I’ve signed this. Because it DOES annoy me. And yes - I know you’re voting for an individual in our system. But… come on…

Should things escalate further and today goes down in history as the end of American hegemony future UK historians may be surprised to find the papers focusing on the Beckhams falling out.

"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war." Martin Luther King Jr.

Both government rhetoric, and policies, combined with a media fixation, is emboldening the far right. When they hear the PM say he "understands their concerns", what else can you expect other than an escalation of far right activities? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

It’s a dank and gloomy day in the middle of January, so here’s a startlingly bright dahlia to cheer things up

So sorry about your breakfast

I see that Newark and racists are in the news. Puts me in mind of the time I went to Newark and met some racists. www.the-fence.com/under-the-ha...

“We can continue to provide tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires or indeed subsidise jet fuel and aviation for millions of pounds. “Or we can put money into our local communities and into young people." www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

I wrote this poem the day after Renee Good was murdered - it’s about how the media and politicians immediately dehumanised her. I have had a few people ask “who wrote it?” So I am putting it up again - written in anger

ICE

Excellent piece by Gabriel Zucman showing claims of the decline of Europe vs the US are highly misleading. Productivity gap is smaller than sometime suggested and Europe has higher quality of life indicators, esp environment and work hours. E Anglia Bylines eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...

Why we could end up looking back at Robert Jenrick's defection as the moment Nigel Farage's hopes of becoming Prime Minister started to die www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/robert-jen...

Kinda wild that one of the major issues with our governments being effective in what they do is that they've mistaken stakeholder comms with project delivery.

I love Mahler. The dramatic bastard, who needs subtlty. I mean, turn up the volume and listen to this. youtu.be/KCblPVT5rZo?...

The EHRC's draft Statutory Guidance "would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor and question how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world."

You don’t have to be LGBT+ to support those that are in the same way that you don’t have to play sports to support a sports team.

It's incredible the extent to which an unreliable statistic oscillating around zero is reported each month as if it actually means anything

This thread takes a bit of a turn a couple of posts down.

Marina tests the boundaries of FT readers with a report from dinner by a latex-clad chef near Venice. Personally I’m very taken by the view of the vineyards as.ft.com/r/b6fadba4-a... (Gift link works for first 300 prurient clicks)

I don't even know where to find it. Is it a website? An app? I don't know and will never care.

I hate to be boring but Nighto xx

From my MP to N Fararge.

OECD figures are now updated for total UK Government support given to fossil fuels. £18.6 billion in 2024. Utterly bonkers to give support at all when facing climate breakdown. This should all be redirected to clean energy, insulation or restoring nature. Link below.

Mandelson should simply retire completely. We should never hear from him again. We don’t need his opinion on anything at all.

5000 legal humanist weddings in Northern Ireland. What a milestone and it's great to read what it has meant to the 5000th couple! It was a long legal battle for us and the fact that it has made such a difference in so many lives is moving. Now for England and Wales! humanists.uk/2026/01/13/n...

Oof!

This is so true! When Steve died, I had to prepare myself for this unpredictability and all of grief’s sneaky moments. So I got stronger, and I focused on building up my mental, emotional and physical health 💛 #DaddyBlackbird #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #SuicideLoss #Resilience #Hope

Ironbridge

I am posting this perennial truth again after viewing the new footage of Renée Good's murder: Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.

Want to feel old? This is Jon and Vangelis now: #TotP

Remember, it’s perfectly acceptable if your weekend plans consist of nothing other than reading a good book, drinking multiple kettles of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of cinnamon rolls.

On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️ @ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org

#totp really not doing 1999 justice - a mistake I feel to just do the top 20. A singles playlist I made for that year. www.tunemymusic.com/share/tvS5w3...

911 #totp

I'm an anti-capitalist, and here's why you should be one too. A spoken poem by me www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7W9...

“We’re going to continue generating sexualised images of children but you’ll have to pay for them” has to be the ultimate example of moral bankruptcy.

Who is she other than a W⚓️

This is just crying out for a National Audit Office review. I can’t understand why the labour govt is not curious to know how two men were able to enrich themselves at the expense of the taxpayer.

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm

"The Dictator's Dilemma" in action. The more cowards and flatterers they pick as advisors, the more their underlings distort reality to please their bosses. And the longer that goes on, the more they detatch from true national sentiment. I think the death of Renee Good could swallow them whole. 1/2

There is a howling void where this man’s soul should be

Coniston, in the English Lake District #photography #blackandwhite #lakedistrict #coniston

I fervently believe that education and health are so important they should be free

I have just heard from a friend in the know that the interest on student loans and is 9%!!!! 9 f***ing % I was livid when student loans were brought in by Labour! Even Thatcher didn’t do that! Unforgivable. No wonder the young are having kids, the privileged have made it untenable.

They don't make lives like this any more www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

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