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...

Whoa! alt-rock heaven

Just when you thought you couldn't like Dalglish (or Stuart Adamson) any more... www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...

Somewhere, the ghost of Neil McEvoy cries forlorn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mrs just said 'this window latch is stiff' and I said 'OK I'll put some UB40 in that tomorrow...'

I read this as Alun Cairns and it was much funnier.

Am I doing LinkedIn right?

I *love* Y Llais, dw I'n caru Y Llais. But Ep2 ruined the usual moving celebration of Welsh voices with a piece of naked nepobabyism that was only outdone in its cynicism by its pointlessness. Production company and judges should be ashamed, as should I for actually investing any emotional energy.

Wilfred Owen, Poet, #BornOnThisDay in 1893, in Oswestry, Shropshire, England From ‘The Send-Off’: “Shall they return to beatings of great bells In wild trainloads? A few, a few, too few for drums and yells, May creep back, silent, to still village wells Up half-known roads.”

NCP going bust seems just about the most late-capitalism thing I can imagine. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This. I read the Cabinet Office evaluation of the use of AI by civil servants, and the benefits were all presented in terms of time savings. Same problem.

Look, we're careering into World War III, populist-performative immigration cruelty in the UK and inevitable climate chaos. But at least Joey Barton is having a really shit week. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The absolute farce of #Greenwashing. Make #F1 cars completely weird to drive and destroy competitive balance in the name of electrification whilst flying dozens of cars and 1000s of people to Australia. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Even when the Labour Govt policy is 100% in lockstep with the vast majority of the British public they *still* manage to make themselves look idiotic. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Irony alert.

Important stuff from Aditya @chakrabortty.bsky.social Interestingly we talk a lot about healthy years differentials in regeneration circles (N & S Cardiff is as bad as his patch) & are clear on the causes. But not much on the overall decline. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New post just out: "Sovereignty for sale" The UK is uniquely exposed to the power of US tech monopolies - from Palantir to AI and cloud services. Why is it so dangerous? What are other countries doing? And what should we do? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

I love the fact that Jonny Ive,of all people, has turned up to car design and gone “Touchscreens? What an idiotic idea in a car!”  #FerrariLuce

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

Thank God Congress isn't alive to see what's been happening in the United States

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

The Brits were full of nods to Sony's Rob Stringer this weekend, and I'm now reading about him signing Manics in '91. Now *that's* longevity.

Hey, at least Venezuelan oil is inching towards profitability, eh? BBC News - Oil prices rise after ships attacked near Strait of Hormuz www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

The best thing about this is that 10,000bce is probably technically correct 👏👏👏

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” - Hannah Arendt My choice for Quote of the Day in @stinej.bsky.social series.

Same price on Kobo for those who would rather buy from nice Canadians instead of lining the pockets of that slap-head fascist suck-up.

There is always a tweet.

Dan Simmons and Neil Sedaka. Not a great day. #RIP

It’s sad that you have to be part of a well-paid, inaccessible elite to get into parliament, but I suppose we have to get used to being ruled by plumbers.

Excited to see @themountaingoats.bsky.social battle Craig Finn in the biggest retro breakdance face off of the year this autumn @bristolbeacon.bsky.social Hope those old knees hold up! It *is* #breakdance, right?

The fallacy of the monolithic lumpen voter. What party can appeal equally to the beetle browed sheep farmer of Bala, the flighty hippy of Aberteifi, and the ever hungry AirBnB owner of Tenby?

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

Poems for Lent (Day 9) R.S. Thomas

The obfuscations of capitalism eh? via @vox.com Future Perfect

In which the Restore 'patriots' can't even distinguish Britain from the UK on a map...

cant.stop.laughing