So. Rod Liddle died. Anyway…

And yet the government keep on using X!?! Please @andyburnham.bsky.social get all ministries and MPs off that place and stop (financially) supporting a man who is inciting violence against politicians

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

Fake passports. A money laundering conviction. A mystery casino fortune in Montenegro... There's yet more revelations about who Farage chooses to surround himself with. Let’s start with George Cottrell. A man Farage describes as "like a son," and his former chief of staff 👇

This thread 👇🏻

Phil Brickell MP@philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧵 1/ After another week of reporting on Nigel Farage and Reform UK’s finances, I still have major questions about who is actually funding them, and whether it was properly declared. Farage and his cronies have responded with bluster and mudslinging. So let's look at the actual facts.

Then, the moment the Electoral Commission called in the police over the Cottrell money, what did Farage do? He rushed through a restructure of his party that hides who really controls it. Having spent 15 years working in financial compliance, I'll say it plainly: this is not normal behaviour.

No one can even get on a bus these days because they are full of poshos

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ok, talking about class in vox pops is now banned until it starts making any sense.

Also at no point should we ever forget that deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure is a war crime and service members who follow illegal orders can be prosecuted for it (as, of course, should their commanding officers, including Hegseth & Trump).

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey, Congress, could we cut off funds for Trump's foolish and dangerous war NOW?

Hard to see how, yet here we are.

Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"

England is the home of 85% of the world's chalk streams, a crucial part of the UK ecological system. Despite criminal convictions, water companies continue to destroy it by dumping raw sewage. I asked the Minister to revoke their licence to operate. Watch the Minister's reply.

'My cousin José in Madrid... [is]... trying to revive the anti-French sentiment of the Peninsular War of 1808-1814. We all do our bit.' www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/what-a...

What an ideal semi-final tie for me, a man still not over the Falklands War

WHAT luck! England vs Argentina in the semi-final of the World Cup, and me still not over a war between our countries that ended 44 years ago!

thedailymash.co.uk

@inigopurcell.bsky.social Was lovely to meet you at the IMC.

Nigel Farage paying himself £50,000 in rent for studio at own property The arrangement, which could enable the Reform UK leader to lower his tax bill, falls outside parliamentary transparency rules

Nigel Farage paying himself £50,000 in rent for studio at own property

The arrangement, which could enable the Reform UK leader to lower his tax bill, falls outside parliamentary transparency rules

thetimes.com

Ibsen! Grieg! Amundsen! A-ha! The Sovereign Wealth Fund! Kvikk Lunsj! Roald Dahl! Munch’s The Scream! Harald Hardrada! HARALD HARDRADA, can you hear me?

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵

Stourbridge lad!

On the train back from @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Yesterday we had full-day programme in memory of Walter Goffart. Four sessions plus roundtable, 9h-20h. Last one was truly the climax of a great day, with reflections by Danuta Renu Shanzer, Walter Pohl, Michael Kulikowski & @realhistoryguy.bsky.social

I could watch this all day www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

World Cup 2026: USA vs Belgium - USA suffer 'total calamity' at the back to gift Belgium a third goal

USA goalkeeper Matt Freese with a huge error in judgement as he gifts Belgium's Hans Vanaken the ball, leaving him with an easy finish that defender Tim Ream could've done more to stop. Errors all aro...

bbc.co.uk

With thanks to Prof David Petts

I’m hearing that Belgium bused in millions of illegals to score their goals. So unfair. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Important

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Bought a Senior Railcard. 😱/🙁

Happy Feast of Saint Martin to all who celebrate!

Gregorius Turonensis: where art thou?

Emperor Abby (the first pope)@arobertswrites.com · last mo.

This is would've been considered an omen once upon a time.

Uh-oh. This didn’t end well last time.

Im so exhausted by this pattern. Historians spend years in the archives to write detailed accounts of the past. Only for journalists, doctors, podcasters, and now cartoonists, to swoop in and get paid a lot of money to trot out the same work, "uncovering hidden histories" that are not at all hidden.

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Oh look, another stupid, damaging, pointless U-turn by "Labour". WTAF is WRONG with these people? Or have they had a few more "donations" and promises of directorships when they're kicked out of power? Not a squeak about it in any of the billionaire/establishment-owned media, obviously.

Government drops plans for solar on new car parks

We are CPRE, the countryside charity. Learn how we're working for a beautiful and thriving countryside that's accessible to everyone - and how to get involved.

cpre.org.uk

So all of these "heterodox thinkers" are just myna birds, aren't they? They're just making sounds they heard somewhere else and stringing them together like memes and this apparently imparts some kind of meaning to people who share a certain worldview? As long as you don't stop to think at all.