Thanks to all the charlatans, quacks and fools who've allowed measles to reach my child's secondary school in London

Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

Need a distraction? Watch my country self make babkas why not

French embassy only serving water and juice to attendees until the evening's speeches are over, a misunderstanding of what Brits look for in a drinks reception of such proportions that I can only assume the declaration of war will come overnight

"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere." www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

‘Perhaps one way of resolving President Trump’s claim to Greenland would be to give him Rockall instead.’ As a long-time Shipping Forecast listener- who knew? emptycity.substack.com/p/when-the-u...

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

I remain awestruck that you can be chief WH correspondent of the New York Times while apparently accepting the version of history that you were taught in grade school in the 1970’s

This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.

Choosing your #Coloniser. An inportant watch re #Greenland I think some folks are misunderstanding the magnitude of this moment. An #Inuit woman aligns herself with #peopleofcolour and reminds us that they too watch world dynamics of discrimination & #Racism youtube.com/watch?v=DMPe...

Today I wrote about a dangerous development that has not gotten the attention it deserves. JD Vance is building a prosecutorial office in the White House that will operate under his and Trump's direct control. Sign up to support Democracy Docket's work and access premium content. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

Today, the president of the United States said that multiple US senators should be put to death for treason and articles of impeachment have not been filed yet. This country is cooked. Done. Finished.

Falasteen Freed: Delivering Hope to Gaza chuffed.org/project/1573...

During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”

What the Frogs Know open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Since it is apparently up to self-appointed, middle-aged white British men to decide who truly is or is not British, I’ve decided Matt Goodwin isn’t.

Incredible artwork by @4nikkolas.bsky.social.

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

Exactly. And the delivery guy must have been terrified.

Last summer, the FBI set up a sting offering Tom Homan, the former acting director of ICE, $50,000 cash. He took it. Then, the Trump administration closed the investigation. trib.al/EuKcSra The Justice Department is being destroyed—slowly at first, and now all at once.

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

“We never in our wildest dreams would have expected a 75% slowing of clinical progression," None of the patients who have been treated are being identified, but one was medically retired and has returned to work Others in the trial are still walking despite being expected to need a wheelchair.

It was a quadruple sabotage. When the President of the United States was speaking, the room was filled with the sound of a racist convicted fraudster and proven sex offender ranting incoherent conspiracy theories. INQUIRY NOW. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Prime Minister's extraordinary and significant statement on MI5 misleading the High Court open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

So sorry Niall, always a human problem.

“Show me the man and I’ll find the crime” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This is it, Hollywood; the moment of truth. After years of showing up at award shows wearing pins and ribbons, you can finally make a real difference. No new work for Disney. No new work for CBS/Paramount. Reporters, ask everyone who works for Disney/Paramount why they support Trump.

On the alarming aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder.

I’ve condemned Kirk’s murder too often to count—and am told I’m on this list. So it isn’t a list of those who celebrated Kirk’s death, it’s a list of progressives who publicly engaged in some kind of wrongthink and now—for... reasons—need to be on a list only far-right political radicals can access.

hahahahaha every day I feel like I'm losing my mind

Help Mohammed's family survive the Gaza genocide chuffed.org/project/1422...

The parliamentary register of interests shows that Farage has made nearly £400,000 from GB News since August 2024, for c190 hours’ work. This suggests he is being paid more than £2,000 an hour by the news channel. All paid to Thorn In The Side Ltd owned solely by Farage 25% tax rather than HR

On Angela Rayner and tax law open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision

Nope, fuck this, sorry. People who don’t work hard also shouldn’t live in fear of being dragged to a concentration camp. Human rights are not about “the economy.”

Rohingya children at risk of forced child marriage as aid declines www.freedomunited.org/news/rohingy...

Goodbye Angelina - You Were One In A Billion open.substack.com/pub/niallhar...

Refreshingly brisk on farming & inheritance tax from Guy Singh-Watson, hitherto owner of Riverford Farm. Riverford, now owned by its employees, had a turnover of £113m in 2023-24 and made a profit of £5.7m. He’s been awarded farmer of the year by the BBC twice. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Help Mohammed's family survive the Gaza genocide chuffed.org/project/1422...

"...everything is going to be alright" open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

That’s a univervousity

Help for basic living costs for family trying to survive in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1422...

It’s a golden age for Cassandras.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.