Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

This is a great article 🤣 alpacas & shenanigans - what is there not to like. 'The Chepstow Labour member said: "Tents are naturally not soundproofed so any shenanigans going on inside will be heard in the wider vicinity."' www-walesonline-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.wale...

Our kids would be safer if they'd banned Land Rovers instead of Instagram.

Our road is shut in the middle and it is so so nice. No arseholes hairing up the road with their illegal exhaust modifications. No commuters shaving 1 minute of their journey by rat running. Just for 3 days & I wish it was forever.

This is an incredibly detailed blog by Michael Rosen documenting his actions against hateful Labour Against Antisemitism directors who not only threatened his reputation but also his (& his family's) safety michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/two-... You have stand up against bullies ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿

Remembering waking to the terrible news of the Grenfell fire and meeting people living and working in the shadow of the tower who felt so unheard. It’s devastating nine years on, that people still face fire risks and justice for Grenfell’s corporate and regulatory failures remains unresolved.

I think once you resign yourself to the fact that you are walking/cycling/driving in a city (Birmingham) that has some of the most dangerous & lazy drivers in the world, things are suddenly a lot better for you. Counter-intuitive I know but when you accept that you're in a war zone you survive.

My first in a series of World Cup collages for @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

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Tory Legacy 1980 onwards govts sold council homes at deep discounts. Many tenants sold cheaply acquired houses. Some made profit of £200,000+ 41% of the 2.8m houses cheaply sold now let in the private market Home ownership down from 71% in 2003 to 64.5% now. Social housing in deep crisis.

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali. The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Jeez. Just listened to Juliet Lamont's experience as an Israeli prisoner after being illegally abducted by the IDF as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Appearing on the Katie Harper show, Juliet recounted the torture & rape & administering of unknown drugs 2 flotilla members youtu.be/5RX-voB7KjI

This is a great simple cake recipe. Just pimped it by adding thinly cut chunks of rhubarb (1/4 to 1/2 inch) covered in flour so they don't sink to the bottom www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/lemo...

So, 'Last of us' wasn't too far off the mark ☠️

Morning all Photographer Edwin Smith, Whitby roofscape 1959.

Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. The IDF burn people alive. Israel needs to be TOTALLY economically isolated. Download apps like 'No Thanks' so you can avoid funding genocide nothanks.vercel.app

You can't please all of the people all of the time. You shouldn't please all of the people all of the time faroutmagazine.co.uk/five-musicia...

STOP BRITAIN FIRST IN BRUM SATURDAY 20 JUNE Follow the link below for - latest info, - full list of supporting organisations, - ⁠petition, - RSVP: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stop-fasci...

Times are difficult but I feel we should take inspiration from this plucky spud

Incredible performance by David Byrne on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! Dance, Stephen, Dance!

Mills Observatory and the Tay Bridge, Dundee. Pic: Brighthook Media

Donnie Dania took this brilliant photo in 2025. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Goodnight

What the hell are we doing letting genocide enablers Black Rock anywhere near our social housing sector? www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Evidence of Black Rocks support of Israel's military operations here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

They should just keep making the car park bigger. As André Gorz said back in 1973, "If the car is to prevail, there’s still one solution: get rid of the cities."

Love the variety of language you hear on Radio 4 in the morning ❤️ In conversation with an academic discussing why Tyrannosaurus rex had small arms, it was partly down to not needing larger ones due to T rex's extreme 'cranial robusticity'.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

'You Blew Me Away' sculpture by Penny Hardy #womensart

Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b

Really saddened to see the impact of increasingly divisive politics on people living in and contributing to our usually welcoming, inclusive and diverse city. Seeing and recognising the real harm stemming from division could be a crucial first step in us all standing together in firm resistance.

The time has come to proscribe Raise the Colours as a terrorist organisation. No ifs. No buts. They are a violent terrorist threat to our communities and need to be treated as such by the authorities.

Why are these Raise the Colours thugs allowed to behave on British streets like this with impunity, harassing and attacking locals like this? Almost a year of this! Oxfordshire banned them from spreading their flag measles. High time Birmingham followed suit. It's just monetised racist thuggery

Record number of UK people turning to crowdfunding to cover rent and household bills. Average real wage hardly changed since 2008. Millions rely on food banks. Healthy life expectancy shrinking. Record number of billionaires. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

How the local government numbers stand after the May 2026 elections: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Being tailgated this morning through a small village made me realise that an underreported benefit of the UK's 20mph limit is that you can legally inconvenience society's worst people for free.

🧵It's been like after lie, betrayal after betrayal, from the beginning of Keir Starmer's leadership. Just dug up a post I shared just after his election as party leader in 2021:

Not surprised the mental health of our country is on the floor. Got a PCN 1st thing today for parking in what I thought was a legal parking space almost a month ago. On a mercy mission to get meds for my dad on a Saturday night. There's too many parasites in this country ready to ambush you.

People REALLY need to know what they're voting for. This should have been on billboards across the land & an ad on every social media post clicked on.

I am reminded of Elmer the elephant by the Birmingham political map of 2026 though the quite positive patchwork of harmony message of that storybook may be challenging to emulate in city local politics

Just watching Chris Bryant on BBC local elections coverage crying crocodile tears over how vituperative politics has become. Chris Bryant, a parliamentary supporter of Labour Friends of Israel & a key attack dog against Jeremy Corbyn & former Labour Party members like myself who were hatefully

Zack Polanski said the police shouldn't kick people in the head, Nigel Farage took a secret 5 million pound bribe. Have a guess who the British Press are hammering

Just 56 people hold more than the combined wealth of 27m Britons. They can buy politicians/govts. The poorest half holds just 4.6% of the wealth Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't build good society without equitable distribution of wealth.

"If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us" David Attenborough Hard to believe that he is 100 in four days... If you live a good life, you live a long one 🧡 2026

The government knows our marches for Palestine are made up of all faiths and none. The are suppressing our hard-fought right to protest for one reason: to hide their complicity in genocide. Israel’s occupation must end. Until then, our movement for peace isn’t going anywhere.

Urine Trouble Jeff! Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is chairing the Met Gala THIS Monday. His own workers sued him for being forced to piss in bottles. So while the Met gets ready for his glitzy do, we delivered them OVER 300 bottles of piss* 😘 *Fake piss, obvs. Only Jeff’s into the real stuff.

Good. A review now needed by the CPS & the police as to why it has taken so long to press charges. Lessons need to be learnt to avoid putting other families & friends through the torment the families impacted have suffered www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Just listening to former Conservative prime minister John Major being interviewed on Radio 5 Live. What a decent & reflective individual. A politician driven by principle & personal experience. I'm a socialist btw. Well worth listening to.

We must think about the mainstreaming of reactionary politics in a radically intersectional manner An otherisation process successfully implemented with a particular community (Muslims or migrants) can then more easily expand to others (disabled, trans etc) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Whilst preparing a barbecue yesterday afternoon I spotted a small piece of hard white material as I was clearing the area for the 1st time this year. It was a small piece of white asbestos. If you live in an older house with a garden do keep your eyes peeled. I'll be taking this to our recycling

In the street earlier and a car drives past with the window open. Really strong smell of skunk. A reminder that deaths & serious injuries caused by drug driving now exceed those caused by drink driving ☠️