When the Conservatives last came up with this idea, in 2023, a lot of good questions were asked by organisations like the Howard League, the Prison Reform Trust and Prisoners Abroad. Have any of them been answered? prisonreformtrust.org.uk/blog-renting...

Blog: Renting foreign prison places—the unanswered question

Renting foreign prison places won’t solve the rapidly looming capacity crisis, warns PRT’s deputy director Mark Day.

prisonreformtrust.org.uk

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

A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h 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

They had ladders, another banner and a crowd for this drop. Say what you will, but in an era where you can get 30 years for moving a box of zines, this takes guts.

Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · 17h ago

a banner found above the front doors of the police HQ in Madison, Wisconsin this morning stated: “Arrest the killer cop, 608-266-4211.”

"Caroline Savage, 73, died after increasing the dose of the Mounjaro weight-loss drug she had been taking for about four months, a coroner’s court was told yesterday." Times front page. Reminder, they banned puberty blockers for trans kids despite there being zero harm.

"We don't want to let your people in. Will you take our exports in return for a promise to fire Trident at Putin if he invades Estonia?" N.B. NATO exists. We literally have troops in Estonia now. They agreed to send more 2 weeks ago: www.facebook.com/theministryo...

Jack Bailey@jack-bailey.co.uk · 11h ago

Once again we’re in the Arrested Development meme. Did trying to get single market access without free movement of people work in the past? God no … but it might work for us.

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

ft.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

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station | Christian Wolmar

Around the world, these trains have boosted economies, development and prestige. The costs of missing out are high, says transport writer and author Christian Wolmar

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Incredible shit here: the guy Badenoch is defending was sent to prison for sending racist abuse to the MP Luciana Berger. Who then did a whole series of interviews and columns talking about her criminal harassment by Nazis, in a manner intended to make listeners believe it was done by Labour members

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · yesterday

Even I am taken aback at the new and surprising ways these people find to insult the public’s intelligence and make it more clear the only operative professional standard in force is “LOL fuck you”

This is the point that should be made over and over again in the prison overcrowding row. The focus is on releasing violent male prisoners but the majority of female prisoners are not a threat to the public - and should always have been given community orders.

How exactly did Britain end up with platoons of horrible, spite-crazed middle aged men doing tours of university campuses trolling and insulting students, then running squealing in terror to the press when they were - quite reasonably - asked to fuck off

Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 2d ago

this rob liddle incident encapsulated british "free speech" pretty well www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Once again the far right are leading the debate, forcing everyone onto their favourite issue, and hurting Europe’s future. And no mainstream politician other than Sanchez has an answer.

Many EU leaders are collapsing under a moment’s pressure on Ceuta but the hypocrisy of Meloni is particularly sickening. All those demands that Europe help Italy out on Lampedusa, and no-one asked for Italy to be excluded from Schengen. But as soon as a Social Democrat faces problems….

There are half as many health visitors as there were in 2010...

The real reason child vaccination rates are falling

As child immunisation rates fall across the UK, one clinic in west Yorkshire is taking aggressive steps to boost immunisations

bbc.co.uk

Reminder that Rob Liddle said he couldn't be a teacher because he would try to rape the kids

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

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

Cameron was a striking example of this. He always thought of himself as non-ideological and "pragmatic", but what that meant in practice was that he adopted a set of ideological commitments that he never interrogated. That tradition of Conservatism as "apolitical"/ "common sense" has a long history.

Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year.

Great reporting, these new filings raise even more Qs about R20 Advisory's donations and Reform. The company, before new filings were released, were featured as one of a number of loss-making or at risk firms donating to Reform, reported by @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/06/29/t...

The Troubled Firms That Gave Reform UK Tens of Thousands of Pounds Whilst on the Brink of Collapse

Anti-corruption campaigners question why firms are choosing to donate tens of thousands of pounds they apparently don't have to Nigel Farage's party

bylinetimes.com

Cat Neilan@catneilan.bsky.social · 3d ago

New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

#OtD 1 Aug 1944 a mass uprising began in Warsaw, Poland against the Nazi occupiers. They took the city, but received very little support from the Allies, including the nearby Red Army. After 63 days they were crushed and 90% of Warsaw was destroyed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8052...

Rod Liddle spent a lot of his time being bafflingly horrible, abusive and cruel to people. That has ended now.

The best way to honour Rod Liddle in his passing is to remember his many accomplishments, like the time he assaulted his then-pregnant girlfriend in 2005, for which he received a police caution. Learn more about that, and his other accomplishments, at the link below.

Pass notes No 3,081: Rod Liddle

The Spectator journalist is making the news again – for landing himself in a whole lot of legal hot water

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From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.

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.

According to Luke Tryl on Radio 4 disillusioned Reform voters think Farage is “just the same as the rest” on the corruption front. But he isn’t is he? He’s exponentially worse. And his grifter tendency has been obvious for a very long time.

This is a very common fallacy: You have a theory about how things work, then you notice that the real world doesn't work like your theory. So you interpret this as a *historical* development - in the old days, everything was neat and simple - rather than as a problem with the theory.

From a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right.

Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 3d ago

Man who shagged his girlfriend behind his wife's back lectures the Archbishop of Canterbury on Christianity.

If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.