Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

Guardian columnist Emma Beddington referred to cancoillotte as a “low-fat lactose ectoplasm”. Sounds like a Stereolab album 😄 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The frustrating thing is that this is obviously the whole point of the exercise - to get the idea into people’s heads. British media is just so easily played

Coincidentally, 'pure cold rage' is what most of us feel about #Farage's latest vicious act of racist rabble-rousing. He is, and has always been, nothing but a freelance fascist agitator

Just look at all these great albums ❤️

Dammit Arsenal 🙄

Amazing to hear Danny Kruger, supposedly some kind of highly respected conservative intellectual, attempting to make excuses for this stuff

"In the end, it is hard to avoid the simplest conclusion: people just like hating things now." Quite. Also worth noting that much of our media ecosystem now seems to depend on actively encouraging them to do so

Absolutely pathetic effort from #Arsenal this evening

They were allegedly “really aggressive” and “seemed like they were really wanting to fight”. Of course they were. That’s the whole point of this pathetic exercise www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

IN CAPITAL LETTERS JUST IN CASE WE DIDN'T REALISE HOW ENORMOUSLY EXCITING IT ALL IS 🙄

Familiarity breeds contempt with these guys. They are inflicted on us way too much. Before Mason we had Kuenssberg, Robinson, Marr, Oakley, all of whom eventually became incredibly irritating. John Cole is the last one I remember respecting and he left three and a half decades ago

For some reason I think we just can’t have a Prime Minister called Wes

Sadiq Khan thinks Big Tech is making the same mistakes as Big Tobacco by concealing how addictive its products are. One day it will be held liable for the damage it's done bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/s...

A museum dedicated to all the Watford games I watched this season.

There's a self-help book to be written on "how not to get sucked into the content [i.e. performative outrage] machine"

Looks like @privateeyenews.bsky.social is going to have to expand its Rotten Boroughs coverage. We are about to experience a whole new level of rottenness!

In 2022 in Kingston, LDs won 44 seats, Cons 3, Independents 1. There are now 3 indies due to defections. This is how they present the situation in their leaflet 😄

‘In general, however, “Let’s do lunch” is an invitation not to do so.’ Quite so. Rather like ‘We should go for a pint sometime’ www.ft.com/content/1326...

Reminds me of when Sidekick Simon suggested Judaism merge with Islam to create "Jislam" so everyone could get along

I see Adidas won the London marathon and have now taken the lead in the constructors’ championship. Can Nike respond?

Right. Deportivo Morón in Argentina are my new favourite team. 👏🏻 Come on you morons 🎶 👏🏻

The three teams in the relegation zone were the champions of 1957-58 & 1958-59 (Wolves), 1959-60 (Burnley) and 1960-61 (Tottenham).

Politics is so like football - you wait for years for your team to make it to a major final and they score a ludicrous own goal in the first 20 minutes. They’ve allowed themselves to be pegged back in their own half for most of the first 45, still 1-0 down at the break. Can they turn it around?

Can we stop calling it the #manosphere please, it’s got nothing to do with being a man. #dickheadosphere would be more accurate

Alex Manninger 😢 😢 😢

Ironically the LRB itself usually ends up as one of those things… (via @privateeyenews.bsky.social)

Charlie Chaplin was born 137 years ago today, on April 16th, 1889

Useful tip

Just a single off Hazlewood’s 2nd over. Impressive #RCBLSG #IPL2026

This is karma for all the #Arsenal fans prematurely celebrating #Spurs’ relegation last night

Recycling rate still only 44% after all these years of doing it. Seems very low www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whoah! I am so making curried tuna with mushrooms today. And then I’m gonna party like a 60s Aussie lay-dee…

So people can be reminded of his birthday message for Epstein every time they buy something

What would Brian Clough say? ‘… as far as I'm concerned, the first thing you can do… is to chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and all your pans into the biggest fucking dustbin you can find, because you've never won any of them fairly. You've done it all by bloody cheating.’

'Emperor Tomato Ketchup would be one of the few 1990s rock albums that could look its contemporaries in hip hop or electronica in the eye.' Many Happy Returns to #Stereolab's Emperor Tomato Ketchup, which turns 30 today! buff.ly/auhppd8

Yep - I remember it well!

"When a lazy aristocrat from a dying dynasty uses a helicopter to travel seventeen miles, the edifice shakes. But when that same man rapes a 17-year-old and calls her a liar, it is the end of days."

This by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social says it better. Bowen's report stood out because it offered such a contrast to the rubbish we usually get at 8.10 on #R4Today brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

"For your people have corrupted themselves. ... They have made themselves a molten calf, and worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god’" (Exodus 32:7-8).

Many people out there clearly feel the same way I do… good to see!

10 mins or so of uninterrupted Jeremy Bowen analysis at 8.10 made R4 #Today worth listening to for a change

Wait… the Mail thinks Blair is worth listening to all of a sudden?

What the

Oh no. ‘Boots on the ground.’ One of my least favourite cliches. It’s everywhere again

My Bluesky feed hasn't been this happy for a long time.

Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin… your boy took one hell of a beating…

‘Family. Community. Country.’ It’s all very #Vichy France, isn’t it (the tagline for Pétainism was Travail, Famille, Patrie) but sadly that’s not even surprising any more. We know who these people are now #ReformUK

Our latest tactical voting advice to stop Reform: stopreformuk.vote/parl/gorton-... Parliamentary by-election 26th Feb 2026 🟢 Gorton & Denton = GREEN #Manchester #ByElection

I used to be clever but now I speak the truth.