When I asked Nigel Farage's spokesman last week, he flatly denied that his boss had ever racially abused anyone. Now Farage is only saying he never did so in a "hurtful way". Does he think there's a non-hurtful way to racially abuse someone?

Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library.

Discovering Yorkshire waterfalls Yorkshire has some of England’s most beautiful waterfalls, ranging from spectacular and renowned to secluded and magical By Ian Richardson @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @ricojosh.bsky.social

I miss the good old days with her.

Sound, sound alarum! We will rush on them.

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe76.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. https://bit.ly/485lgN4

I got a far right dickhead the other day telling me "We're not allowed to talk about immigration!" I dunno what rock he's just crawled out from under cos it's all we fucking talk about these days innit?

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 😍

And btw as I’ve written I’m not necessarily convinced BBC should survive in its current form. But I’m far more sure, partly because I’m an actual patriot, that its demise shouldn’t come at the hands of a foreign head of state.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

I once waited on Boris Johnson at a dinner in Bristol. I poured some of the drip tray into his pint. It's the closest I've come to national service. You're welcome.

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Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

Gary Lineker for DG

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.

Autumnal glory at #WibseyPark #Wibsey #Bradford

Twice nightly at the Empire The past fades on a #Wibsey gable end #GhostSigns #Bradford

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year. Country surrounded by water has water shortages. 2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours. No new reservoirs. Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend. Record high water bills. People fleeced.

It’s as if they think we’ve all been in a coma for the last 15 years, rather than watching the Tories smash it all up in front of us. Very good on our ‘let’s-not-bother-with-right-wing-racism-or-Farage’s-corruption-and-let’s-blame-Labour-for-everything’ media. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

I've been talking about this on here for a while. We just assume it will always rain enough, so the management of water in the UK is totally disastrous. Now, after a relatively few dry months, we are approaching a calamity. We have done it to ourselves. Yet again. We are a deeply unserious country.

New Banksy spotted in North Bradford @ttbd2.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @bd-angry.bsky.social @leonhobbes.bsky.social @benmckenna.bsky.social

Aren’t they all? This is how Tories and Reform really think. Convinced of their own superiority and right to power, they’re quick to be sneering, racist and bitter when they fail. Always blaming. Never taking responsibility. Or feeling any shame. Cummings is nothing. But god he’s furious about that.

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

He's going to 'make the case for markets' despite screwing up Britain's place in a very large one, and putting up trade barriers.

Even I thought this was one of mine!

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

A lot of sci-fi stuff tends to show women in skin-tight one-piece suits. You can tell these costumes were designed by men. How the fuck are women in the future supposed to go for a piss? Do we have nanobots in our bladder that drink up all the piss for us?

What a super Sunday at Ilkley Real Markets! 💙 Tombola, flyers, and real conversations that turned interest into bookings. Proof that community spirit still sings. 🎶 Catch us next at Messiah, 15 Nov @ St George’s Hall! @bradford2025.co.uk @visitbradford.bsky.social @ilkleychat.bsky.social

Nigel Farage says he wants to 'raise aspiration' by cutting the minimum wage for young people (currently £10), but reducing tax for young people earning over £100k. Presumably he wants them to just ask their stockbroker fathers to fix them up with a job in The City, like he did.

Andrew Tate says London is too dangerous to go out at night in. He wouldn't know much about that because since May 28th 2025 he has an arrest warrant pending for Rape and Human Trafficking. So he hasn't been in the UK never mind London.

Any other party, this would be described as a ‘humiliating u-turn.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A movie you have seen more than 7 times with a GIF:

Surround yourself with the kind of people who appreciate, defend, and respect the Oxford comma.

Also this weekend, a solid piece from Guardian - finally! - with some interesting responses from the man himself, Oleh Voloshyn. He claims Gill simply ballsed up his expense claims despite Gill - inconveniently - pleading guilty. 3/ www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

NEW: ‘Nigel Farage is not my friend…he’s just a handsome & stylish English gentleman’ The wife of the Russian agent who Nathan Gill has admitted to accepting bribes from says Nigel Farage is not her ‘good friend’ after saying that he was her ‘good friend’ 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

There needs to be a word like "Remoaner" for Brexiteers who got everything they demanded but are still deeply bitter, unhappy, and keen to blame anyone but themselves for Brexit chaos. Brexcusers? Brexistentialists?

In case you missed it this week - this is the difference a Labour Government makes.

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The Artist Formerly Known As Prince

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

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"It is striking that Calgie’s apology went down far worse with the population of X than his original offence. Perhaps the conservative soul has changed. But if the right’s problem is ideological hygiene, then perhaps it’s because it’s swimming in an open sewer."

Any time one of those fake foreign British nostalgia accounts starts banging on about the 50s, send them this wonderful interview with Don McCullin, and his description (familiar to me from the 70s) of how brutal London was in the 50s www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Counterpoint: at this stage they're probably stuffed regardless, the moral imperative is to stop thinking about 2029 and just bloody well govern