www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If Susan Hall agrees with the decision, then it must be wrong.

Met officer who shot Chris Kaba will not face misconduct case

Sir Mark Rowley welcomes the IOPC's decision but calls the accountability process "disgraceful".

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Soms lees je een ingezonden brief waarvan je wilde dat je 'm zelf had geschreven.

My new work gave me a fancypants iPhone and I hate it a little bit more each and every day. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

"At least we're not giving him a national platform!" saying Badenoch, on the BBC's flagship political radio show.

As chicken numbers have risen globally, so have the fortunes of the bacterial pathogen Campylobacter jejuni, which infects chickens and other birds. The bacteria are more prevalent, more mobile, and more genetically diverse than in 1960. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Gaqo50Zwbn4

Could a simple "Ok, fuck off then" for racist users help to cut waiting times in the NHS? Discuss

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · yesterday

"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

A brilliant and adorble feeding station for a disabled cat. Original post

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... ... had been described by his father as a Walter Mitty character who “lives in a fantasy world”. No daddy, your son is scum that happily endangers other people and lies about it. Don't defend him.

Driver jailed for four years after faking brake failure on motorway

Nathan Owen drove his electric Jaguar at up to 86mph and lied to police it was malfunctioning and out of his control

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www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a... One of the ugliest songs I know. Only Celine Dion is worse, but that singer is barfingly bad out of tune and can't sing to save his life.

‘I didn’t understand what Gaz was singing. It’s about needing a hug’: how Reef made Place Your Hands

‘We were swept up in the moment and full of testosterone. The 90s wasn’t a time when men were encouraged to be sensitive’

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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Since when does Reform know about legality? Their funding isn't, neither are their "policies". How would it "override French objections"? Going to war? Racist morons. And that includes anyone voting for them or Restore.

Reform UK insists using Navy to stop migrant boats would be legal

The party says under its plan it would override French objections to return migrants to France.

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Rebekah Brooks added that "he ... left an indelible mark on British journalism." I would call that a stain, but eh, words.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... They should really name the individual little hitlers in the leadership and SMT. Don't say thay the CEO has resigned, name and shame that shit (M/F). Authoritarians love schools to abuse.

How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won

Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.

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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... How British. It says a lot that none of the (white) staff has said anything.

National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims

Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees

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@d66.nl @nvj.nl @ad.nl @telegraaf.nl @minbz.bsky.social misschien tijd om eens aandacht te schenken aan de schandalig lange tijd voor paspoortvernieuwing voor Nederlanders in het buitenland. Dubbele kosten vergeleken met Nederland, en ik wacht nu al 10 weken zonder enig nieuws.

I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/

No lies

Meg does not know yet that I have to go back to work tomorrow. #catsofbluesky #caturday

It is 2026. A posh British "journalist" is talking about the Covid lockdowns being too strict. They have the head of a child and look like they're always a bit damp. People are engaging with them for some reason.

There may be something worse than the Home Office, and it is sounds like Barter F***. Anybody working there is a moral black hole.

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEW: The Abramovich connection. How convicted money launderer George Cottrell - & close aide to Nigel Farage - ‘signed documents’ for one of Putin’s closest allies. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...

Its #Caturday.. and payday... so ..how about treating your cat to a cat sofa? Or just a lapmat? craftysharp.etsy.com

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I have unfollowed Lewis Goodall. The bile he is currently spouting on his Covidiot crusade is just too much. Very disappointing.

#LOL

All fine, but it is the burning of research funding on AI shit that is really worrying. £60m on two AI centres that will deliver manure of the lowest quality only.

Christopher Smith@christophersmith.bsky.social · 4d ago

I no longer use X/Twitter, so here I am to support @stianwestlake.bsky.social who has written well on @ukri.org 's strategy I believe his argument is correct: a science funder must fund both curiosity driven and applied research, and that will demand difficult choices 🧵 x.com/stianwestlak...

In the early nineties I went to Guadeloupe (conference/holiday), which is part of France. At that time, the EEC allowed 3L of spirits between EEC member countries, 1L outside. I had 2.7L of rum with me, was stopped at Schiphol Airport and found out that Guadeloupe=France but was not EEC. Learn, BBC.

Richard Barfield@richardbarfield.bsky.social · 5d ago

Key information on Ceuta and Schengen is omitted from the #BBC News website. Its omission implies that Moroccans entering Ceuta enter the EU Schengen area - which they don’t (see quoted post below). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just had a paper accepted after two rounds of revisions. One reviewer was a complete arse, asking for major experimental and analytical work on samples we don't have and talking down the paper, to answer questions we did not raise and are not part of the aims. First round the response was polite

That is a consequence of racist, rabidly xenophobic and utterly stupid grown-ups voting Reform.

Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 5d ago

Council row about climate change teaching in school Warwickshire County Council: Leader accuses primary school of 'teaching children the world is going to end' @centralbylines.co.uk

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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