Historically accurate Oddie, see?

They're gonna have to shoot an extra bit of that 'What has the BBC ever done for me' ad. 'Made Donald Trump turn over his financial records' is a pretty good one.

I've been undressed by kings, and I've seen some things, that a woman ain't s'posed to see.

Chagos with Ed Milliband! [Am I doing this right?]

I thought dictatorships were meant to be good at sporting spectacles.

A woman forgets what colour she last died her hair, and then her ex boyfriend forgets too.

Side note, but how has 'conspiracy' come to mean 'thing that is provably false'?

Quick reminder: £10 billion is TEN THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS

It's a mark of my extreme honesty that I'm starting today's wordle with my usual word even though I've seen everyone on Bluesky going PFUCK PYOU PWORDLE

Important info. Pass it on.

Farage is meant to be an “enough of this” vote, a rejection of normal politics, just as “Leave” was. It’s a destructive impulse. Nobody expects him to really fix stuff, but it expresses a voter’s disgust with the other options. Him v Binface reveals they’re both the same. It’s really funny.

Starmer did have Appease Donald Hubris Disorder

I once attacked Nigel Farage by giving him a small acting note (he was in a Harry & Paul sketch I produced). Feel bad now I know he's the most attacked politician ever. He did look wounded.

“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.

Farage says that in London men can't wear watches and women can't wear jewellery. Just checking: can women wear watches though? I need to keep an eye on the time when I'm stealing men's jewellery.

I'm loving this Bluesky joke where we all pretend we were at Taylor and Travis's wedding. Extra funny for me because I actually was there! I kept two of these cute clips we got given so we didn't get our wine glasses muddled up.

Happy birthday America. It's not too late.

I didn't know it was possible for a sunny exterior to be so #Backrooms

Name a film where the title is a full sentence.

Musk, Jenrick, Robinson, Farage, the whole of them, know what they are doing. This is Stochastic terrorism. They are constructing a monolithic other to generate fear and anger for electoral gain. Those talking of 'legitimate concerns' are normalising their framing and helping them. It's that simple.

I'm in Exeter to do a panel talk with @gralefrit.bsky.social and @alicelowetime.bsky.social at the Exeter Comedy Festival this eve. Hanging with wonderful comedy chums but forgetting to take pics so here's an arty shot of a bit of ruin I took instead.

No one, absolutely no one, is saying that white lives don't matter. I know this is obvious, particularly to a Bluesky audience, but in a world of infuriating straw-manning, it bears repeating.

This is a lovely story. I might re-watch Pride (the film), the origin story for this mutual respect and support www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This game is addictive isn't it? This is the best I've done, though I was wildly off with Wisconsin. www.maptap.gg May 31 80🙃 88✨ 91🌟 93🎉 100🎯 Final score: 929

London is BROKEN (ft. Dawn Butler)

Every time trans rights are in the news, if I take an opinion I inevitably get a few ‘why won’t you listen to women’s opinions on their own safety’. A boilerplate answer: The *vast* majority of opinions I read in support of trans inclusion come from women. Presumably just not the ones who count.

The 24 I've read on that Guardian books list are almost all from the top 35, and that tells you I'm the kind of person who's read lists like this before

Super, cally, fragile, istick, expealla, and docious

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

Convert a band (or artist) Euro Sinatra

Slightly increase a band Green 25 Hours

Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people

Charles extolling tolerance, executive restraint, interfaith understanding, decency, international peace......Half expect him to chant "No Kings" at any moment.

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.

BREAKING: Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has called Péter Magyar to concede defeat in today's election. With 53.45% of votes counted, Magyar's TISZA looks set to secure a super majority. A defeat for Putin, a defeat for Trump, a victory for Europe, and above all, a victory for the Hungarian people.

I've just now realised what Melania's surprise statement on Thursday reminded me of

Ok, that was all a bit Cuban Missile Crisis. We can breath out. Those of us in the UK can go to bed. America, over to you to start working out how to make sure this insanity can never happen again.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

I think we've overdone the Mounjaro

Hugely important thread. Laura Burns, along with Virginia Guiffre, is a hero.

I saw the Ward/Bamford combo at Leicester Square theatre about a decade ago and it was one of the best comedy gigs I've ever seen

Andrew is eighth in line to the throne, but that’s prison toilets for you!

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Every now and then I encounter someone who clearly went to Eton (or similar) and who I don't mind at all. This is one such occasion.

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." — @lopatto.bsky.social

Though the problem goes deeper than Trump, and his cabinet are unlikely to impeach him, surely it's a moral necessity to try?

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.