I do sometimes worry that all the worried headscratching about youth unemployment might be missing the point. Everyone is always talking about how it relates to the education or welfare systems, no one wants to say "well the economy just produces far fewer entry level jobs than it once did"

You all of course realise that the same home insulation we've been crying out for in the UK to keep homes warm in winter also gives you a great buffer for keeping your house cooler in summer?

BECMI D&D here. We laugh at your strange notion of 20 being the end.

the wikipedia image for sexual roleplay is making my lose my mind

Trump: "You take a look. The Lincoln Memorial -- it was built, I guess, a little after the Lincoln Memorial. It's embarrassing. It was so horrible. It was filthy dirty. It was Biden."

This is what happens when a toddler takes over the white house

My local police force sends Notices of Intended Prosecutions to all drivers committing close passes on cyclists. 1000s of them each year. The close-pass rate in my area has dropped dramatically. I wonder if that's connected?

The idea that large sections of the right wing British press would fall over themselves to support deportations of non white people would have seemed incredible a decade ago. But that’s where we are. How fascism evolves. They have moved to the right of the BNP

It was a couple of years ago Sicily had to start turning tourists away because there wasn't enough water Countries cannot afford to prioritise tourists at the expense of their own populations edition.cnn.com/2024/07/06/c...

If this is the worst that can be found about the Greens' no 2 candidate for Makerfield, I suspect the party will take that as a win.

tl;dr version of the short thread I just posted at you @mrjamesob.bsky.social - why aren't you feeling it? Because there's something wrong with you. Sorry. I feel it, I'm alarmed, because I care. Why don't you? Why aren't you worrying more at your lack of empathy?

Seriously, this again @mrjamesob.bsky.social? You have to get to a point where you simply acknowledge that the issue is you, that you are part of the problem, that your lack of empathy on climate change is a you problem (1)

Blair got more people into work, but often low paid work - family credits and benefits making low paid work livable, meaning businesses that shouldnb't be able to survive that way have more money to lobby politicians like, for example, Blair. He's full of shit really.

Also, why is it that the Independent still thinks that the sun shines out of Tony Blairs arsehole?

Testing an AI thingy to help me debug a wifi issue was... Interesting. I asked it to analyze where it went wrong and its fascinating (1)

Ditto Luton, Stansted, Oxford... New rule - if its not on the Tube then if you call it "London" we're all allowed to throw rocks at you.

Somewhat incredibly, Tony Blair has chosen the week that the UK's temperature record for May has been smashed by more than 2C to reiterate his hot take on net-zero Job done, though, as all the UK media is now leading with him saying "drill, baby, drill" rather than the exceptionally extreme weather

I'm a radical centrist. Blair is moving very far to the right of that. Thing is, the political centre isn't mutable, its not moveable, believing in empowering and freeing people is a core principle here - and Blair has forgotten that entirely.

This is the direct result of transphobia being normalised. Its that simple.

100% game bird shoots/land need to be licensed, and their licence holders held legally responsible for these raptor crimes. We know who's behind it. Hit them where it hurts.

Sanity check please. City Council damaged our front and back gardens, many incidents from complete garden removal through to unauthorised installation of street signs, over 20 years. A solid "we promise to never do it again" is a reasonable demand and councillors are shit if they don't support it?

Thats some bullshit right there. Fuck Labour. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Incredibly, we have reached a point where we are able to turn voters of a Reform man by implicating he once didn't do something stupid

Hiviz only works when motorists are paying attention. Most accidents are caused by motorists either not paying attention or intentionally taking risks. Hiviz isn't the solution to road danger, and advocating it is victim blame. Simple as.

Scientists have discovered a tiny blue octopus lurking beneath the waters near the Galápagos Islands. About the size of a golf ball, the newly identified deep-sea species was found nearly 1,800 meters below the surface during an expedition in the Pacific Ocean.

I am of an age and enduring a temperature range where staying sufficiently cool and hydrated on a hot day must be measured against the 2:30AM nocturnal soliloquy, to pee or not to pee. But it is not yet at a temperature where both problems are best solved simultaneously in the shower.

Hello London folks. I need to find two things today. 1: A place where I can print some color PDFs; and 2: a place where I can sit (IN AIR CONDITIONING, DEAR GOD) and do a little laptop-typing-work for a few hours. I'm close to St. Pancras today, what do you recommend?

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

One of the most corrosive impacts of the Trump presidency is this normalization, and frankly cheerleading, of downright depravity among Trump’s enablers. This daily desecration of the office is a disgrace. The president is supposed to be the best of us, not the absolute worst.

Media hubbub about dealing with social media harm to children seems to completely miss the point. Social media companies are boiling the brains of adults too - self harm, misinformation, and radicalising content can be curtailed and if they're allowed then children will access them...

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.

BREAKING: Israel has explained it had no choice but to kill six paramedics in a double-tap in Lebanon after receiving intelligence that they were in fact paramedics

Left: BBC News reporting on the fall in migration to the UK Right: FT reporting universities cutting job due to a fall in overseas students

apropos of nothing, “if you tune your algorithm right you barely see nazi shit” is proof positive of a brain so cooked by twitter as to have completely lost the plot

The UK didn't need AC that's why it doesn't have it. Only in the last 10 years has the UK needed AC. The problem isn't the lack of AC in the UK, it's that suddenly the UK needs AC.

Drama queen behaviour from Cambridge labour here. Yes, the council would breach the local government act if they don't appoint a leader next Thursday. No, that's not a criminal act, and no, nothing particular bad happens if this is delayed. Disingenuous nonsense from labour.

Letter from a Labour councillor in Brent complaining about "a ruling from Labour's NEC banning us from entering into a formal or informal agreement with the Green Party". Does such a ban apply in Cambridge, I wonder? wembleymatters.blogspot.com/2026/05/depu...

"The journey would be long, tortuous—and worth it. Brits would get to unpick an error that has left them poorer and more isolated." https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/21/bre-entry-may-be-the-next-drama-to-grip-the-european-union

Reform's candidate Robert Kenyon said abortion was a "cowardly act of murder" and implied that people falsely claimed to have been raped He said: “Don’t dole out the ‘what if someone is raped by their brother’ arguement... don’t want babies? Use contreception! [sic]” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

There was a time, not long ago, when peaceful protestors were never sent to jail in the UK But at least 286 people have been locked up for protesting climate breakdown and genocide in recent years It's a fucking scandal

If a company calls you, you shouldn't have to answer security questions, they should.

Once again came across the stat that the average reading age in the UK is 9-11. And, once again, I'm angered by the obvious implication being that must surely mean that this supposed average must have been calculated incorrectly.

Nothing good. Nothing. Good.

In case y'all are curious, Trump has failed with operating umbrellas, which baffle him entirely, for years. There are lots of vids of being outwitted by umbrellas. Sometimes he doesn't even try. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-krJ...

Spain makes undocumented migrants legal. The U.K. makes chocolate cheaper for kids.

In her first point Nadia is right. But this is completely in line with how this Labour government treats people and it is simply disingenuous of her to maintain otherwise. This is who Labour is.

All I'm saying is he has time on his hands now, and this could rock. variety.com/2023/tv/news...