Jane

"Old people are just young people who have been alive for a very, very long time."

No coincidence imo that Paris Brest, the queen of pâtisserie, rhymes with 'the best'

Brilliant old fashioned telly that you have to wait (impatiently) for and can't binge. Impeccable production and attention to detail. Already hooked.

If the people of this country are divided on immigration they will lose the fight on wealth inequality.

Research shows that ChatGPT is changing your brain People worry that students are increasingly using generative AI in their work. It saves time, but what is it doing to their brains?

✍️ Research shows that ChatGPT is changing your brain

What happens to your brain when you use ChatGPT to write your essay? MIT watched students’ brain activity to find out. The results are worrying.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

“I was a Remainer, I’m still a Remainer, and I’ll be a Remainer until my dying day”
- Minister Chris Bryant at the Labour Movement for Europe
rally at #Labour Conference

Graphic with the headline “London is the greatest city in the world” set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline. The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the world’s best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.

Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

All women will have done this at some point to some extent since forever. For most not all the time, and not everywhere, thank goodness, but always for much the same reason/s

My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you By Alex Andreou

"I need you to understand what this country feels like to those of us who look different, because only then might you glean what those flags going up signify to someone like me.

They are a preemptive claim over contested space." - writes @sturdyalex.bsky.social.

https://bit.ly/469g1Mz?

*Nods in agreement* - am assuming the reporter was a man . . .

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law.

These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

A fantastic speech against the madness in Gaza from the Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov. He's speaking up for our shared humanity here. Against what's being done to innocents on both sides. But the Palestinians and Jews who want peace there are not powerful enough to stop it. They all need our help.

This letter appeared in the Hull Daily Mail on 8 September 2025. It argues that while European Single Market access will not undo all of the harm caused by Brexit, it will go a long ways towards doing so.

#Brexit made Britain poorer, divided & less influential - says Hull Daily Mail ✉️ Single Market entry won’t undo #BrexitShambles, but it’ll restore trade, support jobs & rebuild the #UKeconomy. 98% of 🇬🇧 biz agrees (@europeanmovement.co.uk) #BrexitReality #SM4UK #RejoinEU 🇪🇺Read more 👇

Haven't (re)watched it for ages. Will put that right soon - a perfect antidote to the evenings drawing in!

Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rug, says Guardian columnist John Harris

This by @johnharris1969.bsky.social crystallises the feelings of dread I've been having about the prospect of a Farage government. Think about what it'd mean for the NHS, state education, the BBC, climate change.

But then pick yourself up and *fight like hell.*

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams: Ultimate Test review – this TV show is a beacon of hope The cricket star continues his mission to lift disadvantaged kids out of trouble, this time including a girls’ XI. His unearthing of energy, humour and a desire to achieve deserves our support

Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams: Ultimate Test review – this TV show is a beacon of hope

Britain is not a country of racist bigots.

Time for the decent majority to "take back control".

Repost if you agree.

You read my mind!

🔥🔥🔥 Here's Emily Maitlis crucifying Farage for both breaking the UK and stabbing it in the back.
#FascistFarage

“It’s time to resist the right’s narrative of immigration as aberration. Nations thrive on it – and they always have done”

Gaia Vince historically fact checks the far right grievance peddlers who blame immigrants for our national decline when in truth it’s those immigrants that’s hold it together.

Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La... As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...

This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

It is baffling

Facts matter

Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...

Well blow me down with a feather

Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.

An aide memoire of 'invaluable tools of healthy sceptism' that everyone should possess (but too many don't)

An underlined quote in a book that reads as follows… “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply. – Stephen R. Covey” And I feel it is important to mention here that I was not the one that highlighted this quote (because I’m not a monster). Again, just to reiterate, I, Adam Sharp, do not, now or ever, go around highlighting passages in books like some kind of savage.

Today is World Listening Day so it's a good time to share this again...

There are some days when the news can be overwhelming and leave you feeling sad and afraid. Today is one of them.
Try to remember that the good in the world has always outnumbered the bad, stroke a cat and enjoy the sunshine x
(Pic @imageplotter.bsky.social)