"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere." -- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing. Gift link (for 7 days) ⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

FFS. Yeah this'll end well. For the Kremlin.

Has anyone made a petition yet to oppose the abolition of trial by jury and automatic appeals yet? There is clearly a need to signal to this appalling Blue Labour government that no-one wants this or voted for it.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

He could have been like "What if the pasta shapes are unicorns?" and then MAGA would be all "OMG Campbell's Soup has gone woke!".

In a coffee shop and I'm guessing that someone complained previously of their coffee not being hot enough because OMFG this flat white is hotter than the surface of the sun. It's going to take half an hour to cool down to be even safe to drink.

My buddy just called Robert Kennedy Jr. “Dr. Felchi” and I don’t think I’m gonna recover…

Wonder how many other Trump Admin policies are basically his lackies exploiting personal opportunities for gain that Trump then endorses because if he didn't he'd seem weak and not in charge.

Got my beef in beer (Duvel since it's what I usually use...not that I've cooked this in actual years) onto slow cook. Not terribly convinced the bread slices on top will disintegrate into the sauce though over the 4 hour cooking time. 😬 Oh well, I guess I can fish them out at the end if not.

This is like the international diplomacy equivalent of the Liz Truss v Iceberg lettuce thing.

Just had a plumber "advise" me that softened water isn't safe to drink. Er ok dude. Seriously?

Right, do I stay up to watch the cricket tonight and risk jinxing it? If I go to bed, Lyon or Doggett will get out in the first over and England will build a big lead. If I stay up, Lyon will go all Jason Gillespie and hit a miraculous double hundred or something.

❗️RETWEET if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!

Ukraine is on the brink of an historic betrayal by Trump to Putin. Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.

Slightly surprised to be told that I should put the water that comes out of my water softener machine through a Brita filter before using it because the machine only removes hardness from the water not anything else. I do do that sometimes, but I was expecting to be told otherwise.

Even the text of the alleged "peace agreement" between Russia and Ukraine being touted by the Trump administration betrays its Kremlin origins. They were in such a such a rush they didn't even have it properly translated.

So...how long before someone on the Right in the UK or US (or Moscow) starts calling Gill a political prisoner?

Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey. It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.

Two of the top four getting out for a duck. JFC England. Bloody knew I shouldn't have stayed up for this.

This video does a good job of explaining why some films feel *solid* and others only like vague, unstable impressions of reality. (Although I'm baffled by his use of an Avatar film as an example of getting it right.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP...

Blue New New Labour

Responses to this are going to be that he was young, a kid even, who hasn't said or done things to shock people. And then went on to found multiple far right political parties and pal about with Neo-Nazis...

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Marvellous. It's like that insane AI Christmas ad last year.

Lost my internet connection overnight and now I feel stupidly pleased it's just come back on. Tried telling myself it's like when you're on holiday and you don't watch the news, read newspapers or constantly check socials. But so much happens now a day offline is like waking up from a ten year coma.

🔴Maurice Glasman and Morgan McSweeney: The Bannon-Inspired ‘Blue Labour’ Lobby Behind Shabana Mahmood One of the key supporters of the Home Secretary’s hard line on asylum seekers is an admirer of Trump’s former campaign manager bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/m...

Since it's being used as a distraction from his child sexual abuse, I submit it be referred to was *wanking* the dog not wagging it.

Tracking my brother on the ipad as he flew home from Shanghai and now he's at some place on Apple's maps thing showing lorry trailers and like dude, what are you a people trafficker now?

Why is my Youtube feed all weird chemistry vids of "world's most dangerous chemical" or "red hot ball of steel melts ice because did I mention it's really hot"? Yeah, you go on dissolving a hotdog in acid, I think I'd rather just eat it. Anyway that one is sort of threatening really. Poor sausage.

It won't happen but in the funniest timeline, the Epstein list gets released and Trump tries to flee the country but his takeoff is delayed because he let Musk fire all the air traffic controllers

TURN THEIR CHILDREN AGAINST THEM

So that's why Trump's gone after it. Americans are watching it and it's a popular media source Republicans don't control and can't buy.

Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth

Robbie Gibb should quite simply not be in that role. He makes no pretence of his own bias. While he has power the BBC will continue to rot.

The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.

Angelina Jolie used her Instagram platform to shed light on Russia’s so-called ‘human safari’ in Kherson. It is a deeply important and much-appreciated gesture.

Someone needs to check whether the copy of the Resolute desk in the lobby at Mar-a-Lago isn't the original.

Phantom limb syndrome for eunuchs.

But you can't know if we would have been on the brink of war with Russia earlier without NATO expansion given you cannot trust Russian arguments their current behaviour is in response to enlargement. Ukrainians and Georgians would say being denied NATO in 2008 led to Russian aggression against them.

This. A thousand times this.

Netanyahu needs his forever war. If forced to stop in Gaza, he'll try somewhere else again.

Fuck, Marry, Kill

Really not digging the trend in weird glasses for coffee. Like how the hell are you supposed to drink from this? Sorry Kruve, that's going right down my chin and onto my shirt. There's no way you can drink from that without spilling it.

Happy Halloween from Star Trek and the haunted horny candle that makes you have sex with the ghost who had sex with your grandmother

Is King Charles being so hard on Andrew because it's going to be revealed that he bragged to the teenage girls he abused that one day he'd be king, he just needed Liz Truss to visit his mother and Charles to stand in front of an open second floor window?

When does Andrew Windsor rock up to live in Mar-a-Lago in Florida as one of the 7500 white assholes allowed in fleeing persecution from his brother for being a clueless sweaty pedo liar?

Seems all too apparent why far right leaning Silicon Valley tech bros are keen to get everyone outsourcing their thinking.