Hearing this from @sirpatstew is my career highlight. He is a proper gent ❤️

YES! 👏👏👏💪💪💪🥳🥳🥳🫖🫖🫖

Today I turned 28 YEARS OLD. Which means 12 YEARS AGO I was on Educating Yorkshire. Over the years, teachers have helped me to push forward in all things I doubted myself I could achieve. Teachers gave me more than an education - they gave me a future. I will forever be grateful.

Wow - this was a brilliantly thought-provoking rabbithole to disappear into. I’ve emerged with a great list of new books to read too.

Beautiful 👌

'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.' Nick Cave.

Not all of Twitter is rotten - there is still gold in places

If you're ready to steward, iterate and socialise regenerative, distributive-by-design financial systems, as part of an ambitious capital project where many kinds of value are generated and shared, you could be the Financial Systems Lead we're looking for: https://t.co/zjn85oQGiK

ℹ️ | We are seeing lots of videos being shared online that were filmed at previous protests or during previous incidents. There has been no disorder in London this weekend and the videos are likely being shared to mislead or to fuel tension.

This video is currently being shared with false claims that it shows a group of Muslim men on motorbikes blocking a road in Walthamstow to confront far-right protesters. The video is from last year, when a group of bikers blocked a road in London to mark the death of a friend.

We need to have some clarity about the causes of the rioting over the past few days. A 🧵about the rioters, the instigators (two fairly distinct groups of people), and the processes leading to the current unrest. 1/21

The full - unexpurgated - and BRILLIANT broadcast by DARREN from READING this afternoon on Shelagh Fogarty's show on LBC. The man is a legend after just a couple of hours.

UK providing a real-time example of how social media algorithms, including this site’s, foment hate and spread disinformation. As democracies we have to take action and hold those who monetize hate to account. Too much is at stake. @elonmusk

1/ 🧵There is another anti-immigrant, racist and unsubstantiated rumour being circulated online about the tragic stabbing of a woman in #Brantham, UK. I just wanted to provide some analysis of the emergence of this rumour, and the protagonists and sequence of the story.

This is great news - with some of the best economists I’ve ever worked with, including @johnvanreenen and @asvalero. Serious people joining the government.

“Ed come in the house… you can’t go to GoApe, the election’s over”

Obsession (*not*by Calvin Klein).

This is from the press Office at Conservative HQ. It is not impartial. Pensions are already taxed. And taxes will rise under both parties because of frozen tax allowances.

The claim that families face a £2,000 tax rise under Labour is misleading. 👇 Our full fact check looks at: ❓Where the figure comes from ❓Whether it’s based on Treasury costings https://t.co/qvMj962Vtl #BBCDebate #GE24

We've written to @Conservatives to ask them to remove the “Tax Check UK" rebrand of @CCHQPress. This misrepresents posts on the account as an impartial fact checking service. Voters deserve better.

It wasn't a cake, Tom. It was lots of parties. It was allowing them to happen during lockdown. It was employing dozens of witless idiots in Number 10 who thought it didn't matter. It's about trust, Tom. And I'm a Tory.