It is indeed a better response than those we’ve heard elsewhere. But if the UK has managed being a multiethnic, multicultural society better than many others (and I agree it has), then why is Shabana going full steam ahead with shifting our approach towards the old West German Gastarbeiter model?

Congratulations to the team behind the new Save the Children ad, absolutely nailing the Christmas brief.

Three arrests as £4.6m centre sold for £1 plunges City Council into crisis. John Ekwirthy reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/dev...

A reminder that the man who tackled one of the gunmen in an attempt to save lives was Ahmed Al Ahmed. This was an anti-semitic terror attack. It is not an excuse for the likes of Farage to stoke more division. It's exactly why we need less of it. news.sky.com/story/hero-w...

I have 86 calendars left. I’m really sorry to bang-on about this when you’re a tiny artist and you drop a few grand on a product, it’s as scary as fuck! www.infinitebacon.com/shop/p/nerdl...

On a serious note about the guy who disarmed the shooter at Bondi Beach, those few seconds where you can see him considering whether to shoot him dead, and deciding not to. My God.

It only took a year but we did it, thanks Bluesky people! www.yorkmix.com/pictures-yor... I now know more about the UK artificial tree market than I'd ever expected.

Dear media, please don’t bother with a review of the year. We were there. We know what happened. It was a shitshow. Give us a review of next year and make it good. Thanks.

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

the americanisation of the british right wing is just pathetic, like you can’t even be your own kind of wanker any more war on christmas (lol), bathroom bans (we don’t call them bathrooms here), DEI (we didn’t used to put those letters that way round), even 15-minute cities (what the actual fuck)

King Charles argued on Friday that, thanks to early diagnosis, his treatment will be reduced in the New Year. He urged people to take up cancer screening saying: “Early diagnosis quite simply saves lives.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... 1/10

This year I bought a real Christmas tree which the kids love so much more than the imaginary one we usually have.

The normalisation of overt racism by right wing hacks who devoted thousands of column inches to Labour anti-Semitism just shows how uninterested in racism these hacks ever were. They did not care about it at all. It was all about the politics. Hence, their total silence on Farage, of course.

If you’re in the UK and were born between 1970-1990 you can just go to your GP and get revaccinated for MMR because you may have had single vaccines, which are no longer considered valid. I went & did it this summer. Easy way to help protect yourself & your community.

Shoutout to the teachers, the unsung heroes laying the groundwork for this counteroffensive for months

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

BREAKING News: Police have arrested a Danish man, Lars Crismøs, on suspicion of human organ trafficking.

If you go to the Barts Pathology Museum and steal a womb in a jar you automatically become a woman

When I lived in the US, I begged my now husband to bring 'Now that's what I call Christmas' with him on a visit. It's impossible to get properly festive if you're British without a bit Slade and Shaky.

One of my big bugbears -- the way Spotify playlists have, in just a handful of years, replaced British Xmas music (leery boozed-up Brummies with ridiculous facial hair) with American Xmas music (cardigans and expensive dentistry).

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

#QuoteOfTheDay: 'Do you think Donald Trump's advent calendar has a person from the Epstein files behind every day?'

Off to Copenhagen.

After I read the fess about the husband using Magic Erasers on tea mugs, I wondered if they would work on tea stains on my teeth. Asked my dentist first and he laughed so hard he needed to excuse himself from the room. Needless to say: Do not put Magic Erasers in your mouth.

At what point do you switch her off? Because that will be down to you, and probably due to the yearly/monthly subscription increases. "I'm sorry love, but we can't afford grandma anymore, it's her or Netflix"

God, this is macabre. People die. It's shit and grief is the worst thing in the world, but it's also absolutely necessary. It's not a problem to be solved by some tech vulture to make a fortune in ongoing subscriptions.

Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first. This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.

"The ECHR was created in the wake of World War 2. Those creating it knew the dangers of extreme ideology better than anyone...To claim it is “outdated” is to ignore the reasons why it was created in the first place, the protections it provides." Starmer is ignoring why the ECHR was created.

That's right! We should destroy human rights so that Keir Starmer can win* the next general election! *Make it even more likely he'll lose by mainstreaming the far right politics he pretends to oppose

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece. Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis. Hope that helps.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Every ad for AI is like Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!! AI: get sock Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this

Contrary to what some claim, many British people do care about Nigel's Dulwich School days. The only group shrugging it off are the Reform/Nigel Farage die-hards, and that’s because they behave like a cult. But that’s all there is, Reform has already reached its polling ceiling.

“i can’t leave twitter, i need it, it’s where my audience is”

Y'see, what's happened here is they've confused Hitler with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

UK households cut spending at fastest pace in 5 years. Average real wage stuck at 2008 level. Energy, water, broadband, rents, grocery, dentist, vets prices rising at more than CPI. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't rebuild without redistribution.

When you're raising a child it's daunting and frightening and lifechanging and you need the support of real humans around you who have done it for themselves, and to learn from them. What you do not need is conmen selling you their lying machines to do a job we have been doing since our beginnings.

It's common knowledge that Coca Cola invented Father Xmas. It's not so widely known though that Lilt invented Batman

In a functioning economy the PM atthe time would be if not in jail then at least doorstepped by the press with awkward questions. Meanwhile in the UK, Johnson is paid ridiculous money to write this shit and will continue to be protected.

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

The only person to come out of the SPeggie/NHS tribunal vindicated and with a completely untarnished reputation is Dr Beth Upton. Not SPeggie, Not the NHS management, Not Four Women Scotland, Not the media, Just Dr Upton.

The vast majority of Enterprise-level technology (including AI) is sold on a promise that it will fix problems caused by bad business proceseses. Magic Beans for Senior Management. Rarely works. Because technology can't solve business process problems. At BEST it can mitigate the impact a bit.

Needless to say, the teacher was not banned *because* they told a Muslim child that Britain is a Christian country🙄 I mean that was *one* of the things he said And he was banned *after* several incidences So technically the headline is true, but that’s not the actual story! 🧵 1/12

An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.

There will never be a Royal Academy of AI 🤣🤣

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What is this high school debate shit? Everyone wants peace! Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.

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Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization. He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship. What a betrayal of American values!