Trevor Philips was born in Islington, educated at Imperial, was a member of the GLA and lived in Kentish Town before moving the NYC this year.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dear me.

Most Bluesky post

Mark Elliott@thatmarkelliott.bsky.social · last wk.

I have neither watched the film nor read the LRB review (though I have have read the poem), and I'm now getting anxious about which order i should do this in, or whether I should re-read the poem first because it's been a long time, or whether I should go film -> poem -> LRB or

Everyone should read this absurdist thread and then think about how it’s not absurdist at all, it’s genuinely a perfect representation of the current system.

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

Heffer showing his ignorance about universities again. For many towns and cities, ‘let them fail’ means one of the biggest local employers disappearing.

A unique pass and access to the highest privileges in society. Membership of the @royalsociety.org etc.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Any 16-18 year old posting this stuff about "fight back or die" + white genocide would be on the Prevent radar. But Musk gets a unique pass

new political axis just dropped

A betting account in the name of George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled Nigel Farage, received almost $9mn in cryptocurrency from unidentified sources while he was providing gifts to the Reform UK leader great work from @annasophiegross.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b74c...

Betting account in George Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources

Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage

ft.com

Click bait racist bullshit from the Times/Chris Philp. 12 Cameroonians did not sponsor 15 dependants each. 12 new work visas were issued to Cameroonians. 180 visas were issued to dependants of the (many thousands of) Cameroonians *already here*. Etc. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members despite curbs

Twelve workers from Cameroon sponsored 180 dependants to join them in the year to March, as the new rules do not apply to those who were already in the UK

thetimes.com

Imagine being so full of shit that you'd write this. "After so many years of caring too little and doing even less when it comes to soccer, the Americans were right to fight for justice on this one."

a tip of the hat to Paraguay, who never lost sight of their football ideals -- trying to start fights where you can blame the other guy for fighting back

Worst refereeing performance I have ever seen, in that he isn't doing the quite key bit of "making people think that if they deliberately try to injure someone there might be some consequences"

Think this will remain one of the all time "The haters said we couldn't do it, and turns out they were right. Great call from the haters" stories of all time.

James Ball@jamesrball.com · last mo.

I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a virtual reality off-brand McDonald's car park – "a horribly designed, ultra-capitalistic space—a car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no food, an earthly purgatory we have built for ourselves".

Still a Fellow of the Royal Society, mind

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last mo.

In the last three hours, Musk has posted that USAID “was central to the creation of COVID-19,” “funded coronavirus research in China that killed millions of people,” “was used for terrorism,” and “killed millions.”

What *is* the point of public funding if it's not to subsidise things we need but commercial broadcasters won't do?

Guy De Launey@guydelauney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.

openly promoting pogroms against non-white people.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

@royalsociety.org I hear you’re blocking people calling on you to cancel Elon Musk’s fellowship. His presence besmirches your name. He’s a danger to British democracy. Reconsider.

At this point, I can only conclude that the 'InDepth' branding of these pieces is ironic given how remarkably credulous every one of them has been.

"I think they have a problem with my country." Words from Omar Abdulkadir Artan, the FIFA appointed Somali referee. He was interviewed for 11 hours on arrival in USA for the World Cup and then sent home. Scandalous. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry

nytimes.com

I swear there was something we used to do with far-right agitators who supported enemy nations. Old British tradition.

Joe Mulhall@joemulhall.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can't be absolutely certain but it very much looks like Tommy Robinson is in the Shalyapin Bar of the Hotel Metropol in Moscow with Errol Musk.

What the fuck is going on?

Sky News@news.sky.com · 2mo ago

Henry Nowak murder's has highlighted the debate on whether UK police are anti-white

When will this government do something about far right disinformation machine X?

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

X is currently full of posts falsely naming Christi Hill and another officer as having arrested Henry Nowak. One names and pictures the other PC, saying, "Wanted: dead or alive". It gives his address. What more exactly will it take to get UK MPs, ministers and departments off that hellsite?

Indeed. In the 1960s many more people held racist attitudes but both the government and opposition were consistent in condemning open racism. We now have am emboldened and tolerated minority by both government and opposition.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The normalisation of right wing discourse in both major political parties, let alone in much of the media, has been one of the most striking, and disturbing, changes in my lifetime. Things weren’t great in the 1960s (Smethwick) but this is off the scale.

In Sept last year The Times columnist Matthew Syed wrote that “Operation Raise the Colours” was a sign that “we live in a great nation”. Any second thoughts now that the organisers have been arrested for violent crimes including murder?

People who still think “gender criticals” are all basically liberals with reasonable concerns really should notice the language that is now being used and the demands being made and ask how this differs from what the American religious right says

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In their letter on this issue, Sex Matters calls trans women in women’s spaces “deviants”. Yesterday, Sonia Sodha called them “fetishists”. This is a troubling escalation in rhetoric from a group that clearly feels emboldened.

Do people understand yet that this was never about reasonable concerns. That no compromise would ever be enough for them. They want to be able to actively discriminate against us. They want us not to exist.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 2mo ago

Article from a prominent GC campaigner in The Critic today, decrying the guidance for not going far enough: "The only thing that will reverse the state we are in is to overturn the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and remove “Gender Reassignment” as a protected category in the Equality Act."

The Arsenal Uganda Parish is built different, innit! 🇺🇬😮‍💨 (🎥 Senkayi Media TikTok)

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students - www.ft.com/content/ded7... I don't really understand why any administration would not try to reverse the fall in overseas student numbers, but I guess I'm a naive liberal

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Weird Alex@jackalpants.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.