1066 - Norman Conquest of England 1067(ish) - Norman aristocracy commission Bayeux Tapestry to commemorate the events leading up to 1066. John Redwood 2026 - “Too soon!”
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Occasional writer. Full-time neurospicy. If you complain about ‘woke’, I’ll take that as explicit permission to disregard everything else you have to say. All views other people’s. He/him/MAMIL
If someone had told me twenty years ago that there would come a time when I was asked several times a day if I wanted to accept cookies, and that I would reject them every time, I wouldn’t have believed them.
Focusing on the media coverage seems like the sort of simplistic narrative that you often see in, well, in sections of the media. Surely any investigation should at the very least encompass Cambridge and the most prominent voices who pursued this on social media too? This didn’t happen in vacuum.
PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social · 2w agoA cross-party group of over 50 MPs and peers has asked IPSO to investigate media coverage of Jason Arday The letter, organised by Labour MP Afzal Khan, says coverage "reached far beyond what can reasonably be perceived as conducive to the public interest in relation to his alleged plagiarism"
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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I feel like the word "claims" is missing from this BBC headline.
"...Liverpool fans [...] are viewing the potential high-profile investment cautiously." That's an unusual way of saying we want him to keep his filthy hands off our club and fuck off permanently to space like all these pricks keep promising. #liverpool #lfc #bezos #bezoff
Jeff Bezos' Liverpool deal: What would investment mean for club?
Why investment by a group including Jeff Bezos would not make a marked difference to Liverpool's spending power - and might sit uneasily with fans.
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This is a dreadful development in our politics, which is bound to see dodgy & illegal lobbying now go unnoticed. And I say this as someone who, 20 years ago, was included in the register of MPs’ staff interests, when I worked for an MP. I never begrudged my inclusion on the register.
Once again staggered that Farage thought (perhaps still does) that 'don't worry your pretty little head about it. The voters of Clacton have re-elected me' would satisfy most people:
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
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@pimlicat.bsky.social: “As our econometric and polling research demonstrates, membership of the EU is a policy that delivers transformative, redistributive growth across the country and is popular with voters prepared to back Labour at the next election.”
Prioritising UK-EU relationship welcome stance from new Foreign Secretary - Best for Britain
A deeper and stronger UK-EU alliance will deliver transformative growth across the country, campaigners affirm.
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I’ve been in favour of LVT for a while now. To my layman understanding it seems better thought out and more realistic than the magic bullets that wealth tax campaigners propose. Sobering how dependent it would be on proper, long term strategic planning though. Fascinating thread and report here
Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · 2mo agoStamp duty and council tax are terrible taxes. Land value tax could replace both - and Andy Burnham has backed it for 16 years. Who wins? Who loses? What happens to house prices? LVT could drive growth. But it isn’t easy. Our model shows its promise - and its problems.
“Suddenly the RW press, that army of advocates for the right to offend, got terribly pompous. This degrades democracy, they say. What degrades democracy is the guy who thinks voters don't deserve to know what donors are getting in exchange for five million quid - not the guy with a bin on his head.”
Sunday School: A Bin-Bin Situation
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 12 July · 1hr 2min
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Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 2mo agoSUNDAY SCHOOL: A BIN BIN SITUATION 🗑️ BINHAMISM & the power of satire 🛟🔫 BENEFITS & BAYONETS - PIP v Defence 🇫🇷 BAYEUXISM & the art we’d love to see 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2dk2...
Am I the only person who finds it crazy that the "Holy fuck! We're literally on fire!" story is only about 4th or 5th item on the homepage of most UK news websites, if it's even there at all? #ukwildfires #news #climatecrisis
Victoria Derbyshire's surprise that Marouane Fellaini would be happy to cheat his way out of a red card is adorable and shows that she never saw him play #bbcnewsnight
Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling - Carbon Brief
UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
carbonbrief.org
An odd aspect of #remain was finding myself in agreement with Piers Morgan. On #bbclaurak today, Morgan makes the case for rejoin, then follows by saying the UK should rejoin "in a leading role, to reform the EU". He somehow combines being pro-EU with the delusional exceptionalism that got us here.
@bestforbritain.org are amazing. I’m in awe of their relentless efforts to treat our country’s self inflicted wounds. In years to come, UK will be in a better place for the research and data they’ve helped gather and the awareness they’ve driven. You can help by sending their report to your MP today
Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 2mo ago🚨 EU membership would supercharge the UK economy by at least £92bn. Send the report to your MP: hey-mp.uk
Some headlines for Mason and Kuenssberg to pick out of the hat in the coming days: A clear path to Downing St is bad news for Burnham Whisper it, but Burnham could kickstart the Kemi-naissance Does Burnham spell the end for the Special Relationship? Why Nigel Farage is the real winner this week
Abdullah Ibrahim, musician, 1934-2026—Ibrahim played at Nelson Mandela’s 1994 presidential inauguration. Mandela described him as “our Mozart” (Kippie Moeketsi, Ibrahim recalled, had loved to play Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto). www.ft.com/content/646c... David Honigmann @financialtimes.com
Abdullah Ibrahim, musician, 1934-2026
The South African jazz luminary produced anthems that came to define resistance against apartheid
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Russia set Britain on fire. Demand an inquiry.
The men who tried to set fire to Kier Starmer’s house were taking orders from Russia. Our research shows this was not an isolated plot. It was part of a wider Russian operation on British soil. Add yo...
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Every so often, a headline appears to remind us what an absolutely batshit timeline we are living in. And by every so often, I mean several times a day. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Trump’s White House UFC fights marred by ugly Michelle Obama smear
Justin Gaethje stunned Ilia Topuria in the main event as a night of military pageantry, political theater and cage fighting veered into conspiracy-laden culture-war rhetoric
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Please read this if you want to think clearly about the issue
Ruth Curtice@ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 3mo agoAs debates rage about where to get the money for higher defence spending, it’s important we have a clear picture of how we spent the peace dividend while it was around. Thread 🧵⤵️
The ability of Grok to strip women and children was not an accident. Safeguards could have been built into the chatbot, but its creators chose not to. I'm launching this High Court claim to pursue accountability for those choices.
Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
Nigel Farage is a threat to national security
This is what he does. It's who he is
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What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.
Trev@caerleonite.bsky.social · 3mo agoWell done @iandunt.bsky.social for not letting Reform cllr Alex Wilson take the high ground for what Farage did.
This is particularly damning from an actor who once played his mum on screen.
One of my favourite ways to upset car bros is to explain my belief that the order of priority in all road planning decisions should be 1) Pedestrians 2) Cyclists 3) Public transport 4) Emergency access 5) Essential services access 6) Privately owned vehicles. Drives them to distraction.
Cycling Weekly@cyclingweekly.com · 3mo ago‘Imagine a road where cars are not allowed to overtake bikes’ – England's first 'cycle street' opens Pedallers and pedestrians have been given complete priority on Adams Road in Cambridge cycling-weekly.visitlink.me/9SuT55
👏 Ed Matthew, the UK programme director at the E3G thinktank: “Clean energy is cheaper energy – it protects our bills from prices skyrocketing, its running costs are virtually zero, and it doesn’t cause climate change which threatens economic collapse"
Blair’s fossil fuel ideas ‘bizarre’ in face of energy and climate crises, experts say
Energy specialists say abandoning net zero and increasing oil and gas drilling would cause more instability for Britons
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