Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes

Have a seat, sir. And prepare to Get Served.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety.

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

I love the sound of Tories losing their deposit in the morning

Save the date: 'Shadows and Projections', an exhibition of paintings, photographs and drawings. 03/04/26-18/04/26 The Art Space, Cass Art 63 – 67 Queen Street Glasgow G1 3EN Open Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm Sundays 11am-6pm Private view Friday 3rd April 6-8pm

And that’s the clip that’s been circulating. A calm, rational exchange in the face of a group of Americans declaring over a loud speaker that all Muslims are sinful, criminals full of anger and hatred as families (some with children) walked home from prayers 10/

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

In the New Statesman this morning, I tackle an odd subgenre of Epstein coverage that's become more and more prevalent: breathless warnings that we're on a slippery slope to mob rule when we ask awkward questions of the world's most powerful people. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

joyce is going after elon again

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Far be it from me to say we ought to be careful who we listen to on these issues, but it’s worth pointing out that these reason this guy is doing this interview is to plug his subscription service.

We are going to make a specific mams patch for the Trans Unity Quilt and we want to include the names of our loved ones for posterity. Just first name and first initial of surname for safety. If anyone would like to be included or a loved one, please let me know ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

I love that he hated his life’s work. Relatable.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Great to hear a Democracy for Sale story on heads of news on Today on Radio 4 Also very good to see a proper credit for us - as an ‘investigative website’ not ‘a Substack’ - high up in the story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

Friday 13th February is a big day. It's a Friday 13th. It's Galentines Day. It's the 7th anniversary of us becoming a registered charity. And we're launching our fourth issue of Lip Service! We're coming together for a Big Birthday Gash, and yo are invited... www.outsavvy.com/event/32638/...

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

More about the exhabitents of Ilford Pet Cemetery here - as well as musings on my love/hate relationship with London, tackling autistic burnout, and a drive-by of the MP for Ilford North. sillylittlewalk.substack.com/p/i-go-on-a-...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

This is the greatest cooperative effort from 6 entirely different people I have ever seen

This is a great piece and probably I’m super naive to be shocked that this notion of parental alienation is still such a thing www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The idea that doing some basic human rights training after engaging in the kind of behaviour this group sounds like they engaged in - would be harassment is such a depressing win for bigotry - performative feminism as abuse. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan...

Video was leaked today of UK police setting dogs on and using CS spray on people seeking asylum, protesting their detention under the "one in, one out" policy, inside a detention centre (in case you thought the UK immune from what ICE is doing in the US): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

historically accurate☑️

Got to tell you - Dennis Kelly does it again - there's a scene so powerful that's pretty much silent in the second episode - everyone in this is brilliant - not seen anything like this on masculinity for ever www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

WTF are we doing here, BBC?

Can't do this until I'm employed again - but going to get a Switch if!!/when!!! (eurgh) ... I get employed again because I am so very excited for this for a heap of reasons www.polygon.com/coven-of-the...

Graham's all about 'protecting women'

This is absolutely breathtaking. Take over the country. Steal its oil. Insanity.

may 2026 bring us a million luigis

Thunder snow in the highlands this weekend maybe!!! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...

Late to it but #HuntingWives sweet lord

Been doing awful lot of projects with other people over last few years (often 'free adjacent') & decided that 2026 needs to be the year I say no to that sort of thing. 2026 needs to ONLY be my projects. Over Xmas I've been in Spain getting stuck into a long neglected thing + my GOD I'm loving it.

One of the best to ever do it

Well that’s just made my day of writing VERY HARD

I wouldn’t and definitely not pedigree but if I was going to. Either this…..

Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...

Although this is the first year they'll actively be trying to shoot him down.