Every single British nostalgia social media account posting variations of the same thing: 🎵 “I got my first real heatwave Spent it mixing clay for bricks Didn’t care about the sunburn Was the summer of ‘76” 🎵

Imagine a country which beats its chest about its committment to human rights etc and which all the while has been exporting alumina to Russia and insults your intelligence by holding an inqurity as to whether the resulting aluminium might have military uses. No need to imagine, it's Ireland

I see a bunch of people compare Trump to Caesar and I don’t think it’s a great analogy. Caesar was actually successful in war.

GrowFundMe or DickStarter?

ANALYSIS: It is an unwritten rule in British politics that someone covering British politics will eventually make a wildly unsubstantiated political assertion that will cause other political commentators to pile in gleefully, failing to realise that they too will one day be on the receiving end.

He's in San Francisco right now, apparently, so we could go with MappTapp

It's always fun finding out what MPs really think of each other

Crikey, what a lew blew for him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh this is BAD. Like Neo Nazi-level bad. jewishinsider.com/2026/06/carm...

I feel fairly confident in saying that Donald Trump has never had a healthy relationship with a woman in his life www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-blond...

In a stunning reversal of day-to-day life, today at school drop-off the *parents* were crying and begging the children to take them in with them (the school has full air conditioning).

LOL

Ahhhhh, another lovely day in Mordor.

Me: This is the hottest day of the year. It's intolerable. The Met Office:

I completely understand why everyone is focusing on that frankly bizarre and incredibly sexist comment from a "senior figure within the party" in the Speccie piece, but I don't think this should be ignored either (Burnham was last inducted into the Commons in 2001)

Therapist: "You need to stop focusing on the MilibandSun, it's not real and it can't hurt you." The Economist:

So I've been playing Full Confidence and have managed to keep my Prime Minister in power for 25 years and counting, largely because (unfortunately), the longer you seem to last, the more often you get the same scenarios repeated. Cool game, though.

What a terrible day to have eyes.

"Take up as little space as possible" by...running for public office.

That one of the reasons the rest of HS2 was cancelled is because due to a ridiculous but almost inevitable error, 1 of the underground elements would have passed directly through the site of a major Cold War nuclear bunker built just north of Crewe, & the government was too embarrassed to admit it.

Ok, but apart from anything else and in the finest of Manchester traditions (Gary Barlow) I am delighted to announce that as per this article, Andy Burnham also has a GIANT SON www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Me: This is the hottest day of the year. It's intolerable. The Met Office:

I tell you what, let's try it, just to be sure.

Oh good Manchester discourse was almost *too* bearable, can't wait for it to be endless and even smugger

There are many reasons it would be unwise for Burnham to call a snap election, but because I only have a little time I will note that Labour won a 174-seat majority in 2024, there is no indication they would do as well again, & that Burnham winning but with fewer seats would be presented as a loss.

“England Should Win This”

Fuck sake, it’s football, not rugby

Well, here we are again

Pickford’s issue is that he quite obviously doesn’t want to be playing in goal. He almost spends more time outside the penalty area than in it.

Thomas Tuchel going ballistic on the touch line as if he doesn’t have the power to change anything, this game could not be more Starmer-coded.

Look, Ghana have been defending very strongly (4 players on any England player approaching the box has meant no shots on target, as we’ve seen) but come on, some of the players Tuchel opted to start with really shouldn’t be on the pitch.

England adopting a classic Starmer strategy - great deal of control but not actually doing anything with it.

Lol, have just come across an "Investigative Journalist" who clearly had absolutely no idea what the Control F function is for when it comes to online documents, which is pretty wild.

"Anti-Fascist" in bio, obviously. 50,000+ followers on here. I think BlueSky users should be slightly less eager to pat themselves on the back. This site has plenty of hate too.

I have lost count of the times I've seen Jewish people having to put aside entirely justified rage in order to explain calmly & carefully why a decision ultimately involving our safety is a profoundly problematic one. This latest example is well worth reading. www.jewishnews.co.uk/why-excludin...

If you think that's bad, the lawyer for one of the nurses now wants the Israeli to be prosecuted for releasing the video (he'll have to come to Australia to testify if the case is to go ahead). To call this farcical is an insult to farce.

In case you missed it in 2025 when 2 nurses were suspended from a Sydney hospital over a video in which they (allegedly) talked about killing Israeli patients - a judge has now ruled the footage can't be used in court as it was filmed without their consent 🤡 www.jewishnews.co.uk/australian-c...

"Autoglass Despair, Autoglass Disgrace"

Bloody hell...

Anyway, Saunamaxxing by drinking a hot coffee in a humid hospital corridor right now (I’m ok, it’s a routine thing because as an Ashkenazi Jew I am part of the Crohnsen People).

Me in the wake of last night’s Biblical thunderstorm:

Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game

So farewell to Keir. Many people will write about your legacy, but I for one will never forget just how many people were unable to comprehend that "i before e except after c" did not apply to your name.

One of many reasons why Gary Neville shouldn't run to become Mayor of Manchester is that Phil Neville will just nick it from him at the last moment with the support of the unions.

Honestly, you tell ONE Labour MP someone's handing out free ice creams in Westminster Hall, and this happens.

A helpful reminder from Andy Burnham that YOU TOO can have the strength and determination to ditch unrewarding personal habits!

Surely the worst crime committed by the leader of a UK political party. Horrendous.

“You tracked his train by helicopter only to follow the wrong taxi? Fucking hell, we’ve got a desk with your name on it over here. Only joking, nobody cares about your name.”

In a twist that will surprise nobody, Andy Burnham was markedly less enthusiastic about political coronations when it was the Tories indulging in them (this from when Sunak came in).