RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81. youtu.be/-y9Q7ud7Or0?...

And 29 weeks before they even assign a case officer. Plan ahead kids, lol.

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Police and Crime Commissioner abolished: what did they actually do other than draw a salary? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dr Daniels’ report, an essential read/listen - a masterclass in presenting the harm without case study, data and recommendations. Its contents can’t be reduced to slide or sound bite; make the unpalatable digestible for the institution without accountability. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sort-p...

What a wow. If you need to report a data breach with the ICO (information commissioners office) you will need to *checks notes* 29 earth weeks 🙃

Went trick or treating as myself last night. Because nothing seems to terrify some of the locals as much as an immigrant.

Is this an uno reverse card: Perpetrator Protection Scheme Asking for a friend.

“What were the consequences of your life-destroying crimes?” “I had to change my name and move to a free house” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

tbh the fetishisation of 'othered' people is what drives our presence in the advertising; e.g. mixed families are associated with progress, modernity and 'cool', and are strategically placed to look on subconsciously, or even consciously, as aspirational. all this claptrap to sell frozen chips lol

Loads of cool people and me contributed to this piece, please read and share 👊🏾 Notice the breadth of occupations of the contributors and the range of things selected. I think we're trying to tell you something... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this is only newsworthy if a journalist *has* ever done this. Throwing around hypotheticals only demeans BLM and derails the conversation about how problematic impartiality is, because it encourages you to 'both sides' issues to which there is no debate. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Damn. Not D’Angelo 🥺

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

So let me check my notes. So this is the same police station put the final bail in Cressida Dick’s career. And then these bad apples weren’t removed but moved to another barrel. Right… nothing to see here 👀

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Because *checks notes* a birth certificate, passport, driving licence, national insurance number or NHS number just won’t do 🙄🤔

Over 620k signatures already. Gotta hand it to Labour - just when you think they’ve peaked, they always find a bigger rake.

Yes

IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

I… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Oh my.

The moment fascists started using woke as an insult, we should have launched a festival called The Woke Festival and curated a lineup from the gods. One way to kill a persistent joke against you is to own it.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Oop: Caught out there.

RW media: We're here outside an asylum hotel, where trouble may be about to start. RW protesters: Hey, look! There's a whole bunch of media types hanging around outside that hotel. Let's go and give them a proper show. RW media: We're here outside an asylum hotel, where trouble has started. etc.

Anyone in the UK who pays £19 for a bottle of water deserves to pay £19 for a bottle of water.

Science teachers! If you’d like a FREE copy of this to see whether it’s worth recommending to your students, drop me a line and I’ll send you one!

History is always crueler and more violent than anything our imaginations could conceive of

"If only we could release correct ethnic crime statistics, the people burning down asylum hotels would say sorry and go home" is a very bureaucrat-brained way of misunderstanding the trouble we're in

It’s sort of unrelenting. This war on truth and evidence and fact. All to replace it all with ignorance, ideology and vindictiveness.

You have to do this for every individual chat if you don’t want Meta Ai to access your private info. Thanks to Essie Fox for sharing on Insta.

The speed with which I did this.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

The more emphasis placed on how “distinguished” the lawyer authoring an opinion, the weaker that opinion will tend to be. For that is the nature of legal reasoning: a sound opinion does not need its author to be distinguished, and a poor opinion will not be saved by its author being distinguished.

find yourself someone who looks at you the way Sarina Wiegman looks at Burna Boy

BMXs, boomboxes and black eyes: growing up on Peckham housing estates in the 80s – in pictures

BREAKING: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," dies at 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities say.

It is once again, sadly, time for my classic quote. “Abusers groom their character witnesses as carefully as they groom their victims. And you can switch category on their whim”

Worked at the BBC about 20 years ago and the culture was of protecting the “talent” no matter how awful they were, in the belief they were somehow irreplaceable and essential to the programmes being made. Wider cultural shifts around bullying in work place only reason why any change is happening.

Need to source some alternatives to WeTransfer *sigh*

On the London Overground. I’ve just asked a young guy playing loud music out of his phone to turn his music down. He asked stroppily why he should. I said because it was uncivilised. He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair” I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE

If you see a post with content or language that you don't want to see, click on the three dots at the right hand bottom side of the skeet and it will bring up a menu where you can opt to mute words or tags. Do it on the spot, it's quicker.

The BBC should have employed voice actors to sing the lines. (How daft.)

This man just beat Andrew Cuomo and the entire political establishment:

I interviewed Kate Shemirani during covid. I felt so disturbed by it, it stayed with me for weeks afterwards This is beyond sad. And shows reality ultimately trumps conspiracy/'my truth' Paloma, a Cambridge graduate, "one of the smartest people" her ex-BF met, died after refusing cancer treatment

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

Missed Lover Man, Champion, Queenie, Small Island to name but a few…