“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

Is Barney Ronay actually OK? Someone really ought to check. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

All to please a wannabe king who is demented and thrives on violence.

If we are settling scores with the Trump/Musk-curious, I'm putting this one out there. www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

@stephenkb.bsky.social just read Inside Politics today. I must be being slow. But I find it hard to follow you roundly rejecting “The UK should recognise the rules of the world have changed” option (which includes siding with the EU), but endorsing “Form an alliance with democratic middle powers”

*Trump shits himself and uses his turds to try and build a ladder to the moon so that he can “meet the moon people, very good people”* Justin Webb, sagely: “Ah yes, the art of the deal”

I want a hot take and I want it now.

When are people going to be held accountable for the nonsense slop and puff they emit.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

Only one way to find out

This guy? Mkay.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Trump says X & others disagree Typical false balance — as if (with all the evidence available to us) both sides have equal weight Trump and his regime are clearly lying. Report the truth "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"

I will never apologize for a post

Watching University Challenge - it is so unsurprising that Paul Johnson did (OK, ‘read’) PPE.

Boxing Day with fewer/no top flight fixtures could be a new lower/non-league day. Lots of more affordable local games for people to attend wherever they're spending Christmas.

I hope Santa 🎅 brings millions and millions of bicycles to kids all over the globe. 🌍

I’m not sure that the author of this piece is taking an entirely neutral stance on which model will succeed www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ordinarily I’m against the sort of government agricultural support programmes that buy output from producers at high prices and dump it at a loss on the open market. In this case however

What exactly is wrong with: "Excited to be at the annual widget conference in Slough to hear an inspiring keynote speech from our wonderful CEO" ?

sometimes I think about how, well within my lifetime, the most popular newspaper in the UK used to regularly and legally print pictures of topless 16-year olds on page 3.

Latest in the series of ‘out and about in squalid, crime ridden, Inner London’. The reservoir yesterday afternoon in Stoke Newington.

Oh no. Lee Dixon. Happiness sponge.

legend. we all like to think we'd do the right thing but it sounds like this guy did www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

it's a K-shaped economy, apparently, which am taking to mean you need to be on K to make any sense of this at all

The City of London Nocturne will bring UCI-sanctioned night racing to the UK in June 2026, with men’s and women’s Pro Criterium events planned under the lights of the capital. thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/11/03/c...

Done

- I'm going to analyse the Welsh by-election result - Caerphilly? - Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes

Great to see this cross-community response to Mr Jenrick

My word Gary Neville likes to moan about footballers doing things better than he was ever able to do them.

Just so we are clear. There is nothing wrong with being trans or autistic. Don't give an inch on that

The world needs more Freddie Flintoffs. So many more.

Only yesterday I was showing LondonCentric to someone as an example of why the future of the media isn't all bleak. This really is great stuff, week in, week out.

are they basically old hippies? all hippies are terrible

Me: "Finished that statue of the vagina mary that you asked for" Priest: "You mean the virgin mary" Me: Priest: Me: yeah

I used to be the only fucker on a bike here..

I think they are going to go with an AI trained on Melvyn Bragg data.

This is my flag.

No paywall on this one. Fill yizzer boots!

Trump isn't a Russian agent. He's an attention seeking fool. And the amount of resources being taken up worldwide managing him is obscene.

It's a measure of how much the Evening Standard gave up on proper reporting that, until the advent of @thelondoner.bsky.social and @londoncentric.media, I had never heard of Asif Aziz, let alone begun to understand what a baleful influence he is on the capital. www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-th...

60 seconds reflection on how much riding my bike means to me, how grateful I am for the health to continue to ride and how much I’ll with luck continue to in 2025. Thank you to all those who contribute to bike culture in any way shape or form. There is always a new path 🚲❤️ .

Special place in hell for those drivers who try and skip past everyone who pulled over for a passing ambulance.

Here, have something mesmerising for a Sunday evening. “He is not appreciated.” youtu.be/fx7x8km8d-c?...