It's a week of second-place finishers being touted as the real winners by a sympathetic BBC News, so I expect the day to end with the news that Heather Humphreys has won "the moral Presidency"

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

You know that Yes, Prime Minister bit about polling? Where you manipulate people into responding a particular way with a series of questions, ask the one you actually care about last, and then only report that? Yeah, that's what they've done here. (1/18, sorry!)

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

New from @anuragdeb.bsky.social, @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social and me on The Morrigan blog - The Smith judicial review decision into the participation of Northumbria Police in the 2024 Northern Pride is a jaw-dropping mess on expert evidence, standing and irrationality: dflw.ie/policing-pri...

After the media damage is inflicted and seen by millions of eyes,you receive a private email to say there's no evidence and no action,seen by two people only There's no public apology. They don't send this to media or post it on police accounts We will continue to fight. We will continue to win.

‘Like Trudi Warner, Rev. Parfitt has been arrested for holding a sign. Can that be understood by any but the most authoritarian of rubrics as an act of terrorism?’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

Farage may well be a dreadful MP, but this seems a bit of a silly story. He is - sad to say - leader of a national party. So he speaks mostly about national issues. Similarly Starmer doesn't often mention Holborn and St Pancras, or Ed Davey Kingston and Surbiton

The whole thing is iffy, but this - this is setting up an easy way to stop your opponents and critics even being allowed to stand against you.

Not just useless but actively unhelpful: I still remember the numbers I used on the first lottery ticket I bought, 20-something years ago. And therefore have to avoid seeing the winning numbers ever again

The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found. tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...

Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson has been so baked in the anti-trans movement dating back to its earliest days that she might well have been the personal pick of a director of one of the anti-trans hate groups One like Sex Matters, who Labour's Ministers meet with more frequently than the entire LGBT+ sector

My cat waking me up for breakfast

Finally got around to writing to my MP about the Supreme Court decision and EHRC draft guidance - I have no idea what his starting point is so my approach is very much aimed at a standard Labour-brain MP. Sharing in case any of it is useful to anyone who hasn't got around to writing to theirs yet

Good Law Project holds a copy of new NHS Guidance published yesterday and it is clear that Wes Streeting is continuing his war on trans people. Remarkably the national health service is now directing GPs to cause harm to the community. 🧵

[date] her: I’m a librarian me: lol astrology isn’t real

A Labour by-election campaign targeting asylum hotels is callous & indefensible. Last summer, a hotel named by a Labour MP in Parliament was set on fire with people inside. This rhetoric fuels hate & puts lives at risk. After last year's far-right riots, it is beyond contempt.

Labour MP Wes Streeting met with child abuse advocates, the Bayswater group, before they were invited to respond on the puberty blocker consultation. www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-str...

Why do wrong-doing benefit claimants need special rather than general punishments? Why not same for tax dodgers? And when someone has been caught doing cash-in-hand shifts do you really want to make it impossible for them to find a proper job & get off benefits? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

HNY, everyone. This year’s lemon pig is particularly messy - I forgot about it till the last minute and only had a really dry leathery one to hand. Hopefully not an omen for the year to come

👀 www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-government...

Not bothering to share my Spotify Wrapped because, well. (I think something’s broken, tbh, I don’t listen to a lot of music but I’ve listened to more than *that* much this year)