It's OK everyone - no need to feel pure cold rage at this one. www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

Govt needs to reverse the Johnson hijack of the BBC. Urgently.

THEY ARE BASTARDS

GB has recently imported demented flag-shagging from NI. I would prefer if the new Lidl proposed near us in Kent would import *this* innovation.

Anyone else think it’s odd that a state which is trying to destroy British democracy has a load of military bases here?

a real question: who gives a fuck what this asshole thinks? rich guy says a thing. man, I say things all the time.

Hey, about all those EES delay stories, BBC. ETA problems… Where’s your ’balance’ excuse today?

USA threatens Europe again.

Boycott the 2026 World Cup in the Racist States of America.

Very good from Starmer.

I remember a time when the BBC News would have respected a grieving father’s wishes to prevent his son’s death being used to promote “hatred, division or tension”. Now it seems more concerned to allow Farage to come briefly out of hiding to do precisely that before sneaking away from scrutiny again.

Why are you still on X, HMG, BBC, everyone…? @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social

Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

Crazed, unreliable ‘ally’ threatening to invade European territory and actively supporting European fascist parties says what, now? www.ft.com/content/1a32...

Delighted that my novel Prestige Drama is Book Of The Day in todays' Guardian, who call it a "brilliant, wry comedy" and "a keenly observed and snappily written debut". I'm biased but I agree, and think you should all buy several copies at once. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

I came off Facebook & Instagram a while ago. Reading this (I hadn’t realised *how* dreadful the company’s practices are, I need to get substitutes for WhatsApp & Messenger too. (PS My 2 requests to Meta to download my data were met with ‘your data is being prepared’ emails, then…nothing.)

Elon Musk’s far-right army……and why it matters Piece from me on how the support of the world’s richest man for a racist British party reveals the threats to Western democracy

The UK out of the EU is an oligopolist’s paradise. Many industries need a large market and firm regulation to serve customers ahead of lazy profiteering. The UK is both too small and too poor at independent regulation to do this.

You have to be Naive to drink bottled water. Evian even tell you in plain sight in their name.

That is not a ‘selfie’, BBC, that is a photograph. Taken by someone else.

Thanks to Airbnb, I’m dreading the summer in my garden ft.trib.al/q6X2Y4V | opinion

I love this.

Garry Mackenzie’s Firth is now available from Irish Pages. ‘Firth is a poetic portrait of the Firth of Forth. It reaches back into the deep geological past and forward into a troubled future of pollution and extinction, via the boom and bust of the nineteenth-century fishing industry.’

Edinburgh University researchers found that disappearing sea ice has triggered a dramatic drop in nitrate, the vital nutrient that feeds plankton. It means less food for fish, seabirds, and whales, with massive knock-on effects for North Atlantic fisheries. 👇

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring? ft.trib.al/NUMIBsd

Le Shuttle Hell. The 13:54 passengers are due to leave now at 18:26 Our train was due to leave at 15:54. Departure time unknown. We’ve been here since 14:00 It’s 32 degrees.

I bloody love a good lighthouse tour

Ban the production of plastic grass Please sign Petiton Plastic grass inevitably degrades into trillions of microplastic shards These shards become a significant pollutant, blowing across our gardens, infiltrating our soils, leaching into our waterways www.change.org/p/ban-the-pr...

If Starmer wants to show leadership, he should dissociate himself from Blair’s disgusting comments and demand that Blair retracts his statement. Failing that he should kick him out of the Labour Party.

Dover, I’m informed, is, on the other hand, a set of trials designed to piss you off and ensure you never darken the monopolistic bastards‘ door ever again.

It seems economic ‘wisdom’ follows the same rules as ‘what was the best music period’ (It were best when I were a young ‘un) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

No Helen of Troy was probably not Kenyan, but I am more certain that Odysseus would not have been from Boston so I guess we'll all need a little suspension of disbelief when watching this modern film adaptation of a 2800 year old work of fiction.

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

France has introduced legislation aimed at treating the most serious environmental destruction as a criminal offense under the term “ecocide.” Individuals or companies found responsible can face major penalties & prison sentences of up to 10 yrs. UK: Nah we’re fine with shit in our rivers & seas.

For anyone who cares about the health of our democracy, this is absolutely tragic. A far right disinformation spreader and amplifier of hate is standing as an MP, and may even be elected. bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/r...

HMG 👇 (Rather than lift sanctions on Russia)

Fuel duty moves, Russian sanction tweaking and talk of voluntary supermarket price caps are just a total mess of a response to an energy price surge.

We are stronger when we stand together. That’s why our enemies want a divided EU.

For those unfamiliar, the Daily Mash is a (very good) British sort-of equivalent to The Onion.

FT Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. ft.trib.al/dtJOxC3

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

3-year-old Teslas fail inspections more than any other 3-year-old car in the Finnish market by multiples. Top 3 worst: 1. ⁠Tesla Model Ys saw 62.7 % failures. 2. ⁠Tesla Model 3s saw 58.7 % failures. 3. ⁠Dacia Dusters saw 23 % failures. Nearly all other car models had under 10% failure rates.

No one in this administration, from Trump down, has the dedication or ability to want to do their actual jobs—instead, they just have the narcissism and neediness to want to be celebrities.

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

I see the DUP/TUV are still terminally stupid and the UUP aren’t much better.

I'm about to transition from 20 years of fulltime parenthood to the empty nest. Me @FT on how my generation was taken by surprise by parenthood, which unfolded in ways we couldn't have imagined. What I learned along the way as.ft.com/r/f0dd00a6-f...

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

The argument for freedom of movement really needs to be made daily/hourly – long before we even get onto Rejoin. Because the entirety of British politics is still tiptoeing around it (see the Libdems proposing a customs union).