Diane Purkiss

Reminder, if any were needed, that no amount of social democracy lite - rent controls, renationalisations, devolutions - can morally offset Mahmood’s border policies.

JD Vance is telegraphing that he is going to run as an antiwar candidate in 2028, based around a Dolchstoßlegende that absurdly blames Israel for being the sole cause of the Iran War. And that is going to awaken levels of antisemitism in the US that we have not seen in decades.

What I'll be watching tonight instead of listening to the never ending lies from the WH about "rigged" elections:

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

Happy Bastille Day! Today French people celebrate their ancestors who became fed up with an aloof regime they were unable to hold to account. Today I am introducing a Bill to close the British Royal Family’s outrageous carve-outs in the FOI Act. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

It is very funny how starkly and explicitly One Nation voters care most about race and care least of all voters about cost of living and housing, yet still get given the "it's just economic anxiety" treatment by most media www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

TERFs (including Rowling) have now realised that most sane folks deserted Musk’s platform long ago, so these days they’re scouring this place instead for people to screenshot and harangue in their Twitter posts.

Oregon Records 5 Years of Zero Pesticide-Related Deaths in Bees www.goodnewsnetwork.org/oregon-recor...

If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️

PLEASE HELP YOUR TRANS SISTER.

"There are at least 38 Dutch websites kept online by a single administrator that appear to offer help to people with questions about their gender identity, but in fact contain disinformation about transgender people and the care available to them..."

0 days without being an international embarrassment.

The way the times have used these stats will also be very selective and borderline deceptive. Where they state the rates of claimants getting full mobility rate for example, that will be because they have a physical disability that meets the criteria for that level of support, not because of ADHD.

It's worth shouting about the sheer, abject cowardice of this Labour government refusing to have any kind of debate about something as obviously controversial as the EHRC's trans exclusion guidance. A government of people with no convictions, no courage, all in way over their heads. A disgrace.

What a day

🚨 BREAKING: Labour says it won't stand against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election As it stands, only Count Binface will run against Farage

My son was lucky enough to see this huge Luna moth this morning! He got a great pic!

M-m-morning Kitten

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Nigel Farage is a grifter. He always has been and he's continuing to grift. He knew he was heading towards a byelection anyway so has pulled the trigger early. The people Vs the establishment?! Reform are literally part of the establishment.

It might happen!

He's still much better at sports than he is at presidenting. #FIFA-Fiasco

Coverage counts, and we are pleased to see the joint statement we shared with over 40 other women’s groups is being picked up by the media: diva-magazine.com/2026/07/07/e...

The Government must block Nigel Farage’s resignation until the Standards Commissioner finishes investigating him. The people of Clacton deserve the full facts. If a by-election does go ahead, all parties should stand aside. We cannot give oxygen to this vanity project.

"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

RESPECT Every politician should be doing this. Mayor Coffman has spent every Friday night since February sleeping at Aurora, Colorado’s homeless center, serving breakfast in the morning, and learning firsthand what works and what doesn’t.

While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I think that's a safe assumption.. #crime #politics

Brave and necessary

Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home

And by “mentor” he means “the man who gave me over 400 million dollars to bail my incompetent ass out of all my many business failures.”

I have special disdain for the anti inmigrant immigrants.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

This would be fruitless since we have no journalists in the tank for us at mainstream newspapers in multiple countries.

What is so upsetting, is how the UK (England in particular) has been in the thrall of this man and his ghouls for far too long. We have lost so much ground over the past 20 years since he was installed by right wing hacks as a so-called "man of the people". @bylinetimes.bsky.social

A story that encapsulates so much about British attitudes to its history of Empire. BBC News - Thousands of forgotten Punjabi WW1 soldiers recognised for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another excellent video. You can't always tell.

Good framing from the BBC "George Cottrell: Who is the aristocrat and convicted criminal at heart of Farage controversy?" Although see it's already been changed to "'Posh George': Who is aristocrat and convicted criminal at heart of Farage controversy?" Click through and keep it up the rankings

Democrats are communists in the same sense that Donald Trump is a Christian: They are not.

V good. taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/07/03/a...