The two top stories on BBC Breakfast right now are 1) compulsory digital ID and 2) massive nursery cyber hack.

All the Antifa my grandad fought with in 1944.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

When trans folk say organisations like Sex Matters (which have the ear of govt ministers) want to ‘eliminate trans people’ I know that sounds febrile/alarmist. But the fact is they simply want to make transition illegal/impossible. I would not be alive today if I could not have transitioned.

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public. Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

#HeaviesGB update … nearly there on this tribute to the famous Lady Be Good Liberator D … waiting on Airfix to send me replacement props + a bit more tidying and weathering to do … I think I’m getting better at this … #HistScaleModels #ScaleModels

Is it really supposed to be called a ‘Brit Card’? 😬

Evan Charlton was closely associated with Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden, a virtuoso at capturing everyday scenes and little details from English provincial life. This work (1944) depicts a couple of 'canal girls,' who transported vital goods on the canal system during WW2.

Deeply, deeply sad about the death of Danny Thompson. I met him just as I was starting out playing solo and he was unbelievably encouraging. He gave me a press quote for my first album that I've used ever since, and got me the biggest tour of my life... (1/*)

It's now close to 54,000 signatures! ❤️ Keep sharing and spread our letter even further....

I know everything seems awful right now, but this is an INCREDIBLE breakthrough and such good news.

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

I’m slightly bewildered by this Palestine Action thing. What they did is, in my view, wrong/bad and attacks on the UK RAF fleet are v serious, but why is it framed as terrorism rather than serious criminal damage? (Perhaps I just reveal my legal ignorance here)

Don’t miss this splendid BBCRadio4 reading of 1 of Philip Roth’s best—& eerily prescient—later novels. The ‘alternative history’ The Plot Against America www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Just a reminder that the same man who stood at the UN yesterday and called climate change "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world", also cited climate change in a planning application for works needed to protect his golf course #ClimateChangeIsReal www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A good day to recall when Ron DeSantis was going around with such massive heel lifts that photos of him appeared to be taken mid-Rapture.

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Any recommendations on current quality ‘big, fat PBY’ kits (as Quint might put it) out there, ideally in 1/48? #ScaleModels #HistScaleModels

Full text of prime minister's statement on the recognition of a Palestinian state www.gov.uk/government/s...

Today is Mocking Jane Austen day, when people dress up in Regency outfits to celebrate the sleazy pushy Bath she hated.

It’s already at almost 80k. Won’t take much to get it over 100k. We can get more specific about our objections later (for example, the issue of gender markers), but might as well have an out and out “NO” as a starting point!

#HeaviesGB progress update … I may not have any propellers at the moment but this Liberator project is coming together… and no tail-sitter either!! #HistScaleModels

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety. Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name. Will you join them? notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

A master plan to exterminate trans people would have this document as a stepping stone. It is from the Far Right Heritage Foundation - who Labour Ministers have chosen to meet.

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social. Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

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Today the Church of England remembers Theodore of Tarsus, second Archbishop of Canterbury, who had never set foot in these isles before being appointed, and who had to learn the local tongue on the journey here. There would be no British Christianity without immigrants.

This is clown car stuff. Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excellent stuff. And yes, Alien 3 is a staggeringly underrated film.

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

ALAAARRRMM!!! Loads of people have been asking where they can get their hands on a NMTD t-shirt, like the one Jane wore at We Have Ways Fest last weekend. We are delighted to announce we now have MERCH!! Never Mind the Dambusters Merchandise is now available at never-mind-the-dambusters.teemill.com

One of the best GOP impersonations ever?

I’ve been loving this Liberator build until I’ve come to the propellers … am I losing it or do these all seem to be of random sizes?!? #HeaviesGB #HistScaleModels

I know we’re all on tenterhooks about when the new EHRC Code of Practice will be laid in Parliament. As it can only be laid on a “sitting” day, almost certainly this will now be after conference recess. The first sitting day after that is 13th October. Then it’s laid for 40 sitting days. So—😅 1/

I shall be watching Sneakers as my tribute to Robert Redford. A terrific film. I shall be taking no questions at this time.

In the spirit of encouraging groups that take the decision to withdraw from X, do please give @glosdioc.bsky.social a follow if you have an interest in Christianity or the church.

All the firms I have advised have now understood that this is "guidance" and they don't have to follow it. The law does not require you to provide spaces that are inclusive only of "biological sex". Carry on as before.

The Spectator is just a few columns away from endorsing Advance UK

Fantastic work here by @transsolidarity.bsky.social, highlighting the ridiculous burden the EHRC’s new Code of Practice would place on UK business, forcing them into trans-exclusionary practices that are “incompatible with modern business values”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

As I have said before, once you turn 70 in the UK you automatically Lived Through the Blitz

Today is Battle of Britain Day, so here's some photos to help folks remember that all sorts of people in all sorts of roles and all sorts of aircraft defeated Fascism in 1940. #WW2 #History

My husband and I just celebrated 22 years together, which is longer than both of Nigel Farage's mixed-sex marriages combined.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Might want to google ‘first hand experience’