If Starmer were a more effective prime minister he wouldn’t need to worry about Burnham. I’m not sure Burnham would even try to get back to Westminster if current Gov was doing a good job. Starmer allies should try fixing the actual problem rather than playing student politics.

More misleading ADHD reporting by @theguardian.com. Again implie fault lies with private providers, not NHS GPs withdrawing care. And why is this being covered by a “consumer affairs correspondent”, not health journalist? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't... www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

Given how many mentions we've had of 'levers' so far today, it feels like a good moment to share @pollymackenzie.bsky.social's recent piece howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/there-aren...

This is such a bizarre article. The journalist seems to have decided that the problem in this tragic case is right to choose ADHD diagnosis, not being deregistered by his GP and delays getting a community mental health assessment www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

They released the video to tell all American women that this is what you get for disrespecting the natural order of the universe.

For Trump and his thugs, this is the perfect wedge murder, an opportunity to demonstrate their core principles, and their approach to the law: the man is right, the woman is wrong, and the penalty for talking back is death.

That's what I mean about ICE being Trump's fist against the citizenry he despises. One of the key underpinnings of the fascist Christian movement is that women know their place, respect their husbands, don't talk back and don't meddle in the affairs of men.

He saw that she was queer, he saw her wife, he couldn't stand to be mocked by someone so inferior to himself, so he shot her in the face, three times, then called her a "fuckin' bitch" as he walked away from the vehicle now careening down the street with a dead woman at the wheel.

Then I realized, for them, the video completely exonerates the murderer, because the victim mocked him, mocked his authority, didn't take his fascist cosplay seriously. So he shot her in the face, three times. That'll teach her.

I was puzzled for a moment about why DHS would release the phone footage from the murderer's point of view, since it clearly shows that the murderer was in no danger from the victim.

Hi everyone! After a swine of a year in 2025 (stroke *and* broken ankle) I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please send me a message or comment below. I’d love to reconnect ❤️

If city regions are to transform their transport with trams, we need a grown up conversation about how they’re funded. Otherwise our 5-year funding settlements will just be funding two lines/extensions at a time and not much else to fill the gaps.

Not everyone in a wheelchair has a form of plegia. Some use them because they cannot always reliably walk, or cannot sustain walking for long, or suffer a form of chronic pain or weakness that impacts them during walking. The most basic form of ableism is doubting the complexity of disability.

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

New Talk UX Strategy live discussion on Monday, December 15 at noon ET. What Information Architecture Means in an AI Chatbot World Discover how successful UX teams push past natural language prompts to unlock innovative approaches that drive results. RSVP: https://leaders.centercentre.com/

There is a flu emergency in the UK, hospitals are struggling. People are dying. Daily Telegraph front page today - "Badenoch attacks NHS order to wear face masks"

FINAL book giveaway of the year. To enter: reply below & repost this extract. Up for grabs: THREE signed Villager paperbacks with free art (bookmarks & postcards) by my parents. Enter if you enjoy Folklore Nature Rivers Hills Social history Lost art Ghost Tangled psychedelic narratives Silliness

“In 2022, a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health estimated that there had been over 330,000 excess deaths caused by austerity, one way or another, between 2012 and 2019” - Zoe Williams reviews The Museum of Austerity which has just arrived in London

“There must be some way, they insist, to stop spending all this money on people who aren’t well. Surely with the right incentives, they will just get better? … implicit in the state austerity has built: they’ll either get better or they’ll die.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel #GenX

Entirely typical of fundamental DWP mindset re claimants www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I am so tired of waiting. Aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two- and see what worms are eating at the rind.

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Last chance to snap up a hefty discount on ALL @rosenfeldmedia.com books and e-books. If you’ve already got my book, thank you so much and have a look at the long list of other great options. Ends midnight EST / 5am GMT / 6am CET

I see people asking "I have UI skills, how do I get better at UX?" My answer is: learn content design. You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".

It being that time of year, I went to 24 Ways to bask in the knowledge there. Here’s a 2019 Rob Weychert post that still resonates: A Modern Typographic Scale. 24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales

Moorland near Princetown last week. Of course because I can’t walk very far (a few metres at at time) the wild moors aren’t accessible to me, (also can’t sit in my wheelchair very long). All my photos are taken by a road I frame them with a zoom lens or very tightly #Dartmoor #Devon #photography

This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever

Compare and contrast the Government language. £3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’. Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’. And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.

Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

‘I’d run down the road thinking I was God’: cannabis users on their psychosis – and the clinic trying to help them

Author wrote best book he's ever written. Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings. Book was finally published by new publisher. Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed. Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one.. bsky.app/profile/zygo...

The more you look into the Prescott memo, the worse it gets

Never forget

A month ago I looked at what I called Labour's midlife crisis- an obsession with chasing socially conservative Reform-curious voters and ignoring groups of disaffected voters with social attitudes much closer to Labour voters. But some people thought there was method in their madness. Was there? 1/n

"What I think Blue Labour believe is that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social (and maybe economic) issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t." open.substack.com/pub/benansel...

I proudly present the internet's nerdiest and prettiest tax calculator. Other calculators just calculate your tax. This one calculates your tax now, and under various Budget proposals. And draws a pretty chart showing the marginal and effective rates for *everyone*.

🔥 Exciting news...early bird tickets for #CampDigital 2026 are now available! We're back at the RNCM on Thurs 7th May, and we've already confirmed some fantastic speakers and workshops (with more TBA)! Check out our lineup so far, and book early birds at: www.nexerdigital.com/camp-digital...

Just finished Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and just have to say how wonderful it is - funny, touching, surreal, sad in places, laugh out loud in others. Obsessive record collecting and long walks invoked happy childhood memories. Highly recommend 😻 #BookSky

“an AI “arms race” developing” in planning - gov promotes use of AI to speed up planning, others build AI tools to automate the process of objecting to applications…

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Bloody hell! It’s been a long time since a book has brought me to tears. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Thank you so very much for writing Everything Will Swallow You. Book of the year. #BookSky #TheStorygraph

When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22233

Not everything is shit and people - in a broad, collective sense - are basically decent and heroic. In case you needed cheering up. Says science www.theguardian.com/society/2025...