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Lots here obviously but once again struck by how phenomenally stupid these people are. How on earth do you think taking this line helps Labour
“Robert Jenrick is the man who as Immigration Minister oversaw the open borders experiment that led to the biggest increase in illegal immigration in our country”
Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
January 16, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Lots here obviously but once again struck by how phenomenally stupid these people are. How on earth do you think taking this line helps Labour
Not high enough
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Not high enough
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
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This is a Trump-style bit of intimidation for falling out of line, combined with a blatantly prejudiced and prejudicial statement by the Chief Inspector. More confirmation that Labour has zero interest in regaining any votes lost for its pro-Israel positions.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Ofsted does snap inspection of Bristol school criticised for cancelling MP’s visit
Visit by Damien Egan, Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair, was called off after opposition from pro-Palestine group and union
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
This is a Trump-style bit of intimidation for falling out of line, combined with a blatantly prejudiced and prejudicial statement by the Chief Inspector. More confirmation that Labour has zero interest in regaining any votes lost for its pro-Israel positions.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Not a police fan (criminal here in peace 👏👏) but the west midlands guy just refusing to go in the face of all this is quite funny/good
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Streeting ‘horrified’ if police chief behind Maccabi Tel Aviv ban not gone by end of day
Minister says he is shocked West Midlands chief who misled MPs and public is still in post
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Not a police fan (criminal here in peace 👏👏) but the west midlands guy just refusing to go in the face of all this is quite funny/good
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Cheers Dale Vince is crying
I was supposed to be in bed an hour ago but sending links and videos to people so they know to avoid the green gas (zinc chloride).
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
Once a lab steward, always a lab steward.
Seriously, I was a chemist twenty years ago, you do NOT want heavy metal toxicity. It fucks you up in weird ways.
January 15, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Cheers Dale Vince is crying
Going to do this but for all the bars in Penge
The curiosity was killing me. The guy said he found the ad on Instagram and that, as of today, the post is still up. So I spent an hour or so on a spreadsheet of every single bar, pub, or club I could find in Salt Lake City, almost 100.
None of them posted it
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
None of them posted it
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
January 15, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Going to do this but for all the bars in Penge
"We can't have an election because we need to spend the money on pot holes" absolutely terminal politic's brain
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
"We can't have an election because we need to spend the money on pot holes" absolutely terminal politic's brain
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shabana Mahmood thinks there was a recent Maccabi Tel Aviv fixture in Ukraine. Forensic stuff
January 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Shabana Mahmood thinks there was a recent Maccabi Tel Aviv fixture in Ukraine. Forensic stuff
We were about 2 weeks from all Israeli clubs being banned from all UEFA competitions too. Extremely weird "scandal" even by the standards of the UK media-political elite
I repeat myself, and maybe it's a poverty of imagination on my part, but I simply can't envisage any circumstances where a UK Government would advocate so strongly and passionately on behalf of supporters of a UK football team.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Home secretary says she has lost confidence in police chief behind Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban
Statement by Shabana Mahmood is blow to Craig Guildford’s chances of remaining West Midlands police chief constable
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
We were about 2 weeks from all Israeli clubs being banned from all UEFA competitions too. Extremely weird "scandal" even by the standards of the UK media-political elite
It's a funny turnaround in that PCCs were introduced because the Tories thought Labour had made the police woke and that electing local headbangers would make them all tough on crime again. Now a new generation right wing HS has decided that PCCs are making the police woke.
It is utterly ridiculous that the Home Secretary wants to reintroduce the power to sack chief constables.
Isn't she busy enough?
No other country is as centralised as Britain - this is just a small example of the utter parochialism of people like Mahmood.
Isn't she busy enough?
No other country is as centralised as Britain - this is just a small example of the utter parochialism of people like Mahmood.
NEW Shabana Mahmood announces not only that Craig Guildford, the chief constable of West Midlands Police, no longer has her confidence after a "devastating" independent review, but also that the government will reintroduce the power for home secretaries to sack chief constables
January 14, 2026 at 3:21 PM
It's a funny turnaround in that PCCs were introduced because the Tories thought Labour had made the police woke and that electing local headbangers would make them all tough on crime again. Now a new generation right wing HS has decided that PCCs are making the police woke.
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For clarity, this government has so far:
- cancelled HS2 north of Birmingham (previous government hadn't actually done that formally)
- cancelled electrification of the Midland Main Line
- cancelled West Yorkshire mass transit
- cancelled the trans-Pennine high speed line
- cancelled HS2 north of Birmingham (previous government hadn't actually done that formally)
- cancelled electrification of the Midland Main Line
- cancelled West Yorkshire mass transit
- cancelled the trans-Pennine high speed line
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 AM
For clarity, this government has so far:
- cancelled HS2 north of Birmingham (previous government hadn't actually done that formally)
- cancelled electrification of the Midland Main Line
- cancelled West Yorkshire mass transit
- cancelled the trans-Pennine high speed line
- cancelled HS2 north of Birmingham (previous government hadn't actually done that formally)
- cancelled electrification of the Midland Main Line
- cancelled West Yorkshire mass transit
- cancelled the trans-Pennine high speed line
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Today's announcement is the opposite of what it says it is. It's the formal cancellation of the high speed line across the Pennines.
