A friend of mine, aged about 4, having been told by her mum that if all she ate was sweets then she’d get a big belly, greeted a very pregnant lady on the bus with the words “I know what YOU have been doing!” This was hard for her mum to explain on several levels.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

As set out in this thread, the causes of the court backlog are chronic lack of funding and absurd inefficiency. The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries. Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.

This is the second time in less than a year my daughter's school community faces the tragic and sudden loss of one of its members. Please keep the children and the teachers in your thoughts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's December again, Alexander. A month that holds some of the most precious memories and some of the worst. We are trying extra hard to feed off F's excitement for both of you. For all of you. To anyone else finding this time of year hard, hang on. X #grief #childloss

Here’s a six bedroom house in North Kensington, price £4m. You paid £4k for yours. You have also received a full state pension for 28 years! Nobody wants to pay more tax, but kindly fuck off with the “I worry” stuff.

Now this is surely one area where new tech - including AI - could be used to reduce cost? But issues around judicial editing and transparency would still need resolution. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

#CriminalJustice and #Legal scholars working on #empirical topics, do submit your work here. I had a fantastic experience, thorough reviews, short waiting time, great communication with the editorial team, and it is all 💎OA, so my university doesn't have to send £3K to Springer Nature stakeholders.

Cheering the two child limit ending isn’t patting Starmer’s Labour on the back or ignoring his record. It’s acknowledging 8 years of hard campaigning and ridding the country of a cruel, toxic policy. Half a million children won’t be hungry anymore. Celebrate today. Tomorrow, pick the next fight.

new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old

Asking big questions about the use of AI in asylum claims Professor @aminamemon.bsky.social and Dr Zoe Given-Wilson from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social are investigating the ethical and practical implications of digital tools in the asylum process. Read more: ow.ly/N1hi50XtBMq

A group of people bonding over a broken door on the Leeds - Nottingham Northern service feels like one part of Britain I'm proud of

I think if I worked in a production company and was allowed to commission a movie with a €70m budget was based on one tweet, it would be this one.

Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever

This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.

I'm alive right now because I gave birth with medical professionals who had ready access to lifesaving medication.

Me on The Reds. And on going behind. mailchi.mp/theanfieldwr...

Don’t have your home struck by lightning. Unusually conductive homeowners may be denied insurance

Wow. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...

Scotland [4] - 2 Denmark - K. McLean 90+8' It's done! No Playoff! Straight through! And WHAT A GOAL TO FINISH IT OFF!!!!

I absolutely detest these VERY IMPORTANT MORNING PLAYBOOK BRIEFING things written by kids with no ambitions beyond having a career like Alex Wickham’s and this encapsulates why.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

For the record, on Radio 4 yesterday Lars Løkke Rasmussen said he had some regrets about having introduced this law whilst Danish PM in 2016. Sounded like he was trying to distance himself from what Labour is doing now

It's hard to find the words to react to Shabana Mahmood's policy on asylum seekers announced today. But thankfully this should show why her position isn't tenable: the world is as dangerous as it was when she was in opposition. Her change of position is career orientated. bsky.app/profile/padd...

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2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood

I do always so love the "we need to protect our culture" argument, as if every single part of British culture hasn't been shaped in some way shape or form by migration, and hasn't been constantly evolving for hundreds of years as it is. Cultures which stagnate tend to die out anyway.

Abhorrent. If I hadn’t already cancelled my Labour Party membership, I’d sure as hell be doing it today.

This won’t stop people seeking protection in the UK. It will make it harder for refugees to rebuild their lives, feel secure and contribute to their communities. It will create a load more work for the Home Office, reviewing claims every three years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is Archie. He's deaf and doesn't hear when his humans get home. Luckily, his little brother Frankie lets him know with a gentle nudge to make sure he doesn't miss the moment. 14/10 for both (TT: melissamilne)

Interesting plan. In a similar way I am exploring alternative ways to be 30 years old again.

Genuinely shocked by this story If you needed a heart op, would it ever enter your mind that your cardiologist might be in hock to a (substandard) manufacturer?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men

“Overambitious […] underdelivered” Would be interesting to see an analysis of similarities with the Post Office IT scandal in terms of previous members of the board and management responses to staff/stakeholders raising concerns.

“ambitious plan to digitalize the courts […] an IT system, introduced as part of a £1bn project, has been plagued with technical faults - causing crucial information to go missing, be overwritten, or appear lost […] was known about for years before action was taken” www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

the Seattle mayor, police chief, and fire chief deleted 8 months of texts during the 2020 protests in defiance of public records law and nothing happened to them. the guy who declined to prosecute them is now governor bsky.app/profile/brad...

Been told the food at an event this week includes something with gherkin gel. I've never been more intrigued and revolted at the same time. I'm visualising a slug on a plate.

This is full of mildly astonishing revelations about right-wing influence at the BBC, but foremost among them is the fact that he was advised that writing for the New Statesman was effectively unacceptable but doing so for the Spectator was fine - indeed, advisable. I am flabbergasted.

Just wanted to post this to thank you. My sister and I used to share a bedroom that overlooked forton services in the distance, in the day when it was lit up luminous green. Family home was sold last year and I bought your print and sent it to her. Brought us closer, she loved it. Buy Gail’s stuff!

Everton have taken 11 Premier League games to reach 4 wins this season - 10 fewer than last season. #EFC

Olivia Rodrigo has come out punching after the White House and the Department of Homeland Security used her song All-American Bitch to promote ICE.

I wrote a piece about Movember and how I'm not a mental health advocate. www.threeredkings.com/when-novembe...

Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed. Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going. Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

We've been involved in so many evacuated block cases, I think this is our 8th, that we've a standard advice & case plan for assisting tenants. Now Sapphire Court. An Olympic Park block owned by NHG apparently with structural safety issues (and other problems). anthonygold.co.uk/insight/resi...