Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.

I’ve raised the question of whether Southwark Council should be using X a couple of times now. I’ll be raising it again tomorrow.

How big exactly is a “thumb size” piece of ginger?

2026 meeting all expectations.

You’ve got a few days left to get your annual National Parks pass without Trump’s face on it.

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What is the charge? Posting a meme? A succulent shitposting meme?

Nothing says "smash the political establishment" quite like begging the Prime Minister to put your mates in the unelected House of Lords.

Seems like a long time to wait.

The proud parents.

Charlatans were great at the Roundhouse tonight. One of Manchester’s great live bands - and without stupid surge “dynamic” ticket pricing.

EXEK are great.

Vote for this Private Eye cartoon as Pocket Cartoon of the Year in the Political Cartoon Awards if you are against fascism 🤨 Link: www.ellwoodatfield.com/cartoon-of-t...

Hey @gwr.com. Today I had a lovely chat with Jonny who did the trolley service on the 14.54 from Castle Cary to Paddington. With his car out of action, he walked 2hrs from Burnham to Slough at 2am to start his shift. Many would have thrown a sickie, probs me included. You have a hero in your ranks.

KHAN HAS BANNED CHRISTMAS

Farage the politician *is* Farage the schoolboy losing his shit over seeing the name ‘Patel’ on the school roll and telling black pupils to go back to Africa. There’s really no difference. Except now he wants (and may be bought) the power to deport those people. It’s not the past. It’s now. #NeverPM

Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times. So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too

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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

All of these.

Listening to David Lammy on @BBCr4today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Thought you might like this handy crib sheet from today’s Criminal Bar Association news letter for when you need to confront these deeply principled members of our Government.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Fairly certain Kemi Badenoch is hoping that nobody has noticed this. Pretty brazen...

One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This is what I’ve been working on for the last six years. So excited to be able to share it.

Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the same David Lammy who is now telling us that criminal trials without juries is a good idea.

Craven Faults at the ICA. Modular magic.

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

So Emma-Jean Thackeray at KOKO tonight was lovely. Excuse my poor photo but I took it from the very back so as not to disturb other people’s enjoyment of the gig. #leastsubtlehintever

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

"money psychotherapist" ⛷️🦈

This is an incredible piece of TV journalism. Absolutely gripping if you like this kind of thing: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

We become a very different country when we start removing the right to trial by jury. These are ill thought out proposals designed to cover up for an historic lack of investment in the Criminal Justice System. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Today.

Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today! buff.ly/nflmjN6

This time last week it was day 3 of Le Guess Who? in Utrecht. Such a great festival. Such a great city #utrechtopia

The dog, mid flight, plucking the ball out of the air. Never gets old.

We had to stop watching The Twits because the bit where the idiots believe the obvious lies of the obvious liars cuts too close to the bone in Brexit Britain.

I have good news for Americans enjoying freakouts on X - we are now nine years into our most famous city being run by a friendly Muslim guy and the far right are still incapable of being normal about it even for a single day

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

National Trust types! It's AGM time, do vote for the suggested candidates & block the right-wing, 'anti-woke', mysteriously-funded Restore Trust, who are against eg rewilding and discussing colonial history / LGBT+ heritage (last week my sister saw OOTW in an NT shop, would it be if they had power?)

Farage: epic grifter

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.