At last a catastrophe we can all get behind. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

My Dad passed away in 2010 (I still miss him 💔) . I remember him once saying to me of our family home: "When I bought this house I could walk to a grocers, bakers, butchers and newsagent. Now I have to drive to a supermarket, and they call it progress." 16/22

LinkedIn: "You appeared in 8 searches this week!" me: uhhh what am I supposed to do with this information. It neither helps nor hinders my experience in this weird job/career listing site that suffers from serious social media wannabe syndrome

Will never stop saying this, in the face of AI, book publishing had (has) an amazing opportunity to double down on everything - taste & curation (acquisition), nurture writers, editorial rigour and integrity, quality production & copyright protection. If they lose any of this to AI, they’re fucked.

From Sam, Bangs & Moonshine, by Evaline Ness (1966). #wardsmorguefile

‘After Tommy Robinson’s last outing in London in 2025 there were 22 arrests, including six for violent disorder. But the phrase “hate marches” continues to be used overwhelmingly for pro-Palestine protests.’ @desfreedman.bsky.social on new on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

I’m sure you can hear the leaders of the West tutting, if you listen hard enough.

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

This deserves to be circulated. A former Red Cross staff member got in touch. She testifies about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's role. For transparency: her name is Brea Thibodeau. The whole thing is a desperate smear.

If Polanski was accepting huge donations from corporations & foreign donors, denying climate change, spent his youth goose stepping & bullying Jews or was currently supporting genocide he’d be getting an easier ride from our media . I don’t know what to do with that , it’s just sickening .

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

This is a very good article. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Donald Trump threatened to wipe out an entire civilisation this month. It's beyond time to treat him like the rogue actor he is.

I feel that the one-time passcodes are getting out of hand

If I were super-rich I would bring back Punch and give it covers like this.

Well indeed, and again: this shit is happening because the world did nothing to even impede the obliteration of the Gaza Strip, and the men who did that took it as global permission for them to expand their murderous destruction across the entire region. And here we now are.

What’s that peeking out through the mist? Why, could it be my new book FOG!? Adapted from Carl Sandburg’s classic poem, my latest book follows the trail of a mischievous cat as he scampers across San Francisco, covering the city in its famous fog 🌁 Preorder Fog now wherever books are sold!

Never forget these arse kissing fools who cheered on the worst president in history.

Will the Artemis crew will come back and find anyone left?

Watching films with kids is a learning experience, put it that way. The seven year olds I know literally *cannot* understand “people will do bad things for money”. I don’t mean they refuse to understand, I mean they cannot comprehend it.

This is what happens when 77 million people take leave of their senses and put a manifestly unqualified, unfit, mentally ill narcissistic man-child in charge of the country and the world's most powerful. military. This is what happens when the media 'bothsides' election coverage.

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

Too late as always. The propaganda effect is complete. Thousands of voters will believe that Muslim men’s coercion swung the vote and corrupted “our” democracy because false allegations were reported. This is how right-leaning media have rolled the pitch for Reform. news.sky.com/story/politi...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

My brilliant friend @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social has painted my father’s hand as it was for the last few hours of his life - I am working on some words to accompany it Robinince.com

Oh no, my magic beans

I heard someone died after eating green eggs and ham. It was suesside

Now's the chance to make a £25 note with a pony on it and a £500 note with a monkey

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

The Tories oversaw the degradation of UK gas storage capacity - 2010 to 2017. Thatcher privatised the gas and oil industry - 1982 to 1986. Thatcher closed the collieries - 1986 to 1991. This woman is an idiot - 1960 to 2026

This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts. Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.

Oh, just the business vehicle of Nigel Farage masquerading as a political party breaching its obligations at Companies House.

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

I'm getting to the stage now where the worst thing I can think of to happen to Trump is never bad enough.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

In a nutshell

"... as soon as you shift the frame to, these are politicians who've been bought & paid for by oil & gas, arms trade companies, private healthcare companies, gambling companies, their behaviour makes absolute sense" @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Labour. Spot on.

Labour front benchers scratch their heads and wonder why their base has collapsed, why so many people are disillusioned, frustrated, furious. I mean, what is it about pissing on every value and principle your party once upheld that alienates the electorate? Beats me. 🤔

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

If we had a functioning media in this country, political journalists would ask Wes Streeting: "Given you long ago concluded Israel is committing war crimes, does that not mean you must think your government is facilitating war crimes?" They'd specifically note F-35 components.

Sounds like we bought a billion tons of cotton that M&M Enterprises now can’t shift, so we’ll all be eating chocolate-covered cotton for the next few years

Please share. 💔

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

These lies are like their father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable.