If you have meta glasses it’s totally fine and safe to stare directly at the the eclipse btw!!!!

NEW: Housing Sec Angela Rayner took £20,000 in speaker fee from an anti-rent controls lobbying group just weeks before ruling out a rent freeze in what campaigners from London Renters Union have called a conflict of interest. Read all about it here: wefightthegoodfight.substack.com/p/rayner-tak...

Rayner takes payment from landlords before ditching rent controls

London Renters Union urges Housing Secretary to listen to renters

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Haven’t been on this site in nearly 6 months, yet logged on to find I’ve been included in an e-girls starter pack. That’s nice

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

RIP to a real one

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Wait, Britain has politics as well?? Christ, when will it end

as a Glaswegian I was legitimately surprised to discover there are no religious considerations at all as to whether someone is a supporter of Manchester United or Manchester City

Ellen Murray@ellenfromnowon.co.uk · 6mo ago

sorry british media, sectarianism is OUR word

woke is back baby

we’re not doing this under Woke 2 sorry not sorry

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

senior scottish labour strategist reportedly encouraging sarwar to attend kneecap’s next gig to show voters he’s not shite chat

you know it’s long 2016 when celebs are dropping absolute clangers via the notes app

You're all here talking about geopolitics and meanwhile Brooklyn Beckham is spilling the tea on the family feud

pretty much everyone in the central belt has an opinion about this that they cannot share due to ludicrous UK libel law

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The millionaire brothers who reportedly pledged a six-figure donation to Scottish Labour did not make any policy demands of the party, Anas Sarwar has claimed

can denmark put insane tariffs on ozempic or something. surely that’ll do it

Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike

Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK

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obsessed with harriet acting like a martyr. “do not let this sacrifice be in vein” girl please

is it too early to say this is the best series of the traitors yet

i have deleted tiktok as one of my new years resolutions. i am not placing blame on it entirely but i will say it short form content has undoubtedly made me (feel) stupider, particularly over the past year. what is more angering though is how aware i am of this “decline”

need really twitter back i am gaaaaaged by this latest traitor episode

one thing you have to respect about traitors is that it has systematically destroyed the mystique of every profession. barristers, detectives, magicians, all frauds

bit early for new year’s resolutions but can 2026 be the death of barrel leg trouser please x

one reason people never seem the reference when discussing the death of the high street - online shopping will never force you overheat in your big winter coat in a middle of a rammed bookshop in the run up to christmas

do think it’s pretty appalling that employers can’t even send you a generic email to say your application is not being considered for interview. the hours that an applicant spends on a single application warrants that at least!

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10mo ago

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

does anyone remember that young communist league article from a few years back which lambasted the left about not not looking “normal”

Jonny Morris@jonnymorris.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Is this real or am I in a coma?

i don’t doubt AI has some wonderful uses but if you’re using AI to write the most basic emails you need to get a grip

digital social cleansing - but i guess influencers would call that aesthetic

Tracy Lord of the Nazgûl@seeemilyplay.bsky.social · 10mo ago

okay you’ve got to admit: edinburgh influencers using ai to literally erase the people of edinburgh is so spectacularly on the nose

reddit reviews of taylor’s new album are great