I keep forgetting we actually have a culture secretary

She MORTGAGED HER OWN HOUSE TO START THE MOBOS because THE INDUSTRY WOULDN'T TOUCH THE IDEA WITH A BARGEPOLE. Such a huge achievement. Such a huge loss.

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

My rebuttal pitch to the Telegraph: Boomers ruined sex for the young

Also maybe stop restricting access to contraception and abortion, and maybe reopen all the sexual health clinics, approx half of which have shut in the last decade. Sex is *riskier* due to policy decisions and public health funding cuts!

My policy pitch: give everyone in their twenties an affordable place to rent, and bring alcohol prices back down to Nineties levels, and reopen all the pubs and bars and clubs that have shut, and I *guarantee* you the shagging will pick up

How can publications run articles like "Gen Z aren't shagging cos they're deeply boring" alongside ones explaining "Gen Z are living with their parents cos they can't afford to rent" and not connect the dots? How many randoms would YOU bring back to your parents' place and bonk next to their room!

Help the girls at work are trying to argue the Pope is based

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

I've written an essay in today's FT Weekend about why - and how - people are shaking off the feeling of being "frozen" in front of a "tusnami", and beginning to fight for the future they want. as.ft.com/r/cfa87609-8... (some free clicks here!)

LLMs are trained by stealing other people's work that they pass it off as their own, while simultaneously patronising you and also reflecting the structural misogyny of the tech broligarchy that's trying to shove AI down our throats. But sure it's a mystery why uptake is low among women

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

This is where the whole, male anger / inceldom stems from being politically neglected / economically deprived / societally disenfranchised thing falls apart. They're the most privileged subsect of society and they're full of *hate*

It's actually quite funny watching everyone acting like the leadership contest is in full swing yet Starmer has a) not resigned, b) shown any intention of resigning, and c) is not facing a vote of no confidence or even particularly widespread demands to step down

NB: don't sack the subs

Childfree people have to pick up the slack for their breeder coworkers and friends and that should exempt us from the "you're not producing future taxpayers" takes

The reason certain people are still on Twitter or complain how this place isn’t Twitter is because for a brief amount of time Twitter allowed specialty journalists, opinion writers, pundits, etc a chance to feel somewhat famous, or that they actually had influence, and they miss that like heroin.

In fairness wouldnt we all love to be so powerful we could use it as an excuse to skip a family wedding

The actual problem is the closure of like 40% of public toilets since the millennium and the fact that I have to beg my way into cafe and pub loos but sure, lets be testing fucking chromosomes at the door

I had an older Jewish relative make this point during the row over Green locals candidates. Everyone knows there are antisemitic neo-fascists on the right. It’s horrific, but it’s baked in. When it’s people who pride themselves on being anti-racist spouting antisemitic hate, it hits different

My counter argument is that literally nobody should be posting more than 50 times a day, should be a universal health limit

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Holy shit www.skysports.com/football/new...

I am SHOCKED that every high-profile egregious story of AI plagiarism and hallucination in journalism is by a male writer. SHOCKED

i cannot. I CANNOT.

Ross Barkan's plagiarism mini scandal has barely been discussed on Bluesky. We should be taking note of it. Especially since, now that he has responded on Twitter, his explanations are ridiculous.

Almost every publication sent reporters to "Unite the Kingdom" (Tommy Robinson immersive experience) rally. All went huge covering it - videos, interviews, first-person pieces. How many did the same for the pro-multicultural, anti-far-right Together Alliance demonstration in March? Answer: none

The Guardian 100 books list has *got* to be ragebait. Or they outsourced it to ChatGPT. Because that is the most unimaginative unoriginal anodyne stuck-in-the-past-and-in-thrall-to-the-white-western-"canon" shit I've ever seen

Man the difference in how women raise a second baby vs a first is HYSTERICAL. Firstborn: blackout blinds, white noise machine, shhh don't speak, disinfect yourself before approaching the precious. Second: oh just chuck her in the general direction

Labour, be like “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Actually, you know that man who lost two leadership elections and isn’t yet eligible to run…”

This piece did *exactly* what I was hoping

I covered that march. Here's the first paragraph of the story I wrote about it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

The entire tech broligarchy is made up of losers that are still pissed they didn't get invited to parties as teenagers; the desperation to seem relevant / cool / powerful is their primary motivation. "Geeks shall inherit the earth" no baby the incels did

not to be a gentle troll but I reckon that in terms of sheer numbers, Sadiq Khan is mayor to more working class people than Burnham, so why he isn't considered as someone we should listen to on left-wing national politics is.....well I mean we know why it's happening, but still

I'm not saying this because I particularly think he should stand for leader but it does feel Quite Interesting that Labour actually has this other mayor who's been successfully running a much bigger city for a longer period of time but for some reason no one's waiting for him to save the party

I will never forget Starmer insisting the next Labour leader should be a woman only to run himself against ONLY WOMEN

It's the possible collapse of yet another government to the further detriment of the entire country, it's not transfer day, I beg political correspondents have some decorum

this

Reform UK claimed to have the “best vetting in the country”. Their candidates told a different story. Here are some with records of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, conspiracy theories and links to far-right groups. They are now in office and must be held to account. 🧵

Young men do not lack for potential role models. But it algorithms, influencers, certain politicians and bad actors to suggest otherwise because it benefits them

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

I keep seeing takes saying Starmer will pivot to a closer EU relationship in the wake of these results: 1. He's done that at least four times already 2. He'd be a terrible figurehead for join/rejoin 3. Has anyone tried talking to the EU? They have some clear views and red lines on this stuff.

I'm only hearing about "Labour's mauling" - number of seats lost to Reform and votes to Greens. But bigger story is surely the *annihilation* of the Conservatives? Party of opposition against chronically unpopular government with a majority just a few years ago? In mostly right-wing media landscape?

The wild thing isn't even how unethical, dangerous and damaging this is to the NYT's own projection of procedural moral high ground. Not to mention in flagrant violation of its own rules. It's how astonishingly *lazy* it is

There are people legit trying to make John Curtice into a national treasure and I for one will not stand for this Paddington Bearification of politics

Wowsers. Scientists found that between 2005-19, there was a 28% decline in spoken words. While all age groups were affected, participants aged 25 or younger showed a markedly steeper decline in speech. Seems significant and I've not seen this widely referred to www.sciencefocus.com/news/losing-...

Here, in my opinion, is the most stupid, anti-science thing Chris Van Tullekan has ever said. If only someone would buy up Monster Munch and start producing them with love and big hugs for world peace, they'd magically stop being UPF and we'd all be healthy again!

If anyone is interested in the Hatzola, the Jewish ambulance service that serves the local community regardless of religion, I wrote about it a month ago. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

WHAT ABOUT THE VERY QUALIFIED WOMAN WHO'D BEEN DOUNG THE JOB WELL