I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

Quite a headline.

Possum found nestled in with plush toys at airport gift shop in Tasmania

Now you're all here, let's get on with #buyastrangerabook day.

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

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@footballcliches.bsky.social Pleased to hear that TPC Sawgrass is a happy hunting ground for Tommy Fleetwood. Cliches on tour.

Happy birthday to Bluemoose Books, who I have now known for 15 years. They are 100% independent and published my novels Pig Iron (2012), Beastings (2014) and The Gallows Pole (2017) and continue on a path to literary glory.

A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme. Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.

👉 NEW VIDEO -- Labour minister avoids Israel lobby questions for 2 minutes WATCH 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCE4...

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If you buy my score for Everybody To Kenmure Street then i won’t have to be in financial arrears with my pals in mogwai and…….myself? Comes out this friday. Save me from embarrassment and ridicule. rockactionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/everyb...

hello I'm mental

In which Richard Tice gets a very big pot of paint and then starts painting himself into a corner

Taste of Dunfermline v Strathcarnage can not be stopped

Bahahahahaha! Hahahahahahahaha! Hahahahaha! Oh, how sad for him 🤣

The arrival of these two beauties mean I now have a complete set of @thesefootballtimes.shop

You see THIS is why supporters of the Far Right are not welcome. You are not one of us. You are one of them. We came into existence precisely to fight against you and everything you represent. This is who we are. And you are not it. And never will be. It’s a feeling.

Happy release day to @joshuaidehen.bsky.social! He and Ludvig have poured their entire selves into this music and it’s brilliant that world gets to hear it. Very honoured to contribute some playing to the track ‘Brother’. joshuaidehen.bandcamp.com/album/i-know...

Sacha Lord's latest plan is to rule over us all from Parliament - www.facebook.com/secretdjbook...

Yet another datapoint confirming what George Stigler said: "regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated primarily for its benefit." chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-regulat...

Isabel Oakeshott: anti-migration commentator, economic migrant to Dubai, possible future evacuee of the very British state she insists is broken. Isn’t it funny how mobility becomes acceptable when it’s your own?

Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones

Featuring the music of ; Tom Furse I:Cube Crooked Man Micronauts Emperor Machine Raiders of the Lost ARP Green Velvet Zombie Disco Squad Tribe of Good DJ.T Royksopp And many more… www.mixcloud.com/SECRE_DJ_MIX...

NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

Sorry James Milner, your record isn't 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 special 😶

old playlist YOUNG FOLKS: TWEE INDIE 2004-2009 – cute and cozy, childlike whimsy, and vintage vibes as twee aesthetics entered the mainstream in the second half of the 00s 🌸 Spotify open.spotify.com/playlist/2pp... 🌼 Apple music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🌺 YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"Love comes quickly", one of Neil and Chris's personal favourite PSB songs, was released as a single 40 years ago today. #OnThisDay #PetShopBoys

Testing Bluesky’s new Bandcamp widget with absolutely no ulterior motives whatsoever. delesosimi.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

My song for today, feel free to share. Sending love to all, Linda💞🧑‍🦼💞 youtu.be/nW9Cu6GYqxo?...

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron. 10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

The latest nonsense Facebook advert Labour are pushing in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Just one more reason why I could never vote Labour.

Asif Aziz is a blight on London and the Mayor's continued closeness to him is really troubling.

In my newsletter: A free-to-read link to this story and the full kindergarten deportation call drewharwell.com/stories/a-fa...

Feels to me like someone ought to have written a book about what happened when football embraced crypto the first time round - the fraud, negligence, money laundering - and released it some time ago to avoid these problems happening again. news.sky.com/video/infant...

and the plot thickens - www.theguardian.com/politics/202... A huge hat-tip to @petergeoghegan.bsky.social n.bsky.social for the initial scoop. His Democracy for Sale substack is well worth your time....

This Beagle’s dramatic 'play dead' on command is the funniest thing I’ve seen today

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

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Loaded came out on this day in 1990. If you missed my @djmag.com piece about it in which I tell the parallel stories of 3 punk-adjacent kids which led to its creation, then here you go… djmag.com/features/how...

A shipwreck in India, an ammunition seizure in Senegal, and a raid on an oil tanker in Malaysia. These and many more incidents point to ageing vessels that operate with false papers and one recurring figure: Captain Suniel Kumar Sharma. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

Six years ago, we lost the best of us. This obituary, insanely, is one of the easiest things I've ever written. It was like the words were ready-formed, so etched into my head has been his inspiration since my mid teens.

yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*. if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts

Sunday Times splashing today with story about Labour Together paying for a smear campaign against journalists investigating its undeclared funding Democracy for Sale broke story 10 days ago and we’ve been reporting on it ever since😊 Now we need proper accountability! democracyforsale.substack.com

2nd story on BBC radio 4 bulletins now Still huge questions to answer about Labour Together smearing journalists and sources As I revealed yesterday, senior Labour insiders knew - and person who commissioned it, Josh Simons, now a Starmer minister…. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...