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And this morning the Shed is a memory of the sheds of yesteryear: their sumptuous fashions; their valiant deeds…

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

submitted 29 days ago • 450 comments

‘Labour must start speaking about extent of Brexit damage’ – Andy Burnham www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...

submitted 30 days ago • 96 comments

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 357: If you think of your characters as people, so will your readers. That means giving them a past, interests, people in their lives, likes, dislikes, a culture, an education, (dis)abilities, strengths, weaknesses. Your readers don’t need to know it all, but you do.

submitted 30 days ago • 32 comments

The sleepwalk into authoritarianism continues

submitted 30 days ago • 215 comments

Absolutely, Labour should call out the Reform leaders greatest weakness - Brexit www.theneweuropean.co.uk/steve-angles...

submitted 32 days ago • 42 comments

And this morning the Shed is a sleeper train, bound for the distant mountains…

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments

Brexit has never looked quite so ruinously insane as it does right now. And it’s always been idiotic. Alone, outside the EU, needing to improve our relationship with our own continent but also terrified of the wrecking-ball lunatic in the White House. Cornered by our own ‘sovereign’ stupidity.

submitted 59 days ago • 236 comments

And this morning the Shed is a Paris cafe, with a table set for breakfast under a flowering linden tree…

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

If the UK government agrees to a wholesale undoing of copyright, to excuse Meta's massive theft of books, art, movies etc as 'data', then the creative industries and all of us working in them are finished. All viewers and readers will get in future is unoriginal, derivative slop. #MetaBookThieves

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

Congratulations to Greenland’s new government and Premier-elect Jens-Frederik Nielsen. You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals. And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you.

submitted 66 days ago • 98 comments

Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

submitted 67 days ago • 1918 comments

We love this country with every fibre of our being. I know that during this crisis, Canadians will remain united. We will keep Canada Strong.

submitted 67 days ago • 459 comments

RMT responds to Chancellor's Spring Statement General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: "The Spring Statement fails to tackle the deep structural problems in our economy." Read More rmtunion.org/4hNkAhZ

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

It’s genuinely pointless asking a Tory politician what they think of Labour’s Spring Statement. These are the people who smashed up the economy and our public services, imposed a ruinous Brexit and delivered rampant inequality and govt debt. Arsonists tutting at Labour while the fire still rages.

submitted 67 days ago • 57 comments

And this morning the Shed is a postbox, filled with letters to the dead…

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

Thursday’s @theguardian.com front page: Reeves accused of balancing books at expense of the poor www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 67 days ago • 28 comments

I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sht Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sht

submitted 67 days ago • 544 comments

I know both the Labour and Tory leadership want to conspire in drawing a veil over it, but today will be yet another reminder that Hunt and Sunak's decision to push through completely unaffordable pre-election tax cuts was the most blatant act of fiscal vandalism.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Liquified gas is a disaster for people's health where it's drilled, processed & burned, a disaster for the climate at every stage, and a disaster for people's energy bills Scrambling to get off Russian gas, politicians are happy to develop new dependencies on other dirty sources Build renewables!

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

When following the headlines fills me with despair, it's comforting to cuddle with a family member who remains blissfully unconcerned about fascism. That would be Trixie (a/k/a Bat-Mite).

submitted 73 days ago • 2577 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 73 days ago • 3831 comments

And this morning the Shed is a spinning top, blurred into frantic momentum…

submitted 74 days ago • 8 comments

And this morning the Shed is a creature of curious demeanour: sniffing in ditches, exploring paths; collecting stones and shiny things from the dry riverbed…

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #16134: Don't waste valuable writing time looking for shortcuts. There aren't any. There's only one thing that will ultimately make writing easier for you. Practice. Not AI, or a qualification, or a new piece of software, or a special writer's hat. Just practice.

submitted 73 days ago • 16 comments

🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.

submitted 73 days ago • 63 comments

#DolphinADay Day 79 Wild & free🐬 📷 ©️ Sarah Perry, Jun 2024 #CardiganBay #Dolphins #CBMWC #Wales #MarineConservation #WildlifePhotography #WTSWW #MarineWildlife #Nature #Wildlife #PhotoOfTheDay #CBWildlife #MarineMammals #Photography #CommonDolphins #Cetaceans @cbmwc.bsky.social

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

submitted 74 days ago • 2485 comments

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

submitted 74 days ago • 1446 comments

Would that possibly be because it's a horrendous, immoral, and discriminatory, change of policy, absolutely guaranteed to lead to more mental health issues, more disabled people unable to work, and more harm for another marginalised community by any chance? #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

What are we expecting Liz Kendall to announce today? 1/ Only most severely disabled will be able to claim PIP as eligibility criteria are tightened, meaning people who need some help eg washing themselves or preparing food will no longer qualify.

submitted 76 days ago • 22 comments

By 2030, Europe must have a strong European defence posture. To get there, we need to move now. This is Readiness 2030 ↓ europa.eu/!3vJkgT

submitted 76 days ago • 48 comments

Labour seems intent on shredding support and out Torying Badenoch. Going after the most vulnerable people in society is not what the Labour Party should be doing.

submitted 76 days ago • 94 comments

How many signs of democratic collapse do we need? A push to impeach judges not for misconduct but defying Trump? Refusal to honor a court order to turn around planes? Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act outside wartime? A budget clearing him to ignore Congress? Jailing students? The list goes on.

submitted 78 days ago • 277 comments

And this morning the Shed is a ghost ship, with sails of spider gauze and thistledown in the moonlight…

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

"This came after numerous complaints by students facing discrimination due to their accent, being regularly mocked for how they pronounce certain words, or cruelly mimicked." #Accents #Education #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

submitted 84 days ago • 11 comments

👋 Hey Kids!!! Get ready to either laugh uproariously or sob inconsolably, cuz it's time for either the SUNDAY FUNNIES or the TRUTHFUL TRAGEDIES, depending on your own personal point-of-view. #Enjoy 🤣 (or) #Despair 😩

submitted 85 days ago • 742 comments

#Resist

submitted 84 days ago • 251 comments

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 85 days ago • 1122 comments