Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 9h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

I just can’t believe we’re seeing this sort of stuff from a sitting MP Just want to say to British Somalis that you are loved and I’m so, sorry this is happening.

That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.

This is happening loads! Piles of your cash is being spent on research projects that are being derailed by redundancy or the threat of redundancy. There's no joined-up thinking or planning anywhere. Your money? Expendable mate, don't bother working and paying taxes.

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 10h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

“The power of the badge”? @stuartwhigham.bsky.social & @gyozomolnar.bsky.social on how sport can simultaneously operate as a mechanism of inclusion & exclusion www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The whole situation amounts to blackmail." The President of the Jordanian Football Association accuses Infantino of blackmail, says they have not been paid prize money for the Arab Cup and were subjected to grossly unfair conditions at the World Cup in US.

The main thing is that the man with Nazi views doesn’t believe in Net Zero 🙄

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h ago

Somewhat incredibly Badenoch has just been defending this man on the Today programme

Removing procurement rules whilst giving local councils more money (after they’ve had their auditing stripped through austerity) is a recipe for disaster. A common trope is that councils are on the take anyway, so this will just make it worse.

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 20h ago

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

Apparently, the market is the only organising mechanism in neoliberal capitalism, yet businesses won’t invest in the skills they need and require so the government to tell them to do it. But the government doesn’t need to regulate them on anything else

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 20h ago

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

Growth for whom and growth from what? All that will happen is the firm itself will grow and its directors get richer.

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 20h ago

In letter seen by FT, Haigh and Healey will instruct every Cabinet minister to identify 10 UK suppliers with high growth potential to target for more government contracts in ‘buy British’ drive

Net zero/environmental criteria, and demands like tackling domestic violence and improving local high streets, will be scrapped from new social value model Haigh & John Healey will also direct Cabinet to “maximise the use of public procurement... to deliver innovation & growth in every postcode”

Good to see they’ve learned the lessons of removing the procurement rules for PPE 🙄

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 20h ago

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

The fact this completely aligns with the US far-right government and its demands that US client (vassal) states remove any "woke" considerations from public procurement is, I'm sure, entirely coincidental. Ahem. edition.cnn.com/2025/04/01/b...

US embassies to contractors worldwide: Cancel any diversity programs or risk going unpaid | CNN Business

US embassies have sent letters to contractors in their host countries demanding they certify that they do not run any diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs that violate President Donald Trump...

edition.cnn.com

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 20h ago

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

Apparently, we can’t tax these companies to compensate for the damage they cause because, er, it will stop them investing in more manipulative surveillance technology

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 12h ago

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Apparently we can’t tax these parasites in order to repair the damage they caused because, er, it will stop them investing in more planet destroying extraction

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterday

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Rather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

theguardian.com

We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.

Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again

The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".

news.sky.com

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Unless we ban the use of fossil fuels for energy generation and surface transport, no company will ever leave this stuff in the ground. Why would they when they're making money hand over fist?

Oil Giant Saudi Aramco Reports 33% Profit Surge, Despite Iran War Disruptions (Gift Article)

Higher oil prices propelled a quarterly earnings jump for Saudi Arabia’s energy giant, which used pipelines to work around disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.

nytimes.com

Labour consistently stoked patriotism even though the research ch showed this increases nationalism. They have pandered to racists time and again. And this is the predictable outcome.

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · yesterday

Being racist to people providing healthcare, the most patriotic thing a person can do in my opinion, is the clearest example of how this wave of “patriotism” we’re being told to accept was never about patriotism It’s white nationalism, pure and simple

Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.

Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

theguardian.com

Well, at least he doesn't support Net Zero.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can this really be true? Astonishing if so. If this lasts it's a very bad sign indeed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The time of the Anglosphere university as we've known it is coming to an end. Its dominance is passing. No era lasts forever.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

These tech bros want every space to be a Nazi cess pool.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Tories going full on Restore

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Sad to see that, in 2026, 'he wrote horrifically unpleasant, bigoted things but did so fearlessly and with brio,' is considered a fitting tribute by so many in the media. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Sad to see people posting on social media positively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If you have celebrated division and hate in your life - and you die - I hope people will point out the hate and division rather than try to ignore the damage they did.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.

💥 700 tons of explosives. Israel detonated 700 tons of explosives beneath Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night. A 900-year-old Crusader castle that UNESCO just listed as endangered heritage. @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.