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Depressing to hear the BBC propagating the non-story started by the Tories about the possibility of power cuts because of renewables A classic fossil fuel lie being given credibility by our public service broadcaster #BBCR4Today

Not every young person has a shortcut to success. Growing up on a council estate, the support around me mattered. That’s why I’m investing in youth clubs across London and opening more doors for young people.

Yep, it's definitely 'Super Intelligence' - couldn't have done this better myself

I'd quite like for them to try this and then as a retirement project research everything/everyone whose music they play and then write in to complain EVERY SINGLE TIME they play anything even slightly involving non-British-born musicians or influences. Just to show them how ridiculous this is.

This is why Andy Burnham, if he wants any chance of a 2nd term, needs to hurry up and regulate big tech and properly fund the BBC and Channel 4 to help counter disinformation.

As a British stickler I'm finding all the c- and s-s (to my eyes, incorrect) here in licence/ licensed and practice/ practised really tough going. I know it's US spelling but in the Guardian my mind expects UK spelling. The way I experience what my mind sees as incorrect, hurts to read

Have been saying this all along. Instead of hanging flags, threatening and scaring people, why aren't these 'patriots' helping out in their community? I volunteer in kids' and women's football. What do they do?

Absolutely agree with this - I'm excited but let's strengthen any decision by knowing what we're agreeing to. I will never forgive Cameron for his role in Brexit. He abdicated any responsibility for defining our choices and ran away leaving it to idiots like Johnson to compound the mistake.

This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...

Wyatt Dixon interviewing Claire Elisabeth of Goldship about the brilliant Reunion Jack artwork in Birmingham made from removed and then repurposed nationalist lamppost flags vm.tiktok.com/ZN8r6jCAG/

BJ lies and lies and lies. How he has the brass neck to bring this up when he so clearly didn't manage the situation when he had the chance... And I will never forgive him for how little he did over covid. These tossers need to step back out of public life with some humility. But no, more grift..

This is so important. Unaware or don't care? Palantir already has its claws firmly dug into the UK. Thanks to successive naive - or perhaps actively colluding?- UK Gov depts and leadership

Our new megapoll with YouGov finds that pledging to rejoin the EU could win Labour 321 seats at the next election - just 5 short of an absolute majority. Read more here: https://bestforbritain.org/eu-membership-pledge-key-to-a-labour-led-government-at-next-election-polling-finds/

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

This is the crux of it 👇

Bonnie Greer was never anybody but herself. So unique. So indomitable. So unaffected by the crowd. A lover of complexities and no easy answers. We were emailing in recent weeks about Jason Arday – she had much to say which she wasn't able to in the end. A mentor who lifted us up. We will miss you.

I'm not surprised but I'm truly disgusted that this narrative of "dangerous fighting age men posing a threat to women and children" is genuinely doing the rounds on the media with almost no push back at all. This is 1930s level stuff.

Trump's pick to head the U.S. Forest Service, Tom Schulz is the first Forest Service chief in history appointed without any prior work experience inside the agency. His experience? He was an executive and lobbyist for the lumber and timber industry: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026.... 🌎

I'm very much hoping to hear ALL MPs in coastal areas with RNLI members as constituents make a huge deal of this appalling thuggish behaviour and call for these terrorists to be proscribed & arrested. Intimidating lifesaving volunteers for a 'Royal' organisation - could they be any LESS patriotic?

Santa Fe was founded in 1610 so shouldn’t it be Old America?

Given the sort of attention devoted to accusations of plagiarism one assumes that some people will be very exorcised about another Cambridge academic appearing to be involved in *actual crime*

I've just subscribed to the excellent bylinetimes.bsky.social on the strength of this brilliant piece alone, never mind all the others I read on BSky regularly. Great value for this quality level of journalism, have suggested it as a bday present from spouse 😊 bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...

I think the Telegraph misspelled “the highly respected leader of Camden Council” in the headline.

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

Reform UK, which promises to "defend free speech" at all costs, has again banned Byline Times from its conference

Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

Twiggy says it's time for bed

Come on, time to stop this self-harm. We're beholden to rogue states because we're desperate for trade but we won't just talk about terms for coming back to the EU. I don't care about red lines. I care about caving to Trump & creeps like Thiel for a poxy tiny % of trade. So damaging for our economy

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

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@monkemma.bsky.social putting in the hard fact-checking graft lazy click-baiters can't be arsed to do, again. Only this time it would have made all the difference to a poor young man and his family if they had taken the time to do a little research and not gone after him. Thank you Emma, RIP Jason.

It’s funny how rough sleepers can be war veterans who we should be looking after instead of immigrants one day, and then lo and behold rough sleepers are immigrants, the next.

Nigel Farage who was literally given a £5 million gift by a crypto billionaire wants to end "something for nothing" Britain

WHY drop this??? Just do it! Jobs, environmental benefit, what is the problem with this???

Can't believe this still needs explaining to some (ridiculously influential) people. Or that they know and they just don't care.

It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.

Good Lord. Just arrest them?! Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

>Swoon<! I got a reply from @countbinface.bsky.social Watch his latest video, it is, as he says, a bit of a banger.

Still feeling from this. Instinctively I knew austerity was wrong but didn't realise HOW wrong. This is just awful.

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

A viral video claims that three quarters of pregnant women vaccinated against Covid experience miscarriages. As we explain, that’s not true at all. There’s no link between the vaccine and miscarriage.

If only there were some patriotic wealthy donors with a shedload of money available to support the UK's continued premier position in the scientific community...