Every time a Labour minister carps on about immigration, a labour voter dies and is resurrected as a Reform voter

Is this logo in some way meant to summon the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci?

I'm reminded of a line in The Twits by Roald Dahl.

If you are left-brained you see a threat to the future of our planet. If you are right-brained you see a chance to make a quick buck.

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“All episodes available now” is such a TV red flag. If you had a great show you’d eke it out, make us wait for it. It’s got ‘just gonna dump this mediocre thing I made here, and move on’ energy.

As far as the political class is concerned, the BBC has always been Batman at the end of the Dark Knight. “We’ll hunt him. Because he can take it.” Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

The BBC hold powerful, corrupt people like Farage, Musk and Trump to account, of course they want to destroy it.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

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Well played, Merriam-Webster! Well played.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Argentina suffering the terrible consequences of propelling a viral, hard-right political disruptor to power. "Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to! 😭

Farage's massive over-exposure relies on him not really getting on with anything else. The bind is that any serious politician couldn't do this much publicity without sorely neglecting their actual job. So the least serious one gets the votes. I know it's obvious, but it's v depressing.

My timeline is packed with the same clip of Farage questioning the safety of Paracetamol. It's just so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.

Extremely relatable 900-year-old poem 🧡

Whose eyes are the most evil? Or is it a draw?

THIS is the line? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Reassuring to see Keir Starmer posting on X about something entirely unrelated, the morning after Elon Musk incites violent insurrection in the UK. Love our PM, true patriot 🥰

Bonkers hearing a Labour minister put a positive spin on Elon Musk calling for the violent overthrowing of UK govt 🙃

Still waiting for a govt that will crack down on gross private wealth extraction from the public sector

The cost of a single place in a residential children’s care home in England has nearly doubled in five years to an average £318,000 a year, with private firms racking up huge profits as a result of market failure, according to the public spending watchdog. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Joe Sacco on the genocide in Gaza www.tcj.com/the-angel-la...

Labour’s charm offensive continues. Really building that sweet rapport with the public 🥰

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

Towards

I know it’s naive still to be amazed at what you are apparently *allowed* to do as a social media company that as a broadcaster would get you taken off air by Ofcom pretty much overnight but, you know what, I still am

Post from the great Padraig Kenny over on IG

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I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs

profoundly embarrassing national discourse, just deeply humiliating to even glance at it, please can we return to the days when aloof elite gatekeepers would have thought it was beneath them to even discuss something a popular beat combo said in a field

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Absolutely howling insanity of this He just looks so over it, he’s just an 80 year old man that wants to fly around in military helicopters and play golf

A few photos from yesterday’s @jonathancape.bsky.social at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social mini con with @alisonbechdel.bsky.social Simone Lia @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social Matthew Dooley Anna Trench Miriam Gold Bryan Talbot and more!

Amazon: AI is going to take your jobs Also Amazon: buy our stuff

Toomaj, the famous Iranian rapper and freedom fighter who has been one of the biggest targets of the Islamic regime, has posted this statement. Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.

That insanely distracted, restless, uneasy, checking your phone every 5 minutes pandemic vibe is back. Also seeing lots of “look at my bread loaf” in the timeline.

'Asked by his mother about his hopes for the future, Adam said he wanted to “live in a beautiful place where there are no bombs. The kids study their lessons, then go play in the courtyard and nobody dies."' This story gives me vertigo, it is so terrible and evil. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

So excited to be a guest at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social comics festival this November, alongside this incredible line up! 🌟

Comic for the @theguardian.com about my 🌟INCREDIBLE🌟 job as a content creator for a major social media company www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Who pays for all the social media content out there? Content creators! Great cartoon by @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This will definitely work! -- My comic for the @newstatesman.com this week.