Currently looking up “milk chocolate coin” in my calorie counting app, which says all you need to know about how the new years diet is going

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www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Such a terrible idea, both on principle it is precisely what good aid and diplomacy should be for, but also short sighted as it will foster greater costs and pressures in the future.

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And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.

wtf are we doing here, guys www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I’m sorry but it is just not supposed to be this warm in November

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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

I am a big Mamdani fan but honestly I feel like Brad Lander is the (other) breakout star of this election

God love Kew, this is incredible

When fiscal circumstances allow

I cannot quite get over the level of self delusion here. Get her off the road before she kills someone!

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

Quite the change from a few years back when I got spat at and called “Tory scum” (I was representing an NGO…)

Am on my way back from Liverpool now and “cheery” is not the word I would use…

All this rubbish about paracetamol makes me SO CROSS because I know, however thoroughly it is debunked and however little pregnant women may think of Trump, lots of women will now suffer unnecessary pain as there will be a little voice in their head saying “but what if…”.

A few dyas ago I saw some graphs showing that public concern about migration bears little relation to overall immigration figures but *does* roughly track numbers of small boat/ irregular arrivals. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I will post this article every autumn until I die

This must be on the Lib Dem bingo card somewhere: person on the stage nominally speaking to a policy review motion but actually mainly discussing his PhD on Roman temples in ancient Syria

Ed Morello MP: “the best thing about the Liberal Democrats is that if you show us the data, you can change our mind. The worst thing about the Liberal Democrats is that we think if we show you the data, you’ll change yours…”

Looking for suggestions on the best way to brush up my very rusty French ahead of a couple of planned trips - is Duolingo any good, or are there podcasts / other apps etc that are better? Don’t mind paying a bit of money.

Just over halfway through what has turned into a FIVE HOUR train journey from Brighton to Bournemouth…

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Danny Kruger having a big role in Reform immediately takes them in a decidedly more anti-abortion direction. Implausible he'd have jumped without discussions on that point

Mondaying pretty hard over here - my Mac somehow managed to save over a dense 8 page document I'd been working on for weeks with the booking form for my daughter's pottery club. Turns out icloud does *not* save previous versions of documents...

I spent much of yesterday at the Tommy Robinson march. I couldn’t find a way to write about it that didn’t sound contentious and maybe even condescending – so I didn’t try. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

Today would be a very good day for the UK govt to delete its accounts on X.

Some of this is genuinely shocking even now. Playboy ran nude pictures of Brooke Shields when she was TEN?!?

I’ve been in lovely Newcastle today helping academics to get their brilliant research into the media. These are some of my favourite work days! Always open to new clients, you know where I am 🙌🏻

Also the first time the three great offices of state (FCDO, Home, CX) have all been held by women at the same time.

I’ve read this about five times now and well up every time. May we all strive to be a Miss Webster in the world

I think this is it. Despair is easy and you get to feel wise, and it doesn't really place any obligations on you or force you to speak out or do anything, really.

Soad is in an area that's under threat from the Israeli army now. She's really scared. She's always having to move. @mommunism.bsky.social if there's any chance you could help boost? And if anyone has a spare £$ to give to Soad's campaign, that would be amazing. Thank you all. #FreePalestine

I think if I were a newspaper or say a hugely mandated prime minister of a rich and powerful country I might make this the story but what do I know

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Farage is content with allowing people to be murdered and tortured. I'm not on that side and never will be.

My three year old’s favourite song to listen to at bedtime currently is Building Song by Duggee and the Squirrels - strong recommend, it goes pretty hard for a kids’ track share.google/2pjPMDtKKPFP...

John Bolton said re Ukraine/Trump, “a land swap is also a people swap, you are condemning people to live under an authoritarian regime.” It’s so important people understand this. Land is where people live. Ukrainians living under occupation suffer violence & oppression & war crimes. They matter.

Or maybe just remember that you live in Brighton, and continue on with your day.

Oh this is fun. I *think* it’s N: St Petersburg, Russia E: Dhaka, Bangladesh W: Penticton, Canada S: Blantyre, Malawi

Silly little texts like this a massive part of what a long term relationship actually consists of. At this point you’re basically married to the AI

Had to delete and reinstall WhatsApp as it was frozen on my aged iphone and it seems my last backup was in.... 2022. Phone absolutely full of ancient messages/ groups with no recent ones I actually need - if you haven't backed up for a while DO IT NOW

Whatever PR managed to get "car finance industry not keen on proposals that they pay loads of compensation" as a top story on BBC news and included in all the music radio roundups deserves a raise