Bradford is going to be City of Culture next year. It never shuts up about this and Bradford 2025 is recruiting like mad but while this elite council dominated programme develops Bradford Council is busy closing down well-loved events. First in Haworth and now this one.

What will your truth be, when electricity shuts off and computers fall. Everything you lived and expressed, will be gone. Like you were an illiterate. Unrecorded. A gap in time that mirrors those who lived in dirt. Your story will be lost. Like a memory. So go live it anyway.

Reminder: Local councils are not your friends - “Couple fined £1,200 after clearing up rubbish - BBC News” bbc.com/news/articles/…

Is The Truss now the standard unit of political tenure? “whose tenure up until today at least amounts to 2.4 times that of Liz Truss.” Let’s make it so… bbc.com/news/articles/…

The houses down my street just received empty envelopes with House of Commons postmarks and logos. All were addressed to the registered voters. Whoever was paid to do this printing and mailing, presumably on behalf of Siobhain McDonagh as our recently re-elected MP, needs a nudge…

I've lived in SF for about 7 years. Growing up, I had horribly severe panic disorder; I had panic attacks nearly every day. Much like the folks you see on the street, I would wander around in the middle of the night, grabbing parts of my body and talking to myself. Because of

Sometimes, Betteridge's law gets violated. This is going to be one of those times. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

To re-open 3 miles of track to Portishead, the local council had to complete a 79,187 page long planning application. If printed out, that's 14.6 miles of paper (4 1/2 times the line itself!). Then they had to wait 3 years for approval. Yet now this project may be scrapped.🧵

Is this the end of the British pub? 🍻 Find out: trib.al/RChlW2m

🚨 STATEMENT Sir Keir Starmer strong-arming the authorities to prosecute people for imprudent social media posts will have a chilling effect on free speech. At the Free Speech Union (FSU), we're fighting back. When Cheshire police arrested a 55 year-old women last week for

Streatham Common Paddling Pool fundraising day, Aug 17 #Streatham ⁦Norbury Park Friends⁩ ⁦Streatham Common Co-operative⁩ ⁦Love Norbury⁩ insidecroydon.com/2024/08/16/str…

I suspect that if they dropped VAT on sunscreen, every overpriced cosmetic in the UK would simply add a bit of sunblock and relabel itself to dodge the tax. “Sunscreen is taxed as a ‘cosmetic’ in the UK. As a skin cancer survivor, I’m appalled” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

bbc.com/news/articles/… Come to Cropredy - no increase in trader pitch fees since 2018. We love our traders!

I hope this decision gets reversed and soon. For Mayor Andrew Ginther - the targeting of Connor Goodwolf is not a good look. The data was/is already public and accessible to anyone that has a TOR browser. The data is already exposed and gone. Targeting security researchers for

Excellent and legally correct piece from Sonia Sodha on academic free speech in universities and the govt's decision to pause the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act - another one for Bridget Phillipson & Department for Education to have a look at theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Preparing for /unconditional surrender/, surely? news.sky.com/story/pm-prepa…

⚠️ A farmer in Wales said she can no longer keep on farming following the 'dreadful' ordeal of going though a livestock worrying incident last year. Despite causing damages worth £6,500, the dog owner received a £75 fine. READ MORE 🔗 ow.ly/sLsX50TijBJ

POV: You're on Mars, looking up at the night sky and you notice... 🌜⭐️ That's Phobos, one of Mars' two moons – and the tiny evening "star" to its right is Earth! It's the first time I've captured them together in a photo. #ObserveTheMoon

Alex Baker MP This is a quote from Labours's John McDonnell. "I want to be in a situation where no Tory MP, no Tory MP, no coalition minister, can travel anywhere in the country, or show their face anywhere in public, without being challenged, without direct action." Just saying.

As someone currently at the Oktoberfest where it’s 1L or 500ml I say “cobblers”; the British Pint is perfect. “British beer drinkers, face the truth: a pint is too big, a half is too small – all hail the two-thirds measure | Elle Hunt | The Guardian” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…