Someone photoshop a wild wig. 🤣

Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/

Mark makes such good points here that it’s sort of depressing that the people behind this haven’t thought of them. As much as I like Rundell’s work, I don’t think she needs the publicity and actually giving kids / school a choice would make a bigger difference

Water firms in England and Wales ‘leak five times what hosepipe ban would save’

The grift continues.

A defence barrister in Australia was setting out the mitigating factors re his clients guilty plea for raping a 14 year old girl, he said it ‘only’ lasted for 5 minutes. Judge Ryan Haddrick interrupted and ordered the court be silent for 5 minutes, to show just how long it is. Powerful & necessary

You know who is undefeated? The GP receptionist . Is there a special list they recruit these people from??

It's funny because MPs lives became unsafe around the same time as Nigel Farage entered the political arena on a platform of racism and hate. I wonder if there's a connection

500,000 fewer households with a TV licence in the last year.... people just ticking the box for 'nah I don't need it'. Realising that TV detector vans don't actually exist. Shout out to the 3,000 legends who still have a black and white licence.

Why have we let the world become shit just so that a minority of people can become richer?

Reading all the tributes to Sam Neill, & thinking just how lucky we were to have him in our midst. His IG stories sharing his animals were legendary. He perked us all up over the lockdowns with his mad globally-created home movies. Such a genuinely good bugger. Vale Sir Sam Neill. 🍷💔

Meta the gold standard of the Streisand Effect. It will be studied for years. If you haven’t read Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People, you won’t be disappointed.

BREAKING: A murder investigation has been launched into the death of former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe

I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

"Can you give us an example of a time you had to adapt and accommodate rapid change?"

Reeves to approve Farage’s resignation, saying ‘if he wants to spend summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him’ – UK politics live

The Chancellor has the power to stop Farage's cynical ploy. I've written to her this morning urging her to act. Farage should not be allowed to resign until the investigation into his dodgy dealings has concluded. The people of Clacton deserve the facts first.

So lemme get this right, Farage is pledging his £5m to fund the bi-election he triggered, which he is running as a candidate. Somebody please explain like I am a five year old how this can happen.

Naomi Osaka outslugged top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 7-6 (2) to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the first time.

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

Namaste, genocidaires! Reminds me of the Vietnam veterans who were more traumatised by being called 'baby-killers' than they were by killing babies. As I've said before, PTSD has less to do with what you have done/seen and more to do with how others see you and your actions...

Been watching UK press through this and the headlines i've seen have been (paraphrasing) "Don't worry about the heat here's how to have fun in it" and "we asked a bunch of celebrities what their heatwave outfits are" and PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY DYING. This is how the media pushes climate denial.

It seems that several commentators have set themselves a challenge: to write a thread or article expressing disbelief as to why Starmer was so loathed without mentioning his stances on AI, Black Lives Matter, Gaza, trans rights, and then dismiss that loathing as the hysteria of out-of-touch elites.

Amen

If Reform were a football team, would they not have sacked the manager and coaching staff by now?

As well as recruiting influencers to discredit their detractors, Palantir are also waging a campaign of legal threats against outlets that report on them. But, again, their bully-boy tactics have only served to draw attention to themselves 👀 https://bit.ly/3SIc8JU

Queen

Michael Grade sounds like a racist from a 1970s sitcom unfortunately he was until recently head of Ofcom . For him GB News reps. the ‘white majority ‘ & should be protected at all costs,those costs being journalistic truth , integrity, fairness ,impartiality, accountability.Grade sees their defence

The tip of a grubby iceberg.

It's OK everyone - no need to feel pure cold rage at this one. www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

I have questions.

If I threw a brick at a police officer there would be a tag around my ankle for the rest of my life. These guys chucked their masonry then went straight to William Hill like it was a normal Wednesday for them

Buried waaaaay down the article: “Rein Lively was accused alongside Ostermann, 37, who was charged with two racially aggravated public order offences and a further public order offence against two alleged victims.”

Re-activate the Streisand Effect.

I have just discovered The Scouse Oracle. She has highlighted that the NHS data opt-out which 3,5 million people took the effort to go and sign online is being ignored and our data is being shared to subsidiaries of #Palantir! She isn’t on Bluesky yet as far as I know youtu.be/-ihgTotRGPs?...

Kenyon is a plumber, going in to peoples’ homes, with no checks. How many of his clients are women 👀

Palantir claims its software saves medics time they can spend on patient care. But leaked internal NHS documents have revealed that Palantir software is 10 times slower than alternative tool 🐌 https://goodlaw.social/t009

Rapper Rob Base has died after a battle with cancer.

Correct. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I hate "best" lists when it comes to creativity. I can just about stomach "favourite" lists because they embrace the inherent subjectivity. The whole "100 best novels" thing should die.

Makerfield By-Election Forecast: With Burnham: LAB: 45% RFM: 42% Without Burnham: RFM: 53% LAB: 27% Via @survation.bsky.social. Methodology Below.

Councillor who said role 'dull and boring' resigns

So the man with a head that looks like a potato wants a try out for PM 😂😂😂

Grand Dame Queenie, 2013 by Amy Sherald #WomensArt

“She remains by a considerable margin the most corrupt British public figure in living memory.”

The tale of two corrupt police forces. This case is wild and if not for the tenacity of the victim this would would never have seen the light of day. This should be making headlines everywhere. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

I read it, I laughed, cried and wholeheartedly endorsed it. Dr Ebony Reid's book will touch your soul. The launch was beautiful, warm and moving. MUST READ! 🥹🙏🏾