Sam Wheatley
@samwheatley.bsky.social
Assistant Editor & sometimes-editor. 🎞️✂️
Untrustworthy, murderous met police are going to be given more surveillance powers? That seems like a good idea.
December 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Untrustworthy, murderous met police are going to be given more surveillance powers? That seems like a good idea.
What a joke this country is. Bills already too high "£108 added to energy bills by 2031". So, the energy companies didn't invest, gave the money away, and now we're picking up the tab. Oh for a Government with a spine who can get a grip (no, that isn't Reform).
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Energy investment of £28bn approved by regulator Ofgem
Ofgem says the investment will help lower reliance on imported gas and make wholesale energy cheaper.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
What a joke this country is. Bills already too high "£108 added to energy bills by 2031". So, the energy companies didn't invest, gave the money away, and now we're picking up the tab. Oh for a Government with a spine who can get a grip (no, that isn't Reform).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The mighty great America capitulating to Russia. Cowards.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The mighty great America capitulating to Russia. Cowards.
Read an article today about a primary school banning K-Pop Demon Hunter songs because it’s upsetting some hyper-faith people. I bet it’s the parents it’s upsetting not the kids.
Tell them to JTFO.
Tell them to JTFO.
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Read an article today about a primary school banning K-Pop Demon Hunter songs because it’s upsetting some hyper-faith people. I bet it’s the parents it’s upsetting not the kids.
Tell them to JTFO.
Tell them to JTFO.
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Don’t all these problems go away if universities stop being businesses?
'More degree subjects are likely to face extinction unless changes are made to competition laws to allow universities to work together to maintain certain courses, experts have said.' 1/3
Competition law exemption ‘needed to prevent courses dying out’
Attempts to quell universities’ fears about competition laws may actually be heightening anxiety over collaboration in cash-strapped sector
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Don’t all these problems go away if universities stop being businesses?
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Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook
This from the country that loves to wank itself off over 'WW2 war time spirit', can't even handle some lights. I'm sure the Ukrainian's are bored too. But more about the invasion rather than some LED lights.
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Repair planned for A52 bridge lights stuck on Ukraine colours
A software issue has been blamed for the bridge lights being stuck on blue and yellow.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This from the country that loves to wank itself off over 'WW2 war time spirit', can't even handle some lights. I'm sure the Ukrainian's are bored too. But more about the invasion rather than some LED lights.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“Residents baffled as England flags appear in Welsh village”
Loudly for those at the back: BECAUSE IT’S NOT ABOUT ENGLISH PRIDE IN THE FLAG IT’S A BUNCH OF RACISTS.
Loudly for those at the back: BECAUSE IT’S NOT ABOUT ENGLISH PRIDE IN THE FLAG IT’S A BUNCH OF RACISTS.
September 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“Residents baffled as England flags appear in Welsh village”
Loudly for those at the back: BECAUSE IT’S NOT ABOUT ENGLISH PRIDE IN THE FLAG IT’S A BUNCH OF RACISTS.
Loudly for those at the back: BECAUSE IT’S NOT ABOUT ENGLISH PRIDE IN THE FLAG IT’S A BUNCH OF RACISTS.
Audi bellends out in force today.
September 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Audi bellends out in force today.
Had a nice meal. Left it pissed off because they slipped service charge on at the end. Leave that shit out of our restaurants. (And don't bleat on about 'challenging environment'; nickel and diming people isn't the way to return customers).
August 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Had a nice meal. Left it pissed off because they slipped service charge on at the end. Leave that shit out of our restaurants. (And don't bleat on about 'challenging environment'; nickel and diming people isn't the way to return customers).
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As someone in education who gets a lot of emails from students from all over the world, I had not considered this - and wish everyone would start using them for this reason. I'd love to address people respectfully at all times! This would really help me achieve that!
One overlooked benefit of declaring preferred pronouns as a social norm is that it's not just for LGBTQ but also for people w non-Anglo names. I'm a cishet woman with a very feminine name but nobody's gonna know that if they don't know Chinese.
But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..
But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..
August 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
As someone in education who gets a lot of emails from students from all over the world, I had not considered this - and wish everyone would start using them for this reason. I'd love to address people respectfully at all times! This would really help me achieve that!
Owing to staggering Government Overreach (dressed up, as always, as ‘protect the children) Xbox want me to age verify my account.
The same account I’ve had since 2002.
That fancy AI not working too great is it?
The same account I’ve had since 2002.
That fancy AI not working too great is it?
August 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Owing to staggering Government Overreach (dressed up, as always, as ‘protect the children) Xbox want me to age verify my account.
The same account I’ve had since 2002.
That fancy AI not working too great is it?
The same account I’ve had since 2002.
