The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

Richard Cosgrove died from the effects of #drugs the day after he was released #homeless from #HMP Humber. #yorkshire #prisons #rehabilitation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Majority of family court cases in England and Wales feature domestic abuse, watchdog says

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I know what he means about dying a thousand deaths.

The crew of the increasingly desperate Franklin expedition, frozen in the Arctic with dwindling hopes of survival: Is God here captain? Is any God? The cruel Tuunbaq, mercilessly stalking the ice for its prey:

It’s happened again

The "lanyard class" should almost always be parsed as an attack on women who work, and the enforcement of norms that make workplaces better for them.

Keep seeing the meme (in response to @timharford.ft.com) that White British Londoners are no less anti-immigration than the rest of the country, they are just "outnumbered". It's not true:

ban the box. No more screen time if we are to be so tasteless

Wearing Docs for the first time this autumn, walking like I’m doing through Monster Mash

NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2 Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond

Main concern obviously the vile content of these messages but someone whose entire role was contingent on intelligent decision-making opting to send this stuff on a work server says rather a lot about the calibre of people at the top of gov right now. If he’s the ‘best brain’ no wonder we’re cooked.

Good day for the markets?

Periodically opening Strava to give kudos to everyone on my feed like an indulgent but distant patriarch

Walking into Cable Cafe with a towel round my shoulders like Rocky

For both normative and 'it makes my job so much harder' reasons, I really think governments shouldn't appoint people where it is really hard to stretch out commentary on what they have done beyond 'obviously he has to resign'.

I am genuinely beginning to think Starmer is entering July 2022 territory

Again wondering what the characters of Mamma Mia would think about Greece’s IMF bailout

in a very, very strong field I think this might be the weirdest and most sexist bit of commentary on a female politician's appearance I've ever seen

the madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow

On the same day in the Telegraph:

It is possible to overpolice trivia and underpolice racial hatred simultaneously ALabour government that remains mute on racist hatred can have no credibility with ethnic minorities & many others for talk about cohesion and British values until it finds a voice on racism bsky.app/profile/sund...

They call me Tony Benn because I’m the Postmaster General

Left an angry 1* review for a branch of Tesco Express which closed 5 mins early and got 11 points on Google Maps for ‘helping others’

This is how lying in bed feels to me

Went on a very rapid comms learning journey this week when I was assured in an email that ‘the widows and orphans will be dealt with’

Almost primal urge to listen to some Bert Jansch…I fear autumn is here

My weekend’s frivolous but extremely worthwhile investment

Struck like lightning by a creative vision (21 Savage/Wolf Hall edit)

Palestine Action and the radicalisation of grandma: The Labour Party should remember that, in modern Britain, older people are the ones who do politics properly. 🖊️ Morgan Jones

and is there a He Jinping?

Lucky Reform, getting to further burnish their professional credentials with the arrival of a man who is *truly* uniquely qualified. Tories no doubt reeling from this loss.

Why is there always someone in my life who inexplicably requires me to accompany them on a trip to screwfix whenever I have a hangover

Good to see the West Country remains stuck in the 1890s www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the person Scottish Labour is lining up to defend, and who the entire GC movement has turned into their hero

Twenty years ago today, Jean Charles de Menezes was assassinated at Stockwell station. Head of the Met Police, Ian Blair, was made a Lord. Cressida Dick, who led the operation, was promoted to Blair's position.

Been back & forth to the dentist a lot over the past year and have kept note of the music he’s been playing whilst variously pulling my tooth out/grafting bone/drilling things into my jaw

Very strong sense of having time-travelled this morning. Guess the Armada were playing the long game?

Off-duty bus driver got on the bus in front of me and very sardonically (without pausing for an answer) asked the current driver how he was and if he was enjoying himself

You’re telling me…that that countenance divine….shone forth upon those clouded hills

I’m about 10 minutes into this and it’s totally crushing - seeing these stories via real footage hammers home the terrible, shameful evil of spycops. I don’t know how these women recover from this but the strength they’ve shown in coming forward is beyond admirable www.itv.com/watch/the-un...

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Such a delightfully mean review