A final edition of the Angry Corrie has been published, in memory of Dave Hewitt, who passed away last year. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/the-ang...

Bloke on the tram watching some TV drama on his phone, on speaker: annoying Bloke on the tram watching some TV drama on his phone, on speaker, AT WHAT SOUNDS LIKE 1.5x SPEED: ENRAGING

I mean, anyone who expresses contempt for the way other people choose to spend their leisure time should be forced to produce a schedule of their own activities over the previous fortnight for the internet to pull apart with gusto

Political commentators dribble the Ratcliffe story aimlessly around their own half. Politicians attempt well-intentioned passes but don’t land it in the box. It’s Barney Ronay, in the sport pages, who delivers it magnificently into the back of the net.

The piece that annoyed the non-existent culture secretary - you know what to do

Film people! Are there any good theoretical/critical studies of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl you would recommend?

Ratcliffe is, quite obviously, factually, morally & intellectually wrong about immigration. But his racist comments will be 'both-sided' everywhere because people who simply don't like seeing non-white faces aren't ashamed to say so anymore.

I like that people describing the idea of liveable neighbourhoods and 15minute cities as "Orwellian" is correct, but not in the way they think

Am torn about this chart - it shows that despite the always defeatists talk, Europe and the EU in particular have stepped up for their security. However, it also shows that the level of support is still notably smaller, and in consequence Ukraine has suffered.

FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Only 27 days to have your say over the future of the BBC! Don’t leave it to other people - take part!. You love it? You think it could be better? There’s something special you don’t want to lose? Tell the government! Closes Tuesday 10th March. www.gov.uk/government/n...

I got picked! Help me win a mug!

DoJ Identifies Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, chair and CEO of DP World, which owns London Gateway and Southampton container ports as well as P&O Ferries, as the recipient of the “I loved the torture video” email from Jeffrey Epstein.

Honestly, flash back to 2023 when it was all "can't wait for a boring Labour government being boring with a boring PM"

Oooh we’re going to see Mahagonny

Looks like today is a good news day! (crosses fingers tightly)

Here's all the details on what are very significant announcements: www.businessgreen.com/news/4525420... www.businessgreen.com/news/4525418... www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

A question on UTF-8 tabled by Zöe Franklin remained unanswered.

This is better than you think.

‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees

So bleak that net zero, a decade old Conservative climate policy that is wholly inadequate in scope and ambition, is now too radical for parts of the Labour Party

"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt." #climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...

If anyone who follows me knows of any decent support groups near Manchester for + people with early onset Alzheimers + *and* the youngish adult children that care for them then LMK

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Every American needs to watch this:

Pressure increases on McSweeney: told that if he doesn't go soon, he'll be played by James Corden.

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂 Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

One day the phrase popped into my head, "I have too much respect for myself and my own time" and I think I have engaged a lot less with this sort of content.

#48: Miserable

💥"Nothing less than a century-defining rebalancing of power and accountability is equal to this moment and the trauma of the victims." A significant intervention from former PM Gordon Brown on why the Epstein-Mandelson revelations demand a fundamental cleaning up of UK politics. More ⤵️

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New consultation! Mersey Square in Stockport town centre is up for a revamp. New cycling facilities and improved public realm. Deadline 25 February. consultation.stockport.gov.uk/highways-and...

absolute scenes. if you watch closely you can see a Tory MP defect to Reform in real time behind Kemi.

"Let's move asylum seekers with specialist medical needs a long way away from their medical care. Oh wait, there's no buses and we refuse to buy bus and train tickets. I guess we have to hire taxis for them. Oh shit, the foreigners are in taxis and that looks bad to the racists"

Incredible that the government can say all this yet also be pushing through immigration rule reforms that actively prevent migrants from being full or equal members of the community. Pride might well be necessary. So is equality. Labour used to know that.

Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

This is incredible work.

Save us from Four Seasons Recomposed, steadily driving out the real thing from Radio 3 like AI slop pictures of baby peacocks

It's baffling that the Government seems to think that the solution to our immigration challenges is to break one of our biggest successes - the fact we've exceptionally strong assimilation and integration. There are multiple failures in our immigration system but this is the one bit that's working!

The mainstreaming of nerd culture has ignored the best parts of that culture (creativity, imagination, championing of outsiders) while promoting the worst (hating women and paying way too much for stupid shit)

i do feel like if you spend all your time in the manosphere, insulting women, and listening to loser podcasts you can't also cry about no one fucking you. pick a lane, dipshits

The Mandelson scandal has brought osteopathy into disrepute by making me look up what osteopathy actually is

Have seen this take a lot and really disagree. Gov’t could invest in anchor institutions for towns; build FE colleges in town centres; set up childcare co-ops; retrofit iconic buildings and make them into community gyms, etc. We are more than individual consumers - that’s the point of politics!

It can’t have been aurora because we’ve seen it again when there was definitely no aurora about - and only when there’s been low cloud cover, so must be coming from the ground. Someone suggested LED lighting from a commercial greenhouse, but I don’t know of anything like that in that direction.

A good read about how there is more to stuff than meets the eye.

RIOT JAAAZZZZ

Nice thread

who knew! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneckdown

Bored on train so made a starter pack listing all the House of Commons Library automated accounts on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/4Giwged Would recommend treating it as a pick list, rather than a normal starter pack. Some of the accounts - particularly written answers from departments - are quite noisy.