He'd have to be convicted first to be pardoned. And to be honest if all I can get is that bastard actually convicted & this endless endless trial coming to a conclusion, even without him actually doing jail time, then I'll take it

Labour have increased public spending on services by £69.5 billion in the last budget. There has been an increase in capital spending, public sector pay, benefits & day to day spending. To imply that they haven’t is a simple barefaced lie.

Looking at this graph and wonder if something else might be going on beyond 'poor quality leader'

The true leader of sane Israel, this guy's mom. A real Colours Revolutionary. (The colour in question is "bring back the hostages" yellow in case you weren't aware)

It's just incredible to me how little attention Elizabeth Tsurkov's long captivity in Iraq has had from the international left. This woman dedicated her life to doing research in Arab politics to foster understanding, & for years raised awareness of the suffering of Syrian dissidents. Crickets.

"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%" on.ft.com/4p1NoHv

Two things can be true: the people at the top of the Labour party don't understand media (they're lawyers & economists, not PR guys like Cameron or journos like Johnson & Gove - which I thought we said we wanted?), & they DO understand that going hard on this would be picking a fight with Trump.

I object to the Ben Gvir led passage in preliminary Knesset vote of capital punishment for terrorists. But Hamas condemning it as a violation of humanitarian law and human rights is a bit rich.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

"Men & women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social & spiritual price it extracts from men is higher [...] women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid & ignored & dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men [...] never will be."

I know these things are only making national headlines because people are fascinated by all things Reform, even (or especially) their cock-ups, but I harbour a timorous hope that these stories will make people appreciate the importance of local government a bit better.

Reform are the first party that (1) only work when you plug them into the polls (2) are shorted out by the polls. Product recall needed.

What a preventable tragedy caused by a disinformation grievance industrial complex. Shameful.

Sweden is #7 in the world in number of billionaires per capita. The UK is somewhere in the 20s. Some socialism.

If you report on things that are true your organisation gets decapitated, but if you let people invent racist drivel on air you're fine. Every single aspect of our information ecosystem is so, so broken.

"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."

I guess Peter Mandelson is looking for a gig?

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

I simply do not believe they would have resigned if it was a misleading claim about someone on the left. How is this different to the HIGNFY claims about digital ID a few weeks ago? The BBC literally laughed it off.

The fact the BBC Director General, who is a former conservative candidate, is resigning for being "too woke" over some cooked up Trumpist nonsense is quite a stark reminder of the drivers behind the current media environment.

It's interesting how when Nigel Farage says idiotic things like this, they sound menacing, but when Polanski says them they just sound very very silly

As he fled the Sudanese city of El-Fasher in terror, Hassan Osman said he saw ethnic attacks by paramilitary forces, with civilians targeted for their tribe and skin color. u.afp.com/Sn3G

Luxury beliefs for people in luxury. If I owned a house in Clifton I might be comfortable leaving nuclear disarmament to Putin's good will too.

I wonder if this partially explains the fact that I got sub-£500 flights to Israel for the first time since the pandemic. US based Israelis not using their holiday break to travel to Israel/American Jews not coming to Israel for Hannukah in the usual numbers?

Our expectations were low but fucking hell. "The Irish", is it bsky.app/profile/ciar...

And I want Friday's euromillions jackpot and a kitten, let's see how it goes for us both.

Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies! www.bbc.com/news/article...

The more the media pursue the Government for yet another mishap within a public organisation, the more I realise the total shitshow inherited by Labour was worse than we could possibly have known - because the media didn't do anything like their job for at least 9 years.

I gave up & bought a metal poppy this year, so I haven't lost any poppies *or* stabbed myself with a pin, & frankly it makes me feel like a traitor.

Jesus fuck, these people are fighting to defend Europe from its own stupidity, & we're making them do crowd funders for equipment. I'm so ashamed.

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders. “At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

The common thread between the Orban, Trump, Farage, etc. is that they’re taking their supporters for a ride. Sure, they hold the repugnant values their voters like, but their main motivation is personal enrichment. They don‘t care a jot about ‘the people‘, they just want a palace made of gold.

God that's annoying 😠 I've had my teeny-tiny overnight wheeled case taken off me & lost before, while others were allowed to bring enormous suitcases on top of large backpacks into the cabin. It's so inconsistent, as well as being inefficient.

And yet people are still saying that decarbonisation is impossible.

"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse" From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

Here's the BBC very much living up to its "these days" reputation by (rightly) making the point about Watson's racism and sexism while not able to notice or bothering to mention the antisemitism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have you *seen* how men are with vending machines?

Honestly if Putin can fall out with Lavrov then that must be the beginning of the end. This consummate bastard has been the rock of Russian foreign policy for years.

Q: What did Crick and Watson discover? A: Rosalind Franklin's notes

This is an incredibly positive angle on Britain, and doesn't feel unrealistic to me. Like many countries, it's maintaining a lot of strengths despite its politicians www.economist.com/britain/2025... From The Economist

That's not a bad definition actually.

It's important to separate the concept from how it shows up on TikTok. Emotional labour is when a friend's husband said he's leaving her, but when his dad died it became obvious he hadn't told his side of the family, so she had to sit down & write to his relatives to break the news of his decision.

A new wave of politicians are engaged in open race-baiting. But the appetite for hatred is more limited than they imagine ✏️ @sonia-sodha.bsky.social

Calling a lid on the Mamdani discourse. The discourse is now over. Takes are over. Next subject please.

In yet more 'why is Britain pursuing net zero when no one else is', India's electricity capacity is now over 50 per cent low carbon and it just saw peak renewables generation deliver half the country's power. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521481...

It's really something out of a dark fairytale.