This is a nation of rapists and murderers.

Israel must be held to account before it poisons the entire world by normalising this behaviour.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

3 hours now.

God, I hate #EasyJet. £1,300 on flights for the family. Plane is delayed by 2 hours, leaving us at the airport with young children.

They've offered me a £6 voucher as compensation.

The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism? Some of today’s far right is openly violent and undemocratic – and even in its less extreme forms, far-right populism is a profound threat. But that doesn’t mean it is just a re-run of history

This is essential reading to understand the world we live in.

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

“Why do we feel a paralyzing sense of dread all the time?” I type into my Paralyzing Sense of Dread Machine that lives in my pocket.

Orkney library building

So glad to see @orkneylibrary.bsky.social on Bluesky.

I just walked past the building in Kirkwall and remembered how much I liked their Twitter account in the early, innocent days of social media.

I absolutely *love* getting emails from various online services saying "please take action now or your account will be permanently deleted."

The idea of one more digital footprint being washed away by the information tide pleases me immensely.

Helpful map of Orbán-linked right-wing networks & individuals in the UK. Such media favs as Spiked & Free Speech Union along with Matt Goodwin, Toby Young, Frank Furedi, Douglas Murray, Nigel Biggar & more UK right-wingers all supported by the Orbán regime. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/e...

The ever-shrinking JD Vance After a series of setbacks, the vice-president is no longer Trump’s obvious successor

Love headline. What a pathetic excuse for a man.

The ever-shrinking JD Vance - www.ft.com/content/6354... via @FT

I was trying to be polite.

The US has become such a stupid country.

You realise you are posting on a thread started by a man and full of other men condemning this?

That the IDF has plenty of female soldiers who have also been implicated in this behaviour?

The problem here is gemocidal Zionism, not men.

Israel are Nazis. The state of Israel must be destroyed just as Nazi Germany was destroyed.

Engles saw workers in 19th century Manchester paying 25 percent of their income towards rent and was so aghast he invented communism.

25 percent of income going towards rent doesn’t even qualify as being rent-burdened in America today.

I do not fear Trump, says Pope Leo after US president calls him ‘weak’ Leader of Catholic church says he will continue to speak out against war after president’s extraordinary criticism

I like this Pope.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

What Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right really mean when they invoke ‘Greater Israel’ | Daniel Levy The concept is about much more than acquiring territory, it is also about Netanyahu’s desire for Israel to become a regional superpower, says Daniel Levy, president of the US/Middle East Project

An excellent overall contribution in the "Greater Israel" discourse from a former Israeli negotiator turned anti-apartheid critic in Daniel Levy.

There isn't just a territorial component, though it exists, but also a more broad conceptualization where Israel *replaces* the US as the dominant power.

A poster on a lamppost by a loch saying K is for Kindness - Vote Green

K is for Kindness.

Love this #VoteGreen poster in Voe, Shetland.

So lovely to see Elon crying over Orban's loss over at The Other Place.

Sugar Man — the track that made Rodriguez a star (without his knowing) The song sunk without trace when it was released in the US, but won him a huge following among anti-establishment South Africans

I love this story.

Sugar Man — the track that made Rodriguez a star (without his knowing) - www.ft.com/content/65f3... via @FT

Trump announces naval blockade of Strait of Hormuz as Iran peace talks fail Reopening the critical waterway is a sticking point in negotiations as oil supply bottlenecks prompt a global energy crisis

I thought the point was to open it?

Trump announces naval blockade of Strait of Hormuz as Iran peace talks fail - www.ft.com/content/49fb... via @FT

Hungary’s Orbán concedes defeat as opposition heads for landslide win Tisza party led by Péter Magyar projected to win a clear majority in a crushing loss for EU’s longest-serving premier

Putin pure greetin noo

Hungary’s Orbán concedes defeat as opposition heads for landslide win - www.ft.com/content/a9b6... via @FT

The market failure beneath the manosphere Confronting the misogyny and get-rich-quick schemes of influencers means talking openly to young men about success

This is the best thing I've read about the manosphere. It's offering young men (bad) answers and a narrative at a time when no one else is.

Life is confusing and difficult and the story we are brought up with is false.

The market failure beneath the manosphere - www.ft.com/content/a00c... via @FT

Actually didn't flannel make another comeback about 10 or 12 years ago? I seem to remember flannel feom Superdry, Lee and Wrangler all over the place.

Just where what you like.

‘Casual without being sloppy’: why flannel shirts are making a comeback From catwalk versions to vintage finds, the workwear staple is being recast as a marker of laid back cool

Fashion is so ridiculous. I had no idea fannel was 'out'. I've been a fan since the 1990s.

And of course, Pendleton, Woolrich, Filson and others have kept making them, and people have kept buying them.

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.

⭕Arrestations massives à #Londres visant des manifestants pacifiques pour avoir porté des pancartes condamnant le génocide et soutenant la #Palestine.

#Eye-On-Palestine

Trump is Not Senile Following the war on Iran and Trump's usual erratic comments , another round of "the President is senile!" has ripped through mainstream pol...

"Why bother speculating about the state of the President's brain when the politics provides the best explainer for his destructive behaviour."

Vote Green. Labour are done.

What is wrong with Britain?

The US negotiating its surrender in Islamabad while trying to maintain some dignity.

Apparently they've already agreed to release billions of dollars of frozen oil funds.

US and Iran begin highest-level talks in five decades - www.ft.com/content/7f9e... via @FT