Today I discovered you can pay Curzon £25 a month for seven free tickets a week. Masters of the Backsessions here we come!

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

I’m afraid those of you who think the government should do something about racistliesaboutthebritishgovernment.com just aren’t very good at politics.

To be fair to Reform, it must be hard to vet when being a weird idiot freak is a prerequisite for wanting to stand for them.

I’m just out of Tuner and there’s steam rolling off me. Somebody get Tom Cruise on the phone and tell him movies are back.

I’m probably more sympathetic to this front page than 95% of Bluesky but also: fuck right off.

... is universalism so dead that we can't even understand any more the very basic idea of all dramatic acting that humans are essentially so alike that things that one person has done or felt (or is supposed to have done or felt, because fiction) can be represented by another person?

I *thought* he had the boorish manners of a Yaley!

I’m reminded of Sandie Peggie, whose persistent well-documented racism is glossed over by most on the anti-trans side, who‘d otherwise have to make the case that someone with a storied history of being abusive and bigoted intermittently became sensible and enlightened.

The more I think about it, the angrier I get about Badenoch making the Stephen Lawrence comparison. Totally irrelevant and in service of trying to get society to unlearn lessons that the Lawrence case taught us. Equal parts stupid and despicable.

I think this is the other side of the coin, the void where a government should be has allowed this to fester. The inability of Labour's leadership to even acknowledge the extremism of Reform and its street thugs has provided space for them to grow and "normalise." bsky.app/profile/bend...

I’m surprised the Times is happy having its own journalists depicted this way.

“Badenoch’s default position is to find a place of disunity and aggression. She crassly tried to paint Nowak’s arrest and murder as the 2026 equivalent of the Stephen Lawrence murder. Nothing remotely similar happened here. To compare the Lawrence and Nowak murders is to insult both their memories”

I feel like I'm going mad: Henry Nowak's killer has been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year minimum. The whole process took less than six months. There were grave errors on the night. But how does this possibly evidence two-tier justice? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

Ah, so things are getting *real* fucking bad if we’re giving this the ‘debate’ framing. Jolly good.

Something that I keep getting stuck on is how big would Reform’s majority have to be for it to be workable and should they in fact prefer coalition with the Tories so they have any kind of managerial capability?

I think I may take today off social media.

The third Three Body Problem book is basically: “Ladies: can’t be trusted with anything!”

Angry does not cut it. The far right's gleeful radicalisation. The right's failure to police its cordon sanitaire. The government's indulgence and excusing of their extremism. The BBC's decision to still invite Matt Goodwin back. A pox on all of them. Fuck you.

People say Starmer hasn’t delivered and yet he *has* successfully blocked out the sun.

I think Farage’s claim that Musk wanted to pay Reform to advocate certain things that he, Farage, considered unpalatable is true. Farage would likely take the money today, and be unafraid of advocating for those things (because he is already doing it).

A great day for a tube strike to make the office quiet enough that I can sit and scroll Bluesky.

It seems pretty damming of society in general that even Farage is crossing the hygiene lines he once thought he couldn't.

You know nothing of my pain.

Putting aside the posts for one moment, I‘m not sure why Polanski needs to be liking anything at all on a public account. At best, it just gives an embarrassing glimpse into his inner thoughts. It serves absolutely no productive PR function!

I do actually hate how many people on First Dates ask each other’s star signs now. Usually before saying something like “Oh, that’s good - if you were a Pisces I’d have had to run you through with an iron stake! Hahaha!”

Adorable young Arsenal fan on the train, among many, whose dad is explaining why they can’t blast We Are The Champions right now. Or Crazy Frog (thank Christ).

Fifty years ago today #cafc www.charltonafc.com/news/50-year...

I did not think Ed Davey would publicly come out and say something like this, so I am pleasantly surprised to see this. I think it is past time Parliament sorted out the legal mess we are now in.

I look at results like this - and it’s not an accurate projection for several reasons - and I think… there’s no way that at least ~5% of Reform MPs aren’t going off the reservation almost immediately, is there? Even adding Tories, that’s a very fragile majority.

This is just an invasion by any other name. In a just world, Israel would face the same treatment as Russia.

The thing is, she fundamentally doesn't believe this either given her campaign against Imane Khelif so it's just not worth engaging with this sophistry.

youtu.be/mfUtseK27pc?... Everyone shut up, the X-Men are back.

This is a full blown Lavender Scare. Cis queers are also targets in the prosecution of the anti trans agenda.

I’m not saying it’s the definitive answer but Mel Gibson has to be up there.

It’s darkly humorous to me that as people turn against Starmer’s Labour and come around to the idea that New Labour wasn’t all that bad actually, we increasingly have to ignore the Junji Ito character that sits in our collective peripheral vision saying things like “I’m on Trump’s peace council.”

I think it’s only right that IO immediately gets to work on an apology edition of the new James Bond game that doesn’t include any women and is nothing but sex minigames.

It is genuinely pathetic that a party with more than 400 seats can squander its first two years so badly that there’s serious consideration of going back to the electorate already.

I don’t understand what difference it makes if he was hacked. That’s a different story to him receiving £5m, why he received it, and what he did with it.

The hotter British summers get, the better a depiction I think Do The Right Thing becomes of how heat makes people cantankerous and, well, a bit crazy.

Watching Samurai Jack - my wife is having a video interview so I threw on a blu-ray - and while I very much appreciate the craft and artistry of this now, surely anime-obsessed ten-year-olds hated this at the time? Theme song was always a banger though.

If we rejoin:

Oh, a Nintendo DS is ‘naff’ now, is it? I’ll remember this.

I say it every year but it's summer time, which means these are the only two acceptable menswear options

The latest Farage ‘development’ confuses me because it‘s like: “Damn, the Russians framed you with a fake £5M crypto donation from a mysterious benefactor? Oh, the donation was real, the Russians just leaked it, it was supposed to remain a secret? Oh, well I suppose that’s OK then.”

I am also struck by how modern Star Wars sucks the moral dubiousness out of its protagonists. Mando started out selling a baby to an Imperial splinter group, now he *only* hunts Imperial war criminals. Boba ‘No More Disintegrations’ Fett returned to be a benevolent crimelord/mayor of a small town.

Now contemplating whether Travis Bickle would've been an AI guy and gotta say the answer is "yes"

Contender for best Simpsons joke. Why is their last recourse using a power saw to slice off a man’s arms? Why is it implied they‘ve done this many times before? Why do they lie and say they’ll grow back? Exquisite.