So it turns out York's flagging campaign was connected to Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA.

The Labour MP for East Thanet, Polly Billington MP, has written to the Reform Leader of Kent County Council to express her concern about Reform in Kent’s "continued endorsement of anti-science organisations and conspiracy theories" in a new motion on climate change (🧵)

Best thing I’ve seen all day ..Thankyou 🇬🇧👏😎💙 Trump: “Other countries, and their leaders know that if I’m president, they can’t mess with us. They respect me too much." United Kingdom: “Heyyyyy Donald Trump (ooh, ahh), I wanna know-oh-oh-oh-oh, why you’re such a cunt.” 🇬🇧

This is how blatantly the #BBC and other news favours Reform. This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Human-made global warming ‘caused 16,500 deaths in Europe this summer’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’

A few years ago I turned a bunch of UKMT Senior Maths Challenge papers into self-marking MS Forms (5 questions per form) to set as optional quizzes for students, as a weekly bit of fun. To set them for your students, you need to be signed into Office 365. Click on the link to the quiz, then...

This is why they’re deleting studies

Janice and Kerry claim they're not racists. And you might be tempted to believe that until you read what Janice and Kerry think and then conclude that ... yup - they're racists.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

During the press conference, officials appeared to take the inscriptions literally, to the extent they ascribed meaning to them at all. But the four messages apparently written by the alleged shooter instead seem to invoke a variety of memes and video game references. www.wired.com/story/charli... 👇

The response to Charlie Kirk's death has made me think of when Judith Butler talked about the radically unequal distribution of grievability in our societies, where some lives are more worthy of grieving, some losses more widely felt. 1/

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

#extrapure first (virtual) lesson of the course. Short overview, some set theory basics using a visualiser, defn of binary operations. On to modular arithmetic. Chat blast questions work nicely to set the pace. I will try to post each week with a summary. #alevelmaths

A decade ago I wrote my PhD on how the UK counterterrorism strategy was an outgrowth or colonial counterinsurgency powers and as such, it was a form of racialised social control. It's been getting worse since then. Thread.

Will there be an investigation into anyone else ‘damaging’ historic buildings or just Banksy for some reason?

#coremaths confidence intervals in real life

Honestly, it is absurd to publish a league table with confidence intervals so wide that a single trust could be in either the top 10 or bottom 10

Trump loses appeal and must pay E Jean Carroll $83m in defamation case – live

How could we check these numbers? #coremaths

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A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.

#Financialisation "Periods when house price spiral most extreme have coincided with the radical liberalisation of the British financial system... surge in prices, along with the extraordinary credit expansion, were the main drivers of housing market malfunction" www.ft.com/content/d905...

“Farage has given two contradictory versions – one that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second one is correct then he has ­engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign.” – @goodlawproject.org https://bit.ly/4m81Zzt

Just keep talking Graham, keep talking, don't worry how unhinged you sound, just keep talking

CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!

'People don't want to see stripping back of workers rights and people blaming immigration. They just want fairness.' Zack Polanski on why everything Nigel Farage wants to enforce will make lives in the UK much worse

Sums up the level of ambition in Levenshulme at the moment 👀 Half arsed attempt at creating an LTN (filter in background) but access for pedestrians is severely compromised. Whenever such issues are highlighted to local “leaders” nothing happens.

"He's more interested in the money America is going to give him - not the people here!" @maitlis.bsky.social asks the residents of Clacton if they've seen Nigel Farage since he became their MP...

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

Well done to the American representatives for eating Farage on toast. Maybe just one journalist in the UK might be able to ask him a difficult question once in a while after seeing this.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

For book tour, I just looked for a train between two U.S. cities about 165 miles apart. There's one train a day, it leaves at 6:50 PM, involves a transfer, and takes 16 hours and 20 minutes.

After a summer of record-breaking temps and four heatwaves, the Met Office confirms human activity made this 70x more likely. Climate breakdown is happening before our eyes, and the UK govt is not acting fast enough. We need to cut emissions and invest in sustainable practices now.

This is both, true & funny. 😮

Add rabies to Andrew Wakefield’s catastrophic legacy

@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

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Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.

We can do this, people. It's not even that difficult.

‘Over-diagnosis’ of child mental health? No — it’s an unhealthy environment of schools as exam factories, stressed parents and a looming climate crisis. Our children deserve better. #MentalHealth

Newly elected Scottish Green leaders to campaign on universal income and free bus travel

This is HUGE basic income news if Thailand actually does implement a Negative Income Tax in 2027. They could be the first country with a NIT. I don't see any details yet in terms of amount and phaseout rate but if they set the threshold at 60k baht and set 50% rate, poverty could drop by up to 90%.

This is my flag.

This is just next level insanity. In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate. There was just one rather significant problem. She had sadly died in July 2024. insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...