I can get with this. Leveson II needs to go alongside, for hopefully obvious reasons. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

No disrespect to Jeremy Bowen, but surly a ‘permacrisis’ is exactly what Netanyahu needs? My understanding is that without just that, Israeli politics returns his corruption charges to the table, and he’s done. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a headline. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘Dramatic’? The defending champion and would be no2 seed absent, the no1 seed losing early. And…[drum-roll]…the next highest ranked player won. The men’s game takes some selling at the moment. Outside the top 2, there’s not a lot going on. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

If not illegal, this kind of journalism, albeit ‘live,’ should be shunned by even impolite society. #zverev #cobolli

Radical. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

More Shithole Country behaviour… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Legitimate Concerns on the streets…

Labour could’ve done Leveson 2. There was no sensible argument against it. Which could’ve been part of a tranche of policies that went after the energy & water co’s, & targeting price-gouging more generally. Instead, they did the winter fuel & farmers thing. 🤷🏽 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Arsenal parade was an incredible occasion, but it was also reminder of how much we take cleaners' work for granted. So let’s use this as an opportunity to win fair pay and conditions for cleaners! My piece for @islingtontrib.bsky.social. www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/clea...

Couldn't agree more ...

For ‘critics fear,’ read ‘everyone knows.’ This is like asking the leopard whether he prefers HP or ketchup. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Not there yet,’ on an extension to a ‘ceasefire’ that no one is observing, to allow talks over an agreement that will be worse than the one Trump tore-up, in which Iran hold the only card, in a war demanded by a third party who won’t allow any of the above. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨Heinous Content Alert.🚨 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Imagine what a fickle, trifling half-wit you must be, not to say an appalling sap when it comes to simple judgement of character, to switch your vote from Nigel Farage, to Rupert Lowe, because Elon Musk said so. ‘Easy, guys. Let’s wait on what Ian Brady thinks…’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Khan is right, here. And everybody knows this. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

First they came for the Venezuelans, and I did not speak…. Nations need to understand that not condemning the US is no guarantee of keeping themselves safe. MAGA’s got a problem with…[checks notes]…European counties. Who are America’s actual allies, now?El Salvador? Hungary? They’re a mess.

Can’t help thinking that Labour have bought into the strategy that a ‘migrant crisis’ is a necessary backdrop to performative right-wing cruelty by a brown-skinned woman to keep the ‘legitimate concerns’ folk awake. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Burnham sucking up to Mahmood, Streeting saying Labour need to be ‘bolder.’ What’s the fucking point.

Serial criminal from The Apprentice, and The Home of The Free,’ tells another country he’s not “looking to have” them be a sovereign nation, and that they should “cool down,” while he arbitrarily bombs the Middle East and sizes-up Cuba, because the US doesn’t want to have to travel to fight a war.

Any1 imagining that a change of leader will make Labour any more appealing to the ‘politically homeless’/Reform-curious/I-just-don’t-like-him brigade, clearly have no idea how that demographic have outsourced their critical faculties to the right wing media. They can be told they don’t like anyone.

Making air-shows great again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

‘Unite the Right’ proclaiming middle-eastern brown person ‘King.’ It’s almost as if they haven’t thought this through. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Talking Messerschmidt. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Totally normal.

If Trump was the answer, then it was a juvenile question concerning flatulence.

A journalist asking this question is completely analogous to a journalist asking ‘Why do people hate Kier Starmer?’ www.theguardian.com/football/202...

What’s up is that Vivek Ramaswamy is the Ben Shapiro of Dave Rubins. Brown people, Jews, and homosexuals thinking they’re not on the far-right’s list need to pick up a book. And, yes, that list does include women.

The fact that Shabana Mahmood is widely reported as having encouraged Starmer to go, chills the blood. The very emblem of ‘listening’ to the ‘legitimate concerns’ of the softcore Reform voters, and a walking riposte to the ‘how can it get any worse?’ anti-Starmer folks.

Probably the most on-the-money media contribution of the last ten years. @mrjamesob.bsky.social youtu.be/kXqPC4umDc0?...

Having wrecked the US, Putin now opting for a European broker to peace is a major sea-change. Ironically ‘closer ties to Europe’ make Russia the bridge to China, in a world where the US is haywire and isolated. The links to the ME and Africa are already in place. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Sober, bleak, difficult to deny.

True.

Is it tactless to point out that seemingly all of the reasoning for curtailing the Pro Palestine demos and marches seems to rely on listing events and incidents *separate from* said demos and marches? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Zack Polanski, a Jew, “the leader of the future Islamic party of Britain,” according to unnamed relatives in the famously Hitler-friendly Daily Mail. Can’t help feeling we’ve been somewhere like here, before…

I’m still going with the Benn - Eubank fights as the ‘biggest’ British fights, at least in my sport-following life. Two fighters who categorically DID NOT avoid each other in their primes, in contests that actually seem to get better with historical hindsight. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Absolute freak.

You can’t have a Trumpy Prime Ministership without a shitty administration. This patriot could be our George Santos.

If this was Starmer, I’d go to my grave listening to Kemi Badenoch’s granddaughter bunging-up PMQs with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

…rappers do.

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

I was sickened by the clips of this I saw on the BBC website. Really unworthy stuff. Still, after 14 years of Tory pressure & threats, Labour’s Mahmood peddling red meat like a butcher, & Farage premiership on the horizon, how is the board supposed to see which side its bread/funding is buttered.

Self-indulgent, chaos-pricking, anti-journalism to wake up to… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is crazy. Who in the world would want to do harm to President Trump…?

This is precisely what I’ve been waiting for from Streeting. It was no more than gut intuition, kept grumbling by the news of how much money he takes from pharma, but now here it is… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The irony of the Greens’ Zack Polanski being Jewish, and Netanyahu going all-out to discredit every Jew on Earth anyway, is that the UK media now understand what being an iceberg really feels like.

Putin gave the UK Brexit, Boris Johnson, and, next, likely, Reform. He gave the US Trump, and now Iran. The post-Trump Nu-MAGA Reform-analogue is going to be the next thing we don’t have words for.

Whether it happens in a forest or not, when a liar says they were lying in the past, does anyone give a fuck…?

I’m from the UK. We’re going to give it our best shot over the next few years. Watch this space (it’s where our brains used to be).

Falconry for the cost of living era.