For the first time, a British Sign Language rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone was performed at Anfield before Liverpool vs. West Ham ❤️

“imagination is not an optional extra, which we can humour in our children but safely discard in adulthood. It is at the very heart of everything. It is deadly serious, the necessary condition of political change, of love. It is the sharpest tool of ethics.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I’m ok with NY resolutions, but generally, if you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you regret not having done? Start doing that.

"For Kirk and for much of society today, words are not expressions with referents, but rather, performative speech acts with specific functions — in his case, owning the libs." holy moly, what a blog www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget. How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy? t.co/jIObxTAoeL

Two wrongs do make a right :) #lfc

The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no... “The most popular models privilege dominant ways of knowing (typically western and institutional) while marginalising alternatives, especially those encoded in oral traditions, embodied practice and languages”

Sally Wainwright killing it once again with Riot Women. So good.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Polly is bang on with this. The BBC needs protecting and strengthening.

Like why would the bbc need to ‘balance’ its cover of the US in this way? When the BBC covers, say, Xi critically should it also run a programme dedicated to the CCP’s achievements?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... “When we hold our phones we have, in theory, most of the world’s accumulated knowledge at our fingertips, so why do we spend so much time dragging our eyeballs over dreck?”

Here's the stamp on the back!

Andor grounds Star Wars.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Jeez. But really worth a read.

#lowkey absolutely amazing tonight in Brighton. A privilege to see him work. Shout out too to the girl in the audience who duetted the one track :)

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

This feels important. Not sure why.

I think he’s running against Susan Collins

One use of AI I could get on board with is using it to scan YouTube and Tiktok etc posts for disinformation and nonsense and lies and either take it down or, if that violates freedom of speech, slap warnings all over it that the host is talking cobblers and link to actual facts.

No lies detected....

The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄 And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread! I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on! 🧵1/17

www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi... Use this other flag, English patriots…

I can’t take a season of this, #Liverpool, you’re taking years off me.

Total Misty Mountains vibes

yougov.co.uk/politics/art... Interesting survey, but the question about immigrants being perceived not to share our values winds me up. What exactly are ‘our’ values anyway?

Real.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... It doesn’t strike me that he’s given much thought to the strong likelihood that nothing will turn out as he’d like to think it could. Maybe direct your efforts into good social governance models.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I can’t even.

Good morning 🌞

Nope, still nothing on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on The #Telegraph website. England cricket has the main headline slot, followed by two articles on Labour tax raids. Imagine being a journalist for that once esteemed newspaper, reduced to culture war ire for clicks.

I went to The #Telegraph website for their take on the starvation in Palestine and the images and reports coming through from multiple sources. Dear reader, I found no mention whatsoever.

Anne Applebaum’s Gulag adds particularly devastating ballast for my atheism. A must read.

“I am glad to inform you that your prostate biopsies have not shown any cancer…” :) It’s been stressful. I had no symptoms but for the markers in a blood test and some inflammation. Most people with prostate cancer don’t have symptoms either. Chaps, get yourselves checked out!

'I feel very disappointed' Hillsborough campaigner Margaret Aspinall told #BBCBreakfast Keir Starmer should 'bring forward the real Hillsborough Law" before the Prime Minister returns to Liverpool for the Labour Party Conference in September

‘Show fewer cats in my timeline, bsky.’ ‘No problem, even more cats it is!’

Oh, yes, baby! My Doctor Who/Fela Kuti book is a real, physical thing in my hands at last! And it's a perfect hot summer book (you'll see why). Out August.

Kae Tempest absolutely killed it at glasto!

#booksky #writingcommunity

Prostate biopsy today. This deep, hidden object becomes the star of the show. Its facts have already spawned and spread, much as its presence does now it has been discovered; wounded and radiating a glowing ache, its secret unique shape exposed and soon to be judged.

#Florist at Komedia were great, so much love between the band members. Lovely.

Saw Spellling and her fabulous band tonight. She’s amazing, this generation’s Kate Bush. She signed everyone’s merch too! Thrilled I got to see her perform live.

Reporting on Reeves’ budget leads with how the bond markets react. However important that is, it’s also sad that what can get done appears to be limited by a small group of incredibly influential people who, by definition, require a properly capitalist system to be sustained.