Why are we celebrating the birthday of a dead person?

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What is the technique for safe cat swinging?

Just got a result. 2.9 million football pitches = 1 Wales unit

Yes that’s the smaller scale unit

Wonderful. Proof positive that Wales is the SSI unit for geographic scale.

Too good

They’ll be saying ‘on’ the weekend next

Good to see this reactionary authoritarian shit ain't working everywhere…

What sort of men are these? What century are they in?

12/ This is now a high-likelihood, high-impact risk.

#AMOC collapse would devastate European agriculture, shift tropical monsoons, raise Atlantic sea levels by up to a metre, and destabilise food systems globally.

Yet it's barely mentioned in national security planning. That has to change!

Whoops…

Nigel Farage's half a million pounds from foreign sources since becoming MP Since July 2024 when he finally became the MP after seven unsuccessful bids, the ex-Ukip leader has recieved almost £2million in income and gifts - with a third from foreign sources

Reform UK chief Nigel Farage has accepted over half a million pounds from foreign governments, companies and donors since becoming an MP.

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Surely a resignation matter? In other news, pigs seen in flight.

The only dividing going on is from rancid articles like this and from school boy racists like Farage. The UK is full of decent, welcoming, inclusive people......the minority that these individuals represent are just that..a minority.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

I've asked the BBC to correct this news report's mistake in claiming 100,000 small boat arrivals last year
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Could use BBC Verify data to get numbers right + more accurately report the context:eg, that small boat numbers are falling in 2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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This had me shouting at the telly. Utterly depraved behaviour.

The significant year on year fall on boat arrivals is broadly unreported by BBC or other media. It has less to do with imminent government changes currently going through than a fall in "push factors" that is Europe-wide

One of the chief spivs behind Reform etc.

There is absolutely no attempt to explain the scale of this. Politicians speaking of ‘industrial’ scale. But is this the case?

Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland

So... #Farage thinks it's fine for his car to park in a disabled space. Because, after all, he's far more important than a mere disabled pensioner trying to drop his wife off.

And allowing his thugs to manhandle the gentleman is fine, too.

Are we happy with this? *
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BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

OpenAI founder Sam Altman was profiled by the New Yorker last week in a piece that asked the question: Can he be trusted? Of course he can—he’s the most upstanding, reputable and energized tech CEO the world has ever seen. If you want, I can write a version that is longer, more sycophantic and that informs people IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK—new edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.

SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists Engineers link reduced lifespan of roads to shift to heavier cars, some bought to navigate damaged surfaces

Not only are they dangerous to pedestrians, other road users, and too big for our narrow roads these Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicles also ruin surfaces. @thewaroncars.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

How the ceasefire is going for shipping.

A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following