Huge escalation for UK school library censorship. Nearly 200 books targeted in one school, with the excuse of “safeguarding”. A librarian has lost her job & can never work in schools again. The fate of the books remains to be seen. @indexoncensorship.org www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

BBC World Service to get extra £11m a year in deal ending funding uncertainty

More often than I would expect & always at c 22:50 R3’s Night Tracks plays either Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis or An Ending (Ascent) and I get very convinced I’m being Communicated To by my radio

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

When I was at 6th form we got a Men B vax as part of a medical trial which was aiming to make the case for rolling out the vaccine amongst students. You can’t protect people against everything but seeing this it strikes me as a terrible shame that (despite a successful trial) this didn’t then happen

Saying ‘bring back my tabs’ in a Ru Paul voice whenever I open my laptop

the new ayatollah won’t see your posts about how he’s either severely injured or dead but all your friends who haven’t been seen in public in ages will

The duvet cover in the washing machine is hungry…it must feed

Love Charles Causley

A v good thread on the manosphere and crisis of misogyny among young men. Is it worse than ever, or is it just the latest manifestation of a long-running issue?

‘Gender critical’ transphobes, Ex-EHRC Chair Kishwer Falkner, and Sharron Davies both hate other people having bodily autonomy - They’re now trying to stop people getting abortion pills by post! So much for pretending to care about women & girls! 🤷🏼‍♀️😖

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

Asking for some Jaffa Cakes & a can of Fanta from the shop, call that the Orange Order

and how exactly is the Blue Labour approach going for the Labour Party

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Wonder what the imminent reorganisation of police force areas will do for the names they pick in crime dramas

Great understated British horror moment on Antiques Roadshow where a woman produces a haunted-looking headless wax figurine, she and the presenter cheerily twitter for a couple of minutes about how horrible it is, before an abrupt cut to the next item

International Women’s Day, you know what that means

"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time." British Rail, 1979.

Had a very vivid dream last night that I was caught in an air raid and had to go to a shelter which for some reason was segregated by nationality. Got to the British section and the only people in there were TERFs talking about biological sex.

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing". Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

👀 Labour MP Joani Reid said today that she was “not part of my husband’s business activities” after her spouse David Taylor was arrested on suspicion of spying for China But her former company was loaned money (interest free and with no set repayment terms) by his companies

And how Ukraine isn't their war, so we in Europe have to pay almost the entire cost of supporting the Ukrainians. But Israel's wars are their wars, apparently, and we should join them too.

In any sane world (or indeed Tory Party) Kemi’s performance over the last two days would be swiftly career-ending

A navy torpedo detonates under the target, lifts it out of the water and cracks the hull. The people who aren’t thrown overboard by the blast are knocked unconscious and buried alive in their compartments when the ship sinks. We did that to 141 people today for no reason.

Well well well. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

One of the world’s leading authorities on autism - very important read: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

She's turned the Greans against us

my heart soars once again as our wise and rational equity markets conclude that the chaotic flailing of a declining global hegemon is, in fact, bullish

There's a lot of mean-spiritedness about people who have gone to live in Dubai. We need to help, and ensure they have secure accommodation in the UK for 91 days of the next tax year.

Real sense of loss at having not got a pic of the guy I spotted from the bus wearing a varsity jacket that simply had ‘CRIME’ emblazoned on the back

I didn’t even know he was sick

Given scale of what’s happening in the Middle East right now the World Service is one of very few outlets with ongoing news coverage — yet it’s got just weeks of funding left

Using boilerplate messaging that would use for George Galloway about Hannah Spencer personally & how she will approach being an MP is tin eared, graceless, implausible to the immediate audience (Labour MPs) and esp the broader one (Labour waverers/switchers) underpinned by the wrong strategy

The long 2010s are finally over

Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.

went to the store __________ AI Summary ✨ Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.

The problem when ppl in a panoptic surveillance paradigm say they want to "do better than this" is that they mean they want perfect, error-free surveillance tech & not only is that functionally impossible, it's not morally desirable, even if it were. It'd still be a panoptic surveillance paradigm…

There's a point in this where he is clearly trying to argue that married women should not have finances independent of their husbands and also that they shouldn't be allowed to get divorced and you do basically realise this is a war against all of modernity, but particularly women.

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters. If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

This is stenography, not news reporting. The BBC ought to provide some context, such as putting the scale of the changes which Reform claim are possible into context. This omits the major policy of revoking ILR and deporting legal migrants at unprecedented scale. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#UK: We've sent a letter to Yvette Cooper expressing deep concern that funding for the BBC World Service is due to run out at the end of March. We urge the government to confirm a long-term funding arrangement to ensure their vital work continues ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/the-...

paywalled so haven't actually read this (i am a FT subscriber but just the epaper (which is great value btw!)) but incredible to reflect on how mcsweeney era labour deliberately cast off demographics they had held for generations - in exchange for quite literally not a single vote or advantage

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!

LondonCentric absolutely worth its weight in gold — some incredibly tenacious journalism here. Was not at all surprised to see that Criterion plan to exploit desperation & housing insecurity even further by converting these flats to TA. Utterly rapacious.

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Get a lot of mileage out of that Jonathan Swift quote ATM: “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

I like to imagine Paddington gently taking him by the hand and leading him towards an awaiting cell

This feels very relevant... Private Eye claims that Andrew MW recently brought in a shredding company to Royal Lodge