This is, in part (as well as the points you raise in that thread) because the Internet is also much more full of literal children than you expect. Yes, even Bluesky, the minimum age to be here is 13.

oh yeah I have fulfilled a childhood dream by writing a column for the latest DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE, MOTHERFUCKERS

just came across a thread elsewhere in which someone said that most jobs required social skills and a thousand people started yelling at her that this was oppression 👍

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

“I grew up in care, not prison. I say it like a fact, like my phone number, recited without thinking. But none of that matters, because they want an answer. ‘So, what did you do wrong?’” This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social

Still not on fire based on the livestream. 🤞 (I bought a small Swedish straw goat a few years ago and put it out with lights on it every year.)

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GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

not the headline i know but the way Chris Worrell was a fierce Labour man until the second they got into office then switched sides is kind of incredible

The right wing British politics twitter reaction/the policy. I wish I was making this up.

NEWSLETTER! This week: a long weekend on the Øresund; and mansion tax map. But first: Christmas comes early, and THAT IS GOOD

NEWSLETTER! This week: a long weekend on the Øresund; and mansion tax map. But first: Christmas comes early, and THAT IS GOOD

about to sign a batch of books. BUT DON'T PANIC IF YOU'VE NOT ORDERED YOURS! am coming back next week for round 2

See also: at planning committee only 2 members of public can speak in favour but unlimited objectors are allowed (Wiltshire)

oh my GOD

Countless things wrong with Labour's pandering to the right but one, as we can see, is that the right will hate them with a demented fury regardless of what they do so one would be wise not to invite the hatred of the left (very broadly defined) as well. I've never understood that strategy

“The government only started tracking immigration figures in 1964. For the next two decades, net migration was consistently negative.” This week's New World column is a brief history of migration to the UK.

“I grew up in care, not prison. I say it like a fact, like my phone number, recited without thinking. But none of that matters, because they want an answer. ‘So, what did you do wrong?’” This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social

LOVE THIS

OH MY GOD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican...

if I asked why I keep seeing people talking about the Falklands, would I regret it, or

The artificial island where The Bridge becomes The Tunnel is named Peberholm, to complement the preexisting island of Saltholm, which lies next door. Something thematically appropriate I released from the paywall while in Copenhagen

Thinking about it, we never did find out what Fenchurch was doing in that cafe in Rickmansworth, did we

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I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on. Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.

got my friend back

In 2017 I travelled round the world by train and every single one ran, every connection was made. Until I got back to London and Thameslink was shut.

"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down" uk politics in a nutshell

AND it’s the 59th anniversary of the first appearance of the Gävle Goat, which has been erected every year since and only burnt down a mere 42 times. More on that from @jonnelledge.bsky.social

He wasn't actually due to resign until an hour later

For all that has happened since, my Joker moment on UK politics media remains Boris taking office and immediately breaking every single red line he had laid down on Northern Ireland to accept a deal that had been on the table for years, then being hailed as a visionary who proved the doubters wrong

Millionaire Tory frontbencher Robert Jenrick billed the taxpayer £24,587.67 in rent expenses in 2024/25 for his constituency home in Newark, Notts His monthly claim is 77% higher than the average privately rented four-bed home in the Newark and Sherwood local authority area

Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

The artificial island where The Bridge becomes The Tunnel is named Peberholm, to complement the preexisting island of Saltholm, which lies next door. Something thematically appropriate I released from the paywall while in Copenhagen

I should at least glance at the possibility that it’s less about the technology itself than it is about my own inexorable journey towards the grave. But I don’t actually believe that one second, because here are all the real and important reasons that AI makes my teeth itch.

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"The PM wanted today to talk about... benefits reform and the UK's relationship with the EU and about regulation, which were interesting in and of themselves, but all of the questions were about the pre-budget process." A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive

There is also a very good chance she blames shadowy left-wing forces for not letting her join Reform

I feel like we're moving closer to the inevitable day when Liz Truss announces she's defected to Reform, and Reform frantically spins that she absolutely has not

I should at least glance at the possibility that it’s less about the technology itself than it is about my own inexorable journey towards the grave. But I don’t actually believe that one second, because here are all the real and important reasons that AI makes my teeth itch.

this, but for Jonathan Gullis defecting to Reform

I am consistently amazed the Building Safety Regulator isn’t a much bigger story. It’s brought house building in London to a total halt, but it’s also brought cladding remedy works to a halt, too. Which is costing leaseholders FORTUNES, halting sales, and leaving people living in unsafe buildings.

the big problem with holidays is that they end

What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.

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the one thing we didn't want to happen

bit on the nose that my perfect holiday in Copenhagen and largely smooth journey back has made it as far as Ealing, at which point a GWR train broke causing the Elizabeth line to collapse

waiting to board a plane home so can now confirm: Copenhagen? it's *extremely* good

What a great headline

smart family this