It's basically the whole East coast stretching from Grimsby down to Kent. Man is not meant to look upon the North sea. Doing so drives him racist. See also: the Dutch.

Vimeo trying to force my workplace onto a new plan that is ridiculously more expensive than what we've paid for years. When I was cancelling our subscription, they offered 80% off for a year to stay. But even with that discount, it would still cost TRIPLE per year what we're paying now.

I will be blunt, at the point you are asking “but why should Labour MPs stop using a product owned by someone who endorses their own murders?”…you’d think “self-respect” would be on there.

If you’re coming to Ghost World through the double-bill added to the Criterion Channel today, here’s my 20th anniversary celebration, with Thora, Terry Zwigoff, Daniel Clowes, Illeana Douglas and others: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

There's something just incredibly depressing about this. If charging legitimate refugees £10k is what you think you need to do to keep your job…why the hell would you want to keep that job? What price are you willing to make other people pay for your ambition? What are you in politics *for*?

The all caps definitely makes this sound like a ransom demand

Since this is back in the news re: Miliband, has anyone seen real examples of the Green Party or leadership criticising the fossil fuel unions over their stance on this?

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

You might say, Labour have walked... The Road to Wigan Keir

If nothing else, Backrooms gives a good way to try to explain The Dark Tower to people. "It's similar, except instead of messed-up office furniture, think about a messed-up medieval Western, and you're basically there" Who wouldn't want to read a seven-novel series with that premise

Remember having the star rating system for music mags explained to me by an editor. * A really poor effort ** Disappointing for fans *** Fans of this band will like it **** May convert non-fans ***** Pet Sounds / What’s Going On So most albums are ***. But nobody wants a three star review.

Starmer to take full advantage of all the possibilities of legs

For those of us of a certain musical disposition, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes and that the latest Streetlight Manifesto album is delayed again. I may have spent more of my life reading Tomas's anguished apology notes than I have listening to their music

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

I think it's more severe than this: the UK government has developed an addiction to legislating bans on things that bind specific classes of people that conspicuously do not include themselves, and that should be done with far greater care

Bluesky overrun by British teenagers at night because it's the one place the Labour government will never check.

Amused by this person's review, in that they had this extreme reaction despite having presumably bought the product knowing what was in it

My wife did this today in fast speech, of a GP appointment "You know what he's like, he bes empathetic during the actual appointment" I know it's not grammatical, should be 'is' or maybe 'acts'. BUT I do think this form of the verb is capturing something a bit distinct from what's implied by "is"

63% of Britons say the government is not tough enough on tech and social media companies Too tough: 7% Not tough enough: 63% About right: 11% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

I wonder if this poster knows or does not know that Chiles is married to the editor of The Guardian, in which this column appeared

Funny, today's @yougov.co.uk question: "Would you support or oppose banning NHS staff from wearing political badges on their uniforms?", that Reform + Tories are most likely to Strongly Support a ban.. and also most likely to Strongly Oppose a ban. Maybe being right wing just means Feeling Strongly

Something very special when you watch 2001: A Space Odyssey on a streaming platform like a moron, and Amazon chooses to cut to the first advert at the exact moment the bone is spinning in the air

“Still or sparkling?’ The correct answer is neither. You both know that you want the perfectly adequate, perfectly free tap water.” - excellent (and correct) column this:

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

Can't think of many things more likely to rip the country apart that introducing some even more vicious version of ICE and carting away 5-10% of the working age population.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

The Times here describing Restore’s “deport, detain” line on immigration as “robust”. This is how this stuff gets further and further normalised, the ratchet cranking ever rightwards.

Why does cowardly as an adverb sound so weird to me here, what do I want it to be... cowardlyly??

We should make it illegal for MPs to use public toilets and changing rooms, and if you see someone you think might be an MP using one you can confront them, and they have to carry their Westminster pass and show it to you, and then you can kick them out. But, like, in a respectful supportive way.

The party political divide I expected, Reform voters were obviously less likely than Labour or Lib Dem voters to consider it a British dish. The gender divide though, that is a surprise, what's going on here

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

By the way, I'm always suspicious of screenshot posts that cut off halfway through a paragraph, so I do encourage everybody to read the whole thing to see this isn't out of context. Beyond being a grim attack on trans people, what also comes across most strongly is that it's just an unworkable mess.

Not a fan of Burnham anyway, but seriously, what is the point of changing leader if they are going to keep the same inhumane and hostile policies Starmer supports which have pushed so many voters away from Labour. Whoever takes over needs to u-turn on them, fast. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Go home @yougov.co.uk you're drunk

"Tell us one specific thing [Burnham] will do" Simons: ".. one of the things he's really committed to.. energy, water, social housing.. have gotten so expensive.. & one of the reasons why.. is that we've privatised a lot of them" "So with Burnham, nationalise water?" "No" lol

here's the Sky story: news.sky.com/story/nigel-...

A highly enjoyable bit of cultural convergent evolution is that His Dark Materials has the same narrative structure as a 90s JRPG: First level: you, your childhood friend who will ultimately die have childish hijinks! Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew fight God

The ideological cousin of “the media isn’t telling us about this” which may actually drive me mad one day, bc it’s usually said about something reported on by multiple huge media outlets and means “no one delivered this to my social media feeds in way that captured my severely diminished attention.”

- Some of the strongest links to Reform vote share 🚗 Drives to work: r=0.80 💻 Works from home: r=-0.63 Commute vs WFH - an underrated fault-line of British politics?

Thing I like about the map of Greater Manchester is that Bury has two little horns.

The entire 2026 council elections wrapped up in one neat map.

When websites ask me to Accept All or Reject All cookies, I tend to accept all, as a little thank you. The ones that default you to Accept, no Reject All, and make you untick every one individually? I'm unticking every one, every time

That's fine, but so far it seems to be slower than the old Google Assistant was at handling the really basic stuff like alarms and weather, and worse at not losing my place in podcast episodes

As far as I can tell the Arts Council does not have an X account, although Number 10 Downing Street does.

Post your (slightly meta) warning sign

absolutely nothing so infuriating in modern consumer society as when two companies each agree something isn't working as it should, each blame each other, and each insist you act as the go-between

I was always impressed with how a band I love called The Lawrence Arms managed to take this very hopeful concept, and work it into one of the bleakest songs they've ever done, subverting it terribly. open.spotify.com/track/2eNGyC...

Marketing emails that assume you're a psychopath

Ooh I've never had one of these bizarre substitutions before