Dear UK: You don’t pay enough taxes to have an NHS that doesn’t run on immigration and immigrant labour.

Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975

“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Here are the two plaques that were removed. I am so ashamed of our racist current administration.

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

So, basically, not many protests, and where there were, anti-racism people outnumbered racist people. Not news.

BBC News - Asylum seeker hotel protests take place in UK
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good weather on the way! Can't wait!

@tennispodcast.bsky.social Fireworks at the French Open? Must be 'feux d'Artur Fils', surely?

Why is there virtually NO crowd watching a women's quarter-final in the Caja Magica?

Continue to be astonished/appalled by how few people are watching a brilliant tennis match at a major tennis tournament (Madrid) at prime time. Could it be because it's two talented women playing? Or is it too expensive? 🤔

If it were in the UK, it would be at least 90% full for these two.

As Donald Trump turns the United States into one of the closest allies Russia has worldwide, it's worth revisiting the news item below, which came out immediately after Trump won a surprising victory in November:

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

All these macho followers of Andrew Tate, they'll be at the front of the queue to go and fight for European values in Ukraine, won't they?

We aren't going down without a fight.
We aren't going down. Period.
We have fought this Russian zaraza for centuries and we always rise from the ashes.
#СлаваУкраїні
#UkraineForever

I don’t want an account.
I don’t want to join your community.
I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter.
I don’t want to review your product.

I just want to do the single thing I came here to do, and then never hear from you again.

Please.

What is the point of posting this kind of shite when there’s zero chance of an election being held today. 🤷‍♂️
Nothing about being in government is even remotely perfect or palatable to all, ever… especially having 14 yrs of ineptitude to unpick!
Get back to me in about 4 years.
We’ll talk then, eh?

Much as I like Hugo Rifkind, can't listen to @timesradio.bsky.social any more. Just one long whinge about a govt trying to undo 14 years of Tory disasters. Back to @mrjamesob.bsky.social I go!! (@hugorifkind.bsky.social - please go back to Sat am whimsy - much more your bag!)

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

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