I vividly remember one patriotic pro-Brexit ‘UK’ Xitter account I came across a few years back had accidentally left ‘Vladivostok’ visible on their location profile.

I don't know if that account is in Russia given the location info in the screenshot, but my own quick search over there found plenty of English patriots who aren't in the UK. I found a couple in Bulgaria, which is certainly Russia adjacent.

Popped over to X and searched for "English Patriot". Only took a few seconds to start finding the fake accounts from English Patriots who aren't in England.

A Slovak far-right politician joined TwitterX through the Russian Federation Android App.

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

Chaos on TwitterX as they roll out a new change which shows the location of the user and inadvertently reveal how many fake accounts there are and how much foreign interference. Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:

Forget SJP reform it's time to abolish strict liability, criminal convictions should not be tick box exercises. A wholly administrative case such as this has no place in a modern criminal court.

Teenager prosecuted over £1.67 in unpaid tax on a car. A criminal conviction for an offence that happened before she knew she even owned a car. Infuriating that this kind of thing is still happening Labour has failed to fix the #SingleJusticeProcedure www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

Watching Celebrity Race Across the World. I think we're really stretching the meaning of "celebrity".

Okay, that was unexpected. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I never broke any rules"... remind me then why Cummings had to make that humiliating press conference in the No 10 garden. This level of denial and asking us to deny what we all saw happening is another level of narcissism.

*Pops over to X* Has he? Has he been? YES! He's published an 1,835-word tweet rebuttal of a report he hasn't read!

Working hard, or hardly working?

I find these cash-grab pastiches particularly pointless in the case of Wodehouse. He wrote 71 novels and 200+ short stories! There's almost certainly some Wodehouse you haven't read yet!

This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast. Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:

With a local by-election in Hale today, it's time for a 1977 crime report that raises more questions than answers. Were these Blackadder II drinking party plastic breasts? Why were bras "surgical equipment"? Did the thief just grab a random suitcase and, if so, what did they do with the contents?

Whoever managed to link Paddington to the Queen and in turn to the Royals, thus guaranteeing a never-ending source of nearly free advertising all over the world, deserves a Nobel Prize for marketing - I know there isn't one. But they should create it for that person.

During the Corbyn years I had an argument with a Facebook friend who claimed that polls were rigged to shape public opinion. When I pointed out that I ran the data team for a polling company, he replied, "So you know I'm right!"

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Farage, as far as right winger as you can find anywhere.

As we move into “foreigners are cancelling Christmas in the name of political correctness” season it’s worth remember that Christmas was indeed once banned in England, by Christians and the man who enforced the ban has a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament.

John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss" "The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year" "That's a tax yield of £40 billion" "How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"

Shabana Mahmood says she was a reformer at the MOJ... what did she reform?

Why is the train home always so slow?? I swear this train left Marylebone 18 hours ago, we've gone through Princes Risborough and Chappell Roan but Haddenham still feels hours away.

I see Magistrates get in a muddle all over the planet.

'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3

UK targets touts with ban on ticket resale for profit reut.rs/449Teyx

idk, when someone asks u about ur deep relationship with a child sex trafficker, laying bare ur vapid misogyny is definitely one way to take things.

Two thoughts on this: 1. With a name like Enoch he never really stood a chance; 2. It *delights* me that the judge made it clear the decision was nothing to do with his gross views, but referred to Transition Year. Top trolling.

Why does the Trump White House keep trying to protect men who abuse women?

This cartoon gets more and more relevant with every passing day

"Mr Burke has the right to his own religious views, but not to his own reality".

“The judge said Mr Burke had not been imprisoned or fined for his views on transgender issues, which he was perfectly entitled to have and to articulate... he had been dismissed from his position for gross misconduct.” www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them. The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...

I've worked in this area of law/policy long enough to see most of what was announced yesterday tried before/reheated/varied. Defining Family Life? Done repeatedly, notably in 2012 by Theresa May. Appeal Reforms? How far back do you want to go! Temporary Status for refugees? We already do it.

There's a rather Goebbels looking fellow on C4 news saying that a Zimbabwean paedophile was able to remain in the UK because he might have been persecuted in his home country for being a paedo. Can anyone tell me if there's any truth to that?

It would be nice if this story had given those of us unfamiliar with Bangladeshi politics and recent history some more information about the current govt and these charges. Was the trial fair? Is the govt unelected? Are they "extremists" as Hasina alleges? www.ft.com/content/c4da...

When even brand new MPs are willing to speak out publicly against their government's policies, you have to assume that this government doesn't have ever so long left. Will they make it to May? Seems unlikely they'll make it to the GE.

There are good practical reasons in support of Scottish indy. However the most compelling reason is the increasing moral divergence between the respective Scottish and rUK polities. Simply put, this stuff drives the wedge in more deeply. And by the Labour Party!!

Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

La veteranía es un grado.😭😂😭 😂

People see Jesus Christ in slices of toast, tea stains, patterns in carpet and damp stains on walls. We are not psychologically prepared to show the required caution in the face of computer software that can mimic human language. People are already surrendering reason to the Jesus in the toast.

Something very odd about an immigrant lecturing the UK on how we shouldn't represent people in our society because they, or their family, immigrated to the UK by using American terms. Maybe if she doesn't like our society and how we do things, she should go back to NZ or Canada.

I've just discovered that the original organiser of the Oxford Christmas Market is still salty the the council went with someone else, so she maintains the site and up dates it each year to claim the market is cancelled... it isn't. Some people are nuts. www.oxfordchristmasmarket.co.uk

Private Eye’s “New list on how to be a gentleman” 😏

And just in case you need a better sense of scale, this planning application applies to the part of the rear of the building within the dotted red line. Most of it will be underground. It will make up ~1.5% of the Trocadero👍🏼 15/

🏛️But what about the architecture? The iconic Trocadero?😱 Yeh, all the press coverage used photos from the front on Piccadilly Circus (in green on the map) When the community center will actually be on Rupert Street, round the back, where a Vape shop currently resides🤷🏼‍♀️ 13/

I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄 Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque? It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage 🧵 1/26

To all the people who told me not to desert Labour because we had to beat the Tories and I said I can't vote for something so far removed from my beliefs - are you pleased to see the Home Secretary blaming migrants for all the ills caused by the rich and the last Tory government?