Nadhim Zahawi describes Nowak as someone "who lost his life because of incompetence". Greg Dyke points out that nobody is saying the mistake by police caused the death. Phillips intervenes with "nobody knows". A lack of basic research on a very sensitive topic. Paragraph 16 of sentencing remarks:

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Wait you’re telling me California from the Red Hot Chili Peppers songs is a real place??

And the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2026 are... Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife of Democracy for Sale.

References to Palantir have been redacted from the Mandelson files on the grounds that they would be "prejudicial to UK national security or international relations"

My wife's notebook sounds like a Jason Statham movie.

There was this old man called Charlie you used to frequently visit a previous workplace of mine and he always found an excuse to remove an item or layer of clothing in front of us. He'd usually start by interrupting us and saying "níl sé fuar, lads. Níl sé fuar inniu". Thinking about him today.

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

A favourite poem of mine from the Irish Twitter era. Is SiveMusic on Bluesky?

There’s a weird attitude among many Irish people that no punishment is too great for the smallest of crimes. Plenty of Irish people are also racist. When those two things meet, you get the most disgusting opinions imaginable

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

The writer of Sister Act never replied to my DM…

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

If Streeting is the answer, Labour hasn't understood the question.

I don’t think people are attached to Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre as much as they’re just sick of the little by little erosion of Dublin’s character

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

gordon brown caught on hot mic saying "awful, bigoted man" as he drove away

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

There's a 100% chance that Richard Dawkins would be fooled by Bugs Bunny in drag.

Watching it tonight as well

I'm desperate to find the coherent politics of the perpetrators

We’re watching X-Files and I’m doodling a bit

I’d add words of wisdom from my stepmother—“A hobby is something you spend money on. If you make money on it, it’s a job and you’ll eventually need a new hobby.”

Been playing around with process a bit, trying to digitize stuff I enjoy doing with traditional media. This would be: marker sketch (dry as hell) ink (mostly brush) whiteout marker colors (not dry as hell) + colored pencils for highlights

Wow. This is damning. Government really needs to look at office for students, a regulator that seemed to be created as a culture war play and certainly was acting like one in this case

You'll only drive it underground.

Labour supporters are basically at a point where they say "you don't get it, the Prime Minister HAS NO POWER and ISN'T ALLOWED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF ANYTHING!"

This might not translate globally, but for UK people, this is like seeing the Beatles reform

Tonight, I’m going to see Akira the way the filmmakers intended it to be seen: in Blanchardstown

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

Tony Benn would have been 101 today. His "Don't arab women weep when their children die, doesn't bombing strengthen their resolve?" Is as relevant now as it was 25 years ago.

Kanye West - Not Racist Anymore feat. Simon (A.I. reconstruction) and Garfunkel (real)

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

These are cringe and they are stubbornly incurious of English placename traditions. The towns that are named after individuals are in colonies.

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded when I asked if she agrees with her Shadow Lord Chancellor that Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square is an "act of domination"

If there was work in the bed, he’d sleep on the floor

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Philip Pullman said that anything that a child might encounter in their childhood is appropriate material for a children's story.

I'm obsessed with the way there were 9/11 conspiracy documentaries on Bin Laden's hard drive. Just imagine him being all "they're not telling us everything, lads".

It’s fairly clear that they see this as a war against Islam and Muslims (hence the Gorton and Denton comment). Right wing politics in the UK is almost entirely driven by anti Muslim hatred and it’s clear their support of this war comes from that

so the £10k payments to asylum seekers to incentivise them to leave is pretty much a BNP policy from 2010s, the only difference being that the payment is worth a lot less in real terms now

30 years ago Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club accurately predicted that men under late capitalism, empty consumers who had come to think of themselves as “the middle children of history” with no great wars to fight, would eventually prank and shitpost their way into fascism.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

Good result for Liverpool, but I really didn’t enjoy that Arsenal-Chelsea match. Standard of football in the PL has nosedived; every team playing for corners they’ll only take after the long, customary 10-man brawl in the six-yard box. The pace and excitement of Rangers-Celtic drove it home

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).