A potentially good idea for any MP, I would guess, but one local councillors could adopt?

I have worked in Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales for over six years, yet I learn something new about our collections every day 🤩 Today I got to hold a replica Iron Age - Early Roman (c. 1st century AD) shield! It’s heavy! It’s SO heavy!

Shame upon shame on those Democrats who actually voted in favour. Disgraceful doesn't cover it.

Now thinking of the feature 'You Be the Judge' in today's Guardian.

In this Anglia TV News clip I respond to the government’s new Water White Paper, a blueprint of their plans before any law is drafted. I was clear that our water system needs to return to public ownership. 1/3

And we're back. The moment the danger passes, people rush to pretend everything is alright again. It isn't and will not be.

This is amazing news for Tower Hamlets - huge congrats to @saveoursaferstreets.org ! www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

As the BBC - abandoning even the vaguest pretence at balance for a campaign grounded in passionate intensity - it's worth reading this joint statement signed by 40 children’s charities, digital safety experts and bereaved families. They oppose one.

This is a fairly nuanced article, acknowledging some of the complex yet ordinary reasons why young children have "too much" screen time. But it fails to even mention the decline in time & space for play, at home, in schools, in public space etc (and this wouldn't be improved by a social media ban)

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

Hey gang! Here's another ace #buyastrangerabook day offer. @jonharvey1977.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to £15! So, if there's a particular book you'd like (not just what's on my website. Anything!), get in touch. UK only

It strikes me as astonishing that there is so little debate about a possible social media ban for under 16s. Almost all of the commentary assumes that those pushing for a ban have all the facts, and the moral high ground. The idea that there’s a counter perspective seems to be barely acknowledged.

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

May the next Governor rip this bill up. There should be no place for nonsense* like this. *too kind a description. Can't think of another.

I feel very let down by the kiwi. It doesn't sound like I imagined it might.

A handful of billionaires have redesigned our politics for their own profit. We keep watching, we keep scrolling, we keep fighting — and they keep getting richer. Fight the system, not your neighbor.

It’s pretty wild because O’Leary has to be one of the least likeable CEOs in the Western world - but he’s in a fight with one of the few who is EVEN WORSE.

LRP This will makes sense if you have read that entire, epic thread. That one. (How it isn't in trending I do not know.)

NO

Out-take from "Doctor Who: The Awakening" part 2 (1984). #DoctorWho

For the benefit of anybody else waking up and seeing lots of photos of the Northern Lights

“[JD Vance] said there's absolute immunity. This is not true… maybe he's deliberately lying, maybe he just doesn't know. I figured a Yale-trained lawyer would know.” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tells Prem why there is no 'absolute immunity' for ICE agents. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/keith-elli...

In all the good words about how Greenland should determine its own future etc. is there any diplomatic subtext in them to suggest that the UK/EU would take things further if we were pushed? I don't necessarily mean militarily. Anyone?

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

Lib Dem source: “Just 45 more Tory defections until Ed becomes Leader of the Opposition.”

Sure, why wait for evidence when you could just hit the big ban button now and get a warm and fuzzy feeling? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Maybe the US DoJ could do more to comply with the requirement that they release the Epstein material but that would draw resources away from other vital work, like trumping up charges against the President’s political enemies.

I’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.

Now, these are something special! 🤩 Mid-13th century wall paintings at St. Agatha’s Church, Easby, Richmond, North Yorkshire. A photo thread…

Game on. Time for his former European allies to start dumping treasury bonds. Things are going to get very very expensive in the US of A

My point is..,,there’s no point clinging onto hope that the alliance can be saved, US still be relied upon in extremis. It can’t. So, what’s holding us back from retaliating?

Nicked from Arsebook. This is a great explainer of why the UK's design and management of streets is fundamentally broken and most of what we do is simply playing around at the edges. This is not a pop per se at Essex County Council, but given they were given a "green" rating in 1/12

This is scary. On one level of course, that's easy for me to say as someone who isn't South Korean. But still. What an incredible amount of pressure on young people. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/05/s...

Block instantly.

this will help youtu.be/Uy6KRNmnIJE?...

It says something about this country that the dignity of a trans woman is considered less important in the ruling today. That strikes me as dangerously close to 'we never want to be in the same space'. That's not the Britain I want to live in.

Petition: BBC to outro all Tory / Reform news with the Eastenders theme.

Black humour was how people survived behind the iron curtain too.

I'm too cheap to buy one - and too lazy to learn the skillz - but this guy's polyphonic ceramic bass whistles are the goat. youtube.com/shorts/X57nT...

Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch. DMs open.

An entire generation has been saddled with enormous debt and hefty repayments, while they struggle with stagnant pay and soaring rents, making it nigh on impossible to save. It is deeply unfair. We should be scrapping student loan debt and tuition fees

I left university in 2019 with £49,600 of debt. A few months later, I became an MP and have since received a salary that puts me in the top 5% in the country. 6 years on, the repayments from my salary have brought this total to down to £48,600 - just £1,000 less.

Would it be quicker to ask which Tories *won't* be defecting to Reform?

Did you know that if you feed a certain type of spider only on honey then it will make sugar flavoured cobwebs?

Can someone who isn't doubled up over Jenrick being sacked explain why 'everyone' wants the WM police chief to resign? I feel like I'm missing a page somehow.

Social media shouldn't be banned for under-16s. Here are four reasons why ⬇️ And the fourth is the one people never talk about...

"The (Unforgettable) Meryl Streep" ...none of us had seen the text of her speech before, was that with her speech in defense of foreigners, journalists, the arts & human dignity, Meryl was going to electrify the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton, the entire country & the rest of the world... In 2017

I think this illustrates one of the things that is wrong with a cabinet system. Decisions like this should be for the full council, not one person or a subset of that group.

This is an eye-opener.