This Guardian pic of Rayner captures something truthful - the veneer of “I’m a blunt talking Northern lass so I must be salt of the socialist earth” peeled away. Seen, and knowing she is seen.

Where to begin with the arrant, multiple level, snide stupidity of this post.

Think about this image every now again. The salt mountains in the Zagros mountain range of Southern Iran. The things on this earth.

BBC Newsnight Panel, discussing Racism.

15 bridges that don’t look real 🧵 1. The ‘reverse bridge’ in the Netherlands

Diane Abbott has had an entire life of horrendous racist abuse simply for being a prominent black woman in politics. This is a woman whose staff hid the abuse from her because it was so distressing. Maybe when she describes her own experience — just shut up and listen?

Oleksandr Usyk is superb. He's small, old, he's modest, he always speaks well, especially considering his personal position re the Ukraine, he's scamp with that fringe, he has beaten all of the best, he never loses. He is one of the very, very greatest heavyweight champions.

Observed.

"To care about anything is to be intellectually suspect and automatically excludes you from the working class. Working class authenticity is to drag your knuckles and view caring about anything as cringe and woke, mine's another Stella" writes our Working Class Whisperer

I’m very concerned by threats from management consultants to go on strike for five days. They’re holding the country to ransom - they could bring us to our knees, withdrawing vital services.

Joel Berry More intentional ignorance from this racist little maggot, so let’s break it down: 1. Israel is occupying Palestinian lands, which means a) it’s not allowed to go to war against those it occupies under international law; and b) it has a legal obligation to provide humanitarian

Been thinking about Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) a bit recently for some reason. Here is my favourite crack of his. "Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so."

As Sky News and the BBC keep forgetting to tell us who UK Lawyers for Israel are, let's have a look at a few of their greatest hits. Here they bully a hospital into taking down some Gazan children's artwork. Genuinely unhinged weirdos. 🧵

The inarticulate, who express themselves clumsily, are very often wrong. The articulate, those who have a facility for language, are very often right. However, it's possible for the inarticulate to be right and the articulate dead wrong. Don't anyone kid themselves otherwise.

Of course, the brilliant Donald McRae gets this just right. theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep…

Autism is not a regrettable condition. It is not a disease. Bigotry and ignorance, on the other hand, are.

in 2016, a film student exploring a rural moldovan village found over 4,000 soviet-era photographs in the attic of an abandoned house. they were all taken by zaharia cusnir in the 1950s-60s, an unknown alcoholic who died forgotten. he captured the life of an entire community:

The magisterial final paragraph of NME's review of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper, 1967. Not so much hip young gunslingers as Pathe News Bulletin.

Sneers at Thunberg, accusing her of "attention seeking". Damn right she's attention seeking. She's drawing attention to starvation, genocide. All her critics reveal is their secret guilt at their own, shameful inertia. History will judge them for saying, doing nothing.