Owain Sutton

History test: Can anyone think of a time when dim, hubristic British toffs needlessly sent an entire generation of young working class men to be killed, gassed and mutilated, all because said toffs stubbornly refused to recognise that the nature of war had fundamentally changed? No, me neither.

The fact there is fury in "mining seats" that have not been mining places for my entire life, and zero apparent fury in university towns, might not tell you all you need to know about Labour. But it tells you quite a lot.

#OtD 27 Oct 1940 Japanese aircraft scattered wheat grain over Ningbo, China during World War II. Two days later, an epidemic of bubonic plague broke out in the city which killed 97 people. Japan later admitted it was one of many biological attacks stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9955...

No jail sentence. No driving ban. Free to continue driving around Edinburgh after assaulting a cyclist, leaving them with a traumatic brain injury, a smashed skull and a bleed on the brain. news.stv.tv/east-central...

Reform sends a free paper. I send it back to them. I’d recycle it, but this feels better as it costs them. Here’s their freepost address 👍🏼

"Move fast and break things," say the people who, in an uncanny coincidence, are responsible for breaking the entire planet at a terrifying speed.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

"Remember the good ol' days, when Real Binmen ran Windows XP?"

So funny that nostalgia bait is finally trickling to older gen Z, who are going "the Firefox ad is genuinely cool, I don't care if it's cringe! This was the good ol days!" ....you're not going to believe this about all of the pandering to older generations you've made fun of for years!

Jamiroquai skeleton.

UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups

Look! It's another one of those wildly accurate (sic) #AI 'maps' of #UK. Of fun note here: #Windsor moves to northwest of #London. #HamptonCourt Palace is now north of #Reading. #Brighton has miraculously de-camped inland. And #Canterbury appears to have a doppelgänger in #Essex!

"What makes these experiences feel related to me isn’t that a bicycle is somehow inherently queer; it’s that both can put you in the position of being treated as though your presence requires an explanation." This is such an insightful article.

TBF, if this was in northern England, this could be a Wetherspoons.

Yet another example of big rhetoric followed by zero action

"Hit by a car" is reported as trivially as "due to a heart attack". Evil equivalence.

The carnage never stops. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Give it another few months, and she'll be quoting from the Protocols of Zion. Everything is in place.

The Burnham government is happy to listen to transphobes galore but will move mountains to avoid listening to any trans people.

I could spend the rest of my life analysing this feedback sign in the local Home Bargains. Did 'not happy' break from overuse? Was it taped over to ensure 100% positive feedback? Is the green 'b' in 'feedback' some kind of subliminal nudge? Is the duck tape indent because people still keep pressing?

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

This drives me bonkers cause UK Citizenship isn’t easy, or free, or automatic. It is a process, an expensive one, and many people who are eligible for years still don’t get it. Burnham and his gang are lying in a way no different to Farage on EU migration. A lie to achieve xenophobic policy.

A weird change that has taken place in my lifetime is that in the past, British racists were aware of what mixed-race people were and were furious about it, as opposed to the New Racism, which frequently seems actively confused by the birds and the bees.

Sorry to see the British Library (@britishlibrary.bsky.social) going further down the enshittification curve, setting a very poor example and poorer precedent for public research libraries everywhere. This while many of its core services have still not been restored after the 2023 cyberattack.

Just imagine what things could have been like if Manchester weren't forced to have a referendum on congestion charging, stopping it in happening in the rest of the country.

This is just orientalism for people who think they’re progressive

"I was a dumbass for X, Y, Z reasons. Material reality made me see the error of my ways" is actually incredibly uplifting stuff, especially from a 25 year old with a blue collar job and a HS diploma. He was a teenager during Trump 1

Oh, and by the way, given I know a lot of my followers haven't been watching this story? That trans doctor the Daily Mail article is fixated on? Did absolutely nothing wrong. Cleared of every charge. Was just living her life, forced to flee the country by NHS bigots and the British media. Yeah.

Realise I forgot the photo of the excerpt, oops.

I think my favourite quote from @garethdennis.uk in this piece is: "The railways were built by moronic Victorian capitalists who had no view of the future." 🤣🤣 The comment on NPR is also good. Anyway, this is an incredibly crucial point! #NPR #Railways

This government would ban George from the Famous Five.

I literally spent a year investigating how the government props up Shell, and then they do this!

Abandoned cordons sanitaire everywhere you look:

Bigots descended on Herne Bay, Kent, England today with chants of 'Save our nation - remigration' 'End the invasion -remigration'. Most shockingly they chanted 'England for the white man'. These are white supremacists not 'concerned citizens'. Britain you've a serious problem, sort it out NOW!

This is what you do for a dementia patient with unlimited budget.

This admission alone is an impeachable offense