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London is over

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

submitted 18 hours ago • 51 comments

Hopefully the BBC will stop showing any sort of art altogether, in case it has the wrong ideas in it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 21 comments

The good stuff in the Bill about making bus franchising simpler would be significantly undermined if this floating bus stops amendment isn’t rejected. Incredible way to wreck the progress made in building segregated cycling infrastructure that actually works for encouraging non-cyclists to try it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

And on it goes. Israeli politicians using UK media to stoke up outrage around Bob Vylan & Kneecap must be laughing their heads off at how easy it all is. I think this brings the Palestinian death toll since the Glastonbury performance in to triple figures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 15 hours ago • 119 comments

Guess which of these stories came first on both the BBC One and Radio 4 bulletins.

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

The best phrase about hot weather I’ve come across in Afrikaans is die hond die kat jaag, maar beide loop. It means “the dog is chasing the cat, but both are walking”

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

also, Yay! Wimblepong again #wimbledon

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

DAMMIT. Almost managed to get over the fence at #Glastonbury but was caught by security and told to go back and carry on watching the Rod Stewart set.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Pretty pleased with this year's crop. 🌱🇬🇧 #Garlic #Harvest #GrowYourOwn #Garden #UKGarden

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Kneecap at Glastonbury don't RT they are supposed to be terrorists or something.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Squash coming along nicely. The left hand row are acorn squashes grown from seed this year, and the right hand row are Crown Prince, transplanted from around the garden where they'd self-seeded from my compost #UKGardening #Gardening

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Oil tanker magnate, John Fredriksen, has left the UK for the UAE so he can pay even less tax on his £13.7 billon fortune. Good, fuck off.

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

Zia Yusuf claimed Kent was using taxpayer money for asylum seeker TV licences. He didn’t reply to my 8 questions. A Kent councillor did - and debunked the lot. £1,113. Seven licences. For children in care. Kent chose duty. Reform chose culture war.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

submitted 3 days ago • 1281 comments

and you thought Kneecap were going to have the worst political opinions at #glastonbury www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

submitted 3 days ago • 162 comments

Very hard to reconcile these two YouGov charts. On the one hand, we really dislike Putin, Trump and Brexit. On the other, we may well vote Putin-apologist-Trump-adoring-Brexit-cultists into government. Come on UK. Sort your shit out.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Am I the only one who finds the endless talk of hypothetical election results and opinion polls in Britain deeply odd? We’re up to 4 years out from a general election and polls are headline news All feels post-Brexit sugar rush

submitted 5 days ago • 108 comments

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

submitted 5 days ago • 669 comments

The perfect @amiberger.bsky.social content does not exi-

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

Okay so we are in trouble. We have failed to tell anyone on Bluesky that we are hosting a fundraising beer festival next week. It promises to be ace, so if you are in, near or nowhere near York do come along. More info here: merchantshallyork.org/merchant-adventurers-charity-beer-festival/

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 207 comments

Some 100 private jets will fly to Venice for Jeff Bezos' wedding, and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

From the very same paragraph in Orwell's essay: "England has got to be true to herself. She is not being true to herself while the refugees who have sought our shores are penned up in concentration camps, and company directors work out subtle schemes to dodge their Excess Profits Tax."

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Exeter, pursued by a bear

submitted 7 days ago • 55 comments

The flammability of historic buildings that are the subject of longstanding contentious planning disputes is really worryingly high. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

There's a special breed of Small Town Wanker that pop into London twice a year then whine about it for 363 days. They inevitably visit a tourist trap on a hot Saturday and, from that, believe they are now experts in the lived experience of 12 million people. Matt Goodwin is their patron saint.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

Ok, British media. You have here all the information you need to scrutinise Farage/Reform’s latest populist, headline-grabbing tosh. If you’re still handing out free ‘Robin Hood’ passes to them now we have the details, then you are actively deceiving voters and undermining democracy. Just don’t.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Journalists at the Farage press conference repeating Reform's framing of this policy as "robin hood" because the non-dom fee will be redistributed to poorer workers, whilst missing the fact that it hands tens of billions of pounds in tax cuts to the wealthiest people already living in the UK

submitted 7 days ago • 55 comments

I'm delighted to host a guest substack post this week by Bea Dutton, a textile artist and part time registrar in the UK - she wrote movingly about her experiences of conducting citizenship ceremonies. This is Britain at its best. have a read! christinapagel.substack.com/p/guest-post...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Bruce, a retelling of Jaws from shark’s perspective (1/4) #comics

submitted 542 days ago • 10 comments

Here's your reminder that both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki warheads would be described in today's terms as "tactical". Beware of the term tactical being used by Israel and the US to downplay the devastation caused by a nuclear weapon in the kT range.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Calling historical sleuths! I’m finishing a book, Peace Makers, on the men and women of the Foreign Office in WWII. In the FCDO archives, there is this 1941 photo labelled ‘Anthony Eden’s Personal Private Secretary’. My source who worked in Eden’s office from 1943 doesn’t recognise her. Who is she?

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I find a good rule is that if someone's job doesn't ordinarily involve courting the limelight, but they do a lot of it anyway, they generally aren't that worth listening to.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

submitted 12 days ago • 160 comments