oh fuck off

We’re going to lose on penalties aren’t we

Hydration break

a) Lord Mayor is an entirely ceremonial post, so this bloke will be cutting ribbons on new community centres, not ‘running the city’. b) Jesus fucking Christ.

Men who you’d work with, men who could work with your kids, men whose taxis you might get into. It’s all of you until it’s none of you x

OK then

Temperature inside my house as of 7.30 this morning. This is fucking intolerable and anyone claiming ‘it’s just summer!!’ can fuck off.

I have effectively been living in one room of my house since Monday.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

I was vocally against prolonged school closures during Covid because in my view (and personal experience) the harm from schools being closed was greater than the potential risks of their being open. That’s not the case with the current closures, as kids are at serious risk from extreme heat.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

When you combine stuff like this with the ongoing heat jamboree, anyone talking about abandoning net zero should be laughed out of town as not just unserious but deeply, deeply stupid.

There was a remarkably large contingent of freaks like Christopher Booker telling us this wasn’t a thing to sweat when I was growing up. Don’t seem to hear so many of them now

Would be good if, even as an aside, blanket coverage of yet another British PM finding the country impossible to govern would mention the enormous, undeniable impact of foreign interference. Richest bloke in the world is actively undermining UK democracy and it's taboo to say so

Astonished to learn she’s still on Twitter and still using the ‘twcuddleston’ handle. Blast from the past.

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

Quite literally this GIF www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

It’s too hot for all this drama

This can fuck all the way off

Excellent interview with Frank Cottrell-Boyce in which he points out the profound damage done to modern childhood by both austerity and the Covid lockdowns. Of course if you pointed out the latter at the time, you were accused of wanting to murder the elderly. observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

This will be fucking intolerable in London and anyone who claims to enjoy it is nuts.

The Sun front page: TEXAS KANE SCORE MASSACRE

Very much enjoyed this centrist dad conference

"It is not unusual for a law to be made in the expectation that most people will break it." great piece by @willdunn.bsky.social:

Don’t really understand the take “social media is bad for children but it’s bad for adults too so we shouldn’t ban it for children”. That’s true of, like. Most things we ban for children. It’s correctly harder to ban adults from voluntarily doing things that may harm them

I had a nice holiday in Cape Verde once, apropos of nothing.

This. Both parents and kids themselves are broadly in favour of some kind of ban. You can nitpick about the details/implementation but this will be a popular policy.

Children deserve to feel safe & happy. When so many don’t it’s a national emergency We at @childrenssociety.bsky.social completely agree Thank you @theobserveruk.bsky.social for this powerful editorial & @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social for your book (just ordered!) observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...

Once again: I do not want to hear from childless people regarding social media bans for kids.

the FT column in which @edwardluce.bsky.social explains why Elon Musk is a “monstrous human being”

So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Note that UK officials are still actively using this guy’s site.

True. So piss off.

Apart from everything else I think the European right underestimate how damaging it is to have their key messages associated with the Trump administration.

i've loved Anthony Head since I saw him in Chess, my first West End musical, in like 89 or something. Anyway that's not on YouTube so here he is in Once More WIth Feeling www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0q...

Shit apple.news/A9dkAMJgbTZa...

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

The new season of Rivals is just glorious.

My parents live in East Sussex and I have a severely disabled sibling who still lives at home. God knows what will happen to adult social care if Reform get in.

I need to stop caring so much about politics.

"Haha, this will show Keir!" - the british public, as it stabs itself in the dick

Westminster's marginal Lancaster Gate ward went Lab 2, Con 1 in 2022. It's just done the same again: www.westminster.gov.uk/local-electi... #london #localelections #westminster

I have a tiny number of followers and no idea if this applies to any of them, but if you live in the borough of Westminster, please don’t vote Green in order to give Starmer a kicking. This will result in a Tory council.

So many good, decent, hardworking councillors from all parties are going to lose their seats to absolute scumbags like this. Civic life is going to get even more toxic and local services even less reliable. An incoming disaster, basically.

I was about to remind you to vote today, but then I remembered it’s Bluesky, so not only have most of you already voted by post but many of you are probably running as local councillors.

People who are critical of Zack Polanski (and I’m increasingly one of them) need to be able to recognise that, even if you think he’s handling antisemitism within his party really badly, he is himself a victim of antisemitism.

Neither of these would look out of place in Der Stürmer (particularly the one on the left). What is going on in this country?