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SE Londoner, in Lewisham. Been here ages, enjoying the "2008 Twitter" vibes. Interests include: London, transport, politics, food, feminism, music, arts, culture, Manchester, the media. Hoping for Leveson 2
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What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?
BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY
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Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Replying to @adambienkov.bsky.social
I have started sending exactly the same question to Americast each week: ‘Given all we have seen in the last two years, does Justin still think that Donald Trump is ‘making American normal again?’ Funnily enough they have not chosen it as a listener question so far.
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Did anyone come to exercise as an adult and realise that the later you start the harder it is? It’s much easier to get into the habit of moving your body as a kid and maintain that habit as a grown up. Feel like a lot of people are going to find out the same thing but for thinking.
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This won't go anywhere, obviously, but it's still a useful indication of how they'd act if they ever get into Government. Locking up journalists would just be the start
Reform UK said it has reported ITV to the police following the broadcaster’s expose which revealed racist remarks by members of the party The allegations involve an undercover reporter "doctoring" a passport and others canvassing for Reform in Portsmouth pressgazette.co.uk/news/reform-...
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Not only is Andrew Boff a very long-standing Conservative politician but he was one of Kemi Badenoch's close colleagues on the London Assembly. That she can't even tolerate him having different views, shows quite how intolerant of dissent they now are under her leadership
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Wonder what would have happened if the Bakerloo Line extension had been given the green light?
Landsec has shelved plans to redevelop Lewisham Shopping Centre after the council demanded more social housing in the 1,744-home scheme. Only 98 of the homes would have been for social rent under the plans. greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/10/20/l...
The plans sound fully dead, rather than paused or delayed… centrallewisham.commonplace.is/news/update-...
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You may have seen reports about the campaign for charities to be more 'transparent' about who funds them. Well it turns out the mysterious new right-wing think tank behind it won't say who funds or runs them, and used fake names for the authors of the report which launched their campaign
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Lowe’s equivalent Facebook post to this tweet is doing crazy big numbers among fairly normie audience, way outperforming Farage…
Rupert Lowe of Restore Britain says the electoral success of his political party would "inevitably" lead to civil unrest and rioting. His argument is increasingly that civil conflict has become unavoidable + absolutely necessary (if still partly regrettable + somewhat to be blamed on opponents)
I love that someone thought "Ooh we could use the lyrics here and put appropriate clips together", and I like to imagine there was then a Zoom call with all the festival programmers where they said, for example, "OK, next we have 'strong torso', did anyone see any strong torsos in their films?" #LFF
And that's the end of my #LFF, but I must mention one other thing I've seen – 19 times in the past 12 days! Every year the thought of putting together the LFF trailer blows my mind, and this year's was no different but, largely thanks to Robyn/Jamie xx, never got old (a first!) youtu.be/yE0xGvfOuuQ
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no offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill
With much media coverage of a government report that ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed, a claim which some experts have disputed, half of Britons now believe that the conditions are being over-diagnosed Over-diagnosed: 50% Under-diagnosed: 17% About right: 17% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
Loved reading this review (which only contains the most minor of spoilers, despite the warning – I've definitely seen worse spoilers in most films' trailers) letterboxd.com/iwannamake/f...
#LFF film 9: Being Heumann ★★★★★ Am I reviewing the film, or the real-life activism of Judy Heumann and the other disability rights campaigners portrayed in it? Both! A feel-good tale of activist solidarity that felt [to this non-disabled accessibility worker] very inclusive, intersectional and real
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