Weird watching the right-wing columnist cohort try to collectively pull the handbrake on ethnonationalism. Like the world's biggest hotdog man convention.

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British columnists love getting everything they wanted and still moaning about it

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

While fires rage in large parts of Europe incl UK, farmers face crop failure and livestock loss, every RefUK or Tory politician on the news must be challenged on their "let's do away with costly net zero nonsense" stance, side-by-side with live images of the cost of inaction. Expose the charlatans.

Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare." It's a very good line.

The voices of people living in rural Wales often go unheard – the Older People’s Commissioner wants to change that. Share your experiences of growing older in rural Wales to help influence policy and support positive change. Get in touch here: olderpeople.wales/rural-voices/

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I think we're all ready for The Muppet Odyssey.

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A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that | Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong

The Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should, say actors led by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumb...

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I was just as excited to listen to this episode as I was to see the film itself, and it didn’t disappoint. What a fascinating conversation about the themes of The Odyssey and the compromises involved in adapting it into a three-hour film. It flew by and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Thank you!

Alex Andreou's Podyssey@alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 4w ago

🆕 ODD-POD: 🐴 A Deep Dive into Chris Nolan's Odyssey 🏛️ The one you've been waiting for. Every shot. Every choice. Every moment. Every controversy. What was in. What wasn't. All the experts. A review almost as long as the film. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4WtT...

L - and I want to make this very clear - MAO

Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts

Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds

Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report

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Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime

Sack her, bin her policies, eject her into the outer darkness. The worst case of Home Office brain I’ve ever seen

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since PM resigned, Home Office blitzing media 1030pm nightly Thursday: "Govt ramps up use of military barracks to house asylum seekers" + Home Sec tells No 10 Immig Minister should be sacked. Friday: New safe routes to save asylum system Tonight: "Asylum seekers to pay towards accomodation costs"

haven’t seen it this pride month yet so reposting rn, gm all

Great thread

Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Contains a personally put-together megamix of Farage's HORROR media rounds this week, plus detailed analysis* * me, laughing to Farage, until a bit of wee comes out

Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW EPISODE: Andy Man’s Cabinet Making 🦄 Our fantasy pics for the top jobs 🫠 Farage’s media meltdown 🎨 Grin and Share it With Kenny, Alex and Naomi. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5ka8...

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Oh no!

Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88

Bradford painter whose sun-kissed visions of California broke world records at auction has died

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What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it

This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

Here are some other concerns that I believe, from my metropolitan liberal bubble, to be more legitimate.

But what about my leftish legitimate concerns?

The media tells us we must listen to voices from the right. Can we metropolitan liberals have some time too?

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This was great fun! This lot really give Welsh politics the respect it deserves

Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students - www.ft.com/content/ded7... I don't really understand why any administration would not try to reverse the fall in overseas student numbers, but I guess I'm a naive liberal

I really wanted this Burnham speech to leave me hopeful and was actively rooting for it. I found it deflating - to put it mildly. Where it needed to be brave and expansive, it was small and meek. Let me give one example that I found quite instructive, since Andy used it as a framing device. 1/

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Internet rules dictate that whenever you see the Tom Holland Umbrella video, you have to share it. I'm just following the rules.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3mo ago

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Disabled people in the U.K. are facing harassment from the public for using a Blue Badge. Many said they have been verbally abused for “faking”, with some being filmed on phones, physically intimidated, or having their mobility aid pulled away. My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

‘People assume we’re grifters’: disabled Britons report rise in abuse over blue badges

Badge holders and carers report being harassed, filmed and threatened by strangers who think they are faking disability

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I cannot overstate how completely insane this story is

Saskia Daniel@saskiadanielceramics.com · 4mo ago

This is quite the story.