Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/10/2026Argh. I get it, truly. But don't do it. Pay in *something*, anything 1715421
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question 1262102401
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is your semi-regular reminder that pensioner poverty: a) is real b) is significantly less prevalent than working-age poverty and half the rate of child poverty, and c) is such that a pensioner is statistically more likely to live in a household worth over £1 million than to live in poverty 917242
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Good for her. 113417
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sunsets come through so perfectly this time of year 2110
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Danny Tommo - Tiny Tears edition 111846171
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Weather is looking a little different this morning... 170
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Can anyone explain to me why this article doesn't mention anywhere that small boat crossings are down 42% from last year? That doesn't mean it's not an issue 781 people arrived in one day. But it seems like the sort of context a reputable news source might mention www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNo 'switch' to stop small boats, Lucy Powell tells BBCLabour's deputy leader was speaking to BBC local radio ahead of the party's annual conference 26429115
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Is it still called the golden hour in the morning? I set the coffee machine off without a cup under it again. 2100
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026BBC report fails to mention "Tommo" slashing a dinghy (!) Not beating the Reform Party propaganda allegations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMigrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at seaProtesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west. 711156418
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️DanTechnik @dantechnik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ofsted is a joke. I know an inspector who was a terrible teacher and an even worse leader. Now, every brain fart they have during an inspection, becomes the next hare-brained scheme that headteachers feverishly copy because “Ofsted liked it”. apple.news/Aikw_gJfWSMq...apple.newsColour-coded Ofsted ratings ‘could pose possible risk to life’ — The TelegraphNational Association of Headteachers says new framework is ‘even more stressful’ than single-word judgments it replaced 1103
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Zsa Zsa had an incident involving a very deep puddle at the beach and a lack of depth perception 183
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 19/09/2026It’s a £41k job now that’s alright. 915049
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Why is Gen Z depressed? It’s a mystery. 2138380
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It would be useful if the BBC article explained how this is essentially what the US and Greenland/Denmark already have! 129696
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Why are Gen Z more anxious and less workplace ready? It’s a mystery. 76825121
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Italian PM Giorgia Meloni: “I believe these provocations from Moscow are multiplying because Putin needs to shift attention by creating an escalation with Europe. “This comes from a situation on the battlefield in Ukraine that is not going as Putin had predicted, declared and promised to his people 727272
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right. 40900503
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr. Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday. I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇bylinetimes.comThe Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong in our inst... 11397173
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Bravery. 726758
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026European gas is above €82/MWh - the highest since late 2022. Hormuz remains largely shut and gas storage is at 68% going into winter. None of this started in Europe but we pay for it. The only exit is using less gas. Heat pumps, electrified industry, insulation. 14574207
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/09/2026oh man, lmao 2333750
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Genuinely surprised that McConnell is still on this earthly plane 150
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Liverpool to Manchester railway, world's first inter-city passenger service, opened on this day 1830. Tragedy struck when politician William Huskisson stepped on to the parallel track and was hit by a locomotive. Taken to nearest place on the line, Eccles, died later that day. 1822368
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Vader: Alderaan explosion not caused by Death Star 210327
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬 269117893464
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I seriously don't understand why we are incapable of just getting on with these things now 021
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Or - radical idea - employers should stop expecting new recruits to come to them fully-formed and trained in exactly what that organisation needs at the particular moment, and should actually train them. And yes I know NLW and employer NIC don't help. But neither will this. 1624963
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️DanTechnik @dantechnik.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The way the media are describing trade union donations to Labour as morally equivalent to millions being given by dodgy crypto billionaires is mind boggling. 193
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I was very tempted to just keep walking to the beach this morning 🌄 050
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You can't even see Putin's lips moving 1121571
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This is one of those gender-critical talking points that really shows how out of touch they are with mainstream feminism. Go to any drag show and there will be loads of young, progressive women having a whale of a time. Drag is properly mainstream and uncontroversial. 513018
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Tryna keep the wee one entertained whilst Dan does the floor downstairs 060
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The media started reporting on it so now people are aware. Who knew that was possible? 021
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So if Ben Delo's £36m was to 'level the playing field', what's Christopher Harborne's £36m? To tilt the playing field in Reform's favour? 1624141
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I'm old enough to remember Farage saying "raising huge money has not been easy" and Reform was a grassroots movement that depended entirely on small donations. And only now have I clicked that this "appeal" was May 2024 - six weeks AFTER he got his £5m quid "unconditional gift". Man of the Paypal. 16332103
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Labour's stupidity around universities is driving me insane 1017530
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Looking directly at decades of unrest and violence and saying 'how could it be bad?' is crazyyyyyy stuff 010
Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I never posted any St Ives pics on here. Weather completely different and summer is officially over. 2141
Reposted by Matt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026London Mayor Sadiq Khan : “London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. 1/ 20511139