Gee whizz, imagine: you’re just doing your best as a public figure acting in good faith and suddenly you’re being smeared with vexatious bullshit accusing you of working in Russia’s interest by horrible liars and their allies, who are secretly in cahoots working to blacken your name

You have to wonder how exactly it was possible for the Labour Together lads to pull off “One of the greatest deceptions in the history of British politics” undetected, when they were in close and constant contact with the country’s foremost, best remunerated political journalists. A real enigma here

Just the normal shit that normal reporters know about and don’t put into their pre-election newspaper articles and instead save for their post-election books, in normal countries where nothing at all fishy has been going on for many years

surely Turnberry has sufficient bunkers already?

Going by what’s been publicly reported over the last few years, this paper is well placed to just ask them directly via WhatsApp

*Skeleton #Journalism

Some pretty detailed Noticing Things here

here's Chris the ex-cyclist on MasterChef The Professionals' career stats www.procyclingstats.com/rider/chris-...

Our Online Safety Act was so great we're having to talk up a new one, only months later

With the added irony that terfs policing gender are, in fact, imposing on girls the need to conform to "typical" standards unless they want to get threatened for going pee in the ladies' loo.

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

can't believe no one liked my post

So-called “equity punks” who spoke to the Guardian or posted on BrewDog’s shareholder forum expressed disappointment and accused the company, which has traded on its upstart ethos, of treatment “bordering on contempt”.

The US military is regularly using publicly-owned Scottish infrastructure to conduct operations, including threats against our neighbours in Greenland. We urge MSPs of all parties to back our motion to end US military operations and evict Trump's troops. news.stv.tv/scotland/gre...

It's possible to belive both that Russia is a huge threat and that Yvette Cooper will bang the drum for WAR! forever rather than admit she got anything wrong, ever

an intriguing point

"She’s voted Labour all her life, she says – apart from twice for David Cameron’s Tories, in 2010 and 2015."

A Dulwich Tax would, of course, be a great idea

It's genuinely so fucking demoralising watching liberals stand up and say with their full chest that you can do as much horrendous shit as possible as long as you say all the Serious Statesman incantations while you do it.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

Yes, what if we moved the goalposts again so that this abysmal piece of shit, this walking affront to the democratic process, could just jail anyone he wants rid of? Much to think about

Actually they appear not to be... ...because they've sold out in all sizes.

Putting international law to one side, it's striking how often western governments also break their own laws to suppress opposition to the genocide in Gaza. (US deportation of student op-ed writers, UK ignoring Home Office policy to proscribe PA, DE attempting to deport EU citizens, etc)

Would’ve been quite striking if the high court had come out in favour of criminal damage tbh

Don't ask about Palestine at the Berlinale! Here's my question to the jury about selective solidarity of the film festival with the people of Iran and Ukraine vs. Palestinians. Wim Wenders (jury president) actually said: "We have to stay out of politics" #Berlinale2026

We (trans safety network) met with Cass during her research on the Cass review and explained how clearly ridiculous it would be to try and bring haircuts and self expression under the authority of being a "medical intervention". She went away from that meeting and produced this crap anyway.

If I was part of a cynical political initiative that had strained every sinew to smash my own party into the wall & throw an election to ensure the Labour Party remained in the grip of a racrionary network of people whose sole purpose was to maintain their grip on "our systems", I'd stfu frankly

This is the Mandelson legacy, isn‘t it - the entire country being run by anonymous briefings to credulous journalists

Feels like you immediately know who the baddie is in this story and then you find they're both baddies "The documents, housed at a Brussels museum built to celebrate Belgium’s empire, are being sought by DR Congo and KoBold Metals, a Bill Gates-backed mining and artificial intelligence company"

Last time I had my recycling collected, Joe Biden was still president

Given the damage Morgan McSweeney has done to the Labour Party as the party of organised labour, I'm sure the knighthood will come in due course.

You can donate to Hammam and his family here: chuffed.org/project/1580...

Guess which books are the wedge issue. Just guess. Anti-trans to fascism takes months, not years, now. It’s not a slippery slope, it’s luge.

I honestly no longer in good conscience feel like I can advise people from Gaza on how to even keep their account here because no matter what they do they lose it. I’ve just suggested going to other platforms.

Opera on Radio 3 with the Olympics with the sound low, pretty nice

It's cool how Gordon Brown thinks all the things he's done with Peter Mandelson for decades, shouldn't mean he should maybe just be quiet, amazing confidence

No this isn't allowed. We aren't allowed to see systemic corruption in the UK. Once the designated fall guy is picked, we must focus all our efforts into him. Pulling on too many threads runs a risk of unraveling the whole thing.

hello I'd like to not live in a world that fucking hates and wants to eliminate fat people, thx

counterpoint: this isn't actually a telling distinction

Great! www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Concentration camp things happening at the concentration camps

this is incredible and well worth a read

And everyone who was laughed at and told they were a conspiracy theorist at the time, and after, deserves an apology: this includes some of my mutuals here and in real life, feel free to apologise any time

Just reading that my 31 year old MP, who I knew used to work for Labour Together before he was elected, accepted "tickets worth £550 to the men's final of Wimbledon… Because the LTA had investments in his constituency and he wanted these to continue", nice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Talking about me and my ideas for 90 minutes was great, actually

Hey, several batches of baby formula from a couple different brands in the uk and Europe have been recalled for contamination causing illness: if you formula feed, check your supply. Info here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ultimately, I understand there are many issues with electoral politics but there is just no way it isn't a net good having someone with this platform speak this plainly about stuff like this.

Also reckon that the Great Remembering of this incident might occur quite soon! www.bbc.com/news/uk-5470...

Backing Rayner for a leadership bid, they said: “The sooner the day comes that she’s making the original decisions, the better.” Another MP said: “If Angela didn’t have her tax investigation ongoing, she’d be getting numbers [for a leadership challenge] offered to her tonight.” Cool, cool.