That fancy AI not working too great is it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I really hope people taking this drug find an alternative, stop using this, and tell the price gouging company to go fuck themselves.
I really hope people taking this drug find an alternative, stop using this, and tell the price gouging company to go fuck themselves.
Patients struggle to get weight loss drug ahead of price rise
The drug's US manufacturer has asked UK distributors to stop taking orders from pharmacies until next month's price increase.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I really hope people taking this drug find an alternative, stop using this, and tell the price gouging company to go fuck themselves.
I really hope people taking this drug find an alternative, stop using this, and tell the price gouging company to go fuck themselves.
Lucy Connelly believes if you break the law you should be locked up. Unless she’s broken the law then it’s ok. And if she’s wondering why the law is the way it is, remind who was in power the last decade?
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Lucy Connolly: Woman jailed for race hate post says she was political prisoner
She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.
www.bbc.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Lucy Connelly believes if you break the law you should be locked up. Unless she’s broken the law then it’s ok. And if she’s wondering why the law is the way it is, remind who was in power the last decade?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
“Air Canada to resume flights after pay deal struck with union”
Stand by others and the unions of others. Companies don’t listen to reason they listen to action.
Stand by others and the unions of others. Companies don’t listen to reason they listen to action.
August 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“Air Canada to resume flights after pay deal struck with union”
Stand by others and the unions of others. Companies don’t listen to reason they listen to action.
Stand by others and the unions of others. Companies don’t listen to reason they listen to action.
I hope whatever happens at the White House today the world continues its decoupling from the United States. Tired of our lives being dictated by the whims of whichever president is installed.
August 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I hope whatever happens at the White House today the world continues its decoupling from the United States. Tired of our lives being dictated by the whims of whichever president is installed.
As someone that will need Air Canadas service relatively soon: good. If companies aren’t going to treat its staff fairly then they need to be stood up to.
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Air Canada: Return to service delayed after union defies order
Canada's jobs minister intervened in the dispute in a bid to preserve "stability and supply chains".
www.bbc.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
As someone that will need Air Canadas service relatively soon: good. If companies aren’t going to treat its staff fairly then they need to be stood up to.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I am shocked. *Shocked*
August 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I am shocked. *Shocked*
North American ‘pubs’ need to let me order a drink at the bar and then go back to my table. ‘No you have to wait for your server’. What a faff.
August 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
North American ‘pubs’ need to let me order a drink at the bar and then go back to my table. ‘No you have to wait for your server’. What a faff.
In a Canadian pub last night. I’m trying to find out what something is in baseball without googling. Anyway,
To our waiter: “do you follow baseball?”
Waiter: “No, is it on?”
I look at the two 70”+ screens on the wall thats had the baseball on for the entire hour we’ve been here.
Me: “…yeah.”
To our waiter: “do you follow baseball?”
Waiter: “No, is it on?”
I look at the two 70”+ screens on the wall thats had the baseball on for the entire hour we’ve been here.
Me: “…yeah.”
August 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In a Canadian pub last night. I’m trying to find out what something is in baseball without googling. Anyway,
To our waiter: “do you follow baseball?”
Waiter: “No, is it on?”
I look at the two 70”+ screens on the wall thats had the baseball on for the entire hour we’ve been here.
Me: “…yeah.”
To our waiter: “do you follow baseball?”
Waiter: “No, is it on?”
I look at the two 70”+ screens on the wall thats had the baseball on for the entire hour we’ve been here.
Me: “…yeah.”
Fuck. Off. I work with young people, yes at times they’re a pain in the arse. They are not the blame punching bag every organisation thinks they are.
August 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Fuck. Off. I work with young people, yes at times they’re a pain in the arse. They are not the blame punching bag every organisation thinks they are.
Or, rather than handing out money, we could just end this school uniform nonsense.
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Struggling families need school uniform grants, government told
Grants are offered as standard in Scotland, Wales and NI - but only by a quarter of councils in England.
www.bbc.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Or, rather than handing out money, we could just end this school uniform nonsense.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I believe them like I believe children, stood alone amongst chaos and destruction, when they say “it wasn’t me.”
“The Chinese embassy in London called the report "groundless and absurd", adding that China respects freedom of speech in the UK and elsewhere.”
“The Chinese embassy in London called the report "groundless and absurd", adding that China respects freedom of speech in the UK and elsewhere.”
August 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I believe them like I believe children, stood alone amongst chaos and destruction, when they say “it wasn’t me.”
“The Chinese embassy in London called the report "groundless and absurd", adding that China respects freedom of speech in the UK and elsewhere.”
“The Chinese embassy in London called the report "groundless and absurd", adding that China respects freedom of speech in the UK and elsewhere.”