SO STUPID

sorry, but i'm skeptical this guy is making a good faith effort to figure out autism

The group campaigning to prevent the demolition of the old Museum of London building has been given permission to challenge the decision in the High Court. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cam...

About to see this.

Not the biggest issue, but still important: regardless of whether he's doing it on purpose or his brain is mush, there should be a steep political price, with the media questioning his fitness every day, for the President showing he doesn't know the meaning of "asylum." (Same goes for "tariff.")

PLAY YMCA!

Friday

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

The split in Your Party has broken into the open. Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters not to donate to the link promoted by Zarah Sultana. Sultana responds calling it a "sexist boys club."

From the NYT's excellent introduction to the Bowie archive.

"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth" on.ft.com/3IsyVVu @timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonableness

A really enjoyable selection. Well worth seeking out #nowplaying

Les dossiers Epstein, s’il vous plaît

@mayoroflondon.bsky.social: "Trump has fanned the flames of divisive politics around the world." "After the far right’s march on our streets, Londoners must show Trump we reject his politics of fear." https://bit.ly/47IdmdO

"If Adolf Hitler flew in today / They'd send the limousines anyway." www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Ut...

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Imagine learning that Concentration Camps in Germany were ordered to remove signs and other exhibits documenting the suffering and hardships of Jewish prisoners. That's what we are talking about when it comes to the tory of slavery at Harpers Ferry. #NationalParks www.wlbt.com/video/2025/0...

ERIC TRUMP: I'm sick and tired of seeing bullets flying at people's heads CNBC: On both sides ERIC TRUMP: Well, I don't know

That feeling where a whole new vista of consumer activity opens up before you.

I love many of Redford's films, Butch Cassidy, Quiz Show and The Great Gatsby among them. But especially now, All The President's Men is so important, as a demonstration of the need for journalism and a free press. RIP

Terrific, definitive piece by @rockingbob.bsky.social that really does make you rush off to listen to Paul Simon's wonderful Hearts & Bones. www.patreon.com/posts/allerg...

“Welcome to David Bowie’s Mortality Quartet” - @quantick.bsky.social reviews #Bowie's final 'era' box set, 'I Can't Give Everything Away', for SDE > bit.ly/3VfMcant

Whatever happened to the renegade concept boutique? I wrote about Granny Takes A Trip and the death of London stores as art projects. on.ft.com/4nyD7lx

Care to share how long you spent living in the family home with your children post your two divorces, Nigel? Or did you walk out on them when they were still at primary school?

"Racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it." Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social

Share your favourite cover versions. youtu.be/_Uz0vyj6SpY?...

The problem is that ‘this is not who we are’ is coming to feel a little empirically unconvincing. It might help if the PM actually stood up and made the case for a liberal, tolerant and inclusive country.

Loved it.

110,000. And a fake image.

This, 100 times this.

its wild how slippery objective consensus reality is right now

Musk is more extreme than Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech in addressing citizens, not just government policy "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming for you ... fight back or die" legitimises violence (against government, police, asylum seekers, minorities) bsky.app/profile/pale...

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to pull but your chains

Das Krapital.

MARX AND SPENDERS.

Where I’m calling from.

This helps explain what on earth is going on in a story which curiously dominates the UK news for reasons I cannot fathom.

Had an exceptionally nice lunch at Manifest today, to a soundtrack of Gang of Four, Orange Juice, and - yes - Television. Chef complimented me on my Adventure t-shirt and I drank some saki that tasted a bit like Bakewell tart. I am beyond good and evil and, let’s be honest, parody.

Lots of other treasures at V&A East Storehouse including Keith Moon’s drums and guitars belonging to Paul Stanley from Kiss and Polly Harvey. Together at last.

The right side of Trump's face was drooping during a 9/11 commemoration today (Getty)

Inside the David Bowie Centre at V&A East Storehouse. Just a taste of its mysteries and delights.

"The real test of the David Bowie Centre might be whether it changes perceptions of its subject." - Alexis Petridis. Can't wait to put this to the test. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

This one never gets old.