Somewhat disgusting to hear Nick Robinson on Today talk about "trans rights" versus "women's right to safe spaces". That ain't it Nick

"I was Princess Anne's assistant for a while, but I chucked that in because I realised they were never going to make me Princess Anne, no matter how well I did the job. It was a question of who you were, rather than how well you did, and I hate that."

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3d ago

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

“Famously unpleasant white man dies. Let’s pretend he was, in fact, a brilliant writer whose satire wasn’t just a collection of slurs, low blows, and things we wish we could say out loud.”

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Guys can we not tip him off in advance like this, yeah?

Mohave County Indivisible@mohaveindv.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: ​The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.

This war is now a Teams meeting.

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

democracyforsale.substack.com

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

the four stages: 1. Allister Heath's columns are not real 2. Allister Heath's columns are not serious 3. OK, they are real and serious but it's too late to do anything about them 4. Our only hope is to find a way of adapting to Allister Heath's columns

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Total mystery

I'm just a man who loves this octogenarian more than life itself, standing in front of the BBC, asking it for the love of God to think about the fright they give us when we see images like this (it was something about how rich he is)

My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...

Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.

Here is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.

Musk just has a hard time wrapping his head around a story where a man’s wife and child care if he comes home

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Musk seethes as ‘The Odyssey’ conquers at the box office www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

these Young Male Christians should form some sort of Association, then they could offer services beyond gymnasiums and shower facilities, such as short-term lodging at which it might be fun to stay

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

foolproof 👍

'Shock and Orr at Dreaming Spires'

Hardeep Matharu@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another new PM, another edition of Byline Times goes to press... Read our exclusive investigation on James Orr, head of policy at Reform & Cambridge professor in print - what's happening at the world-renowned university refusing to answer any of our questions? In shops / subscribe.bylinetimes.com 👇

Actors promoting a film in 2016: "Please tell us about your film" Actors promoting a film in 2026: "You all have slegehammers. We are going to ask which food is more likely to give you diarrhoea then you hit the loser. We are on a moving catamaran and everyone has a tiny mic. Release the lizards"

NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇

I know we're meant to have more in common than that which divides us but what am I meant to do with people who find Quentin Letts funny? How does one bridge that chasm in understanding?

So they're battling Dr Doom *and* near-total green screen in the new one?

Final typo diss from the FT

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w ago

Keir Starmer declared that his “work is done” as he delivered a resignation speech outside Downing Street ahead of Andy Burnham’s arrival at Number 10 as Britain’s seventh prime minister in the past decade. Follow the latest here: ft.trib.al/tpXksiy

I was ready to roll my eyes at the idea of a half-time show at a WC final but “Dudamel conducts the Electric Mayhem” is unexpectedly fa—oh wait they’re finished ok now this is shite again

Karmacoma, Jamaica and Roma. Thank you @6music.bsky.social

Labour: we want politics to tread lighter on people's lives Also Labour: YOU'RE BEING A FOOTBALL FAN WRONG, YOU STUPID JOCKS

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander has urged Scots to back England against Argentina in the World Cup semi-final He said Scots fans should be 'bigger' than being 'anti-English'

pausa de hidratación

Imagine how crazy a Spanish World Cup win will make Trump.

“We need to end— hoo! End this woke madness. Net Zero has to— ooh! Look, can I finish this speech inside? It’s fucking roasting out here for some reason.”

Great timing of the purge of Net Zero story to coincide with chunks of the country bursting into flames, I guess.