Simon Ward
@simonjward65.bsky.social
Mainly theatre reviews at thepegreview.com and LUFC for my sins. Also interested in politics. #FBPE
Just a thought, but is it perhaps time for a responsible news media to stop reporting the dribbling arseblurts of these fools? Seriously, this is on a par with “Bloke down the pub says it’s a well-known fact that there’s no actual evidence that smoking is bad for you.”
The momentum of this issue is in the wrong direction. The line should be: We're roasting, we're exposed to wildfires, we're experiencing drought, and these nutters aren't prepared to keep British people safe.
Reform put this crap out for attention and in order to appear like a serious political outfit. They're in fact DEEPLY unserious and should be treated as such. Far too many people start to engage with what is essentially a game of pigeon chess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens
The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.
bbc.co.uk
It is really depressing to read that choice of headline when living under russian drones and missiles thrown at civilians everyday. Those false equivalence headlines make me want to quit my job.
Russia could end this tomorrow by halting its war of aggression and invasion of Ukraine, and leaving the internationally recognised territory of Ukraine that it has illegally occupied.
Over 24 hours ago I reported this leak to Thames Water. 28 hours on now and it's still gushing water. Lucky there aren't water shortages ...
The good news is, electric vehicles and solar mean the post-apocalypse will have plenty of transport & power… It’s just the food and water that might be harder to come by.
Paul Ross@paulross.bsky.social · 4d agoAdd to that the enivitable economic breakdown maybe it’s time to get a jenson interceptor and a saw. Off shotgun.
It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.
Compare to the media coverage of a white academic *convicted of assaulting a student* www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Sussex University failed duty of care to assault victim, inquiry finds
The investigation found that, when assessing the danger the attacker posed, the university only interviewed him
theguardian.com
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 4d agoThis is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
Hoping for clear skies later so we can add a new #SolarEclipse photo to our collection. Like this one that Tom Kent took 114 years ago of a solar eclipse over Kirkwall #Orkney in April 1912. Taken 2 days after the sinking of the Titanic. Archives are amazing. ❤️
You are right. The involvement of private profit kills the desire for people to do things for the public good.
Janitor Airstrip One@justmy2penneth.bsky.social · 7d agoThe only way to save water is to nationalise it.
We should all do our bit to save water, says an interviewee on BBC Radio 4’s Today. Of course we should. However, people are unlikely to be enthusiastic about helping out the water firms, which have given ~£80 billion to shareholder, built no reservoirs and poisoned our rivers and seas with shit.
I don't remember this magazine, great snapshot of early 80s pop culture www.crazyaboutmagazines.com/ourshop/cat_... One for @ricardoautobahn.co.uk and the #totp lot perhaps
He’s my brother He’s my brother, don’t you know. She’s my sister She’s my sister, don’t know. "Caravan of Love" famously covered a cappella by The Housemartins—is a universal plea for unity, peace, and brotherhood. #PaulHeaton 🙏🏻
It's striking (and alarming) how this kind of stuff has so quickly spread from the most extreme fringes of politics, and barely mentioned outside those fringes to being, if not mainstream, then at least within the ambit of mainstream discussion.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoCharlie Downes, 25 year old campaigns director of Restore Britain, has been clear that he believes having white British ancestry & being Christian are necessary to be British. His exclusion of Jews from being fully/equally British will split the right, as should his exclusion of blacks & Asians
You can't run a world-famous nightlife district with a village-hall mindset. London's hospitality and nightlife support jobs, culture and growth. New powers for City Hall will help ensure decisions consider the wider benefits for our city.
Council wants pubs in London’s Soho and West End to ban standing
Sadiq Khan criticises Westminster council’s ‘anti-growth policies’ after it recommends stopping ‘vertical drinking’
theguardian.com
I have enormous sympathy with people angry that the political vandalism of our prison system is forcing the (even earlier) release of prisoners. It is a scandal. But deciding who does and does not get released on the basis of the volume of public outcry at their crime is the road to madness.
The chaos being created by Reform in local government is almost as scandalous as the issues around its funding at national level.
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 2w agoReform UK Warwickshire under George Finch’s toxic leadership have haemorrhaged councillors. They have now just 17/57. He wouldn’t survive a vote of no confidence.
Oops. We developed new technologies as if we were communists believe that they would reduce human toil, and create conditions for flourishing lives. But actually they dominate us, alienate us from each other, reduce us to servants to machines, and diminish our creativity, just as Marx noted in 1844.
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
The number of young people sleeping rough in London has halved, thanks to work from City Hall and organisations like Crisis. But we won’t stop until we end rough sleeping.
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
Can you imagine how much of a story it would have been if Reform had won the Manchester mayoral contest. And for a while it looked not only possible but in some ways probable looking at the polls a few months back. And yet they were trounced. They got nowhere near. That should be a big story.
New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: We Shape Our Buildings Parliament can move out for 25 years and spend £15.6bn, or stay put for 60 and spend nearly £40bn. It will stay put, and the reason is neither money nor heritage. https://politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/we-shape-our-buildings
