Lydia Bleasdale

“If you can’t get a vote on your record, don’t play us against each other.”

I’m grateful for the Rev. Sharpton’s powerful words of unity this morning and against the cynical politics of fear and division.

I’m not sure I’ve ever witnessed political confidence like this.

Ed, your Mum sounds absolutely epic. Thank you for sharing her with us

Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months’ worth of local journalism later, that now looks like a shaky claim.

And the absolutely poignant conclusion:

Married her yesterday.

This is pretty damning

#Truthbomb

“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.” DT

@goodlawproject.org

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT

"We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?

It’s 30 years since Dean Windass scored one of the Greatest Goals in Football League History.

Goodness me. He should have been top 3 in the Ballon d’Or for this.

Love it!

How are we defining 'similar activities' here? Great task for a first year Law student!

After Law Firm Deals With Trump, D.C. Bar Warns of Ethical Jeopardy

Wow. "Months after law firms made deals with President Trump to ward off punitive executive orders, the ethics committee of the District of Columbia Bar is warning that such arrangements may require firms to drop or obtain waivers from all clients who have interests at odds with the government."

Why on earth do asylum seekers need to be more than half a mile from Inverness high street? Is he worried that they might take over an empty shop front and rejuvenate the local economy

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This is the most enraging timeline. Yes, it is racist to say there are too many Black and Asian people on TV/in Birmingham/in the UK. No, I’m not going to debate it. The end.

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh.
news.sky.com/story/migran...

Parents in Northern Ireland have had their child support payments stopped as part of the UK government’s crackdown on alleged benefit fraud simply because they returned from a holiday via Dublin airport. So far 346 families have had their benefits frozen, an investigation by NI online newspaper, the Detail, shared with the Guardian, has discovered. The extraordinary mistake comes in the wake of a new anti-fraud system designed to track those who leave the country but do not come back after eight weeks, raising a red flag at HMRC for possible emigration. The problem in Northern Ireland is many families routinely fly out of Belfast but return via Dublin, which is often cheaper and offers many more flights, leaving HMRC with the impression a passenger has not returned.

This is beyond stupid. People flying out from Belfast and back through Dublin having child benefit stopped because HMRC assumes they've left the country

I know GB forgets Northern Ireland exists, but what are they playing at

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Christmas cards and gift wrap collection.

I know it’s early but my #Christmas card and gift wrap collection is now available in my online shop
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

I'm thrilled to be able to share this.

Here's Harland Primary School, the first recipients of books courtesy of "Big Green Books 500 Club"

I sent them £500 of books, thanks to the dosh we're raising each week.

Club details HERE.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

You're a sweetheart, thank you - guzzling honey x

Have lost my voice. The three year old's verdict is it has gone 'because it was so old'

Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.

Image uploaded from tweet

🚨🌳 Official, confirmed. Sean Dyche signs in as new Nottingham Forest head coach on a contract until June 2027.

Pro-tip: never try to bluff a reporter into saying they don’t understand the rules of off the record. It never helps.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

can't believe connecting the worlds most used online services to one single company has resulted in an outrage that has switched off the world's most used online services. truly shocked this could happen

'And this one has TWO cds, the other is folded away'

'Uhuh'