Classicists: The Fall of Rome is a complicated series of events, at once sudden and gradual, crossing politics, agriculture, economy, religion and sociology. Elon Musk: Rome fell because girls don’t think I’m funny.

Living under capitalism is like being forced to play a board game you dislike where the rules are boring, unfair and nonsensical but which the winners, who started with an advantage, keep explaining are excellent, and if you try improve the game you’re “cheating” but if you stop playing you’ll die

My dude is just trying to get to St. Ives

Wes Streetings texts are insane. They’re basically admitting he doesn’t think the Government is good, which is true but… HE’S IN THE CABINET! Starmer won’t, but should sack him. It is insane what’s happening with Labour.

bloody knight

Can’t work from home. Wants to eliminate minimum wage. If you’re working class and thinking about voting for Reform, you’re not so much a class traitor as just a fecking idiot.

How it it possible for someone to be so dull and slimy at the same time?

Who's this big guy?? This my forest dragon! One of the biggest dragons in my dragon series 🙏 they are peaceful but won't tolerate deforestation. Grass and mashrooms grow on their body, they are walking ecosystems. #dragon #dragonart #smok #forestdragon #art

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

We have an actual picture of Kid Rock the moment he found out that Trump watched the Bad Bunny half-time show instead of his Turning Point concert.

I wish I could resign in disgrace after undermining trust in government. I really don’t want to go to work tomorrow. Some people have all the luck.

just LOOK at this panel will you??! Bloody genuis.

Indeed! People keep talking about 'oh, the soft left this', 'oh, his rivals in Downing Street that'. No, it's not the soft left on the backbenches or the Blairites in the Cabinet or No 10. It's the 'alliance of MPs who can count and would like to remain MPs'.

Original comic art is available for this or any other pages from the book. Two-page spread, ink on A3 Bristol board, £120. DM me if interested.

I keep seeing journalists say McSweeney is a political genius. No doubt effective, but if your strategy is just “lie” is that really that smart given all the polls?

I work in comms in my day job. And one of the hardest thing to tell stakeholders is that all comms in the world is can’t fix broken, pet project.

Downing Street Director of Communications Tim Allen steps down. Probably nothing to worry about.

What an amazing panel!

Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Rome by @jordancollver.bsky.social and me is out Thursday!

Do you guys have a comfort film that should be comforting at all? I find the Big Short so relaxing. First time I watched it I was furious but its editing and tone is just so good

Nailed it.

Here's another favourite spread of mine from our Ancient Rome book coming out this week. @rikworth.bsky.social writes pages like this he knows I'll get a kick out of drawing.

McSweeney allies threatening is with a good time

Then ban AI? If we can’t afford the fallout of something, maybe don’t do the something in the first place. Why is this so hard to explain to otherwise intelligent people?

I have a book coming out on Thursday, so if all the news could be resolved by Wednesday lunchtime and Bluesky be completely chill by the evening that would be boss. Thanks all.

There is a non-zero possibility McSweeney resignation was prompted by the Sunday scaries.

Is it enough to keep the wolves from the door? Certainly Starmer would be safer if he sacked him

'The Battle With The Welwa in the Copper Wood', a 1901 illustration by Henry Justice Ford. For one of Andrew Lang's 'Fairy Books', it shows the knight Petru scrapping with a monster: half-stag, half-dragon. #folktale #folklore #legend #fairytale #dragon #monster #fantasyart

Starmer's brave tactic of doing and saying absolutely nothing about all this needs to be commended. A lesser PM would have fired McSweeney, launched an investigation and taken charge, like some kind of leader. Instead, the PM has cleverly figured that hiding might build a timely air of mystique.

People say McSweeny is useful because he’s been, undoubtably, effective at crushing the labour left. But that’s a bit like saying a general that shoots his own troops (who are well in range and not expecting it) but can’t defeat the opposing force is a master strategist.

Says a lot about McSweeny that he is chief advisor to PM with appalling personal ratings, worse voting intention polling, who constantly flip flops on policy and of whom people say stands for nothing, that only now he is maybe, perhaps, batting around the idea that he has “let his boss down”.

Has he called for an inquiry? Had he sacked anyone? Has he held a press conference in number ten? And what’s more, if he has, why hasn’t he got control of the story? Why aren’t people reacting? He’s not just failing to do the right thing, he’s failing to do the wrong thing well?

Some credit in this but the reason there is so much focus on Starmer is because his mistake is two fold. First, employing Mandelson and second not moving fast enough or hard enough to be seen correcting the issue. Once again, his political skill is severely lacking.

And if you’re unaware of who Steve Bannon is, @jordancollver.bsky.social and I made this 9 years ago. Pretty sure he hasn’t mellowed since then. thenib.com/a-bannon-all...

If your unaware who Thiel is, all you need to know is he think Rapture from BioShock is a good idea. If you have played BioShock, you know this is in fact, a bad idea. geeksofdoom.com/2011/08/25/p...

What’s insane is Starmer refuses to do the minimal right thing in sacking McSweeney, while McSweeney also reveals himself by refusing to step down. And while they both refuse to move, they’re making their collaboration, each other and themselves look worse

In addition to the webbing connecting the caption boxes, I tried to compose the panels to help guide the eye in a clockwise motion.

It is kinda funny Starmer went out of his way to block Burnham challenging him only to immediate step on the mega-rake that was employing a known nonce ally to ambassador. Bad for Starmer, bad for Burnham and very likely bad for the party.

If you’re still on X first off you shouldn’t be and second you need to get off it now. Are you that worried about followers?

Street food

The noble thing for Starmer to do is not step down. It’s to defect to Reform.

Nuclear war seems a bit much to be fair but it does have big 2026 energy

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General: You must kill these men you have never met for a cause that makes no sense Soldiers: SIRYESSIR General: And watch this Melania. Soldiers: Oh! The humanity!

Good haul.

Is this the one?

The prophecy is true: this comes out in less than a week now!