No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.

It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless.

Anthony Painter@anthonypainter.bsky.social · 2d ago

The major problem with this reporting - beyond its fundamental inaccuracy - is that when arrests are eventually made there will be no proper context and therefore it will seem like the state is smothering free expression.

I'm speechless

It used to be so hot in there in the 70s. Has it improved?

Modernism in Metro-Land@modinmetro.bsky.social · 4d ago

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I wonder if the landlord, George Ward, had any idea that his 1909 marketing scam to propose that Ye Olde Trip to Jersalem was 'the oldest inn in England' would still be paying merch dividends in 2026!? I'm sure the old fraud would be pleased! More info: triskeleheritage.com/mediaeval-my...

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

A gout stool is a small, low, three‑legged seat designed specifically for someone suffering from gout, who needed to rest the affected foot close to the fire. #gout #goutstool #18thcentury #19thcentury #historicalfiction

The affluent semi-rural have always felt separate and striven to keep it that way. The Piddington thing is just proof that they no longer feel the need to keep it unsaid Just like their trembling racism.

GCSE coursework was a terrible thing; in some families everybody chipped in to help. Gove was right to abolish it. www.arguably.uk/p/labour-sho...

Labour shouldn’t undo Gove’s success

England’s education system is becoming the envy of the world. So why is the government changing course?

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House Sparrows deserve more love, don't you agree? 🐦♥️ #birds 🪶 You can buy my 2027 calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c... 😊 Or if you don't have PayPal, here; ko-fi.com/carlbovis/shop 🐦

If only £72,000,000 could buy candidates who aren't arseholes and policies that don't fall apart after a few nanoseconds of scrutiny.

The Right believe cutting spending on ‘benefits’ is a way to secure instant savings: Cut benefits. But do properly. Get claimants into work by paying for training, jobs subsidies, or quicker access to NHS treatment Tories prefer the Victorian approach of just leaving people hard-up #R4today

Eventually Burnham will have to say something about the masked fascists as they continue to escalate and at that point he'll look really weak and pathetic for waiting so long. 🤦‍♀️

The incredible moment a terrified stag made a dramatic leap for his life on the 24th August, leaping over hunt supporters who were attempting to prevent him from escaping onto land where the Quantock Staghounds could not follow. 👇 www.huntsabs.org.uk/one-giant-le...

Burnham needs to stop promising personal meetings with MPs. He wont be have enough time to keep the vibes coming #pmqs

He really does drone on and on. #pmqs

I've got bad news for Julia, who wrote this letter in 1979. 47 years later the WWII nostalgia is still going strong.

A History of the Census Takers has arrived. #Ancestry #Genealogy #ancestryhour #GenHour

'non-working' is a redundant adjective before the word 'royals' mate

If an elected prime minister *had* to be replaced, perhaps replacing him with one who needs to constantly appease a reform/right-wing leaning constituency wasn't a very good idea. He ain't going to ticktock pork scratching the thugs off the street.

Andy Burnham will not say anything today about fascist militia on the street because he is a flip- flopper who is too scared to upset people. He has always been like that, yet people act surprised.

Perhaps an unusual opinion, but it strikes me that Robert Jenrick is a bigger bastard than Nigel Farage. Nigel seems to be getting tired of being a twat while Robert is revelling in it

Everyday there is a reason not to re-join the Labour Party.

‪#OnThisDay in London tourist history, 1850: 'Down with the Austrian butcher!' Brutal Austrian General Haynau beaten up by South Londoners wp.me/p74yfw-Ba

Today in London tourist history, 1850: ‘Down with the Austrian butcher!’

Field Marshal Baron von Haynau, a brutal commander of the Austrian Empire, was known as ‘the Hyena’; he had earned this nickname by torturing prisoners and flogging women, while suppres…

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#r4today presenters have chosen to ignore the existence of food banks that millions rely on to be able to feed their families. I reckon the amount of coverage of the Bayeux Tapestry on this single show is longer than all of that devoted to the issue of food banks poverty over the last year.

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

The lunatic right are obsessed with AI. AI allows you to make up a false reality of your choice by making a few simplistic statements. Its not very surprising, is it?

Not a lot of genetic diversity here; the two blokes must be twins.

Bob Hawkins@bobhawkins.bsky.social · 4w ago

Nothing to see here. #r4today

Ad (from the Manx Sun, hence the Manx agents for the product) for Warren’s Blacking, 1838. This was the company at whose factory a young Charles Dickens worked for a time in the 1820s #19thcentury

E P Thompson signed the contract for The Making of the English Working Class in August 1959 & completed, a rather different book in August 1963 wp.me/p15p2Q-eV0

E P Thompson & the Making of the English Working Class. Made in August

Cover of the 1963 hardback edition E P Thompson & the Making of the English Working Class. Made in August E P Thompson signed the contract for the Making of the English Working Class in August …

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