Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 13hWould you as a rule exclude, say, Muslims from hospital wards because they might make elderly patients uncomfortable? Of course not. Discomfort cannot on its own inform policy, for the simple and obvious reason that discomfort is often entirely misplaced! 1244228
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 13hGenuinely kind of astonishing to me that we have to pretend these are real concerns and not problems they've imagined themselves into 617024
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Clearly no ally of the US in Europe, Asia or the Middle East can trust or rely on Starlink and will need to rethink state procurement plans accordingly 311338
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Top three articles on the Times website are currently a barrage of hate against funding for disabled people, including an attack on Access to Work *which is money to help disabled people find/stay in paid work* 13334124
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialMorrigan Croft @morrigancroft.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I'm so fucking tired. You know what my pip goes on? NHS Medication. Medication the NHS won't cover. Mobility aids. Maybe a little fruit if I have some change. Idk how they found the one person in the entire of England spending it on coke but I'm almost impressed by the dedication. 16912
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Thank you, Andrew. I loved this in particular. Bless his memory. 1463
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialRachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers 12623841033
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I can assure Conor that the rest of us are also tired of this stupid conversation which would end if he and his mates fucked off back to the pit they crawled out of. 2553059
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026just want to highlight the talking points here again, they're amazing again, this is Ronaldo's instagram essay, his recitation of the talking points he gave to his coach, shared with the intention of making Ronaldo look like the good guy it's incredible 3427452
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialDavid Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The emotion-prompting loss of Jeffrey Archer has reminded me of the ancient Chinese curse - May your Wikipedia entry have many unusual subsections. 46716
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026When you're half way between Chapel-en-le-Frith and Sheffield once more: 2372
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialB.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis. 4315126
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026These groups need to be proscribed immediately. They are a threat to public order and the rule of law. 561007262
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/ 322934745
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The reoccurring theme of recent news is ‘company/individual commits a crime. There is no obvious consequence’. Doesn’t feel ideal. 218440
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I mean, we've apparently lifted the ban on right wing hooliganism so what's the point keeping the stable door bolted I guess 1024260
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026who's up for robbing banks while shouting "stop the boats" so no-one arrests us? 1337184
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026What are we becoming? 2739095
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed. 281173380
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat. 1042177957
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialLewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Arrest this thug and proscribe his organisation. It’s a dangerous criminal conspiracy. 1138681
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialSimon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This feels like escalation by the anti-migrant thugs - exactly what you'd expect to happen if you let them get away with their earlier intimidation 083
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has. 641940446
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialLeftback @leftback.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I would like to point out that, as I understand it, Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS shut down the majority of UK refinery capacity to build gas storage, didn't build the gas storage because prices were low, and now either gas or diesel would be making INEOS mafia cash 4375
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialOptaJoe @optajoe.com · 18/09/20266 - Chelsea’s Xabi Alonso is only the sixth manager to see his side concede 2+ goals in each of his first five games as a Premier League manager, after Mick McCarthy, Sammy Lee, Terry Connor, Slavisa Jokanovic, and Scott Parker. Problems. 6497
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026i'm a casual tennis fan, but i passionately want shelton to beat zverev.slate.comA Tennis Star’s Ex-Girlfriend Accused Him of Domestic Abuse. Why Hasn’t the Tour Addressed It?“Every day, I was crying.” 1354776
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialLuke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke... 12620396
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy. 601452378
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAnti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tacticsPatriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right. 41664207
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialMighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn, 6277062029
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...telegraph.co.uk 641512603
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?bbc.co.ukGroup entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrantsProtesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived. 23653235
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets! 44850303
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialHugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026everyone who was knocking on doors that they thought might belong to migrants in that hotel should be in prison 2264
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Contrast with Burnham demanding an answer on the ATC issues within 10 days or the head is dismissed. 1815
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026Did I just imagine section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023? 1725696
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to 451458421
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is why I think Labour's strategy this weekend of quiet condemnation, "legitimate concerns" and peaceful protest makes this worse. You need to make pushing that button scary for your median punter, and letting this be the BBC's question reduces that threat. 16318
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement. 3709279
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialWill @teletextpage152.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"See it... Say it... Sod it." 212951
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This should be the easiest open goal in the world for a progressive government - they are literally violent criminals. Most voters do not like violent criminals. 35998213
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Make Britain a hostile environment for fascists 8556109
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I can’t *believe* we had to, still have to, listen to all that talk about how competent and ruthless Shabana Mahmood is, and then we get a day like today and we don’t have a Home Secretary 832790
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026One thing Labour really needs to get through its head is that government has huge agenda setting capability. If the prime minister or home secretary calls these people what they are that will form parts of headlines and the like. We saw this under Starmer when the correct response finally came 625564
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026My first draft would be something like: "Masked thugs plotting to shut down major infrastructure under the threat of street violence is unacceptable. Those responsible will face the full force of the law". But that's just me, I guess. 619456
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance. 57944271
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026There's a broken fridge mountain looming on the horizon. www.businessgreen.com/news/4534931...businessgreen.comCouncils call on government and manufacturers to help tackle 'mountain' of broken fridgesLocal Government Association warns action required to tackle growing backlog of broken fridges at recycling centres 3168
Reposted by @cdotblack.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Absolutely thrilled for Jesus that he is going to Barcelona: more than any other player he transformed the club. Go well. 121033