FIFA Peace Prize Winner displaces Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

the best version of Silent Night you'll ever hear was filmed 50 years ago today, Christmas Eve 1975, around Guy Clark's kitchen table in Nashville and led by a 20-year old Steve Earle. It's somehow equal parts kick-ass and poignant

Martin Parr A drive through McDonalds. Nutgrove shopping centre. Dublin. Ireland. 1986. www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

Remembering Con Houlihan (born 100 years ago today): "A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything."

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)

From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”

I don’t need a movie about Bruce Springsteen. I need a movie about what the hell happened to the chicken man.

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

Fascinating article with Don McCullin talking about 19 of his greatest photos. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

It is a special kind of cruelty to neither own a dog nor have any friends within a commutable distance that own a dog you can visit. There should be state-allocated dogs for petting in such trying circumstances.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Blood is food for vampires so this scene in Blade is basically the same as when they used to serve chicken curry at a rural Ireland disco

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found? A: it wasn’t anybody’s job. I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

Label Guy "OK so Mariah is doing a cover of an old Phil Collins song with some Irish boyband. Just take a normal photograph. You don't have to make it look like a Caravaggio painting or anything". Photographer:

So, to be clear, Reform UK want a state strong enough to carry out mass deportations but identity cards would be a step too far in terms of state power?

Huge news for a particular type of guy

If wrestling isn’t real then how do you explain this?

Scientists believe we could be just years away from discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

Regarding "speaking ill of the dead" - lying is speaking ill.

Thanks to @lilliputpress.bsky.social for sending me this absolutely gorgeous leabhar on Irish names today. Some absolute stunning names in here.

Graham Linehan is like when the Animaniacs drive someone insane, but then he has to live the rest of his life like that

I see the Guardian hasn't reported the things that Linehan has actually said and done

I bet when he won his fifth (!) BAFTA he thought to himself "my sandwich board days are surely behind me now".

We've long passed the point where Starmer's rhetoric is "in danger of" getting migrants killed, and appear to be rapidly approaching the point where he'll publicly admit to being sad if they are not.

Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse

For the record, when I'm excited about "it happening" I mean Mindhunter Season 3

No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today. Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.

Response from other parties. - Farage dialling up language of 'mass deportation' - Susan Hall and Gavin Williamson signing up to Restore Britain - Jenrick using the code of 'men from backward countries' to say he doesn't want any in any neighbourhood Badenoch + Starmer essentially mute on all this

What if they've deliberately taken their time to convince gullible clowns that it's not a genocide?

🤬 Woman who admitted incitement to violence and racism on Social Media and in Court was jailed for 2.5 years. Gets released early and British TV and media repeating what she said originally, give her prime spot on TV. Britain wonders why they have a problem which every day is getting more extreme?

Can't wait for the ITV drama about Lucy Connolly, a innocent woman guilty of nothing more than committing the crime of inciting racial hatred.

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

If earth based human life was wiped out tomorrow, the two human beings with the most durable material record would be disgraced ex President Richard Nixon, whose name is on the plaque on the moon, and former Nazi and UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, who sent fraternal greetings on Voyager

No, you see, John Boyne is entitled to free speech which means he can say and do what he wants, but nobody else is allowed to say or do anything that John Boyne doesn't like, because that's cancel culture.

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

They'll ban something as honorable and useful as Wikipedia before they reprimand social media companies that spread vaccine misinformation, manipulate elections and circulate image-based sexual abuse.