Yuen Chan

Agree.
The online version, which reads: "Partisan Shutdown Messages Could Hurt Civil Service, Experts Warn", though not exactly strong, is nonetheless better.

Great point: "Polarisation may be an unhelpful term for what is happening in both US and UK politics. It implies that both sides are becoming equally extreme. Arguably the real dynamic is that elements of the right have hardened, embracing positions that would have been unacceptable a decade ago."

All of My Heart by ABC
Film: Angel Heart

They've edited it to take out husband's name but still describes her as married with two children before her professional accomplishments.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Well, GB News are already on it, so ...
bsky.app/profile/jim....

All will become tears in the rain.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

On trial for journalism in Kentucky. Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.

Student journalist Lucas Griffith faces trial today for covering a protest against the deportation of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt.

Lucas did nothing wrong. This is a big deal and would be national news in normal times.

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health? Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It&#821…

Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air.

stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

Well, hello, Rupert.

有圖有真相

soggy noodles are the worst.

Rightly ratioed.
"Crying" racism is loaded framing.
Immediately raises two questions: the author is not someone who will be directly hurt by racism?
Presupposes the median voter is somewhat racist?

Can't disagree with Gavin Barwell. It's high time the right in this country cleaned house.

They won't though, because this is what the right have become. The likes of Barwell are very much a minority.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Delaying ILR/settlement/citizenship for this group would very likely leave them to the mercy of a future Reform/Tory govt -and to policies which Starmer and Mahmood have (rightly) explicitly described as racist.

A real litmus test for Labour.

Great initiative!

風骨的相反是?

Banger! Plus, Barbara Yung is the definitive 黃蓉

This week's post: Farage and the BBC mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/fara...
On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was entitled ‘News at Ten’.

//The military set up loudspeakers at the Israel-Gaza border to blast his words into the territory ... the prime minister’s office said the Israeli army would take over the mobile phones of Gaza residents and Hamas operatives and his speech would be broadcast live through the mobile devices.//

Queerpanorama 眾生相 — HKFFUK25 23 Sept 2025 (Tue) 6.30pm—Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)

I saw Jun Li's Queer Panorama earlier this week, in which a young gay man in Hong Kong searches for connection, tries on different identities and finds love. I found it funny, melancholic and ultimately sweet and low-key hopeful. Hope it gets a wider distribution
www.hkff.uk/full-program...

I'm ready for the Age of Elmo, t.b.f.

Bravo!

Ghouls.

who could have possibly predicted

How is 'impugn' not a word, @nytimes.com?

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China, world’s largest carbon polluting nation, announces new climate goal to cut emissions China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.

China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.