once again I will say that the only person I've ever met who's been even worse in person than online was Toby Young

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · yesterday

Basically very, very few people are openly objectionable in person - but you are the totality of what you do and say, not just when you want people to like you and when you're around people you've decided worthy of respect.

So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇

If the PM is going to achieve this, then he needs to have some serious words with the Home Office. Kicking refugees out of Home Office accommodation with only a few weeks' notice and no support leaves thousands facing homelessness after a positive asylum decision www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I won’t abandon anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That’s my £442m promise | Andy Burnham

Today we begin our drive to get everyone in for Christmas. And it will be for local communities up and down the land to decide how best to do it, says prime minister Andy Burnham

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Thank you to everyone who has had a look at my website and placed an order. I’m definitely feeling more positive tonight. I can do this!

Matt Owen@mjowen174.bsky.social · 3d ago

My far, far better half @gailmyerscough.co.uk is having an incredibly tough month business-wise. Her website is full of amazing, stylish designs and it’d be great if you could visit her website and who knows, maybe even purchase something www.gailmyerscough.co.uk - if you could plse share this 👍👍

Struggling this Monday? Here is a schadenfreude dose to help you make it through the day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas specials cancelled after star breaks jaw

The sitcom's creator says he requires "immediate" surgery but hopes the show will return in 2027.

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9 shows in to my Edinburgh run and I’m still pleasantly surprised, and extremely grateful, that so many people are getting up for a show about the Kennedy assassination at 9:45 am

Feel like one question i always ask when reading stuff like this is: will the rich send their kids to trade school?

And it was also fun to spin one last You Make Me Feel, Dwight McNeil! 😂 Looking forward to chatting to you all again on Friday on Total Sport

Giulia Bould@giuliabould.bsky.social · last wk.

Lots of fun on Total Sport on BBC Radio Merseyside tonight & good debate on leadership in football, roles of managers v coaches & of course right-backs! I'll be back one more time on Friday at 6pm Tranmere fans you'll be getting extra content for the start of the League Two season🤍

This is one aspect of the problem. Litigants in person use AI to generate often excessively lengthy pleadings and submissions that can seem superficially plausible but which require to be sifted through minutely to identify what is real. It’s common for LiPs not fully to understand what they submit.

Matthew Holehouse@matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Public use of AI is doing weird, unpredictable and damaging things to the state. A dive into how Grok lawyering is upending the employment tribunals www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Re: pervert glasses. Should it occur to anyone that they might use them to film court or tribunal proceedings, don’t do that. It’s a criminal offence.

The best way to honour a writer who proudly wrote what they believed is to quote word for word exactly what they believed. Like this. ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/media/2010/j...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3w ago

Liddle's ex-colleagues find it easy to defend his mainstream journalism as a lark But a conscious effort to ignore what his Millwall-Monkey stuff revealed."Even the Jews were allowed to smoke at Auschwitz" was reported. His "niggermeat, not wogmeat" comments + most virulent sexist threads were not

So many people have no idea the full-on battles with the so-called 'welfare state' they are going to face when their parents get old. Loads of people are going to have to take early retirement just to look after their loved ones at this rate.

Gill O’Leary@gilloleary.bsky.social · 4w ago

NHS continuing care funding is NOT determined by diagnosis. NHS bodies will resist to their last breath funding anyone especially dementia as it opens the floodgates My Mum had Alzheimer’s and after 2 reviews I got CHC funding for her. It can be done but I had experience thru my work.

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Anna H@athenepallas.bsky.social · 4w ago

If the King in the North really wants to go full tilt at moving the centre of government operations, may I present the ideal seat for Parliament in the North?

Once upon a time, I bought a carpet I imagined I would see

I just can’t fathom an editor of any paper looking at that and going ‘so you haven’t put these extremely defamatory allegations to him? No worries, let’s get it printed’

Remember, libraries have to buy copies of books. The more times you check out and read a book the more likely the library will purchase more copies!

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 4w ago

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

I’m sure, if they were still alive, the people who died as a result would be very sympathetic.

It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.

Karl Whelan@karlwhelan.bsky.social · last mo.

Christ almighty. The British obsession with itemized “pay fors” for everything is insane. This is just really not how fiscal policy or government works anywhere functional.

KEEP GOING!! www.cambridge.org/news-and-ins... "Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals now fully open."

Cambridge reaches milestone as 75 percent of journal articles become open access

Cambridge University Press has reached a significant milestone in its transition to open access (OA), with 75 percent of its research articles to be published OA in 2026 and 50 percent of its journals...

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An exceptional piece of writing from @leanderalphabet.bsky.social that sums the whole World Cup up defector.com/fifa-got-wha...

Fair play to John Healey, who managed to time his 5.5-week break from government to coincide exactly with the World Cup

Brilliant. A friend of ours took her four year old shopping for school uniform - trousers, jumper, shirt, tie on a bit of elastic etc. They got back home, he tried it all on, looked in the mirror and said “mummy, why do I look like an old man”

I mean, Mahmood is literally the last person I'd have kept in their role

Ed Miliband: “My parents came here as Jewish refugees fleeing from the Nazis, and for them, Britain provided sanctuary and a beacon of hope in the fight against fascism”, adding that he would "carry that spirit, their spirit, into my work as foreign secretary". Have a word with Ms Mahmood, please

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

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The recent low point was having a beautifully-constructed introductory module abolished without our consent, followed by school managers presenting us with a ChatGPT-generated list of topics we could teach instead. Then they got angry that we weren’t impressed.

Wayne Rooney speaking for the entire world on the half time show. "I thought it was crap."

If they have to play a game that doesn’t matter, then “gloriously bonkers with ten goals” is EXACTLY the way to do it.

"When I grow up, I just want my siblings to luv me just as much." 🦌💖🐕 Rescued deer Benny lounging w/ his Golden Retriever siblings in a Missouri home. The deer & dogs frequently hike and explore the outdoors together. Benny loves relaxing on their dog bed. (Fr the "Brown Hiking Trails' account)