Donald Trump has explained that the attack on Iran was necessary to protect US citizens from the dangers of paying too much attention to the Epstein files.

Morning.

The Dublin Agreement was a huge deterrent. People knew if they arrived in UK & had claimed elsewhere, approved or denied, they would immediately be returned. Now that data sharing is no longer an automatic right. The UK lost access to several shared mechanisms when it left the EU

Highly enjoyable read from @jonnelledge.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/s...

This has tickled me immensely

You’ve only got to see the type of people who supported Brexit,……..Epstein, Putin, Trump, Farage, Vance, Bannon, Covid partying Tories…….. to know it was wrong.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

This from @stephencollins.bsky.social always makes me laugh.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Contrary to Wes Streeting‘s claim that Mandelson was not the person they thought. He was. “All the former Washington ambassador’s erstwhile friends knew his weaknesses” And that is Starmer’s problem. They knew. They just hoped they could get away with it. www.ft.com/content/1a29...

Unless the "truth" inconveniently points to super-rich, powerful people, whose shady deals will be really hard to explain away.....obviously.

There are days where it feels like Putin has won. He's won at destroying the United States from within, and greedy, corrupt politicians gleefully helped him get there. Tell me I'm wrong, and he will fail.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Love this. youtu.be/bsyJFmU_mlU?...

How do you tell when a bad person has also gone mad? @claireberlinski.bsky.social describes in some detail the verbal clues we can all clearly see in Trump, providing compare & contrast clips of recent Trump v Trump of decades before. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-presid...

Definitely worth watching. youtube.com/watch?v=9OtO...

Hundreds and hundreds of people have joined the Green Party since this was broadcast. Together - we are growing this movement. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

She was absolutely right. And she would have been an amazing President.

if Nigel Farage is lazy enough to record a message for paedophile Ian Watkins in exchange for money, what else might he do for money without thinking too hard

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honour of that, what's your favourite music video?

Jenrick was plotting to defect??? SHUT. UP. This is more shocking than when George S Michael came out.

There are five dog beds in our house, but she chooses to sleep in a box of old clothes. Foolish hound.

Oh no! Keep out of it Waddingtons, or I'll never buy another card game of yours!

45 y/o, in a nightclub for first time in years. Young lad burst into the toilets & caught me furtively trying to open a little ziploc bag. He said "just a heads up, the bouncers come in here to check for drugs". Couldn't tell him it was my bag of googly eyes, to stick on a poster

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The thing about Trump's war in Venezuela is that he still hasn't released 5 million pages of the Epstein files

Had to be done

Current mood.

Shit.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Too many?

In a moment of extreme boredom at work I photocopied a paperclip using an entire pack of paper which I then reloaded into the copier, paperclip image right side up. I'd forgotten about this until a photocopier repair man had the machine in pieces looking for the paperclip.

The guy who blamed Rob Reiner for his own death says the BBC damaged his reputation www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...

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Please share if this resonates with you. ❤️

Accurate.

Chicken and vegetable soup. Lot of veg, perhaps a bit light on the “soup” bit.

Visited my wife’s school. Someone’s drawn a picture of her on the whiteboard near her office. Have to say - it does capture her essence rather well actually.

The problem after 14 years of damage wreaked by the Tories is that we now have a f***ed up BBC and a f***ed up NHS. But, remember, the f***ing up has come from outside. It is not intrinsic We desperately need a properly functioning BBC and properly functioning NHS DEFEND THEM!

As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News. I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…

Some good news at last.

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments