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If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

two players made Traitors in the first episode winning the game together is honestly incredible game play #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

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Shows a screenshot of episode 2, Midwinter Day, The Dark is Rising.

Merry solstice. This year, I am spending each evening for the next two weeks listening to the BBC’s wonderfully atmospheric dramatisation of Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising.

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

This really shouldn’t be a difficult thing for politicians to condemn. Instead we get the same tired, lazy and dangerous BS about ‘activist lawyers’, which puts people’s safety at risk and now stops charities from even operating.

Being a mum to a toddler means that every time I see a fire engine, tractor, or digger I have a Pavlovian response to shout out it’s name and point, even when said toddler is not with me.

Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration"

"Migration is a positive thing for our country"

"We need migration"

"We need fair and managed migration"

"And that's what will change this conversation"

*huge clap* #BBCQT

About. Fucking. Time.

Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.

The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.

Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.

Refugees are welcome.

Bet you they don't. Labour can't go far enough to appease those opposed to immigration and asylum, and they're losing support from centre and left voters by trying. If anything, Labour is actively creating more division by pushing this.

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

"If you don't let me punch you in the face, the other guy will kick you in the nuts" doesn't seem like a sustainable political message.

Snippet from BBC News: Mahmood will suggest that while some of her plans may seem immoderate, the alternative could be a further rise in support for Reform UK.

Vote for/support us and our policies because we are the lesser of two evils is a terrible basis for any party, and is a sign of the absence of any moral centre or political conviction.

We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.

a woman wearing a santa hat is holding a man 's hand and says `` stop trying to make fetch happen '' . Alt: Regina George of Mean Girls, with her classic ‘stop trying to make fetch happen’ .

Everytime I open a new PDF, ebook, and sometimes website, I have to waste time deleting, shutting down, and turning off AI features that I did not ask for.

AI is drains our time, our economy, our intellect and intellectual rights, and our environmental resources.

In the words of Regina George:

Laptop in background with blurred word document. In foreground, 3 books on the Windrush.

1,600 words written today 💪🏼

making Alan Carr a Traitor is the MESS option and I am so here for it #CelebrityTraitors

Autumn leaves in an array of red, yellow, brown, and green colours against a white backdrop.

It is likely that I will have to leave academia soon. It makes me mad/sad, because in what other job could I read the inspiring work of a student, collect autumn leaves for a research/outreach project, and write words for a book on migration communities and care, all in the space of one day?

2025: Yvette Cooper suspends the rights of child refugees to come to the UK, effectively rejecting Article 8 of the ECHR

2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK

Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR

‘these are real people's lives, their families, their children’

I’ve been trying to think of something intelligible to say about yesterday’s announcement. In reading Kelly’s piece I’ve realised that I’m struggling for words because the policy is so unfathomably cruel. People will die because of it.

Excited to see this out! Zalfa and Gillian recorded an episode of their wonderful podcast at the ‘Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes’ conference this summer. It includes discussions on podcasting practice and hospitality, as well as border stories shared by conference delegates.

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“We must wean the UK off its “immigration dependency”, Starmer said in 2022. But the problem is his – and the entire political establishment’s – dependency on immigration as an issue to be exploited.”

Bang on, @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...