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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 1h

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 1h

So only a few rich people will moan if we cut it? Sounds ripe for reaping to me!

🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 1h

And a couple of years after that, we'll be retiring "yes, they can handle London, but they can't handle X"

Now, where did I tie up my horse?

🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 17h

I'm gonna be a grouch. Instead of binging on it, I found watching it a chore.

There was a lot of rehashing, a cluttered story, irritating new characters, and it severed the delightful chalk and cheese relationship between Wednesday and Enid.

E6/E7 improve. I haven't seen E8 yet.

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Andy Robertson 🔜 London ComicCon @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm working on a Roblox story for a national outlet and keen to talk to parents of older teens (12-16) who play Roblox games:
✅ Which games do they play?
✅ Why play that rather than a console game?
✅ How do they find new Roblox games?

Shares appreciated #JournoRequest

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🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 2d

As Reform councils are finding out!

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 4d

Yup.

China: "We're not going to sell you stuff."
US: "Well....well...well...we'll impose 100% tariffs on the stuff you're not selling us. So there!"

It's playground level.

🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 5d

Martin's ThursdayQuiz is up.

Thursday news quiz: book bans, bonkbuster authors and a papal visit

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

www.theguardian.com

🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 6d

I've already watched a documentary on it; it was called "Fahrenheit 451"

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🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 6d

Squeezing itself out, just before this week's #ThursdayQuiz arrives, is last week's supplemental:

thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-10...

A lightweight, low-key one this week. But we have bearcats, nuns on the runs, and what to do with the aftermath of people who've had the runs. So all of life!

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 7d

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 8d

Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our archives?

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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