Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?

The enemy within

Trump sues the BBC is the stupidest story ever Of course, cover it but please, please point out - early - how stupid it is. And don’t put it at the top of the news. Because it’s really, really stupid.

MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

@resident-music.com Hola! Is there a Resident end of year CD sampler this year, and how can I get hold of one if I have foolishly moved out of Brighton and can't get to you in person? Cheers 👍🏻

If you're wondering why what you see of Badenoch just does not tally with the reviews she is getting, let me explain: Having observed first-choice Farage bump under a ceiling for six months, then drop on aggregate 4% in November, political hacks are frantically trying to inflate "Kemi" like a blimp.

Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Well, this explains the mini pile on I experienced a few weeks ago

Craven Faults playing the Royal Albert Hall! Incredible. @cravenfaults.bsky.social @theleaflabel.com

Bloody hell, the Craven Faults remix of I Can Never Say Goodbye from The Cure's Mixes of a Lost World is absolutely phenomenal.

Jesus motherfucking Christ.

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

New Christmas single from @thecoral.bsky.social ?! In the bag ✅️

Think Reeves can chalk this up as a win. A big win actually.

"Rachel Reeves is the worst chancellor of all time..." - Kemi Badenoch

That's not a rally. That's looking on the bright side of a low turnout at a PTA meeting

A lot of people -- very understandably -- shrug off the second (and only other full) Stone Roses album. I barely touch it myself. But "Begging You," lemme tell ya, if you haven't heard that one, you'll suddenly wish the entire album was like that.

add this to the list of reasons why Trump's defamation claim would not stand a chance

can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress

A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged. A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death. And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.

A very personal story of Covid tragedy and Dominic Cummings, which I wrote early in the pandemic in 2020. bylinetimes.com/2020/05/27/c...

Just reupping this #Mani

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Presumably this means they asked him for evidence that he'd been hacked and he couldn't provide any because he hadn't been hacked

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

In 1996 I did a little in internship at BBC Westminster. At the time, Robbie Gibb was one of the producers there. Even in that period, he was self evidently a pro-Tory apparatchik, who made no attempt to hide his agenda from his colleagues or even from the little work experience kid.

Brilliant piece as usual, and my respect probably increased tenfold by this exchange. Good work. 👏👏

Pundit critics: “We need to disrupt orthodoxies!” BBC (just occasionally) runs some daring coverage Same critics: “no, not my orthodoxies!”

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

If you haven't read @markurban.bsky.social's insider takes on the BBC 'crisis' (scare quotes since there is one every five years or so- see the experience of almost every previous DG), they are very worth it and an interesting contrast with @lewisgoodall.com markurban.substack.com/p/the-bbc-is...

New Politics on the Couch - the world’s most erratically scheduled politics podcast - this time on immigration, storytelling and changing even the most hostile minds (maybe). shows.acast.com/6462652801a2...

The Culture Secretary who wasn’t there: my SKETCH of Today in Saving the BBC. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

“Of Nigel Farage there was no sign at all, except in a question about him appearing on BBC Question Time more often than he’s appeared in his own constituency” I watched Lisa Nandy defend the BBC in Parliament so you didn’t have to www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

And I want to see more malteasers in a tin of celebrations, Zack. Just because you want something to happen doesn't mean it, will.

Polanski is an unserious politician leading an unserious party. He is peddling simple solutions to complex problems in a way that would make the most deranged Brexiteer blush.

Polanski is almost a parody of a sixth-form radical who hasn’t grown up.

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

David Ford, tonight at Union Chapel. I believe my 9th time seeing him live, either solo, with Easyworld or @anniedressner.bsky.social. This was hus best yet, playing his debut in full with a band and the definitive versions of Pour a Little Poison and Song For the Road. @davidfordisdead.bsky.social

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Just watched a video on TikTok about how dentists do fillings. Looks a piece of piss. I also watched a video on shoeing horses which looked slightly harder. Anyway, I’ll shoe your teeth £40 each x

#NotYourFavourite Low - All Night

Tonight. TORINO. The show is also being streamed so you can watch it wherever you are. It’s my first Italian headline tour so I’m playing what I consider the greatest hits. www.folkclub.it/en/concerti/...