CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

A third of UK councils are projected to go bust, as is Thames Water, NHS mental care is an oxymoron and your "industrial strategy" is fully built on an AI bubble thats gonna pop. But, by all means, focus on the football supporters.

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

an Italian restaurant in Highgate has closed and they’re not happy, I mean really ‘what a sad little life Jane’ not happy

The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.

Aurora from the Black Isle tonight.

The word ‘Orwellian’ is overused, but I’m beginning to see how Newspeak works.

Holy moly, look at the BEAUTY!!!

Given FindOutNow polls keep making news it's worth saying a bit more about their methodology. Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Well, who could have predicted this? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This is glorious. Up there with that Highway episode that Victoria Wood loved.

It would be tacky and obvious to buy and read either of these books, with their creepy, atmospheric, unsettling stories, in October. Come on. You're better than that.

Night, Fenny.

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

Tonight’s sunset.

Like everything idiotic Johnson does, this is yet more evidence of the depths that all of these clowns were prepared to sink to, and how they were so happy to caper around, pretending it was all cool and normal.

Isn’t this what is known as “The Metropolitan Police Defence”?

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

If you're attending any London Film Festival screenings in the coming weeks, may I recommend the splendid novel, Brian' by Jeremy Cooper. Might be just your thing. Brian works for Camden council and spends his free time at the BFI, watching as many films as he can. And that is pretty much the plot.

I guess we’re supposed just to sigh resignedly about this stuff now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ah, I’d missed this one. Sad news. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Night, Fenny.

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Today’s deliveries.

This guy needs to be put in team with Danny Kruger.

Unexpected new direction for @nigelslater.bsky.social.

I'm sorry to harp on, but how can Kemi Badenoch *possibly exist* in a party alongside a guy who complains about not seeing enough white faces. How is that possible?

I don't think there is any substantive difference between Reform and the Tories on asylum or justice anymore. We don't have a centre-right party.

Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.

Do you notice how Israeli politicians don’t feel there’s any need to conceal how repellent their politics are? Do you see how they are correct, there is no need to conceal it, because for two years they’ve been snorting at TV interviewers and telling them LOL fuck you, often with racist remarks.

In other news, Robbie Gibb, former spin doctor for a Tory PM, former editorial adviser to GB News, & leader of the consortium that bought the Jewish Chronicle in 2020, is still responsible for "upholding the editorial independence of the BBC".

I’m intrigued by this. Because I’ve not seen most supposedly cultural film/TV touchstones from Star Wars onward. Seen some good stuff though.

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

"Our credible plan is also an acrostic." (This is, genuinely, the actual Conservative press release.)

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

This is quite extraordinary. Lots of people believe weird stuff - I do and possibly some of that stuff is the same as the stuff that Thiel believes. But then I am not one of the pwerful people on the planet and I don't believe in the Antichrist: www.wired.com/story/the-re...

A kinder, gentler racism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

I’m old enough to remember something like this being career-ending. An unprompted comparison of paracetamol and *thalidomide*??

‘Highly contentious’ is a nice way of saying ‘utterly idiotic’, I’m assuming.

Thought tomorrow was going to be a quiet day. Then I discovered it’s the Rapture, apparently. Typical.

Scam alert: a scammer is soliciting authors in the name of the Crime Writers Association, offering "trend analysis" and other bogus services. I suspect this is another of the Nigerian PR scams that are so prevalent right now thecwa.co.uk/news/beware-...

In local news… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Frankly, I’ve given up on the public.

I would add! The push towards fascism - just like the demand for war and austerity and Brexit- is not coming from the public. None of us wanted any of that shit. It is coming from our political elite - for example, the Spectator Magazine. We massively outnumber these people.

Peter Kyle, who followed his degree with a doctorate and then became an aid worker, says that the point of going to university is to start a business. I wonder if he could look his younger self in the face.

Such a depressing thing for a Labour minister to say.

Yeah. But this isn’t why she lost. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...