Here with popcorn to see the comment on Morgan McSweeney. The man. The myth. Coming to a tawdry newspaper column near you soon blaming the continued demise of Labour on not being hard right enough

Young workers in #solidarity with young workers march in US From North Macedonia to Ukraine A global fight for a better world A future without exploitation of people and plant @aflcio.org @epsu.bsky.social

✔️ Agree strongly Good work @autisticsociety.bsky.social No charity, third-sector or public-sector organisation should still be on X. If you’re connected to anything like that, try to persuade them to leave?

A paradigm case of populism. Promise sellers that prices will go up, and buyers that they will go down.

Hurrah for the Blackshirts

No guarantees BUT, if you need a bit of relief from it all Stevie Nicks Edge of Seventeen played VERY loudly will certainly not make it worse

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

This woman is EVERYTHING we should all be

I have been hanging on by a thread to my 30yr morning habit but this might have been the time I switched off in disgust and never go back.

All cops are what now?

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Big cat sighting in the Shire! Quick! Someone tell the papers

Timeline Cleanse. Legend has it that a giant’s magical cow gave endless milk here until a witch drained it using a sieve. The cow fled to Warwickshire as the Dun Cow, and the witch was turned to stone, ringed by stones forever

I realise that the emerging situation in Central America requires more gravity than this…but all I have is this song on loop in my head Take a look at this video, 'america fuck yeah' share.google/qYyYHpCOk7Dl...

Capitalism demands that we spend more and more on stuff every day, every month, every year - until we have brought destruction upon ourselves and the planet If we don't accede to this it is - apparently - bad news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The world’s most tolerant cat today, at a little over 19 years young, crossed the rainbow bridge and we are all heartbroken. Thanks for the good times Jaco

I live up the road from a working Victorian town museum, meaning I often hear the music of the old time fair but my favourite is pre Christmas when every weekend is accompanied by brass band carols

The whole Rory Stewart Gary Stevenson debacle has me thinking about the cultural capital of credibility and how that comes not from expertise but from RP and having hung out in the correct common room at school and I am SO TIRED

Bird alert - goldcrest in the acer less than 2m from my bedroom window 😍

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Absolutely disgraceful 👇 - Labour's manifesto promised NHS would be "publicly owned and publicly funded" Openly now ripping off patients for generations to come Even the Conservative government said "goodbye to PFI" Outrageous, unjustifiable, wrong

Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases www.bbc.com/news/article... Old enough to remember our PM was once a human rights lawyer

Reforms Flagship Kent County Council has been so inefficient with money (despite much publicised DOGE visit) they have had to ask the opposition to help them find savings🤦🏼‍♂️ Plus they will put Council Tax up and cut services.. So Reforms claim they saved £331 million is complete & utter bollox❗️🙄😡

Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...

I wanna be adored is the only bass line I can play! RIP Mani

'Nursing leaders told the Guardian the plans were “immoral” and treated highly skilled migrants as “political footballs”. They said a mass exodus of nurses would threaten patient safety'. Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....

What the Home Sec announced today is not the politics of compromise but of being compromised. Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.

My God the horrors! I am nostalgic for shitty plague island days under Johnson at this point

Not very long ago, this would have meant the end of his career.

And there is *always* a tweet isn’t there

For a U.K. equivalent, it’s like sending troops to war-ravaged Bath.

Accidentally got voted in as our trades council president… I say accidentally, I didn’t put myself up for it. However, I categorically will be stepping up to it

Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.

Here to remind you on this sad day that Norman Tebbit once called me a “Rent-a-gob Yob” in the Telegraph and it was undoubtedly my parents’ proudest moment

Loving that I read about a dozen pages of this and declared it shit.

I’m hosting a crowdfund for a family in Gaza. Poor Sham is only 2 and suffering with hunger ir struggling with the canned water. Please gelp where you can. Flour is extortionate chuffed.org/project/1358...

Absolutely dire photo with iPhone through binos but there’s a hoopoe on our neighbour’s front lawn! @jannerbirder.bsky.social Posted it in FB SOS too

So completely different because Morgan McSweeney asked ChatGPT to rewrite it

I’ve just been to a party where my 2 worlds of major interest collided! I was taken and shown an iguanodon fossil footprint by one attendee and then sat down for a long chat with the BBC’s industrial correspondent from throughout the miner’s strike! My Sunday was better than yours

The irony is the revolution against technocrats will end with officials running the councils because Reform councillors will have no idea what to do + many don't even want to be doing it.

Solidarity this evening with all my Green Book union people in local government where the headbangers have taken control. You’re our last hope

www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1914... Today’s PM Daily Digest headline reminds me that employers often know the cost of everything but the value of nothing

The 13yo is off on a school ski trip tomorrow. I’m here packing and his contribution is to pick his guitar up and start strumming the bass line to Under Pressure, with the kind of casual insouciance that is categorically not inherited from me!

Anyone else reclassifying themselves as an actual plant with all of this sunshine? Anyone?

Late to the Chappell Roan furore from earlier this week but my take FWIW is that she’s bang on. It is shit - bell hooks White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy theory is a good starting point to unpack the why

Paging @prehistorian.bsky.social and @peterreavill.bsky.social youtu.be/_v2ne81vwLM in case you missed the launch

Only 5% of UK electricity is from fossil fuels this afternoon at 3pm , guilt free tea making and television watching! via grid.iamkate.com

Natural England are after volunteers to help look for three key species in the Shropshire Hills: Tree Pipit, Cuckoo and Stonechat. Training dates: Friday 2nd May - Long Mynd Sunday 4th May - Stiperstones To book the training/more info: [email protected] #ShropshireBirding

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3... Reeves trotting out the entirely dehumanizing tropes about work giving you dignity and pride again.