Zi Zi
@zuggans.bsky.social
Mourn England:
Martin ("there's something very interesting about boring") Parr has sadly died.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Martin ("there's something very interesting about boring") Parr has sadly died.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Martin Parr: the photographer’s career in pictures
A look back at the career of Martin Parr who has died at the age of 73
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Mourn England:
Martin ("there's something very interesting about boring") Parr has sadly died.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Martin ("there's something very interesting about boring") Parr has sadly died.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Anyone who admires Emily Maitlis needs to read this. Closing the Tavistock clinic & subsequent removal of accessible trans healthcare support for kids is one of the biggest scandals in modern Britain.
Emily Maitlis claims her investigation led to shutdown of England’s only under-16 gender clinic
Emily Maitlis claims her investigation led to shutdown of England’s only under-16 gender clinic
Emily Maitlis claims her BBC investigation led to shutdown of England’s only under-16 gender clinic
The Tavistock Clinic, which treated under-16s experiencing gender dysphoria, was closed last year following the Cass Review.
www.attitude.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Anyone who admires Emily Maitlis needs to read this. Closing the Tavistock clinic & subsequent removal of accessible trans healthcare support for kids is one of the biggest scandals in modern Britain.
Emily Maitlis claims her investigation led to shutdown of England’s only under-16 gender clinic
Emily Maitlis claims her investigation led to shutdown of England’s only under-16 gender clinic
They just don't understand proper democracy, do they?
Emails seen by The Lead show the councillor, through Lancashire County Council staff, issuing legal threats after his role in private care was questioned.
Exclusive: Reform UK councillor threatens legal action to shut down debate over Lancashire care home closures
Emails seen by The Lead show the councillor, through Lancashire County Council staff, issuing legal threats after his role in private care was questioned.
national.thelead.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
They just don't understand proper democracy, do they?
If it was the only way - yes, even Tory.
Significant numbers of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters said they would even be willing to vote Tory to block Reform.
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If it was the only way - yes, even Tory.
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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When is enough cuts enough to sort the problem. Maybe actually raising funds by taxing multinationals at their point of profit production in a corporate PAYE tax system could ensure no more cuts were necessary. #TaxTheWealthNotThePeople
The Motability scheme is not “low-hanging fruit” for public service cuts
The Motability scheme is a lifeline for some disabled people like me but I hope you never need it
@westenglandbylines.co.uk
@lizziejones.bsky.social
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/equ...
The Motability scheme is a lifeline for some disabled people like me but I hope you never need it
@westenglandbylines.co.uk
@lizziejones.bsky.social
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/equ...
The Motability scheme is not “low-hanging fruit” for public service cuts
The Motability scheme is a lifeline for some disabled people like me but I hope you never need it
westenglandbylines.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
When is enough cuts enough to sort the problem. Maybe actually raising funds by taxing multinationals at their point of profit production in a corporate PAYE tax system could ensure no more cuts were necessary. #TaxTheWealthNotThePeople
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Here's the uncomfortable truth that no one in Westminster wants to acknowledge: the entire premise of AI as a revolutionary economic force is built on foundations of sand, propped up by venture capital and sustained by collective delusion.
substack.com/@europeanpow...
substack.com/@europeanpow...
The AI Emperor’s New Clothes: Starmer’s AI Growth Zones Gamble
This illusion of AI innovation policy is quickly revealing itself to be cargo cult economics.
substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Here's the uncomfortable truth that no one in Westminster wants to acknowledge: the entire premise of AI as a revolutionary economic force is built on foundations of sand, propped up by venture capital and sustained by collective delusion.
substack.com/@europeanpow...
substack.com/@europeanpow...
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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I’m SO close to hitting 5,000 Substack subscribers!
My page is dedicated to investigating and exposing populist elites - their funding, their illiterate ideas, and their international networks.
Needless to say I write a lot about Farage and Reform.
If this sounds of interest, please sign up 🙏🏻
My page is dedicated to investigating and exposing populist elites - their funding, their illiterate ideas, and their international networks.
Needless to say I write a lot about Farage and Reform.
If this sounds of interest, please sign up 🙏🏻
Sam Bright | Substack
Unmasking the populist elite. Click to read Sam Bright, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
writesbright.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I’m SO close to hitting 5,000 Substack subscribers!
My page is dedicated to investigating and exposing populist elites - their funding, their illiterate ideas, and their international networks.
Needless to say I write a lot about Farage and Reform.
If this sounds of interest, please sign up 🙏🏻
My page is dedicated to investigating and exposing populist elites - their funding, their illiterate ideas, and their international networks.
Needless to say I write a lot about Farage and Reform.
