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#Mums26 Ursula Isted my wonderful Mum, gone now 18 years but forever missed. Thank you Ian for doing such a lovely thing
A very happy #FuckOffFriday to one and all.
PUT SWEEP ON A BANKNOTE, COWARDS
Imagine having a stroke & all your words come out like soup & folk have real trouble understanding you.
Now imagine that you know no English.
You only speak a weird cross between Russian & Polish.
So even Google Translate can't help.
So, anyway, I hold her hand as she cries & cries & cries.
& cries.
US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran.
Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it.
When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war?
www.forbes.com/sites/peters...
American followers on BlueSky may not be aware of the former Tory British politician, (now Reform), Jonathan Gullis. The American version of Gullis may have just arrived...
This man is a psychopath.
Everything Is Shit Now
So sorry. He was such a lovely boy
Google AI: "Tom Cox writes books but is better known for the psychedelic records he made with his cat Roscoe in the Vietnam War era. He and Roscoe, whose maiden name is Philippa Islington-Smythe, are two distinct people. Born in 1975, Cox celebrates his 84th birthday this June, April and October."
“He is, of course, a serial liar & prone to espousing completely contradictory positions within moments of each other.” It is extraordinary to me that journalists continue to ‘analyse’ Donald Trump without adding this constant caveat. It does readers, listeners & viewers a grave disservice.
7 missiles fly through the air. In the foreground, one has writing that says “This could have been your health insurance.” Political cartoon by Stahler.
Economists call it “opportunity cost”.
Americans call it “Operation Epstein Distraction”.
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you inevitably get these people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it was invented? Asbestos.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Beautiful Jim and brilliant Alt texts as ever. Thanks to Tom for the humour and the huggable feline
A linoprint of a hare, filled with flowers, by my mum, Jo.
To celebrate March, here's a meadow hare linoprint by my mum, Jo, from my book Ring The Hill (which is a medieval term for hare).
More about my mum’s work here: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
The fact that Isabel Oakeshott, economic migrant to the UAE may just turn into a refugee fleeing to the UK from a war zone will cause a level of schadenfreude in me that may just make me topple right over.
Newsflash. He doesn’t.
New Pope is a good'un.
I hate how accurate this tweet is.
In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.
Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
Immigrant reports from a hostile environment. All she wanted was to make a better life for herself.
Beautiful
Setting aside comments we might have over the Green campaign (and tbf Narendra Modi has a lot of Muslim blood on his hands. This is a reasonable point to make) as Dan points out, if British Muslims are voting for a working woman, who represents a party run by a gay Jew, that isn’t very Islamist.
On C4 Walter - Ice Cold Murders Rocco Schavionne (spelling might not be quite right. Brilliant characters, very entertaining, very funny at times, and also moving, and just fabulous mountainous setting
Of course, it is unlawful.
Even the "pre-emptive" justification is half-hearted guff.
Of course, it is stupid.
Wise US politicians once realised a rules-based international order was in their interests. That is being thrown away.
And most of all, and regardless of the above, it is wrong.
