This one is about the instant expertise politicians and commentators have if it matches their chauvinism #poetrychallenge

NEW | How fiction gets turned into fact… DESERT ISLAND DICKHEAD A single source in as yet unpublished biography written by a retired Tory peer starts a debate about Nigel Farage being banned from the BBC's Desert Island Discs. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/desert-isl...

The only thing louder was the sound of teachers in Queens cheering....

Love this. ♥️

I built this..... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A tale of two nations. “Trump was played from the moment he landed in Beijing.”

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Ah, yes. Nothing screams "cool and rebellious" quite like being a shill for tobacco lobbyists and posting a photo of yourself having a smoke by the car park.....

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25

Matt Goodwin’s previous book being published by Penguin and his latest coming out from ‘Northstar’ — which appears to be a cover for self-publishing — has a real Mark in Peep Show working with British London vibes.

His anti-Muslim and pro-mass-deportation videos have gone viral with millions of views. Advance UK, the far-right party led by Ben Habib, paid the anonymous group behind him to produce a range of propaganda pieces. But English-Nationalist “rapper” Danny Bones doesn't actually exist @tbij.bsky.social

Rest In Power Joe 🕊️ 💟☮️ Godspeed 🚀

GB News has never made a profit because it doesn’t exist to make a profit. It exists to exert pressure to push broadcast news channels further rightwards. It is about further poisoning the information environment. That’s why it exists.

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

I debated Matt Goodwin once. He is a really grim little opportunist. This kind of stuff illustrates just what a howling vacuum of a creature he really is. I have a step-daughter but no biological children. I dearly wanted one. Goodwin is a ghoul www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

This is extrajudicial murder. It’s a paramilitary execution of an unarmed civilian in cold blood. Horrifying.

Nicole Good, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, George Floyd, Oscar Grant, Sonya Massey... countless examples of people who were assaulted and/or murdered by LEOs not because they posed a threat to their lives, but because of 'non-compliance', a 'threat' which exists entirely in the mind of the cop.

If you see the antifascists as your enemy, doesn't that suggest you are a fascist?

You know how everyone keeps receipts to hold certain grifters etc to account? Never let this post by St Lucy of Connolly die 👇

A glimpse into the murky world of illegal window tinting lauralaker.substack.com/p/hundreds-o...

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

It's like 1978 all over again....

what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The hounding of asylum seekers is an organic reaction by concerned locals which by unhappy coincidence happens at the exact times and places nominated online by far right groups.

They're talking about Hiroshima on the news, showing images of the destruction, saying how it should never happen again and it looks almost identical to the current images of Gaza.

Is now a good time for all channels to broadcast the film kept in reserve for times of crisis? 🇬🇧 (From The Day Today)

A number of people have said ‘you don’t like the Online Safety Act - what’s *your* solution?’ My answer to that is ‘solution to what?’ The biggest problem with the Online Safety Act is that it claims to deal with a lot of disparate, disconnected and often very vague problems. 🧵 1/6

Dungeness '25

Broadcast Kneecap from Glastonbury, but voiced by an actor

Covering Zombie in Tehran as bombs land

More performance from Labour. People that keep our public realm in good shape are skilled and yet this is framed as punishment work. You can also bet that there is plenty of exploitation to be had here at the risk of people's actual jobs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Late to the party as always, but finally listened to Kneecap's "Fine Art" Fucking hell, what an album! A huge release of raw energy melding together so many different stylistic influences. Reminds me a lot of the first time I listened to ADF's "Rafi's Revenge"

He’s a real threat from deep

No wait, let me guess. Is that because YOU NOW OWN TWO HOMES??

Rice x2

More coast path miles completed..... Lynton to Ilfracombe

Never. The MAGAts are all convinced that they’re one tax cut away from rubbing elbows with Apartheid Elon and ZuckGoebbels instead of one missed paycheck away from sleeping in their car.

On the pitch, you need that hunger…

FIFA and the club World Cup. An act of disruption www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Dear #r4today, Balance is good, objectivity is good, that doesn't mean you have to give equal weight to all opinions. When you have a sovereign nation say they don't want to be part of another country you don't have to give the right to reply for the ones wanting to invade and take their resources.

BBC and their "balanced" reporting - listening to Nick Robinson laughing along with someone from The Heritage Foundation, acting as if Trump's threats to annex Greenland is all perfectly normal diplomacy and behaviour.

This is going by to be a prime example of free-market , libertarian capitalism in action... Where the public sector covers the risk of clearing the site, before the private sector reaps the profits. It'll be this governments Teesworks moment. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Oh, the joys of reading through a British Standard trying to find the one dimension you need...... (This message is brought to you in association with BS 1722 Part 7)

I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.

Anyone who somehow still believes Elon Musk is a genius should read this - it is a brutal indictment of his ignorance and ideology. defector.com/neither-elon...

I know it's hopeless but I hope people in the UK remember the DOGE-woes the next time some populist douchecanoe claims that fixing Britain's problems is a simple matter of putting a businessman in charge, firing half the civil service, and lighting a regulatory bonfire. Shit's hard, yo.