The number of small boat entries has dropped. Fact. There will always be refugees; this is a certainty. Fact. I don’t understand how the Enochian narrative of “waves of savages” hasn’t been stopped dead now. It’s laughable.
Tom Hawkins
@nekomatic.bsky.social
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Broadly speaking it seems like the key question for whether a working-class pupil does well as school is if their parent wants them to have a better life than they do or more or less the same sort of life. And families with a migration background mostly did so for a better life, so...
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
act.38degrees.org.uk
If your business processes are not simple and consistent with clear governance, then the most efficient approach is internal staffing. Not because it is efficient in itself, but because networking and institutional knowledge are your only hope at stopping things becoming too inefficient.
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
For some reason, this video that I posted years ago is going viral on Twitter right now and has been seen more than 32 million times. You should see it too.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y agoI will never get tired of my favorite traffic-calming device.
Throughout her career, her work also focused on liberating men from these fear-based emotional stigmas; the beliefs that are constantly trying to force boys and men into narrow, conformist, emotionally stifling boxes. Pls check it out; subscribe & share: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/gloria-ste...
Gloria Steinem was a Hero to Men, Too.
She proved that feminism is good for Real Men; even if the word itself terrifies weak men.
johnfugelsang.substack.com
There’s a good reason Reform is falling in the polls, and Farage is the largest part of that reason. He’s going down. We’re going to push him there.
More cats than dogs participated in Operation NEPTUNE, better known to the world as the "D-Day landings"
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 5d agoTell me a fun fact.
Liberal democracy lives and dies on the rule of law. The failure to uphold it towards fascist criminal thugs is lethal.
How to visit an art museum with someone who isn't used to visiting art museums:
A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.
This is where pandering to racists and ‘listening’ to ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration has led us. This is why Starmer was *so* wrong, and Mahmood is *so* wrong. We should have taken a stand long ago. Burnham needs to right now.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6d agoZia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this)
I recently interviewed a traveller from an antique land. Their experience in arid environments with sizable, defunct monumental sculpture (sans torso) stuck with me. While they didn't get the position, here's three key takeaways they taught me about the fleeting nature of earthly power 👇
Don't let my dive into the regulations put anyone off. Today is a good step forward. But buyers need to know some crucial information, and they're being let down so far bylinetimes.com/2026/08/27/t...
The Small Print Ministers Left Out of the Plug-In Solar Announcement
A single company currently holds a monopoly on compliant devices, and planning restrictions, renter protections and grid registration rules have barely been mentioned
bylinetimes.com
Just heard @rory-stewart.bsky.social on @therestpolitics.bsky.social say that "we [the UK] still consume more carbon than we have ever done—we just have the t-shirts made in China". I've heard this point being made elsewhere recently too. And it is simply not true.
Ironically, sickle cell anaemia is a good example of the problems of reducing issues to racial categories. Because African Americans and Britons of Caribbean origin suffer disproportionately from the trait… 1/
Don’t read if: you want all loose ends neatly tied up by the last page Do read if: you have any acquaintance with Scotland in the rain
I get so sick of being told that there has been no gender-based prejudice against women musicians. So here are some genuine reviews written about women, between 1893 & 2021, with a couple words/letters changed to make them about men.
welcome to britain, bangers are sausages but also second hand cars and also good songs, good luck out there
Orange you glad I'm here to point out how grocery stores use deceptive optical illusions to get you to buy produce? badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-optical... 🧪
An optical illusion that’s ripe for the picking
Deceptive package coloring fools the eye
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
