Tim Purches

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg

AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

How difficult do you think it will be for a consensus to be reached, and will the whole process be finished by the next election, which could overturn all the good work done so far?

Had something similar done for a dental implant a few years ago. Painfully expensive, but an under appreciated marvel of modern technology

So did it work?

Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest The trio are cleared of all charges after citing human rights law in their defence.

A small glimmer of hope that our right to protest might not be completely lost #JustStopOil

Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening Sudan was thrown into disarray in 2023 when its army and a paramilitary group began a power struggle.

@timpurches.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

There is no shortage of man's inhumanity to man.

If you want to help, support MSF and the British Red Cross

msf.org.uk

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Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening Sudan was thrown into disarray in 2023 when its army and a paramilitary group began a power struggle.

Despite more than 150,000 deaths, widespread war crimes and millions facing hunger and disease, the war in #Sudan, which United Nations has called the world's largest humanitarian crisis, seems to be almost completely ignored in the west.

Private Eye excellence…

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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It’s certainly a beautiful dress, but I’m more intrigued by how long the model’s legs must be

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

The real life consequences of the media’s and mainstream politicians’ failure to stand up against the rising tide of naked racism

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of training AI software. When …

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 14/10/2025

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

“…symbols change their meaning. My flag is lost.”

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy ...

Straight title doesn’t indicate the wicked comedy in this piece (Stewart Lee among the righteous!) www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

An excellent thread (as you would expect from George Monbiot)

We’re going to do what the US is doing and destroy our country because we can’t seem to stop the hateful racists who would rather live in a shithole than share their lives with brown people.

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them? A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

A very insightful article on the ‘reactionary centrist’, and how they have captured the Labour Party and enabled the shift to the right in this country

These false beliefs do not arise in a vacuum. Yet we seem collectively incurious about their origins.

Robin Ince standing on a stage in front of a room full of people

A wonderful, entertaining evening yesterday listening to Robin Ince robinince.bsky.social talk to Plymouth Humanists

A lighthearted but also insightful thread

Yet, on a personal level, most people don’t feel negatively impacted by immigration

So how come they feel that it is such a massive issue at Government/ National level (at least right now)?

(Staring hard at the media and Farage and Labour’s stupidity at feeding their toxic messaging)

The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature? On a tiny Italian island, scientists conducted a radical experiment to see if the bees were causing their wild cousins to decline

Despite their popularity, honeybee hives harm efforts to protect wildlife www.theguardian.com/environment/...