Another baffling editorial decision by BBC News, claiming that a local crime story is bigger news than the jail sentence for a former president of a G8 nation

Ok, but this sounds great and exactly what the BBC should be doing

So is the 'attack on ICE' a false flag by the administration or then just lying about a racist's motives again

For reasons not worth going into I am coming up with titles of Eurovision winning songs changed to be about Reformation theologians, and the best one so far is Hard Knox Hallelujah

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

There's too many, but Choral Evensong, real ale, Britten, a good cup of tea being able to solve most problems, a roast beef and horseradish sandwich

Chris Mason is a waste of space pt. 94

John Major to the Conservative Party in 1992, get on the

This is an excellent and deeply depressing article

Just spent about an hour in Aachen Cathedral which has raced up the ranks as one of my favourite buildings in the world

I quite like immigration.

Find me the most German meal you can, no that's too German

This is all from the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, which is, fun fact, the only museum on the UNESCO World Heritage list. @salvey1.bsky.social is delighted to be able to tick this off, of course. Worth a visit and you can spend a couple of hours there.

wrote about this last year and sure I wasn't in any way the only one but imo people voting for populist politics in the 21st century *is* a sign that they do just have too much faith in institutions, as opposed to not enough - they want to have their little tantrum but assume things will just hold

On the Eurostar, which will never not be exciting and futuristic to me

Once again Orwell is horribly badly served his self-declared fans

Just saw a clip from Saturday's counter demo in London and people chanting 'Charlie's in a box', which is somewhat distasteful but also just strange, that we are so online that our reaction to British fascists is to talk about an American who hardly knew this country

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

Taken a random day off tomorrow, before we go on holiday on Friday, and the Picasso exhibition has just opened at Tate Modern, superb timing

Harold Shipman and I Talk Bedside Manners

An absolute classic from Melanie Phillips, 'we have to stop Tommy Robinson, he's giving my hatred of Muslims a bad name' www.thetimes.com/article/bd5d...

I think that what this guy said is unpleasant but I'm not sure that should stop him from being able to make a living Bob Vylan Dutch gig cancelled after frontman's comments about Charlie Kirk's death | UK News | Sky News share.google/arBjFNMWrov0...

“15m downloads a month and more than half their audience is under 35.” Good read on the success of The Rest Is History pod. Strikes me that mainstream broadcasters dumbing down history to “OMG #iconic” spoon-fed shite left a huge gap that they’re filling www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Injecting some levity by sharing one of my favourite memes of all time

The big social platforms are a nightmare these days, I have just been served an account - which I have no mutuals with - claiming that the Covid vaccine killed Ricky Hatton

This is extremely my experience, to the extent that my GoodReads is a solid barometer of my mental state

I chose Chaos with Ed Miliband and would do again

Why weren't these people arrested?

Freedom of speech

It is important to remember that no one believes in complete freedom of speech, thank goodness, but it is worth watching where people draw the line

A real deviation from my standard practice, something I think is really good, a new series of The Third Degree, which is a good, lightheaded quiz that seems to genuinely enjoy knowledge and friendly competition www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I'm not sure why but I just watched the highlights of the 2008 US Presidential election, it was a nice reminder of what that country could be, and a horrible contrast to what it is

I see that Barking and Dagenham has an official opposition on the council, following the defection of three councillors to the Greens

Has anyone broken the same world record more times than Duplantis broken the pole vault record?

Tim Davie is wrong about things, PT.94,994 BBC News - Eurovision has never been about politics, says BBC boss Tim Davie www.bbc.com/news/article...

Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong - on.ft.com/465iM1f via @FT Seeing @stephenkb.bsky.social call out the Unite the Kingdom rally for what it is so clearly and correctly is almost a relief after so much mealy mouthed language from others (looking at you Trevor Phillips)

About 18 months ago me and @raquelitae.bsky.social went to see Anyone But You (alternative title Views of Sydney), and by far the most entertaining thing about it was watching how angry it made her - so now I troll her with every mention of this extremely meh film

There's a lot of people sharing the clip of some of the attendees at the Fascist rally ordering Indian food, with a lol. But I feel these people are quite happy to see people of different races as service providers who they can still deny basic rights to

A lot of people these people seem to like recording their crimes on social media, so when are we going to arrest then

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.

It is clear then that the British government's position is, you can incite racial hatred, spread fear through the people of London, as long as there are enough of you

I've had a really nice day spent doing my hobby with good friends, it's nice to check in and see that the UK's descent towards fascist hellscape is continuing

This is now the only news story I'm following now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Left London, can report Surrey is pretty but infected by the fash

The details of the person accused of killing Charlie Kirk are worrying, it was an act of political violence it appears and accompanied by crude political statements - this is going to be used as a pretext to try and stop opposition to the Trump government

Iain Dale's recent series of podcasts about a range of dictators is just so revealing. If he's talking with someone about a leftist dictator, this is an unforgivable person, if it is a right wing dictator, well maybe it was harsh but they did it for good reason.

It is very interesting to me how something can be commonly known for years, decades even, and then one day it becomes a scandal. I find that a very odd aspect of the UK public sphere - is it the same in other countries?

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If you have ever had bad timing at least you aren't The Moldy Peaches, they released their debut album which included the NYC's Like a Graveyard...on September 11th 2001