Sending instant messages that should have been emails is like snacking on chocolate bars and then expecting me to clear up the discarded wrappers... as.ft.com/r/104caab6-0...

This was great fun. Messrs Ringham and Ringham serving up binaural spookiness. Great acting too. Two more days at Hampstead Theatre.

Don’t forget you have until 6th March if you want to enter this year’s New Comedy Writing competition! Find out more at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk

Kemi Badenoch's mouse scurrying past live on TV

A leak today that has nothing to do with Peter Mandelson.

PRIVATE EYE NAMED IN EPSTEIN FILES In the latest files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Justice Department, the Eye is denounced as “an absolute rag of a publication” by Epstein’s then lawyer, Paul Tweed… 🧵1/5

Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government". More brilliant FT reporting www.ft.com/content/91e8...

I hope that photo of Brett Ratner in the Epstein files with a teenage girl doesn’t harm the ticket sales of his Melania film

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

On the 'ban under 16s from social media' thing, there are so many more questions to be asked that don't seem to be even thought about. Starting with 'what is social media?' Is Wikipedia? Is WhatsApp? Are text messages? Are online games with any kind of chat/communication function? 1/3

liz truss has now been a podcaster for longer than she was prime minister

Don’t let Burns night pass you by without Alan Cumming giving his Cock Up Your Beaver. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

on the issue of “who scored more goals, bournemouth or liverpool”, differing perspectives are emerging; on the one hand, video evidence suggests that bournemouth did. however, sources inside anfield say these images “lack context”, and it seems to be becoming a footballing litmus test

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Heavens to Betsy! I hope @sgfmann.bsky.social is there to see this. #TheFootball

Drawn during #trump 's first term, this @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon becomes more relevant with every passing day of his second, #insane reign. #donaldtrump #notfitforpresidency

www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo... Great piece on “airport book brain” - the tendency of politicians to swallow simplistic solutions. Latest example the Jonathan Haidt book shaping policy on teens and social media

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Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

Roses are red The Irish love hurling

i would like every commissioning editor to call the people who praised trump before/after the last election and ask them to write, "i was wrong about trump, this is why. also, i will be shutting up forever and getting a real job" the second part of this is non-negotiable.

Latest piece for @thehousemag.bsky.social, on the 1954 British government report estimating that the deaths of women in road traffic accidents had benefited the UK to the tune of just over £1.2m. Yes, benefitted. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Yeah, it's cloudy here as well 😁

Because... Please sign and remember to confirm your email address. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

there have been better days to launch an ambitious project to fund original scripted audio comedy from the likes of joel & ben (pictured), but it’s been in the diary for ages. please take a look at our store: Leadmojo.co.uk/smelt

Who is your all-time favorite fictional driver?

Absolutely damning details on the disturbing proposed hepatitis trial that is already (apparently) being rolled out in Guinea-Bissau. It beggars belief that the people funding this unethical experiment on African children claim to be the guardians of "gold standard science".

it can be very hard to break into comedy. michael beck's been plugging away for over a decade. he hasn't got an agent, let alone an agent from one of the big agencies. he just sent in a script that i liked and that the commissioning editor of radio 4 also liked and so we got to make a series.

26 years ago, there were no food banks. Now, because of rising food, rent and bills, and our poor social security system there are over 1,400.

For only the second time in over 15 years of theatre going, I've just left a play early. I'm really quite cross about it, which is ridiculous. 😡

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10

Most train drivers could write an opinion column. Most columnists could not drive a train.

I suppose at £10, I shouldn't be surprised that my new USBC earphones are rubbish. FFS. Consumer tech has been getting steadily worse since they scrapped the 3.5mm jack on phones. 🤬

we had a lot of fun with this on noncensored bsky.app/profile/lead...

is this sort of result even possible in any other sport? is there a competition where a sixth-tier team, founded five years ago to succeed one that had been wound up after 130 years, can even *play* a top-tier, cup-winning team with eight international-level players in its starting eleven?

When all protest becomes ‘terror’, we have imprisoned ourselves as well as the demonstrators @natashawalter.bsky.social on Palestine Action how language has been used to strip the Palestine Action hunger strikers of humanity. www.thenerve.news/p/palestine-...

At weekends, my family would lift up a looplink and framilate until the tears flowed. Great days 🙄

She’s right. It wasn’t *that* funny. But her moaning about it definitely is.

🗡️ The Skewer is back tonight at 11:15pm on @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds. This week it’s all about oil: Trump wants the life-giving Spice, Grok wanders into the Upside Down, and Countryfile’s photo contest sees some unusual entries. 🎧 Headphones recommended. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #TheSkewer

Elton "spending too much time in the" John

old way: start > run > notepad.exe new way: launch microsoft 365 copilot for sharepoint copilot for office copilot 365 hbo max 365 and simply say: "hey cortana. copilot run notepad copilot. sharepoint"

Today I will be supporting ........ Leeds! #TheFootball

We ask an expert futurologist [dog]: what will be the news stories of 2026? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Bloody hell - a dog that can type!

As we see so regularly , it is always the teenage girls fault , mix that with political cowardice that is driven by “but what will the Daily Mail say if we do something humane” and we have a system desperate to appease the worst of us, and to utterly ignore those who dare to empathise

Public Service Announcement #thearchers #thearchersat75 #bbcradio4

this is my production company’s output in the last year, it’s a total of 71 (publicly available) episodes. we also have a big exciting project launching in the new year that I can’t talk about yet BUT if you like scripted audio comedy you are not going to want to miss it.

100x THIS. I have the luxury of being able to budget b/c I have a well-paid, secure job and, crucially, I can afford reliability. Poverty puts those things out of reach. I know, I lived it.