SirGeoffLeppard

BBC headline: “Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says.”

1) No, it isn’t.
2) This is performative cruelty and nothing else.
3) The people you’re pitching this for will never, ever, ever vote for you.

What a lovely thread

If we were only able to transport these "nostalgic UK residents" back 50 years, just for a day, they'd soon be screeching about their clothes being itchy and there being nothing to watch on TV and their butter not being spreadable and there being no online forums on which unload their fury

Live Updates - Follow Sara Cox's Great Northern Marathon Challenge for Radio 2 in aid of Children in Need Can BBC Radio 2's Sara Cox get Pudsey Bear to Pudsey in Yorkshire - on foot - by this afternoon, while raising money for Children in Need?

Of all the British traditions I think the one I love most is that every couple of years we physically torture a Radio 2 DJ in order to raise funds for children in need. www.bbc.co.uk/live/cy7exkn...

Fenton, feral hogs and Wagatha. They were the big three. Just nazis now

Lovely to be reminded of this: one of the great days of old Twitter

graphical illustration showing the distribution of seats under FPTP based on todays yougov poll. under PR there is a wider spread of seats across parties, while under FPTP, it displays a massive landslide of seats for the Яeform Party.

Dear Britain:

Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.

➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)

when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake

Yes exactly this, stand up for yourselves FFS

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Would your home have been under a motorway? "The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.

www.londoncentric.media/p/london-rin... > if all this had been built I would never have left London, wonderful stuff

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

“WE REMEM WILL BEP THEM”

A man stands in front of his shop with a bus very clearly having crashed into it, with the caption "Ninoshan Jeyaseelan said the bus crashed into his shop".

I, for one, believe him.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pen and ink drawing of himself mourning his wombat, showing a man kneeling over the corpse of a rotund wombat, its toes turned up. They are in front of tomb bearing the date 6th November 1869, and a palm tree

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

What a fine lad

In fairness I’ve never been happier ITS DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY FROM HERE MAX

For me that would be Nov 1982: in my room, listening to Marillion and learning about the Hanseatic League for O level history

So did it work?

Gainsborough v Arsenal? Sure, if it happens, CUP SHOCK! GIANT KILLING! Gainsborough v Accrington? Come off it …

Note to the Beeb: it can’t be a “cup shock” if I, a moderately well-informed person, don’t know which of the teams is in the higher league

I don't care how good the content is, if you use GenAI images for illustration I'm not opening, reading, or sharing your work.

Even beside the disrespect to creators - I don't trust the laziness to stop at the images.

Imagining a situation room somewhere under Buckingham palace where they're sliding little figures of nobility and clergy around the country, trying not to let the paedophilia become too concentrated in one area

It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.

Dutch parliament reads like the results of a blood test

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

AT LAST SOME GOOD NEWS

- I'm going to analyse the Welsh by-election result
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes