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X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

The agency was expected to review the president’s construction projects, including a recently announced “Independence Arch” near the Lincoln Memorial.

This is why pushback matters. When forced to actually defend racism they get into a muddle. (See also Tory ILR plans).

Prediction: Danny Kruger and Nigel Farage will fall out by Christmas and Kruger will either form his own party or be an independent by this time next year. It's called "Carswell's law."

It's 1940, and the British Prime Minister, Cabinet, BBC, War Office, and the Royal Society are all merrily broadcasting on Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft Because that's "where the conversation is...."

Interviewer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as a doctor and the creator of the supremely rational detective Sherlock Holmes, do you believe— Doyle: Yes! interviewer: I hadn't finished the question, Sir Arthur. Doyle lunging across an occasional table: I BELIEVE IN IT

It's strange seeing the centre and the right mocking anyone getting excited about the Green Party. Maybe their ceiling IS 17%. Maybe it's a flash-in-the-pan thing. But we are allowed to get excited about feeling represented on the left after almost six years of being told "you're done, stfu".

What a hideous man he is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they’re so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose. This is also known as a Junkie’s promise.

This, from the leader of the opposition, seems like a pretty clear case of contempt of court to me

In the last few days, the Times has had to delete two stories. One because someone pretended to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio to a reporter and one because they wrote up nonsense about Torsten Bell's expenses. Needs a new editor badly.

Unbelievable thread. (You should be following Emma btw.)

“They crashed the economy, inflation went up to 11%, mortgages went through the roof, welfare spending went up £33bn, & they want to give us advice" Keir Starmer #PMQs

“He’s absolutely right about the botched (Brexit) deal of the last government, the damage that’s done to our economy and we’re just seeing some of the figures coming through in relation to that. That’s one of the factors behind how they crashed the economy” Keir Starmer #PMQs

The Rapid Support Forces in Sudan are massacring civilians. They're armed by the United Arab Emirates - a key Western ally. This is yet more genocidal mayhem armed and facilitated by the West.

Andy Burnham has pleaded with Keir Starmer to abolish the two-child benefit limit - arguing there is "no moral basis" for the policy to continue www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

NEW: Terrifying video from the town of Black River in Jamaica. The worst of storm surges - 200mph winds literally blowing the sea onto the land. #HurricaneMelissa (📸 Yung Senshi)

Nigel Farage again today calling for the UK to leave the ECHR The European Convention on Human Rights PROTECTS US ALL WE MUST PROTECT IT, NOT LEAVE IT

I reckon the collapse of Northern Rock was worse for consumer confidence. Wonder who the Chair was?

The continued presence of the government and public institutions on X should no longer be a matter of debate. It should simply be a matter of shame.

Here is the glorious waiting room I was talking about.

Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging Britain' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Just a reminder that @bylinetimes.bsky.social wrote its first story on dodgy PPE procurement in April 2020 - a few weeks into lockdown. As we pursued the story on our own for the next two years, senior journalists said it was a nothingburger story

Our friends at Hamble Valley Reform have a Facebook page, and this is their profile image. And I can't stop laughing.

🔴‘No Faith’ in X and Meta to Tackle Abuse in Politics, Says Speaker’s Inquiry as It Suggests MPs Leave Platforms Damning report finds social media giants are failing in legal duties to remove threats bylinetimes.com/2025/10/29/x...

Mamdani haters have started saying "he's a COMMUNIST, not a socialist!" which shows they're getting a bit desperate coz they know quite a lot of people have read about socialism recently and think it sounds alright.

Oh fuck yeah, time to hire the Justin Baldoni/Johnny Depp crisis PR team (they both used the same PR team, no big deal) and spend $$$$$ on destroying this woman publicly so the world will see how nice you are to women.

Reform UK's Durham chapter are having a completely normal one. Don't tell Sarah Pochin though.

Keir Starmer, who insisted last month that leaving the ECHR “would be a profound mistake" that should be resisted at every turn, has told MPs to abstain on the Reform bill to do so

Person: "Please, help, I'm being murdered!" 999 operator: "What, no way, they can't do that, that's illegal!"

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read.

Like a lentil in a windsock...

The final straw for my marriage wasn't my ex-husbands fling with a colleague, or him losing thousands on a dodgy crypto scam, or him talking about golf nonstop, it was the formal letter of complaint he wrote to Heinz about a tin of beans and sausages being a sausage short. Ick.

My new Apple Watch lighting up to say 'it looks like you're working out' when I'm in the middle of a particularly challenging poo, marks a new low in my life

The "silent majority"

A major sniffathon from #sophiefromromania this morning

According to scientists hurricane Melissa has been predominantly caused by climate change. But hey - let's all keep listening to people who know fuck all about it and tell us there isn't a problem.... even as the oil lobby funds them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

My ex was obsessed with an online game. He broke up with me so I joined the game and regularly threw grenades/rockets/shot at him. Made me feel so much better.

Just heard Harriet Harman say Zack Polanski is a cross between Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn which means you can add potty Blairite fossils to the ever growing list of political degenerates tugging their collars over him.

Today’s Halloween-based poem is called ‘Pumpkin’.

Remember, if you are at all troubled by lawyers pursuing actual terrorists being punished by their government while the actual terrorists go free, then you are suffering from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’.

In Brexit Britain, this is simultaneously very good & very bad news. Fact fans know it is mostly bad but hope (probably naively) that it might stem the flow of nativist bile dominating discourse. What a time to be alive.

It's VERY funny watching the rightwing press i.e most of the press having to pretend that they used to actually really respect the Green Party and had a lot of time for them but NOT ANYMORE. Yeah guys chinny reckon itchy beard

My job could easily be done in two hours a day, from home. Instead I spend 5.5 hours a day on my phone, at my desk, with AirPods in. I once mentioned it and asked for more responsibility. Since that was met with silence, I'll take the full time salary for two hours a day work.

This by the way accounts for 80% of GDP growth in the US this year. The US is in a deep recession, this bubble and these people sharing their money around is the only thing hiding that fact.

These people wrecked the country. Why do they think they can lecture anyone?

When I see a flashy car parked across two bays, I always park close to the driver door of said car if I can. I've ended up on the local 'Parks Like A Twat' page on Facebook a few times but I always take a photo to prove I'm doing God's work. More people should do it.

After insisting for weeks that the Conservatives' proposed law to deport millions of people with indefinite leave to remain is a "serious plan" Kemi Badenoch's spokesman now says it has been scrapped and they will unveil an entirely new plan in the coming weeks

Really important piece

One year after the devastating floods in Valencia, we remain with the people of Spain. We share your pain. And we will always remember the incredible solidarity of a community coming together to rebuild.

Really good Halloween films that you can watch for nowt on the iPlayer. Thread >>>

This might be controversial… But given that the more Reform talks, the more the mask slips I say… Give them the limelight. Read my new piece below… open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...

The political debate about immigration is completely divorced from the reality of what is happening, which is that it has been falling quite rapidly for some time now and is likely to continue doing so bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

The Eye’s run-in with security forces From the latest episode of Page 94, recorded live at Cheltenham Literature Festival

I'be started using "Look, it was the *nineties*!" to justify every bad decision I've ever made or questionable opinion I've ever held. It works surprisingly well.

Why are the streets empty? Where are the kids? The tearaways? The dreamers? They are simply indoors playing the entire MYST series, yes even the bad ones.

O2's price hike feels like a mockery of Ofcom's consumer protection!

Bosses who hire illegal workers could be jailed under new government proposals news.sky.com/story/bosses...

Things that are making me laugh: The Green Party have more members than the Tories. I have more Bluesky and X followers than Zack Polanski. #MakeYourVoteCount

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Starmer could get his approval rating back up by simply quote tweeting Musk’s civil war rubbish with the words “Fuck off, mate”.

🚨Wow! Over 100,000 have now signed the petition calling on the government to #FixNHSdentistryNOW🙏 If you are one of the 14 million adults unable to access NHS dentistry in England sign @thebda.bsky.social’s URGENT call for action here👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

I have a "how is my driving?" sticker on my work van. It's actually the number to a premium sex chat that costs them a couple quid a minute.

Keir Starmer's spokesman says they "haven't seen" Elon Musk's demands for a civil war on the streets of Britain. No plans for the Government to leave X

It's possible to condemn groomers, regardless of their nationality and to celebrate their imprisonment AND also to condemn racists. If you're too stupid to understand that, you may be happier back on X.

New Title For Prince Andrew The new Private Eye is out now.

