😻🌸 The sky is blue, the mood is cheerful, and only this red-haired beauty knows the secret to true happiness: find a warm brick, stretch out comfortably, put your face in the sun, and forget about all your problems! It's spring!

Today is the day for those who create entire universes from letters of the alphabet ✍️ To be a writer is to be a little bit godlike, a little bit crazy, and very vulnerable. It is to lay your soul bare on the page for thousands of strangers to read, criticize, or love.

A fascinating story. So many questions: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Yup, America now has its very own mad king in Dumb Donnie Numbnuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@therickwilson.bsky.social So Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is finally facing some accountability for his crimes. How does Trump feel today?

Starmer's accelerating descent down the greasy pole is being stopped only by his knack of getting his trousers (by Lord Alli) snagged on every possible scandal. Labour needs to clean house immediately. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What did Starmer do? Nothing, while McSweeney chased hard right votes and got nothing. Birmingham could be one of Britain's great cities, but not while Starmer's pathetic Labour are in power. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The only certainty in Starmer's time as PM is his utter failure lending yet more momentum to Farage. Starmer will cling on until removed, despite being the emptiest of suits. Watching the latest round of Labour cowardice and failure, it's impossible to see any point to the party's existence.

How did an utter failure like McSweeney cling on for so long? The same will soon be asked of Starmer. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Of course Farage was and is an abusive creep. Anyone surprised by this is recovering from a quadruple lobotomy. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Russian invasion of Ukraine is the logical consequence of the unpunished invasion of Georgia. Russian ​invasion of Europe will be the inevitable result of Impunity in Ukraine, if allowed.

Worth recalling that Farage isn't denying being a racist and a bully. He just tries to bluster through it. What does that say about him? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Choose Your Own Adventure Party delivers yet another twist... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Sultana Party, The Currant Party, The Current Party, The Current Sultana Party, The Sultana Is Not A Current Member Party, The Oh Yes She Is Party, The Oh No She Isn't Party, The Yes No Turn Left No I Said Left Party... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer's government is a national disgrace and the sooner it is removed the better. Likewise the Labour party. They've spent too long listening to this corrupt gang of incompetent bigots. #neverlabouragain www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well justice isn’t officially dead (yet)

The future of war is here and it is terrifying. Sending old equipment to Ukraine won't make us safer. So much of our most modern equipment is now irrelevant, compared to what Russia now knows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE0l...

Today marks our fourth Independence Day in the midst of full-scale war, and I celebrate it as a Ukrainian whose freedom was defended, not gifted. To our defenders: this day exists because of you. Your courage is eternal, and so is our gratitude. 2/3

Starmer's snivelling appeasement of Farage has done much to get us here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The women of Ukraine are truly magnificent www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNPQ...

So much for the liberties of the British people. Labour look as loathsome as the Tories. We need to take urgent action to strengthen free speech and boot out authoritarians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZSb...

Farage never has ideas of his own. After the disaster of Brexit, all he can offer are bilious prejudices and dishonest imitations of others. That's all that Reform can and will offer. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every word of this is true - and those who did the hounding should pay in full. As for politicians like Ed Davey who were part of it, their parties should clean house. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The police are being grossly misused when they are unleashed on peaceful protestors. The longer this goes on, the more dangerous for all of us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYF5...

Why are Labour destined to follow the Tories gurgling down the drain? Because they present themselves as a confused husk of a party. What comes after them? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfjl...

Looks as if Starmer's dreadful excuse for a Labour government is in trouble on the bill for the immiseration of the chronically impoverished and sick. Actions have consequences, Keir.

“If the bill does go ahead, the division lobby will shine a light not simply on the chasms in the Labour party, but between compassion and careerism, bravery and betrayal.” As the rebels look to do a deal with the government, my column on the whole rotten mess. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

After looking at Starmer's selfishness, smallminded greed and willingness to further impoverish the poor, we should be ashamed of tolerating him in office. Labour should be doing far better than this plastic-faced monument to bumbling abuse. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the funnier running subplots of the Trump era is that he hasn't won a Nobel Peace Prize, and it really eats at him.

Pringles are apparently more than a one crunch deal... www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

@therickwilson.bsky.social Those magnificent women in their flying machines. Unacknowledged but still heroic - worth a million of Trump and his crew. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Those magnificent women in their flying machines. My father lived through WWII as a boy and this was the first he had heard of them. There should be some way of honouring them Women's Wings or some such. They damn well deserve it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Iran and the MAGA Civil War open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

The image of the raccoon's hand stealing eggs is strangely reminiscent of Tolkien's Gollum. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad" - Philip Larkin (and he certainly was). www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

The best way to make a billion dollars is to start with nothing and negotiate with Donald Trump.

The more you see of Starmer versus Badenoch, the more you realize what mediocre performers they both are. Gresham's Law applied to parliament - third-rate performers drive out good. Then we have Absent Farage and Wavey Davey. Impressive is not the word.

On brand for this feckless propagandist who cosplays a journalist and always has

An indecisive control freak and an outdated party... Hardly surprising that after months of failure and inadequacy the British people are sick of the parade of screwups. If the Lib Dems find a credible leader, this really could be their time. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The sooner Labour disintegrate, the better. This shameful party and worthless government deserve no mercy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS2A...

Who dares wins. Right now, Starmer seems more interested in getting freebies and beating Badenoch which are hardly achievements. Labour already looks geriatric and ready to lose, maybe even to the despicable Reform rabble. What is to be done? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The peace-loving Russians are now talking about how a few more decades of war in Ukraine may be necessary. I'd suggest they stop invading other countries and find a better leader.

Other than Farage, does anyone feel that Starmer as PM is worth fighting for? Worth listening to? Would anyone notice if he just resigned? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As usual, Starmer panders to the far right by concocting an unholy mess instead of a sane, humane policy. How much of his own rhetoric does he believe? Why does he consistently duck the fights he should want to have - and win? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

These days you find yourself wondering whether there really is any difference between Labour and Farage's latest vehicle for bigotry. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It says everything about the ineptitude of Starmer and Mandelson that they managed to lose a small-scale and incomplete trade negotiation to Donald Trump, a deluded fantasist who has no idea what he is doing. Equally obvious: Trump's team are not prepared for negotiations at any level.

Well worth exploring. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Watching Starmer and cronies screw up enough to make Farage credible is sadly unsurprising. Vacuous greed and charmless arrogance are fast making Labour unacceptable.

So Trump and Starmer have bodged together the sort of deal for which the technical term is "nothing-burger". Both sides have been failures so far and this "deal" will do nothing to change that. It ducks the difficult points and leaves things essentially unchanged.