Matthew Hamlyn

what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland

Lord Glasman will be required to wear a lanyard (with his security pass attached) when on the Parliamentary estate. Does that make being a Peer of Parliament a lanyard job?

It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own

Footage has surfaced online showing unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war executed while lying face down, accompanied by the approving shouts of those filming the scene.

This is not an isolated atrocity, it is russia’s pattern. Execution. Torture. Destruction.

A little life size brown mouse made from a leather off cut in a museum cabinet with information card beside it.

I saw a mouse!
Where?
There on the stair!
Where on the stair?
Right there!

For #FindsFriday this lovely little Roman toy or joke mouse made from a scrap of leather at marvellous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

ah, another one for the Christmas list

The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

Now that’s a lede.

Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.

Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.

I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.

So Elon Musk's AI engages in Holocaust denial now, and there are still democratic governments with active X accounts.

As we move into “foreigners are cancelling Christmas in the name of political correctness” season it’s worth remember that Christmas was indeed once banned in England, by Christians and the man who enforced the ban has a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament.

Great thread from the chair of the Transport Select Committee

Very useful short primer for those of us teaching civil servants

Parliamentary sovereignty A short research briefing on the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, its origins and contemporary application.

As part of my Parliamentary Fellowship, I've co-authored with David Torrance a short research briefing on parliamentary sovereignty. I'm working on a (much) longer piece, which will be out in 2026!

@policyleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Very sorry to hear that - get well soon

Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼

16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”

With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees

2.2Million views to date🙄

🧵1/26

Who is the memoirist?

NEW: BBC chair Samir Shah has told staff “there is no basis for a defamation case and we are determined to fight this” in relation to Trump’s threatened defamation case.

He also emphasised “need to protect our licence fee payers, the British public”.

Trump threatened to file the case this week.

Reithian - it informed, educated and entertained (especially the last one)

this pope’s got bars

Ooh, do name the composers!

taco

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

I had the opposite experience in Brixton. Me: do you have space for 18 people tomorrow? Restaurant manager: give me a second .. yup, fine, if you can be out by 7.30". Basically they squeezed in a whole extra service in their private room.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

This is the march the Polish president chose to grace with his presence today.

Also worth remembering that the plots *of the original books* are often a bit rubbish to start with.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Last non-febrile No 10 was probably mid-period Macmillan.