This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterday

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

Municipal guide of the day: the London Borough of Merton from the mid-70s, with the PR department working overtime to shoehorn the contents into a MERTON mnemonic. This also features some of Merton’s distinctive low rise social housing from the era. Oh, and Wombles.

I feel like the way of dealing with such behaviour is to look these people right in the eye and say, very gently, "You think your right to park matters more than homes these children?" Then when they reply just repeat it with slightly different emphasis.

Hundreds slam proposals to turn car park into children's home in Bromley

Plans to build a children’s home on a car park in Bromley have been slammed by nearby residents who call the current parking situation “a…

newsshopper.co.uk

This is shocking

@martinbarrow.bsky.social · 2w ago

The three directors of the children’s homes company Your Chapter have paid themselves total dividends of £11 million for 2025. Context: turnover from continuing operations was *only* £20 million.

Not "some", not "many" – most: 59% www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse

Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence

theguardian.com

Always this. "Protect our women and children from those people" is pure projection. The beast is the man in the mirror. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse

Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence

theguardian.com

What I hope everyone reading this story actually takes away from it is that a household with two people each earning £38k are in the richest 20 per cent of the population.

More than 100,000 households in social housing are in richest 20%

Andy Burnham promises to expand social housing when he moves into No 10, but questions have arisen over whether it should be a lifetime entitlement

thetimes.com

What a list! I demand a TV debate among all 34 candidates. And a long read on the factional differences between the three different Monster Raving Loony Party candidates

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 3w ago

34 candidates confirmed for Clacton, a record. Full list available here: www.tendringdc.gov.uk/news/clacton...

After my house was broken into at 3am we were charged £800 to change the locks by one of these scammers, after a price of £40 was listed online. If you need a locksmith, I'd recommend going on a local Facebook group and searching for human recommendations.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

The scary rise of locksmith scams: ‘I was shut out with my baby – and charged £2,200 to get back in’

Two MPs have been murderered in the last 10 years but Nigel Farage claims AGAIN to be the most attacked politician in modern times

Commentators saying "No one should have that drama at 4am" like they've never watched an election.

Feeling low energy and can't stop thinking about vada pav. Surely a potato sandwich will solve all my problems.

Hello from the local TK Maxx - somewhere with air-conditioning, and comfy seating 👀

Feel like I've been lucky to have so far coped not too badly with the heat, but yesterday my body and brain just had enough and went into meltdown. Looks like we'll get some relief now, but can't stop thinking about people globally with no respite. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘My head spins with the heat’: India’s gig workers battle exhaustion amid soaring temperatures

Cities across south and south-east Asia are becoming places where informal workers can no longer recover from the heat

theguardian.com

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last mo.

let me be the first to say: think I'm hitting a bit of a psychological wall with this heatwave and I worry I'm going a bit doolally

Here we goooooooo

LEAVE HER ALONE

Democratic politics can't be sustained with this level of disinformation and misinformation. Action needs to be taken.

Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · last mo.

The story of social media’s problem with news, in two posts (these are from X)

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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This post is still up. Twitter have put it behind an age verification request. I guess that means the mods have seen it and decided it stays. This is the same platform our politicians and public bodies insist on remaining on.

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

There were 1 million views on X for Tommy Robinson posting this on June 18th calling for mass public executions of "Pakistani rope gang" (Perceptions may differ on whether this is a call for the state to execute convicted criminals for grooming, or to organise public lynchings, or both).

I just used the Outlook 'Sweep' function and deleted over 2000 emails from Duolingo from my inbox that I was essentially paying Microsoft to store...

And schools will continue to try and run sports days and exams in rooms without fans nevermind air con

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week. Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C UK will ridiculize its June national record Germany 10 days 37C+ This is CRAZY

A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

If anti-Ref votes coalesce behind strongest anti-Ref candidate as happened in Makerfield, Gorton, Caerphilly that Reform number comes down very fast. Reform 27% could mean 300 seats or 50. All depends on how the other 73% behave locally, which these projections can’t tell you.

Hate to sound like a boomer but... remember REAL milk chocolate!? Today's 'chocolate' is naff.

wrote about the infantilisation of older teenagers and young adults three years ago and cool to see that since have in fact only got worse since then: www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023...

The most disgusting behaviour I’ve ever witnessed in public spaces was directed at Sadiq Khan by ‘anti-Ulez’ protesters, who of course received way more coverage, much of it friendly, than the scheme’s incredible success ever will.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests

Looking forward to Nick Watt's next feature on "The deeply contentious debate around what it means to be racist".

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 2mo ago

But is it deeply contentious? Really?

Most people believe that Rishi Sunak is English. Most people who don't are racists. Is that contentious?

Why do the BBC keep giving a megaphone to Matt Goodwin, who does not even represent Reform's position on this question (Nigel Farage does not agree with him!)?