I'm posting this on BlueSky to (hopefully) disprove a theory I have about this platform. Do people on here understand this is not 'pro-Palestine' activism, despite this individual describing her output as such? That this is in fact the Great Replacement theory so beloved of White Nationalists?

Since Musk likes Tolkien so much, I wonder if he's read about the character who turns up calling himself "Lord of Gifts", claiming to be bringing wonders and enchantment to the peoples of Middle Earth, but is just a horrendously evil character in disguise? Since we're talking Tolkien, that is.

"Now, Sergeant Hennimore, this is absolutely critical. Door One, which is yellow and blue, is the 'release from custody' door. Door Two, which is blue and yellow, is the 'send to immigration centre' door. We need to send the migrant sex attacker through the blue and yellow door."

I'm so glad Tolkien didn't live to see this crap www.ft.com/content/202d...

Trainer in the gym class: "And now we'll do a round of East-German ankle-crushers, followed by a set of Transylvanian throat-grippers!" Me: "Is that good"

A handy graph:

The Times is reporting that 8 Reform UK run councils are likely to raise council taxes next year after finding that there were not, in fact, huge cuts that could be made in public spending - www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“Alas, poor Jenrick! I knew him well.”

GUYS, I POSTED THIS THREE WEEKS AGO WHEN DANNY KRUGER DEFECTED. AND NOW...

This is one of the prayers that Jews traditionally recite on Yom Kippur. Cannot read it without crying right now. Hold your loved ones close.

This is the news story I prayed I would never have to write www.jewishnews.co.uk/two-dead-and...

I’m sorry, I just can’t get over this. It’s like watching a shark get chewed up by a bigger shark.

A lot of people are reacting to the mad statement in headline, and sleeping on the even madder statement that "if we lose, we lose, but you lose by war anyway". You are running to be president of a country that won its independence *in a war*.

I think the one of the main issues about Andy Burnham to people outside the North is that he appears to have made the fact that he's a Northerner his *entire* personality. And I'm sure that works great in the North. Down here? Not so much.

"Backers of the political grouping still inexplicably known as 'Your Party' have now been informed that Direct Debits can instead be set up to the 'Corbyn Alliance Supporters Hub', or *CASH* for short."

THE THICK PLOTTENS

The thing to understand about Your Party is that Jeremy knows it's His Party, Zarah thinks it should be Her Party, and Labour is watching the fallout and throwing its own Party.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the spectacular splintering of the Corbyn-Sultana alliance.

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

It is exactly 2 months since Danny Kruger MP said that if Reform UK got into power they would "spend money like drunken sailors". And now he seems to have joined the crew. hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...

Anyway, what we now really need is Barry Dunning, who is a Conservative County Councillor in Hampshire, to also announce his defection to Reform UK today.

TBH for me the most interesting thing about Danny Kruger is that his Mum presents Bake Off

Hasn't been this much mention of "Kruger" among British journalists since the Jameson raid.

According to Reform UK's unwritten "one in, one out" MP rule, the defection of Danny Kruger should mean they'll soon be saying goodbye to either Tice, Anderson or Pochin.

This is transparently false: It never takes the worst people on the internet 24 hours to blame a horrific tragedy on a Jewish culprit. More like 24 minutes.

This interview with Zack Polanski is fascinating - not because he says anything clever, but because he seems to manage to almost effortlessly antagonise an interviewer whom I assume would have started off quite sympathetic towards him. t.co/5Lw14wN13N

Peter Mandelson becomes the first person to be sacked by a government in three different decades.

What's your current earworm? Mine is Crockett's Theme from Miami Vice.

Ok, I’m not a Horror person at all, but Netflix’s version of The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) is very, very good.

*Reports of a migrant pedalo squadron off Scapa Flow, Rear Admiral!*

My wife has the patience of a saint, part infinity:

A decade ago today, a sub-editor at the Times looked at @samcoatessky.bsky.social's story and thought "you know what, I'm going to carry out a tactical nuclear strike on Andy Burnham's Labour party leadership campaign with a single headline".

Today @mrjamesob.bsky.social decided to read out a claim from a random person - on national radio - that at 'Shabbat School' UK Jewish children are taught that 'one Jewish life is worth thousands of Arab lives, and that Arabs are cockroaches to be crushed'. www.jewishnews.co.uk/james-obrien...

1. Reform UK just announced it will be changing its vetting system to something believed to be less rigorous than its current system. 2. The guy in the piece seems to have made it through under the *current* vetting! 3. Read this extract (& then the full piece) www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-co...

*To lose one MP, Mr. Farage, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.*

That Zarah Sultana announcement in full:

This seems overly harsh on Rob Schneider

Sleep well

Just chilling, scrolling and occasionally cackling.

“Time to drop the really big bomb.”

This, THIS is what happens when you up your Ketamine dose without talking to a registered vet.

Trump’s Military Parade through Washington DC on June 14th will now include a series of M1 Abrams main battle tanks absolutely pancaking a row of cybertrucks.

Watching the Trump-Musk implosion:

One thing I know for sure is that when the world’s most powerful man goes to war with the world’s richest man, the results are going to be super wonderful for the rest of us 🙃

It's giving Shawshank

I'm not entirely sure I understand this. Is the subtext here meant to be surprise that a "Middle-Class" person would be charged with this, as opposed to someone who's either working class or an aristocrat?

You may have missed it yesterday, but the Israeli government announced plans to construct 22 further settlements in the West Bank. I've written a piece analysing that decision. www.jewishnews.co.uk/analysis-new...

I think the clue in him being an anti-semite might be the time he went to a Jewish event and shot two random people.

There have got to be easier and less embarrassing ways to try and sell a book than this, surely.