baby Home Scandal features the searches of people – including mixed-race & disabled adoptees – affected by forced adoptions, which the UK government has refused to formally apologise for.' No return to those times. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ex-leader of a historic imperial entity stands ready to "govern" colonised, famine-stricken land. Well, holy god.

TEN YEARS for settled status. Labour really do seem to have gone collectively insane. Just don’t play Farage’s game. Refuse. Try thinking about what you’re actually saying. And stop.

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

Nearly half of British adults believe a majority of immigrants to this country in the last year came here illegally. Just under a third (32%) believe the majority came here legally and a further one in five (20%) don't know.

For those wondering how a "Must Stop Boats" ID card will impact the common travel area between Ireland & GB, this plenary session report from 2006 provides some insight: TL;DR: "LOLs". Full doc: tinyurl.com/cta-issues quick 🧵

As an aside, the Tony Blair Institute says that BritCard digital IDs should be used for people reporting potholes. Wouldn't want just anyone to be able to do that.

I mean, try issuing something called a Brit Card to most of the population of Derry. Go on, I fucking dare you.

We should all ask the question: Where is Keir Starmer?

Where's a mandatory balance requirement when you need one?

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

A generation of academics torture themselves in order to boost student satisfaction scores, and then the bosses decide students will be just as well off with a chatbot that tells them "Your work is deeply satisfactory — more than that, it meets the criteria for an upper second"

Genuinely pains me to say so, but at great cost to my personal brand I will admit that I agree that most English people have not gone insane over the past decade, but that English media and political parties absolutely have. A great number of English people remain decent and, crucially, normal!

Nigel Farage: "We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status", and "We will rescind ILR statuses that have already been granted". The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.

Great piece in Vittles on French university canteens www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/welfare-is... 1 euro - 3.30 for a 3 course lunch. Meanwhile, British student unions need to set up food banks...

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

mfer is literally named "rob tombs", did they summon the spirit of the british museum into an op ed writer

Queen

"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social

Big news: Today government introduced the Hillsborough Law to Parliament. Now we’ve added a new session to our INQUEST Northern Conference this Thursday 18 September, with key lawyers involved in this landmark legislation. 🚨 Don’t miss this vital conversation. 🎟️ Get your tickets

Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

In the The Shadow Scholars documentary, Oxford professor Patricia Kingori uncovers Kenya's hidden essay mills where highly educated yet underemployed writers produce academic papers for wealthy Western students. Directed by Eloïse King.

Just 24 arrests. The Metropolitan Police have said they will make "further arrests in the coming days and weeks" following Far Right violence at the “Unite the Kingdom” march. Last weekend the Met arrested 890 people for holding cardboard placards and peacefully protesting against genocide.

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.

The Greens could be polling at 40% and all we’ll read about is the rise of Reform

Link to this obituary here: dflw.ie/on-the-passi...

”Hobbyist”.

The UK in numbers this weekend: 425 arrests made for peacefully protesting against genocide. 0 arrests of those who support, fund, or commit genocide

Baroness Amos will lead the NHS maternity & neonatal care investigation. We welcome the timeline & focus on families’ voices but seek clarity on mental health inclusion. As the most common perinatal complication & a leading cause of death, it must be: maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/news/barones...

It includes audiobooks, toys, and photocopying. Just despicable

Well played.