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submitted 106 days ago • 22 comments

🚨🚨 Characteristically astute analysis by David Gauke reflecting on how the recent interventions by Ed Davey and Kemi Badenoch suggests that the tide is turning against #brexit.🧵 www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

submitted 114 days ago • 12 comments

Ceremony 4.5 with Divorce, Heartworms, Nightbus and many more is now sold out - thank you to everyone who picked up tickets. That means that the big sister, CEREMONY 5 is now incoming! We've already got most of the artists confirmed, including the headliner, which will be revealed very soon.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

With pardons, January 6 offenders are now free to possess firearms and ammunition again. Their convictions would have made that a federal crime, but no more.

submitted 114 days ago • 1204 comments

You can see grass in Alaska in January. GRASS. IN. ALASKA. IN. JANUARY. 🌎 (If you’re not familiar with Alaskan winters, this is very wrong.)

submitted 115 days ago • 11 comments

Filling out a web form to ask if there's a means to access their services without a mobile phone…

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

The Observer view: Countries that cherish democratic values need to take a stand against the president-elect’s throwback to unabashed American expansionism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 124 days ago • 3 comments

Good morning, Bluesky! I was out early today!

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

“The fear is that as they disappear – mainstream universities are also cutting their creative arts courses – a drama school training will become once again the preserve of the wealthiest who can afford to pay to go to private institutions.” www.theguardian.com/education/20... (1/2)>

submitted 124 days ago • 7 comments

😂😂

submitted 124 days ago • 4 comments

Fucking love David Bellamy

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

"Europe’s largest educational touring theatre, White Horse Theatre, has provided English-language performances to schools and theatres across Europe for nearly half a century. Rising costs, logistical challenges and the long-term instability caused by Brexit now threaten its future." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

submitted 133 days ago • 3 comments

Even I’m at a loss for words www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sue...

submitted 133 days ago • 196 comments

Like/RP if you are happy this dangerous criminal 'Tommy Robinson' is safely in jail.

submitted 133 days ago • 69 comments

A couple cuties I met yesterday 🪶 #birds

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

Incidentally, Labour still has more members than both both Right Whinge nutter parties combined. Which actually proves that membership numbers have nothing to do with seats. Suck on that, Fartrage! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq62qv3486qo

submitted 137 days ago • 2 comments

Reform UK want UK to leave ECHR. It must never happen When Winston Churchill stood at the Hague to deliver his speech on the importance of human rights at Congress of Europe in 1948, those there had seen first-hand the horrors that a despotic regime, unregulated by law, could enact on its people

submitted 137 days ago • 7 comments

Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech? We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!

submitted 138 days ago • 2412 comments

Meanwhile, in Greenland

submitted 138 days ago • 3 comments

Ho-ho-ho

submitted 145 days ago • 21 comments

You know what to do. xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

Farage ‘hasn’t got a clue’ says Chancellor Rachel Reeves “What’s Nigel Farage’s answer on the economy? How is he going to make working people better off? He hasn’t got a clue. How’s he going to grow the economy? He’s not got the faintest” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 145 days ago • 104 comments

I'm getting really tired now of almost nothing but shitty evil things happening. It's been like that for the past 30 years... 🙄

submitted 145 days ago • 2 comments

happy winter solstice treepeople

submitted 145 days ago • 4 comments

Brexit “A majority of Britons who voted to leave the EU would now accept a return to free movement in exchange for access to the single market, according to a cross-Europe study that also found a reciprocal desire in member states for closer links with the UK.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 154 days ago • 9 comments

Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back? Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

submitted 154 days ago • 128 comments

Said every Brexiteer ever …

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Kemi Badenoch lays to rest any doubts about her working class credentials by explaining that she prefers to have someone bring her a steak for lunch rather than eat a sandwich.

submitted 154 days ago • 50 comments

The average lifespan was 35 and 50% of people died before they were 2. Is what they did.

submitted 154 days ago • 338 comments

Strike Day 3: going on strike isn’t meant to be fun. Yet here we are. Great colleagues, great craic & great @billybragg.bsky.social. What’s going on inside that building is the opposite of all these things. ‘Solidarity forever for the union makes us strong’ ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊

submitted 154 days ago • 26 comments

Millions living in poverty and we still get this. It’s obscene! www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 162 days ago • 220 comments

As far as I can tell X is now just full of Temu ads & people calling each other cunts

submitted 164 days ago • 42 comments

This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

submitted 164 days ago • 1491 comments

Government may cap political donations to limit foreign influence www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 164 days ago • 62 comments

Nah - I think I’ll forego the gratuitous abuse and focus on building Bluesky community instead.

submitted 165 days ago • 51 comments

Government finally admits Brexit makes touring Europe ‘simply not viable’ for musicians www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 165 days ago • 51 comments

The fact that Elon Musk wanted to give Nigel Farage and Reform UK $100m but couldn't because it was illegal should be the death of Reform, who supposedly are all about sovereignty and the 'working' man. But it won't be because they are all stupid.

submitted 165 days ago • 55 comments

I'm here! At last!

submitted 171 days ago • 57 comments

We’ve already got too many right-wing media barons (often tax exiles) controlling what people read and hear and ultimately believe. Out of that concern I’ve expressed an interest in the sale of the Observer and discussed the situation with the GMG. bit.ly/4eQYGZO

submitted 165 days ago • 125 comments

inews: Britons want closer ties with EU over Trump trade deal, poll shows inews.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

Vote for Brexit to lower immigration, the Brexiters said Brexit will lead to higher immigration, Remainers said 👇 Net migration four times higher than before Brexit In the year to June 2023, numbers rose to more than 900,000 @nebylines.bsky.social northeastbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

submitted 165 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

“The polls are saying it, the governor of the Bank of England is saying it. And when immigration levels are four times higher now than when we were in the EU, the issue that served as the Brexiters’ trump card lies in shreds” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 167 days ago • 63 comments

Pretty much, huh.

submitted 167 days ago • 836 comments

Louise Haigh had to resign for a spent conviction. I may have been able to save her, if only she had done something more trivial, like Reform MP James McMurdock, who was jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend.

submitted 167 days ago • 7 comments

Goodnight to the good people.

submitted 168 days ago • 41 comments

Bizarre thing happened to me yesterday that my teenage self would not believe. I was playing at the gig to celebrate the life of the genius that was Neil Innes. Whilst waiting backstage to go on, Michael Palin sang the lumberjack song to me, in German.

submitted 167 days ago • 378 comments

The answer is yes! We do have a new episode of @dailybeanspod.bsky.social out today featuring @johnfugelsang.bsky.social, plus information on the ERA and some reporting on Tulsi Gabbard! Free to subscribe and listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 167 days ago • 24 comments