www.timeanddate.com/calendar/rep... I don't know who needs to hear this, but 1998 had the same dates on the same days as 2026 will, and there are myriad craptastic 90s calanders on ebay for your enjoyment. I've personally ordered a 1998 Star Trek original series one for myself but you do you 😘

Ffs, reeled in by a good story again it looks like

It really feels like everyone had written a "bond market vigilantes destroy flailing Chancellor who is the new Liz Truss" piece and is really spitting mad that they had to throw it away

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Don't Panic: Britain is not broken. The UK can do better, but we shouldn't be too gloomy about things. If you look at the stats, there's a lot to be happy with (including how happy we are): adamcorlett.com/2025/11/30/d...

Sought and found asylum in the UK

I loved The Angry Corrie and once got a letter published in it, probably by means of employing the phrase ‘the time-honoured practice of sheep-to-sheep navigation’. RIP.

So it looks like Rachel Reeves has *not* abolished or cut back the cycle to work scheme. Perhaps she has read the Treasury's own 2023 assessment of the scheme, which found that in terms of creating modal shift, and thus boosting public health, it is very, very effective. www.gov.uk/government/p...

And yet the person literally responsible for maintaining law and order is going around claiming that the sort of people who cause headaches for their entire community are actually the beating heart of their community, driven to unfortunate but understandable despair bc there are too many immigrants

My boiler: Heat up? Let’s think… nah. Can’t be arsed mate. Fault code 76 and freeze your nads off, that’s all you’re getting. Also my boiler. Hello Mr Boiler Repairer, what can I do for you sir? Heat up? The water *and* the radiators? Delighted to sir. An absolute pleasure. Me? Never felt better.

Petula Clark would only focus on central urban civilisation..

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Looking for a fully-funded three year PhD, starting in April 2026? The University of Portsmouth and The Mary Rose Trust are looking for PHD students to undertake correlative multimodal materials analysis of the Mary Rose hull! #PHDOpportunities Interested? - maryrose.org/about-the-tr...

Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...

I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so

This is very good, and I hope those with the time and energy to fight what has happened to Labour from within will be able to try and make it happen.

Well this is awful.

When I arrive at the party

Whether Farage is racist “depends on how you define it” apparently. Oxford dictionary definition: “the belief one's own race is superior to others, which leads to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against people of a different race/ethnicity” Racist then. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In case you're wondering what #lineofduty series 7 will be about, here are some *possible* spoilers

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This is really very good not least because, apart from its specific proposals, it actually articulates a coherent economic *strategy* - something which the UK hasn't had for a long time.

2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

It is just false to say that " We have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" Opposition parties should write to the Permanent Secretary and National Statistician about this www.gov.uk/government/s...

Yesterday, we put out a report on the most important issues to voters. We know that immigration now tops the traditional most important issues question (see below from @yougov.co.uk). But that doesn't tell the full story. Here is a rundown of the experiments we did to test this out (A THREAD):

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

You can't police away behaviours that are a consequence of desperation and trying to only makes those people more desperate.

Currently drafting the same letter

At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window… It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍

100% truth manchestermill.co.uk/192-manchest...

I cannot stress this enough, as with Patel, Braverman, Sunak et al, do not bring Mahmood's background or religion into your arguments against policies. Racism is racism, no matter how "progressive" you think you make it sound. Counter the ideas, the inhumanity, the cruelty.

if you want a single earner household to be viable like it used to be, that is a hell of a lot of things you need to change about the whole economy, trying to do it just by housing construction is going to be really expensive and trying to do it just by planning deregulation likely impossible

Nobody actually knows what ISO numbers mean You can just say something is against ISO46990 and they'll be like hmmm that seems right

Not claiming that this unusual faint reddishness in the northern sky is aurora… but not NOT claiming that it might be aurora.

Actual footage of me trying to configure an AWS Elastic Beanstalk auto scaling group

We are asking as nicely as possible, by buying up all the ad space at Southwark Station, opposite TfL’s HQ (& office of the deputy mayor for transport @sebdance.bsky.social ) during COP, for this beautiful poster series revisiting vintage tobacco advertising from before it was banned

Love how Trump threatens to sue people for the biggest number he knows. If anyone tells him about two billion the BBC are in trouble

Help! What’s this jazz tune called? Had it in my brain all day but blank on name and artist. Probably mid Sixties Joe Henderson / Freddie Hubbard kind of vibe? May not be correct key, obvs.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

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7. It should be noted that not all rural revivalists were on the far right. Lord of the Rings is a rural revivalist fantasy. A society of small farmers overthrows urban industrialism and restores a feudal aristocracy. The Shire is Wallop’s ideal society as much as Tolkein’s.

"There is a particular look about a teenage boy that lets you know what kind of man he’ll be. A certain fullness of lips, a frank sensuality in his gaze. We all know what the word for that is, but it’s not polite to use it until he’s proven he’s that kind of boy."

⛔️ Peak Forest Canal: vital towpath cycle route closed for many weeks south of Marple Maps, tips, problems, end date. 👇

On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There’s a bit of a Nineties Sixties revival revival afoot, isn’t there?

AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In yet more 'why is Britain pursuing net zero when no one else is', India's electricity capacity is now over 50 per cent low carbon and it just saw peak renewables generation deliver half the country's power. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521481...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