What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.
What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Today's announcement is the opposite of what it says it is. It's the formal cancellation of the high speed line across the Pennines.
What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.
What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.
Clearly not true lol
The dude arrested is FORTY-EIGHT by the way.
I think this is the thing about most graffiti artists, they're almost always depressed Gen-Xers who think that they're Banksy rather than a failed systems analyst from Walthamstow.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/man...
I think this is the thing about most graffiti artists, they're almost always depressed Gen-Xers who think that they're Banksy rather than a failed systems analyst from Walthamstow.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/man...
Man arrested over £260,000 graffiti spree on Northern line trains
A person suspected of causing nearly £260,000 of graffiti damage to tube trains has been arrested following a British Transport Police (BTP) investigation.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Clearly not true lol
CityMapper needs a "chance it but doable" option imo
January 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
CityMapper needs a "chance it but doable" option imo
I'd have resolved this in an elegant way that respected both the spirit of the original French joke and the constraints of English nomenclature I reckon
The bit on translations reminded me of Le Diner de Cons, an excellent comedy in which one joke depends on a mishearing of the name Sasseur for "sa sœur". The subtitler solved this problem by renaming the character Hissister. Pretty awkward, but hard to see what else you could do.
AGI may never happen. But in some tasks, 'as good as human' intelligence does already exist - yet there is still one vitally important thing that AI can't take, which is responsibility. Some thoughts on that in my column this week:
January 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I'd have resolved this in an elegant way that respected both the spirit of the original French joke and the constraints of English nomenclature I reckon
A lovely good news story here. Writers festival in Adelaide cancelled the booking of a Palestinian author. Most of the other bookings then pulled out, now the festival has been cancelled and the entire board has resigned 👍
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Adelaide writers’ week 2026 cancelled as board apologises to Randa Abdel-Fattah for ‘how decision was represented’
Almost all remaining festival board members have resigned after backlash to decision to disinvite the Palestinian Australian author
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
A lovely good news story here. Writers festival in Adelaide cancelled the booking of a Palestinian author. Most of the other bookings then pulled out, now the festival has been cancelled and the entire board has resigned 👍
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Nah it's fine
London is safer, but I see the criminality we do see rising as part of a wider public realm issue - an atmosphere of "chaos creep".
My column for this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social:
My column for this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social:
London may be safer – but it is suffering "chaos creep"
It's unsettling to live in a city where the state seems unable to stop petty crime
www.newstatesman.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Nah it's fine
Canal fan here in peace 👋👏👏
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Canal fan here in peace 👋👏👏
My 360 performance review-ass tribute
🚨❤️🩹 Kylian Mbappé: “It’s been short but it was a pleasure to play for you and learn from you. Thank you for giving me the confidence since Day 1”. “I will remember you as a manager who had clear ideas and knows many things about football. Best of luck for your next chapter”.
January 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
My 360 performance review-ass tribute
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put on a proper suit, do up your tie and respect the magic of the cup
January 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
put on a proper suit, do up your tie and respect the magic of the cup
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Have faith my friends, the long reign of the tiresome football hipsters is slowly entering its dying days
Absolutely does my head in that the Guardian puts the Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga results above the FA Cup on their Live Scores and Results pages.
January 10, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Have faith my friends, the long reign of the tiresome football hipsters is slowly entering its dying days
"If you don't like me there's the door" to people who voted Labour in at least the last 2 elections, seems unwise in hindsight (also at the time)
Actually, it's Starmer who's peeled off the left Labour voters. Zack just gave people a place to go. www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-p...
Starmer: If you don't like Labour changes leave
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said Labour has changed permanently under his leadership.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 4:22 PM
"If you don't like me there's the door" to people who voted Labour in at least the last 2 elections, seems unwise in hindsight (also at the time)
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This is how you can tell Starmer’s advisors are geniuses. Takes real talent to box a country into decline this comprehensively.
The immigration doom loop in full swing.
Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically.
(1/3)
archive.ph/pyVLg
Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically.
(1/3)
archive.ph/pyVLg
January 10, 2026 at 8:15 AM
This is how you can tell Starmer’s advisors are geniuses. Takes real talent to box a country into decline this comprehensively.
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Bristol Patriots are holding an anti-Keir Starmer march in Bristol on Saturday. Anti-racism campaigners are calling their counter-protest 'We Hate Keir Starmer More Than You' in response.
Full story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Full story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Bristol Patriots plan march through city centre again
A counter protest is planned
www.bristolpost.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Bristol Patriots are holding an anti-Keir Starmer march in Bristol on Saturday. Anti-racism campaigners are calling their counter-protest 'We Hate Keir Starmer More Than You' in response.
Full story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Full story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...