I wasn't able to figure out what was my issue with cellphone bans; THIS is it right here. We (GenXish) had access to payphones etc. Now it's cells or you're begging for a phone, and most school admins leave at the end of the school day, not necessarily when the activities are over/buses are gone.

Why would this surprise anyone? Just ask yourself the basic question, what motivates the private sector? Profit. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Columbo knew... From the episode 'Old Fashioned Murder', series 6, episode 2, 1968.

Peter Bucklitsch is standing for Reform in Meads, Eastbourne. Former UKIP. Bucklitsch once Tweeted this about 3 year old Aylan Kurdi, found lying dead on a beach in Turkey. A comment Douglas Carswell called ‘grotesque’: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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Schools will never prepare people for 'the workplace' my experience as an educator was that every business wants schools to train workers better for THEIR kind of workplace, not just work in general so they'll never be happy. Education should be about creating well rounded adaptable individuals

Hypocrisy in politics devalues democracy.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

I will be more interested when they make this about prosthetics instead of robots. Show me robotics for humans, not robots in the place of humans doing human things, for the love of god

From 'Domestic Medicine', published in 1791, you know, when nobody bathed... archive.org/details/b217...

I still find it hard to come to terms with the fact that these places were up and running for the first 40 years of my life, just across the sea from GB Ireland has changed a lot - the last one closed 30 years ago, but there a many with living memories of them www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Ooh, I know what this means… RT is a massive…

Making corporations and wealthy individuals (and Reform politicians) pay their fair share of taxes would be so impactful and so politically popular that the continued hesitancy around it is baffling. @patmillsuk.bsky.social

And I thought all the truly bonkers Tory dipsticks had been recycled into RefUK tin hatters 🤷🏼‍♂️

Your next government

"It can't get worse" is what put Trump in power

Does anyone challenge him? Scandinavia has free health care modelled on the NHS. We have had superb treatment in Denmark, free at the point of care, paid for by proper taxation. Why do they spread lies? What has happened to the integrity in politics 🫤

When our grandfather was (to us) very old, we asked him what was the best age to be, assuming he’d know by now. His reply: “The age you are. The chap 5 years older is a good old boy, but he’s getting on a bit. The chap 5 years younger? Nice lad - but he still has an awful a lot to learn…”

That's a pretty major cock up - and it's well outside ULEZ too

Another conspiracy theorist loon standing for Reform. It's rapidly turning into the political equivalent of the Flat Earth Society. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

We can't afford private healthcare. I worked for BUPA, it's not cheap, small bills are when you're 30, each year it rises. If you have pre-existing condition you pay, if you exceed their limits, you pay. You can expect bills in the thousands, I can't afford that, can you? bsky.app/profile/snig...

James Bembridge, Reform Party election candidate, truly hates the NHS. If he and Nigel Farage get what they want, and win power, can you afford private healthcare?

Bereaved family members of Covid victims write to Nigel Farage urging him to sack his Croydon candidate who said COVID was a "staged event" by the US military, with vaccines used to control the population. Reform has not responded to our story revealing his views bylinetimes.com/2026/04/15/r...

@carolinederry.bsky.social and I have written about our research for @theconversation.com doi.org/10.64628/AB....

The significant year on year fall on boat arrivals is broadly unreported by BBC or other media. It has less to do with imminent government changes currently going through than a fall in "push factors" that is Europe-wide

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Why isn’t progressive messaging cutting through - despite all the facts being on our side? This piece from our regular contributor, @claireaj.bsky.social, argues the problem might not be the evidence, but the audience.

It's not like Mandelson had a squeaky clean image either. Given the high profile nature of the role Starmer should have definitely gone that extra mile. In fact he shouldn't have gone near Mandelson in the first place.

Conservative MP Esther McVey claimed last week that knife crime in London “is up 72% in a year”. That figure’s not correct, according to police statistics on knife-enabled crime, and we’ve not found any data to support it.

Senior Tory MP claims knife crime went up by 72% in London. In fact offences fell by 11% in the year to September 2025.

SOOTHOL RADIUM BOUGIES "Shaped liked a pencil and inserted into the urethral canal ... Entirely harmless." Would anyone be interested if I shared adverts/products from my radium and uranium database over the next few weeks? It's endlessly fascinating and jaw dropping in equal measure.

Made another little animation to lure poor innocent people to my articles 😉 If you want to know more, read my article here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/02/02/d... Or here; fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/drinking-w...

It’s the 81st anniversary of a German U-boat being sunk by a turd. Possibly. It sounds too good to be true, not least because the incident with the poo payload was the work of the captain, the almost perfectly named Karl-Adolf Schlitt, and the vessel was on its first patrol at the time... 🧵

This is what voting for a Reform UK led council gets you. Concerns raised as 'godsend' Nottinghamshire service which helps the elderly is axed www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

Time to get out the world's smallest violin... 🎻

The Conservative thought process distilled into a single image: Make up complete nonsense Get objectively proven wrong Double down anyway I'd call them clowns, but that's an insult to clowns as clowning is a profession that requires self-awareness.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

There were good years. There were bad years. But there was always years.

💯 stupid By all means dive as fast as the law allows IF it’s safe for the conditions at the time Speed reduces decision making time and increases the damage caused by collisions, that’s why it’s on the Fatal Four list

Reminded again of my favourite joke about the C of E: The best thing about the Church of England is that you can believe anything at all. The worst is that nobody does.

On this day in 1985 'tant' Danuta Danielsson showed us what do do when you see (neo) Nazis marching again: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wom...

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When Lennon quipped that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" in an interview in 1966 it nearly derailed them in America. The KKK burned their records & merch on pyres, there were repeated death threats and it was one of the factors that led them to stop touring Trump’s done far worse today

There’s a point where the “they’re inevitable” narrative just… cracks. Orban lost - properly lost. And suddenly a lot of other “untouchable” of the hard-right figures are looking a bit less untouchable.

“It’s deeply shocking that Reform has developed such close ties with Orbán’s regime, an authoritarian govt with an appalling record of rolling back democracy and civic rights” Where ‘deeply shocking’ = entirely on brand. Hungary shows us we must never give them power. www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/m...

Exodus 20: 3 You shall have no other gods before me 4 You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath 23 Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold Trump 2026:

I’m gonna be honest, I don’t really get this whole real wages adjusted for inflation stuff, but I do get graphs like this

Crispin Odey abandons £79mn libel case against the FT over sexual misconduct claims ft.trib.al/ltCxjpR

I recall something like this from The New Statesman where Alan B'Stard tries to sell tickets for Parliament when it should be free and charges a constituent for helping them. Well, Matt Vickers is following that playbook!