Sam Broderick

I listened to her album tonight after reading your newsletter (and having heard a couple of songs on Spotify playlists). It's really great, thank you for the recommendation!

Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?

Entertainment websites are disappearing, or having to double down on clickbait etc to keep going. A few thoughts, and a presumably futile request to Google for some guidance.

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Starmer is really going out & saying (with his mouth!) "if you successfully get out of Afghanistan or North Korea and make it to the UK, and I grant you asylum because you're genuinely at risk of being tortured to death, I still think your wife and kids should be left rot at home."

Cool.

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Do we think Flo Rida even knows what a San Marino or a Eurovision Song Contest even is?

I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride.

They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

London Trans Pride: around 100,000 people - the media barely covers it

the far right racist march: around 110,000 people - the media gives it full live coverage, minute by minute updates

The UK media is complicit in the mainstreaming of racism as well as transphobia

Screenshot of BBC news.

"his reach was worldwide"

Yes, because you keep amplifying it??? Why is this the headline news?? The media are complicit in encouraging far right ideology in the UK.

First Ireland, now Netherlands explicitly saying they won't participate in Eurovision if Israel does. After so many vague statements, it's good to see two broadcasters being so direct about their intentions, and I don't underestimate the courage needed to put their heads above the parapet like this.

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.

Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Someone has sent me a bluesky DM, but I haven't verified my age (because I refuse to give my private information to some leaky techbro company) so I can't access DMs to read it, so I guess I just have this notification for the rest of my life now?

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

Excellent thread and well worth a read!

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

This is just embarrassing

is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?

If you've ever wondered what I do at work... here's your chance to find out. Coverage starts at 1:01:08 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

'Anywhere But Here': How Britain's Anti-Migrant Media Consensus Is Crowding Out the Truth Britain's longstanding traditions of tolerance and compassion are being suppressed in favour of a media-driven campaign of anti-migrant hate

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

Christian campaigners in legal bid to ban civil servants from Pride The Christian Institute claims civil service endorsement of Pride breaches rules on impartiality

Right on time for the American playbook in the UK, here comes the "Christian" right coming for gay rights and Pride www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

having thought about this for three days, my current status is:

what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.

From the transgenderUK community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community

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Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.

Super proud of all these authors. What happens to a prize when there's no nominees left?

a drag queen with a very large hat on her head is standing on a stage . Alt: A gif of Thorgy Thor on Drag Race saying “Oh Jesus. Gross.”

nothing to see here, just the official Eurovision instagram girlbossing a genocide www.instagram.com/reel/DNGSkrU...

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

@davidmack.bsky.social hi there, I just wanted to tell you that I read Lost and Founder, your Odo story, and I loved it so much. It actually brought me to tears, it was so beautiful. Thank you.

Wowwwww (and it was shite before it even got to that)

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.

Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.

As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

My partner and I frequently say "Necesito emergencia!" at each other at the slightest inconvenience