Sold!

This, on the death of Henry Nowak, is an outstanding piece of journalism by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...

Was playing AGOT CK3 last night and managed to get Ser Dunk killed. Feel like I've done a terrible thing, gotta resurrect him.

I've just read Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair's magnum opus on The Change™ Britain Needs, and believe me, absolutely nobody needs to hear this shit, especially not from him.

Wonderful of course and I get to hear it all over again tomorrow

It's not summer reading exactly, but finally picked up Sir Gawain (Armitage version with the ME side by side) and loving it. I am 100% going to refer to a lie in as "lurkkes quyl" from now on.

Time to get the fans out then

Totally missed this, wow. Tbh there’s been significant visa etc problems for the last few and they should probs rethink the location strategy.

The Cat is displeased by the intermittent Mediterranean-style downpours we've been having. Lots of running around and yelling. Yet another thing I cannot sort out for him!

Not adverse to a bit of chaos with Ed Miliband tbh

Completely disgusting. With this and the courts bill we're now into nobbling juries territory.

Another ludicrous Palestine Action-related prosecution collapses: www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

Greens win Hackney mayoralty. Fate is coming for Labour.

Labour losing the major cities has been foreseeable at least since the General. Maybe they’ll take notice now. Maybe

#anyanswers callers are reassuringly sane today

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Banger. Might be my favourite.

Oh right, Oswald Mosley is the final level boss. Think I’m with that, beats a bunch of rednecks (cf underwhelming Breaking Bad finale)

Finally catching up with Peaky Blinders. LOVE Alfie Solomons but def could have done without the mafia characters in S4. Also what is it with Aiden Gillen and those accents???

Things must be pretty dire if LSE, of all places, is planning redundancies

Things the CAT does not like me doing, part one: lying in, having a laptop on my lap rather than a cat, cooking, going out in the evening, listening to certain kinds of music while he's asleep, cooking again, closing the front door after 1am.

AMAZING. Wasn't he living in Blackfriars beforehand too?

Unnamed source demonstrated unfortunate US-isation of our body politic but other than that, lol.

10 years 💔 youtu.be/vG-e00c6uT0

John McDonnell is right, of course. Keir Starmer has only ever been in charge in name and was simply approving an appointment for one of the gang, as instructed.

Saw William Raban’s Thames Film at the ICA this weekend and bloody good it is too. The brown river was ever a dangerous place.

OMFG I will never get any work done ever www.themodernmaker.co/schoolhouse-...

Good.

I'll leave the rest of the Mandelson stuff for others to comment on, but this (from Darren Jones) is the Wrong Thing. Why would you give the security services a veto on appointments? There shd be a place for political discretion - and being held to account if that judgement turns out to be wrong.

Just nabbed tickets for The Mad King (Game of Thrones) at RSC. Happy Friday to me!

The sheer scale of the intimidation @francescaalbanese.bsky.social has faced is nothing short of horrifying. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Roger Scruton, can you hear me? Your boy took a hell of a beating!

Courtney Williams has been charged under the Espionage Act for speaking out about sexual abuse in the US military www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Read the Carreyrou “Adam Back is Satoshi” piece. My issue with these things is that if Satoshi were still alive, I think those coins would have been moved by now. Unless whoever it is has lost the keys which admittedly accords with my experience of early bitcoin adopters.

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This is that rarest of things, a genuine must-read

How have I ambled through so many years of life without seeing the video for Witness the Fitness? youtube.com/watch?v=NDWg...

Sunday stuff @edgarwright.bsky.social and Tarantino on British film. How tf did I miss all this stuff during lockdown? thenewbev.com/quentin-news...

Start of Dowland weekend at @wigmore-hall.org.uk. This about as good as it gets for me.

PET ROCK ROCK LOBSTER KAWAII ROCKY AND GRACE SAVE WORLD GO SEE

Finally saw The Secret Agent this week and it’s as fine a study into anticorruption activism and its consequences as you’re ever likely to see.

The data may theoretically belong to the MOD, but Palantir can rinse the insights from that data and I don’t see how you can control for that.

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Shaming to the Met and all involved.

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Since you ask, it was absolutely astonishingly good. Officially high on JD.

Louche

Going to @fretwork.bsky.social John Dowland fest at Milton Hall later. It's a great month for Dowland stans www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

This is what we're all missing on the other side.

Standard of discourse in UK politics these days could hardly be poorer.