The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Why are there so many different beard trimmers?!! My long-serving cheapo one has finally conked out. I just want to go into a shop and say “a new beard trimmer please” and they say “certainly, there you are; that’ll be twenty quid.” But no. Capitalism has its own stupid ideas.

The Metropolitan Police is braced for an undercover documentary screening tonight showing Charing Cross police station is full of violent, racist and outright fascist officers and staff www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Some great reporting here: “One of the most prominent YouTubers, Anthony Styles, 59, has since deleted his AJ Audits channel after it was revealed he is a convicted paedophile. He was known to frequent protests… where demonstrators claimed to stand for the “protection of women and children”

Last weekend, as the weather improved, more people tried to cross the Channel to reach safety in the UK. Four lost their lives in three separate incidents — one was a child. The government’s deterrent policies don’t work; they push people to take greater risks. We need #SafeRoutes now.

Aw diddums. Did the nasty man call you racist just because you make racist comments, push racist policies and support racists being racist?

This is some horrific bullshit #FreePalestine

Some people put up sheds, some people put up a fucking flag pole. Such an obnoxious, provocative, aggressive thing to do. It blights our street and has diminished good feeling in our community. I feel dreadful for the people who this ‘erection’ (not our shed) is intended to intimidate and exclude.

Fun fact to add: In 1935 German Defense Minister Blomberg - the one who introduced the new oath of loyalty to Hitler renamed the German Defense Ministry… wait for it… the “Ministry of War”.

The “They’re eating ‘Royal Swan’” libel is a racist motivated xenophobic trope. Constant, moronic, libel and confidence tricks is all we get.

“Tigger Tig! Tig Tig Tig. Ti-i-ig! Tig Tig Tig Tig Tig Tig !” Just me signing my cat’s name to him to the tune of ‘The A-Team’.

Meditations in an Emergency Cameron Awkward-Rich 'Hand on my stupid heart' 🖤

Authoritarians please just do one. Get out of our faces!!

A pleasure to be in Paris on a day like today 🕺 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Can I sue the UK government for the trauma it has caused me my entire fucking life?

🚨🇪🇸 Breaking: Spain has dispatched a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. Speaking from New York, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain “condemns the genocide” in Gaza and demanded Israel uphold international law and allow Spanish citizens to sail safely in the...

“Nobody knows how to talk about reparations” - not entirely true, it’s just that those most hysterically opposed to it have the power to www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Many historical documents - especially those of a nature that can shame and involve implication for ‘sins of the fathers’ are vulnerable to destruction and loss. Existing archives related to slavery often have the most grotesque weeded out, hidden or destroyed.

Ebay cannot, should not be if ignored by collecting institutions. Due diligence, yes, but there needs to be some attention. Al Nasir’s ‘Searching for My Slave Roots’ is immensely valuable and made possible from some eBay recoveries. #culturalheritage #research www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Racism in public places is normal again in England. Watching football in a (usually civilised pub) and a ‘comfortable’ outburst of ‘banter’ racism. Hate it. England has a huge past to process and recent progress made against white supremacism and British exceptionalism is flying out the window.

Festival! With jerk pork, corn and rice and peas. This was last weekend but I just want to do it and eat it again! 🇯🇲😋 #yumdamental

#OnThisDay in London housing history, 2014: FocusE15 campaigners occupy empty flats on the Carpenters Estate, Stratford, in protest at impending private development. focuse15.org/e15-open-hou...

#OnThisDay in London housing history: St Pancras rent strikers fight police, Kings Cross, 1960. Our reprint of the 1972 Dave Burn pamphlet, ‘Rent Strike: St Pancras 1960’, is on sale in our online shop: pasttensehistories.bigcartel.com/product/rent...

“Just join the Greens” is another illustration of the dire lack of options for people in a con-trick, authoritarian, non-participatory ‘democracy’.

State of the nation: the only place I can get a blood test done in time for results to be available for an appointment with my Oncologist is 25 miles away. The hospital is then a 50 minute walk or 20 minute bus ride from the railway station. The train fare is £17.60 (£11.70 if buy ticket today).

I’m thinking of all the “fuck off!”’s I’ve said in my life, and rolling them all up into one big “fuck off!” for people and institutions that support and comply with authoritarian nonsense.

The New McCarthyism: UC Berkeley Just Handed Over the Names of 160 Students and Faculty to the Trump Admin Read: zeteo.com/p/the-new-mc...

Boo hoo.

Fucking police.

lol

New tattoo, perhaps.

“Some Labour MPs have already suggested the government should send the Royal Navy into the Channel to prevent small boat crossings, an approach tried and failed under Boris Johnson in 2022 and 2023.” Who are these despicable politicians?! 😡

See the below article and thread for alternatives to the platforms owned by the techno-fascist billionaires. Drop: X, Meta, Google, ChatGPT, and Amazon. Use: Bluesky, Pixelfed, Mastodon, Ghost and DuckDuckGo. Skylight is a great alternative to TikTok and works well with Bluesky. Same for Flashes.

TikTok will officially become a surveillance tool for the Trump regime and its billionaire backers. Larry Ellison helped build the detention and surveillance state in China via his company—Oracle—and now he’ll do it here. Spread the news, tell your friends, and encourage everyone to delete TikTok.

“No-Body figurine Porcelain, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue Made in the Jingdezhen kilns in Jiangxi Province China, 1680-1700“ says the Victoria & Albert Museum. “That’s fucking Bob Dylan!” I say.

Britannia Hotels Ltd. Parasitic profiteers feeding on vulnerable people’s circumstances that are cynically and needlessly confected by the U.K. government for political theatre and diversion. Illuminating article in the Financial Times here archive.ph/2025.09.14-1...

I’d suggest something that looks to the future rather than a mythologised white past: building a decarbonised, liveable future for Britain’s next generation. Taps into new nuclear deal.

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

It is farcically easy to make the case for better things, and it shames the Labour Party in particular that they are unwilling to do it.

Strong Neville Chamberlain vibes

Stupid fuck with the Irish tricolour. White racists, that’s what ‘unites’ these hateful people.

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. 🖤♥️ #flagwankers #raisethecolours

Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group. We are disappointed with this decision, which means our concerns around freedom of religion will not be heard in court.

It’s symbolic, discriminatory violence. It’s illegal. It’s condoned by the authorities because they don’t dare act against it. And now it’s spreading UK-wide.

I support the Library workers demands: they deserve better! #libraryworkers #solidarity

I just advised someone visiting Manchester by text to “have a pint of Milf”. My gorilla fingers apologise to the qualifying demographic of Manchester.

This is a masterpiece youtu.be/BpimXPBDU9o?...

“I like to move it move it, I like to move it move it; I like to MOVE IT!” 🎶