Patrick Hill

But the BBC will keep “going live to”

Pro-Europeans really need to get their act together if they're going to sieze the opportunity which is being presented here. Press and broadcasters reverting right back to their previous position from 2016, with zero update.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

What an incredible night last night. To see the resistance against populism triumph in two such different countries, in two such different ways.

He’s making a rod for his own back and wants to leave the UK in chains.

Power back on. #StormBoelo. on its way out. Expecting a visit from Chloe on Tuesday. Monday going to be busy.

This week's Ambridge Socialist. Ambridge's first lesbian wedding overshadowed by events wp.me/p15p2Q-hV4

Power cut. Not due back on until morning. Good job we did some #prepping

If you read only one thing about the recent protests here in France. Exemplary journalism that sticks to facts, avoiding inflammatory invective or characterisation.

This is amazing! Albania 💖 #albania

if one of the weekend supps doesn't do a '10 recipes to make with all the tins you've just stockpiled, preferably on a camping stove that's been in the loft for ten years and doesn't really work' then frankly what are the food pages for

Current mood...

Right, time to secure the bins. #StormBoelo

Wind and rain. Inside looking out. Hearing Sensing Uncertain

I could have sworn that last month the PM was saying deregulation was one of the ways we'd gone wrong in the laat 40 years...

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

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Slow Horses!! Nooo!

Facebook algorithm pointing me towards female blues artists. That's actually a good thing.

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Dear @bsky.app , Yes I know a post is Popular With Friends as it has already appeared on my TL several times already.

Private rents have increased by almost a quarter since Local Housing Allowance rates were frozen. Resolution Foundation find that the gap between rents and the support available is close to a record high. The freeze is mounting pressure on struggling renters.

Captain it's Wednesday

My son very kindly sent me a link to the Wikipedia page for this gentleman, Preserved Fish. “There were at least ten other Fish family members with the Quaker given name Preserved, whose lineages are often confused.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserv...

This is fucked. Really bleak how entrenched this is becoming.

About a hundred right wing extremist march through Lyon shouting racist slogans, without any intervention from the police.

National Geographic hails 'thrilling and overlooked' Dumfries and Galloway. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Losing my thread. 2026 #MixedMedia

For 10 weeks, we asked five AI chatbots the same questions every day. None repeated the core misinformation they were tested on, but they reported proposals as law, quoted outdated figures and gave different answers on different days. Our first report: fullfact.org/ai-benchmark...

#Dunure #Castle Tonight.

Poll reveals that 50% of young Britons would never fight for UK under any circumstances. Cue meltdown on talk radio stations and X. Well at least that's down on the 60% who said the exact same in an Oxford Union debate in 1933. Because... guess what kids... people don't want to fight in wars.

fibbymcfibface Mike has a point

1) Same 2) Zoe is the first person I've seen refer to it as an incest comment rather than "sexism". But that was my instant reaction too. He's not just degrading her and being creepy, he's joking about a scenario of incestuous child abuse. That's not "banter", and it's not normal

The crisis at Royal Mail is completely man-made. Let's take it back into public ownership and reinvest parcel profits into hiring staff to deliver letters It would cost just 0.1% of the UK national debt to buy back Royal Mail

This is now one of many such horrific cases in the UK. They receive a fraction of the coverage of the Pelicot case, maybe because it's harder for the UK media to frame and dismiss this as a problem of "French culture" rather than rape culture generally www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I've reposted this once before but it needs a wide audience. We don't need another #Brexit style battle but a reasoned approach that aims for - as much as possible- consensus.

Whatever the truth of the Musk/Trump theatricals over Starlink, we should pause to think about the fact that key defence systems are controlled by a psychopathic megalomaniac and a white-supremacist egomaniac.