"Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, recently appointed to the role by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, meets Secretary of State Rubio in Washington" is one of those lines that would sound perfectly plausible to anyone in 2015, but explaining the intervening period would give them an aneurysm.

Rod Liddle yet another one of those supposedly great humourists and comedians whose fawning obituaries fail to include any examples of this massive wit.

🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

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The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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Badenoch truly is impressive, most leaders wouldn't even try to defend a former neo-Nazi candidate but ahe gets out there, does it, and manages to denigrate the work of all her party's councillors in the process. Multi-tasking.

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"The party leadership insists this former extremist with a media career now holds completely normal beliefs" is reminding me of the Lib Dems and Maajid Nawaz.

Helen Joyce and her Totalitarian World: An Analysis of Ideological Totalitarianism, Biological Reductionism, and the Politics of Denial

Why Helen's Wrong

... and why her position is definitively totalitarian in nature.

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Another lesson in the talent of British journalists because who else could find thousands of words to describe someone as a bloviating arsehole who most normal people would actively avoid without ever using those words?

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2d ago

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

www.maptap.gg August 4 100🎯 99🎯 95🏅 96🔥 86🎓 Final score: 935 Was going so well, then hit one of my blind spots

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

David Slack@slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them. Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?

Rod Liddle?

Jeremy Clarkson Oh No Anyway Meme

ALT: Jeremy Clarkson Oh No Anyway Meme

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Went past a road called Cringlethwaite while out cycling today and will have to go back that way becauae I forgot to get a photo to prove it exists.

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Oh, it's that Amazon series with a British character actress playing an assassin going on the run with the person closest to her when her cover is blown while being pursued by someone mysterious from her past.

The Holy Bible, Everything Must Go and This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Enjoying Ride or Die, but they just had a Platform D at a British train station, so now I have to burn it all to the ground.

www.maptap.gg August 2 96🔥 99🎯 97🔥 95🏅 77😁 Final score: 905 Couple of times at the wrong end of things

Casino Royale on ITV. Opening thoughts are "god, Daniel Craig looks so young" and a reminder that You Know My Name is one of the top Bond themes

Was discussing the other day how the party of Grant and Eisenhower would rather idolise the men they defeated and this appears to be the weird ideological hole they're burrowing into to justify that (great response to the quoted post in the comments, though).

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

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Thinking about all the transphobes celebrating this victory and all the world's brutal oppressors toasting them for showing that Amnesty fold so easily under pressure.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

Cowardly @amnestyuk.bsky.social published the truth about how a bigoted minority persecute trans people, & have now apologised for doing that, and promised not to do it again. This calls ALL their other work into question. If they can't see that's what the far right want, what good are they?

An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

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Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

Hilarious to watch Infantino crash and burn so quickly, though now wondering who's going to win the Oscar for playing him in the inevitable film about his rise and fall.

AFC joins Uefa and Concacaf in opposing Fifa plan

The Asian Football Confederation "stands in solidarity" with Uefa and Concacaf in opposing controversial Fifa proposals.

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Should go back to being the Green Shield stamp stores and really go for the "who remembers the High Street" nostalgia-addled boomer market.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sainsbury's to sell Argos for £120m

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We'll be having some interesting court cases on whether descriptions like "world championship" and "world cup" can be copyrighted soon.

Current govt plans imply deporting over five thousand scientists, about eight thousand assorted engineers, 1600 vets... for no reason, at all, except the appeasement of unappeasable racism.

JJames Bowes@jamesbowes01.bsky.social · last wk.

This is just visas for entry, I'd need to add students separately (and don't yet have graduate visa switchers by occupation), but here are the number of people on pre-April 2024 that would likely be forced out by the reforms, if the lower going rates and salary thresholds are allowed to expire.

On the wrong side of too many borders this morning www.maptap.gg July 30 88🎉 100🎯 97🔥 95🏅 84😁 Final score: 919