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Just to let you know, my Nanna passed that Alzheimer's test Trump keeps bragging that he aced. She is 95, has late stage heart failure and takes her telly remote everywhere because "I need it to record things..."

So much for "boosting growth". All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The government's decision to slash foreign aid will lead to unrest, further crises and threaten UK security, a group of cross-party MPs has warned news.sky.com/story/slashi...

Not a single man. I'm furious.

Very good first conversation with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Europe and Japan are trusted friends. And in today’s uncertain world, friendship matters more than ever. Together, we stand for open economies, secure societies, and fair rules.

'You're one of those people that hears about a terrible crime and feels joy at the opportunity to attack other people.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social takes issue with listener Dave's reaction to the Uxbridge triple stabbing.

Democracy in the US is being destroyed - and it's not even subtle. New column on how Donald Trump is put the Hungarian playbook into practise 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tree of the Day

The NYPD were endorsing Adams and he's dropped out of the race.....so they've declined to endorse any other candidate. That's how much of a cunt you are, Cuomo...even the cops are like "nah".

I love going to the cinema on my own during the day. I would never go to the cinema on my own in the evening. I have no idea why.

This morning I joined @pcsunion.bsky.social members outside the British Library, on strike over a real-terms pay cut. Our national institutions are nothing without the staff who keep them running. Solidarity!

- I went to the shop to buy paint, something to apply it with and some drinks mats. - An emulsion, a roller, coasters? - No, it was quite boring really.

Yeah. Just hand him power over everything in one go, then he doesn't have to bother with that pesky legislature. What could go wrong.

Ghoul-Graveyard Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! And you may be relieved to know that no artistic talent is needed since the ghouls in question come in the form of lollipops that you stick into the black-iced cake www.nigella.com/recipes/ghou...

The third and final part of our epic 'Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin' Origin Story. We're now at the point of total homicidal breakdown, burying into some of the darkest experiments in human history.

Not entirely sure if this is accurate.

Hurricane Melissa is bringing severe weather to Jamaica and across the Caribbean. My thoughts are with everyone affected, including British nationals in Jamaica and Londoners worried about loved ones. Please follow local advice and FCDO updates for the latest guidance. bit.ly/4hudYXg

Congratulations to Chris Mason on his election to Parliament. Surprised the BBC never covered it

🔴Reform UK Just Won Britain’s Least-Prestigious Award – For ‘Promoting Pseudoscience’ Nigel Farage’s party were recognised for “their widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.” bylinetimes.com/2025/10/29/r...

“The government is leaving no stone unturned to investigate and recover public funds lost to fraud and error during the pandemic… Recovery action has resulted in some PPE suppliers being referred to the National Crime Agency for suspected fraud” www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...

The Planning Bill is back in the Lords today - and it still falls short of the win-win for nature the Government says it wants. We’re grateful to the Peers that have stepped up with vital fixes. But today’s votes help decide whether this Bill truly delivers for nature & people. 👇

I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward. A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

I have to write an annual report on a service I run that justifies its continuation. Every year quite senior people read it, comment favourably and renew. But the data in the report is bollocks and does not support the reports conclusions. No-one has ever questioned the data.

Any time one of those fake foreign British nostalgia accounts starts banging on about the 50s, send them this wonderful interview with Don McCullin, and his description (familiar to me from the 70s) of how brutal London was in the 50s www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

At a major insurer years ago, we all had identical stripped-down versions of windows. On a departmental exchange day, I noticed the IT dept had regular installations. I slyly copied solitaire and minesweeper to a shared drive, then to every PC I used from then on. Tee-hee!

The wisdom (or otherwise)of a policy designed to address reasonable concerns about expenditure on asylum seeker accomodation… Depressing jobs. Mansion Tax. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Remember, if you’re remotely troubled by the US President rolling out a red carpet for a man at whose behest a journalist was murdered for exercising free speech, then you are suffering from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’.

I found the gaol cells in Colchester Castle deeply moving. With the excellent @benpaites.bsky.social as our guide, it’s impossible not to think of the hours, days, weeks of misery spent in that place.

lol this guy never knows anything. He has never known anything at all and it's a bit weird.

Cats really are the most insane creatures. They're true apex predators in a body the size of your calf, they have night vision, agile, fast, jaws strong enough to break bones, have a purr that can help heal bones. And to top it off, they can survive a fall at terminal velocity.