Prisons & Probation Minister revolving door continues Blunt (2010-2012) Wright (2012-2014) Selous (2014-2016) Gyimah (2016-2018) Stewart (2018-2019) Buckland (2019) Frazer (2019-2021) Chalk (2021) Atkins (2021-2022) Andrew (2022) Butler (2022) Hinds (2022-2023) Argar (2023-2024) Timpson (2024-2026)

Far right, Christian fundamentalist-funded fascist party does continues to silence LGBTQ people in advance of criminalising us. And people still vote for them "coz it's good for a laugh and to stick two fingers up to the rest of them". Fuck every single Reform supporter.

#DulaPeepShow #DuaLipa

So unwritten that of the five prime ministers to inherit a majority in “mid-term”, only one of them called an election before its due date. Why are some political journalists so uninterested in history?

🏆👏 Congratulations to the 2026 Winners of the Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration, and Shadower's Choice Medals: Beth O' Brien, Kate Rolfe and Aimée de Jongh! ‏#Carnegies2026 Read the press release here: https://carnegies.co.uk/2026-winners-announced/

Roddy Doyle has curated All Around the World: Stories by Booker Prize Writers – a short story collection you can get for free from Big Issue.

This is great. He's getting absolutely hammered on this and every answer he invents is worse than the one which preceded it

Spanish PM’s former right-hand man jailed for 24 years for corruption

Really don't care what someone thinks of net zero. They should be able to recognise that we suffer from a systematic aversion to specialism and competence. He bucked that trend.

Open Window by Matisse

Campaigner threatened with prosecution by Environment Agency after waterway cleanup

‘Swifts are on the UK red list of birds of conservation concern. Their population has declined by about 60% since the 1990s.’ Disgraceful action by Clarion Housing.

😡 83% of Ireland's alumina exports goes to Russia, according to figures obtained by the Irish Times. In contrast, only 0.6% (143 tons) of alumina exports went to EU countries, and the remaining 40,000 tons were shipped to countries outside the EU. kyivindependent.com/data-reveals...

Fair enough. Now Ireland's government should look at Aughinish Alumina, located on the Shannon Estuary in County Limerick. It is owned by the Russian metals giant Rusal. The plant processes imported bauxite into alumina that is shipped directly to Russia.

"To suggest she has no responsibility for that, and to link that lack of responsibility to her sex, is a form of infantilisation that will do women no good in the long-run." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on Murrell and Sturgeon. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2615250...

Waltheof son of Siward, earl of Northumbria, was executed at Winchester #OTD in 1076. He was part of the Anglo-Danish force that stormed Norman-held York in 1069. He was the only high-ranking Englishman deliberately put to death on King William I's orders. 📸York Museums Trust

V glad @libbybrooks.bsky.social wrote this, it needed highlighting. What's happening at BBC Scotland is awful - such a loss of talent will be difficult to reverse. Women are vanishing from other spheres too (also, way to go, Libby, on her last week in the job). www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Don't hackers normally take money out of your account?

If Starmer goes it will be five PMs in four years. Unprecedented?! No. The post pandemic, inflationary 1920s saw a new challenger party, and a tousled haired, lecherous, corrupt leader succeeded by a burst of PMs. Five PMs… from three parties …. in two years and a month.

A sign that Andy's route back remains uncertain is that lazy articles about how have gone from 'just randomly naming Labour MPs over retirement age in the north west' to 'just randomly naming Labour MPs in the north west'. Unclear what the next stage is. Ed Davey to stand down for Andy?

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

The Renters' Rights Act's ban on section 21 evictions marks a new era for private renters across England, writes Generation Rent's Ben Twomey.

Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, co-chief executive officer of @penamerica.bsky.social, and Dinaw Mengestu, novelist and writer and president of PEN America, talk about free expression around the world and the World Voices Festival underway. Listen: www.wnyc.org/story/pen-wo...

Contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt

My tattoo artist just reposted this enthusiastically endorsing the messaging "what next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?"

Tickets are going quickly for our first visit to The Edge Arts Centre in #MuchWenlock, #Shropshire, on Sat 21 November. 'The Oratory' A chilling tale from #WeepingBank - the acclaimed ghost story experience, bridging the gap between page and stage. www.ticketsource.co.uk/edgeartscent...

The best thing about having written a book, I think, is hearing from people who have enjoyed it. I’m always glad and grateful to hear from readers. Upon A White Horse is out in paperback on April 23, but preorders are already arriving.

Throughout 2025-26, Caseworkers delivered 59 #Legal #Outreach Clinics to 359 #prisoners - including 78 #women and 46 #foreignnationals.

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ~Virginia Woolf (Street Haunting)

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

I hope Vance's couch has a migraine tonight

One thing I’m thinking about this evening is the extent to which the enormous bravery and sacrifice of the Ukraine people in facing down Russian threats - first electorally & subsequently militarily - blunted the appeal of pound-shop autocrats with a line to the Kremlin and revealed their corruption

Tory / Lib Dem #austerity was never good economics. It was an ideological drive to shrink the state by a rich, out of touch elite that destroyed lives and broke society.

"While the details of this merger remain to be seen, we are concerned about its potential impact on accountability and oversight in the criminal justice system as a whole." https://insidetime.org/newsround/if-they-scrap-imbs-wholl-sort-things-out-in-prisons/

Today, the people of #Hungary toppled their tyrant. America, our return to democracy requires our full attention. We can see it can be done!

Lets hope jd vance campaigns for Reform in Britain

Meat Loaf & Tim Curry. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Behind the scenes 📸

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

Orban: “Too many people are voting” — the plaint of kleptocratic vote suppressors and gerrymanderers the world over… And yes I am looking at you GOP

Can Vance visit Netanyahu next

Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's conceding because his defeat is so comprehensive even he can't pretend he won.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

Ukraine is about to get an awful lot of European money. No more Cunt's Veto. A potential turning point in the battle against Russian imperialism.

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power

'We don't want ID cards but we do want more information on them'

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Librarians at the Bangor Public Library changed my life. They let me take out books from the adult section and read there for hours. It was nearly across the street from where I grew up. Amazing and beautiful place, and wonderful librarians.