🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

The radicalisation happening of UK elites is bad, bodes ill for the future, but is also, to be clear, really really funny quite a lot of the time.

The one thing that rightwingers absolutely understand is that money is power.

this is a broader point but something the extract below touches on is that smartphones have made "not being online" an active choice you have to make every minute of every day, and as it states it *is* a mental tax you have to pay, and I'm not sure we've reckoned with that at all

Here's the J.D. Vance puppet I designed for the new episode of Spitting Image. #caricature #art www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJvh...

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

Oh FFS. Like the Fabian Society is a MASSIVE SECRET SOCIETY that is not primarily interested in shockingly subversive things like ...errr... occupational health? fabians.org.uk

Because my ridiculous child refused to go on the school Berlin trip for entirely baffling reasons, and is now deeply regretting his choice (!)...he and I are now going to Berlin just before Christmas! Ich bin sehr gespannt! Recommendations on central cheapish safe accommodation gratefully received.

1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.

Not sure day one of the latest ID card rollout went very well at all, not least because the government couldn’t answer the absolute core question about why they’re being introduced. The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

Gosh I love @ftweekend.com - not only THAT lunch with Tom Hollander but the best books pages in the business— gorgeous essay today on 90s club culture. I read it on paper, old school

Is it morally the wrong thing to do? Yes. Is it bad for the country and the economy? Also yes. Will it harm UK students? Also yes. Is it also a bad move politically that will disproportionately harm Labour's own constituencies? Also yes. There is absolutely no reason to do this. Pure destruction.

University job losses to date due to severe financial pressures are ALREADY likely above 20,000, BEFORE this new tax on the only income stream keeping us afloat — see new study by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & @davidharvie.bsky.social Study: zenodo.org/records/1563... theboar.org/2025/08/new-...

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs. This tax will kill us. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Lecturer in Irish/British History King's College London - Department of #History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...

This is, of course, overt complicity in a genocide which remains under investigation by the International Criminal Court.

1/ Whatever you think of digital ID, the process matters. And in 2025, this is still how we make big public policy. 👇

I am INCANDESCENT at Past Katherine. A few years ago I found the cartoon (pounce) of an extremely important late 18C Awadhi painting in an obscure and unlikely collection online. Dear reader, I failed to bookmark it.

You don’t need ID cards when you’re deporting people based on the colour of their skin 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sister Bernadette is my hero

The irony of people complaining on _social media_ about the potential civil rights violations of digital ID. That square chunk of metal and glass and plastic you carry round and interact with all day? It knows ALL your secrets and sends them all to corporations run by far right techbros.

The Civil Rights movement was mostly (though indeed not entirely) led by the Silent Generation, b. 1925-1942 — those too young to fight in WW2 but born before the post-war baby boom. Martin Luther King was born in 1929. They’re an even more forgotten generation than Gen X.

I’m just going to say as someone who lived in London for eleven years and is currently seriously considering going back precisely because of the far right theocratic fascism of Trump, that he’s talking out of his fucking asshole.

This is the best city advice ever so I'm repeating it in all caps. DON'T STOP AT THE TOP OF THE SUBWAY STAIRS AND DON'T WALK FOUR-WIDE ON A BUSY CITY STREET.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

I put on the electric blanket for the first time last night, which means it’s that time of year for me to say… if you get cold at night, get an electric blanket! They’re cheap to buy – mine was £40 – and much cheaper to run than heating a draughty British house. And so cosy. Going to bed is A JOY

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

@mrjamesob.bsky.social the person you need to answer this infuriating question is @dieworkwear.bsky.social PLEASE HELP DEREK! The question is why is there a tube of fabric — not a pocket, it's open at top and bottom — on the inside of jackets. Specifically in this case a ski jacket.

The main problem with Jeremy Corbyn is that he has spent half a century allowing a rigid sense of moral rectitude to displace any sense of what it might be intelligent to do under any circumstances, and this is now his whole personality. Also, he listens to people who are basically a cult.

The sperm whale makes the giant squid look TINY

I literally just got up to go to the loo. Seat thief!

The logic that as energy has fixed costs that MUST all be paid by a Standing charge is flawed. Pubs have fixed costs. Yet you don't pay a monthly pub-access-subscription then a unit rate for each pint on top. A pint's cost incorporates the fixed cost, as many industries' do.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

If everyone watched The Hack on ITV right now, we could start to repair our media, our discourse & our country. It is TV drama at its absolute best. I know most of this stuff & I’m reeling.

I’ve got a paper coming out very soon that answers this call in The Times, showing pseudoscience and pseudo history is coming from the top, including from within elite universities, and from people educated by them during their ‘golden age’.

I love this fact.

Does Thiel actually believe this apocalyptic nonsense or is he merely even more cynical than I already imagined?

YOU try reminding a whippet with big big starving eyes that he doesn’t like cucumber and besides you’ve already fed him

For a specialist on immigration law commenting intelligently and accessibly on news about migration policy, follow @sonial77.bsky.social.

New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein

Ugh - this is nauseating

The world’s media needs to start treating Trump and his mad ramblings like the absolutely bonkers first president of Turkmenistan, Niyazov. www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

How bad do you have to be to adopt a “let’s deport all the Gurkhas” policy?

This is a great piece (and if you are staff or a student at a British university, you might find you can log in to the FT through shibboleth etc…)

These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true. 🔥

An important counter narrative to the recent headlines — actual journalism about the daily lives of asylum seekers in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...