If this sounds of interest, please sign up 🙏🏻
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Left: Kwasi-I-crashed-the-economy-Kwarteng criticising Labour for paying Hadush Kebatu £500 to leave
Right: That time Kwasi Kwarteng's government was paying £3,000 to volunteers to go to Rwanda
Whatever you think of Labour's policies, know that the Conservatives were so much worse
Right: That time Kwasi Kwarteng's government was paying £3,000 to volunteers to go to Rwanda
Whatever you think of Labour's policies, know that the Conservatives were so much worse
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Left: Kwasi-I-crashed-the-economy-Kwarteng criticising Labour for paying Hadush Kebatu £500 to leave
Right: That time Kwasi Kwarteng's government was paying £3,000 to volunteers to go to Rwanda
Whatever you think of Labour's policies, know that the Conservatives were so much worse
Right: That time Kwasi Kwarteng's government was paying £3,000 to volunteers to go to Rwanda
Whatever you think of Labour's policies, know that the Conservatives were so much worse
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This is farcical. Katie Lam didn't speak "imprecisely". She accurately stated the Conservative party's existing policy, which they tried to pass as a Bill in Parliament earlier this year, and which Badenoch's spokesman defended himself just last week.
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is farcical. Katie Lam didn't speak "imprecisely". She accurately stated the Conservative party's existing policy, which they tried to pass as a Bill in Parliament earlier this year, and which Badenoch's spokesman defended himself just last week.
Govt appears to be on track more than failing:
fullfact.org/government-t...
fullfact.org/government-t...
Government Tracker – Full Fact
Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises
fullfact.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Govt appears to be on track more than failing:
fullfact.org/government-t...
fullfact.org/government-t...
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Not sure why this was kind of buried in the Guardian story
Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"
It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.
Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"
It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.
Factionalism, farce and chaos dog Reform UK in the garden of England
All is not well in Kent for Nigel Farage’s party as the recent video of an incendiary meeting suggests
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Not sure why this was kind of buried in the Guardian story
Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"
It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.
Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"
It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.
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Ah, yes. Reform UK. "A movement built by real people." All smiling and clasping their hands in EXACTLY the same way.
I'd love to see the prompts that generated this.
<make them happier>
<make some of them young>
<make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA
I'd love to see the prompts that generated this.
<make them happier>
<make some of them young>
<make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Ah, yes. Reform UK. "A movement built by real people." All smiling and clasping their hands in EXACTLY the same way.
I'd love to see the prompts that generated this.
<make them happier>
<make some of them young>
<make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA
I'd love to see the prompts that generated this.
<make them happier>
<make some of them young>
<make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA
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The Spectator and others have chosen (deliberately I suspect) to interpret this article as a desire to stop a future Reform UK government from legislating. My purpose is to stop *any* government crushing our fundamental rights. It’s just more urgent now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The Spectator and others have chosen (deliberately I suspect) to interpret this article as a desire to stop a future Reform UK government from legislating. My purpose is to stop *any* government crushing our fundamental rights. It’s just more urgent now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Superb reporting by @peterjukes.bsky.social in @bylinetimes.bsky.social on Farage, Putin & Nathan Gill.
The sort of reporting you’d want the BBC to do and should really be career-ending for Farage if @teamlabouruk.bsky.social or the Tories knew what they were doing!
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...
The sort of reporting you’d want the BBC to do and should really be career-ending for Farage if @teamlabouruk.bsky.social or the Tories knew what they were doing!
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...
Bot Verification
bylinetimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Superb reporting by @peterjukes.bsky.social in @bylinetimes.bsky.social on Farage, Putin & Nathan Gill.
The sort of reporting you’d want the BBC to do and should really be career-ending for Farage if @teamlabouruk.bsky.social or the Tories knew what they were doing!
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...
The sort of reporting you’d want the BBC to do and should really be career-ending for Farage if @teamlabouruk.bsky.social or the Tories knew what they were doing!
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...
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Lighting Up, painting by Sue Atkinson (1949-2021). Daughter of a Bradford wool merchant, worked in the Wakefield area. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lighting Up, painting by Sue Atkinson (1949-2021). Daughter of a Bradford wool merchant, worked in the Wakefield area. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
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Because some damn fool asked, here's a thread about Baxter.
This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life.
Look at him. Absolutely irresistible.
And that's how they get you, the utter bastards
This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life.
Look at him. Absolutely irresistible.
And that's how they get you, the utter bastards
November 20, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Because some damn fool asked, here's a thread about Baxter.
This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life.
Look at him. Absolutely irresistible.
And that's how they get you, the utter bastards
This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life.
Look at him. Absolutely irresistible.
And that's how they get you, the utter bastards
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October 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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