If only the BBC had some sort of streaming platform, maybe accessible via a Red Button or something, such that all us non-tennis fans wouldn't be stuck with Wimbledon all day on both BBC1 and BBC2 🤔

Yeah see also Wales and Brexit. Turns out people don't like to be told "Yeah, the modern economy values you and your town worth a shit. Have a shiny industrial estate you'll never go to and some new bins."

Chris Mason was on Newswatch yesterday defending the OJ Simpson-alike coverage of Starmer's resignation and Burnham's Napoleonic return to the capital. The most tin-eared, one-eyed, deeply patronising and arrogant performance I think I've ever seen from a BBC Journo. And it's a high bar.

S'mae pawb. Care about rurality? Devolution? Some of the world’s most precious rivers? Towns full of great beer? Please complete the short questionnaire for my project on the Welsh Marches / Y Gororau 🙏. Links to blog & Q below forms.cloud.microsoft/e/6vm6AAiVjf blog.bham.ac.uk/lpip/2026/06/2

In a fallow year for Glastonbury in 2026, on this the traditional Glasto weekend, the festival & the BBC have organized a look back at some of the legendary performances from over the years. Experience R.E.M.’s ‘99 Glasto set all over again (or for the first time!). open.spotify.com/album/4ltONL...

@chakrabortty.bsky.social on the new Bond(s), same as the old Bond(s). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As you boil in the heat, never forget that all those people who for decades have deliberately and maliciously disrupted efforts to tackle climate change are probably sitting comfortable in their large air conditioned houses. Houses funded on the back of lies/misinformation they helped propagate.

Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/

A truly epoch-defining, deeply depressing, and utterly hilarious takedown of a new "AI #Guitar" by Cillian Breathnach on @guitar.com Strong recommend (not for the 'guitar'). guitar.com/reviews/elec...

QUICK SOMEONE LOCK UP MY WALLET! #guitar www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Guardian political journos already crashing after the brief sugar rush of a Prime Ministerial resignation.

I think this guy is odds on for next PM #longevity

Just remembering the massive heatwave that the Boy was born in, 20 years ago. Highlest temperature in Cardiff that month? 25.5 degrees C

Is DJ not notoriously unpleasant?

Here's an idea for @andyburnham.bsky.social. Run on a platform to spend a few less billion on transport projects with entirely negative return on investment, and a few more billion on active travel projects which return between £5 and £19 for every £1 spent.

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.

Episode #3,423 wherein I check in to see if AI is still shit. @cerij101.bsky.social

Labour: Knee-jerk politics, but with the knee taking six months to jerk. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.

Going through my stash of photos looking for a particular book extract and found this spectacular reminder of the relationship between the Guards and the Marines during the Falklands War. "Why didn't you bring your fucking polo ponies?"

And then he'll post about it on a website rigged to help Nazis and post non-consensual pornography.

Anniversary of "Tommy Robinson" celebrating the D Day soldiers who needlessly gave up their lives by running into the sea.

If I was a multibillion, global leading, hardware-and-software-integrated consumer IT company, I might hope to have a #UI a little more intuitive than this thirty years in.

Will be discussing these issues in a Welsh context at the Quaker House, Charles St Cardiff tonight at 7. #PullthePlug

Here's something I wrote on whether @plaidcymru.bsky.social is likely to reach its emerging economic targets, and whether we’d even know. Someone tell Adam 😀 @heleddfychan.bsky.social @dafyddtrystan.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @sionedplaid.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/stretc...

In my new office and was gently moaning about the all day busker. Now I have a Jesus-shouter. With a megaphone. #karma

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%

Me: I use MacOS every day to avoid Windows, but by golly its window management *could not be worse* Tahoe: Hold my beer #UI

Just started the Ghost of Tsushima on the Deck which seems excellent but I can't concentrate because they've modelled my character on Thom Yorke.

Prescient.

The latest attempt to disassociate myself from Microsoft begins!

Just wrote the words "tarry awhile" in a new song and it's 100% the fault of this thing.

Brown and Blair both intervene occasionally in today's politics, one from the perspective of worry and care, the other that of an inveterate grifter.

I'll take two, blue and red www.topgear.com/car-news/ele...

"heRE'S THe bREAkdoWN" I think the only one having a breakdown here is the Googler who let this go live. Each time I (reluctantly) try a new AI tool it is only a matter of minutes before I hit a mistake that would cause you to fire an intern if they made it. At least the Metaverse had fun games!

As I used to tell my students, a racist recruiter might be able to discount a dozen Black applicants a year. A racist AI implementation potentially thousands upon thousands.

Watching A Very Peculiar Practice from 40 years ago and it feels like prophecy.

I let out an involuntary laugh at the final dummy. #Neymar www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wvw...

Is there anyone in the real world who thinks Wes Streeting would somehow win back the voters Kier has lost? I mean, I'm no political scientist - am I missing something?

It's @rsaibis.bsky.social quiz night at the Ulster Sports Club and we are ready to cogitate!

Genuine question: are there any unawful people left in the parliamentary Labour Party a new PM could appoint to cabinet? Asking as a socialist.

Currently in Ireland and the barman is literally laughing at me over our inability to hold on to a PM for more than 10 minutes in the last decade 😒

So has Jo Stevens yet commented on how the Ugandan tree planting of Wigan Council caused voters there to abandon Labour in droves?

Ah… #retrogaming www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

Why do so many ipad apps have the stupid, ancient keyboard that doesn't even do autocorrect?

A fairy story on the edge of the world’s most beautiful bay @kepanissa.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This story covers why I think the weekend stunt of robots running parallel to but separated from human runners shows nothing at all useful and is misleading. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

Man's going on a literal 5 year holiday paid for by dumb billionaires. Kudos 🤩 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...