I did the degree that seemed to make more sense than the one I wanted and ended up in work I hated. Should have studied art and been a possibly poor, but happy artist. My daughter is currently studying illustration, she'll find her way doing something she loves and excels at

The problem being that the people who love the idea of cutting/stopping migration think "we can train our own" is a powerful magic spell. There's no way to get through to them.

Cheers. Being from a country where I rarely see a gun I did wonder what it was beyond it looking like a fancy paintball thing.

Great show. I was too late to phone in, listening about 45 min behind but it really hit regarding the recent rise in racism. My daughter is now experiencing things I thought we had left behind a long time ago.

I'm all for it but it's taken far, far too long. Like Starmer just came out of a daydream and was like "hang on a minute, they are doing a racism!"

They will simply attack the BBC for some crime of "woke" to deflect.

The absolutely ridiculous response to this in the media and from Reform suggests they really didn't expect the pushback. Their entire strategy seems to have been to let labour continue to try and fail to appeal to Reform voters, allowing Reform to push further extremes.

Patriots really are the worst at being patriotic

Pip is rebooting

I think I'm going to also. I tried once before and struggled getting used to this place. Also worried about the echo chamber thing. There's just nothing positive about that place now though and with the few accounts I interact with leaving maybe it's time.

At least he signed it

I really don't miss the midnight panic of realising everyone else had gone to bed and left me with yet another last minute craft project.

This is the correct response to discovering this abomination. It is the death of Christmas joy, once you start it cannot be stopped. You might think you are creative but by the fourth year or so you will be ready to torch the thing.

Indeed, my older daughter took biology and art at A-level and it's still an influence on her art. She's now started an illustration degree.

I keep popping back just to have a look. My feed is grim, just relentless hate.

I'm struggling with the words "tea" and "friend" in this post

It varies a little depending on who manages your domain, but it's really no harder than copying and pasting some text.