Michael Batey 🦇⚰️🎃

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

'Johnson gives scarecrow sex pest vibes'?

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this

Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Think Cannon’s blown his last chance tonight. Blatantly going through the motions #bskyblades

French Connection 4: Popeye In Paris

Graham posts a photo of the tube on Facebook with the caption ‘Tell me we’re not fucked by multicultural bollocks. Why are we surrounded by non white people? Just fuck off’

Mike Graham tweets: ‘On Sunday night my Facebook was accessed and a vile message was posted on my page without my knowledge. It contained words that I would never write and an opinion I don't share. As soon as I found out l immediately deleted the post and have taken steps to ensure my cyber security is enhanced. Obviously I am mortified that such a post could have gone out in my name and am now attempting to find out how it could have happened. I am equally very sorry for any distress it has caused to anyone.’

Sentient roast potato Mike Graham claims he was hacked after a racist post appeared on his Facebook page. Seems like someone might have had one too many before getting the train home.

Alan Partridge and Sidekick Simon: 'This is great banter'

Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness

THIRTY-SIX POUNDS for a new release 7" single *faints*
www.juno.co.uk/products/ash...

'Kommen sie bitte, und listen to Kraftwerk'

They're very pessimistic. I don't like it

McCallum a revelation today. Thought O’Hare and Ogbene played well. Riedewald looked decent coming on. Could he be the solution to Souza’s departure?

Roy Evans and Gerard Houllier were appointed as co-managers of Liverpool FC in 1998. The arrangement lasted 18 games before Evans resigned.

Nah

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

The best way to bring down energy bills to invest in renewable energy

Come on then @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social @benmiskell.bsky.social

I like the bit where the *driver* unironically complains about how much traffic there is

The 'Download all' button in Slack messages has improved my life immeasurably. Sad, really

He'd bought six packs the day before? And needed to buy four more? He won't be around much longer at that rate

Adrian De La Touche? #LondonType #QueerSort

The 'new decade' referenced in the lyric was the 1990s 😭

YouTube video by Droopus Tunes California style

Can't wait for the next chapter! Hoping you also covered the equally bonkers/ahead of its time extended version of 'California Style' www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVnC...

Róisín Murphy – 'Let Me Know' sleeve design - Róisín stands next to a park bench as two small children look on

Róisín Murphy – 'You Know Me Better' sleeve design - Róisín sits at the bar in a pub in full pop-star regalia with a pint of Guinness

Absolutely love the sleeves from this era

Motorists in the French capital can suck a bag of dicks

D’Souza faces ban after raising 20mph speeding tickets with Met commissioner Lady D’Souza used House of Lords headed paper to query her offences with the Metropolitan Police chief.

'Yes, I broke the speed limit but, given that I sit in the House of Lords, surely the law doesn't apply to me?'

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Private Danger

That's making me reconsider my contempt for people who walk along looking at their phone 🤔

'Radical', pfft

And to leave X

Some great bending and pointing there from sportswear grandad