Watching The Cage on iplayer. What a great piece of telly, fantastic cast, writing and plot.

Oh, I see, so *now* everyone in Sunderland is happy to be in Europe.

Have dipped into don’t go to bed a few times but can’t stick it for more than a few minutes - their terrible takes on tactics, players and Farke. They really have it for Perri, I know he was poor in a couple of games (Newcastle the worst) but he was never as bad as Meslier was! #lufc

Well that went predictably badly! Adam and the others are so naive and dense to think they will railroad Brian. Now they have stuffed themselves out of sight. If I was Adam I would be thinking about the nuclear option of knowing about the George bottling! #TheArchers

Having Djed Spence as a ‘defender’ in the squad seems bizarre- has he seen how awful Spurs are defending this season? Dan Burn- nice fella but old.

Although I’m disappointed for DCL, I’m quite relieved he is not going to sit on the bench in the World Cup for 5 weeks. Better to have a rest and have a proper preseason. Same for. Stach #LUFC

New Reform councillors off to a great start by refusing to vote on anything because they haven't a clue what anything means, how anything works or what the fuck they are doing. Vote Reform, get lazy, incompetent, ignorant morons.

Why don’t they get a different camera for the loft so Carol can watch the bats and have the original one in the hall. #TheArchers

West Ham - let’s be really shit. Spurs - hold my beer! They both deserve to go down! #lufc

I think the world’s going to come tumbling down round Adam. I don’t think Ruarhi actually said what Adam claimed and think the others will get cold feet to condemn Brian to a forced retirement on the basis of Adam diagnosis of dementia!#TheArchers

More rubbish tabloid style takes from the lads at DGTBJY on BBC. Trying to work up some controversy over Farke saying he wants Leeds to try and reach for more than just survival!

Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho keeps saying the "UK is the only country in the world banning new oil and gas licenses". It's completely untrue. Denmark, France, Spain & Ireland have all done the same. She went completely unchallenged on Talk this AM when she repeated it.

So depressing that prospective candidates for PM have to trim and amend their plans for the country to keep the bond markets happy. Presumably if the markets say they want austerity, public spending cuts and change to welfare one has to say how deep please?

The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism repeatedly deliberately misled the Court; and a former patron said it was "using antisemitism as a front to attack Labour." This judgment really ought to be more widely known.

Helen’s arrogance that Tracy won’t jump at the chance of earning minimum wage to be part of making a new cheese! She really is a terrible person. #TheArchers

Cheeky cow Helen asking Tracy to police the vehicles outside a house she hasn’t even bought yet! #TheArchers

Terrible defending from West Ham. #NUFCvWHU

To give you a measure of Streeting’s supporters, last year I posted that I thought it was wrong for the Health Secretary to take such substantial donations from private healthcare companies. This guy then doxxed me to Streeting suggesting he should be looking at taking legal action against me!

I don’t like Starmer and his crew. I like Streeting less- another Mandelson right wing Labour project in the making and I’m a bit meh towards Burnham. Would love to see a more progressive, likeable PM but anyone outside the Labour special clubs will have no chance.

Oh Pip! Leave her be Ruth. There is no reasoning with her even though she now knows she secretly getting a test anyway. Not sure what Stella sees in her, is she incredibly attractive as she has always had a lousy personality!!#TheArchers

Just tried again with don’t go to bed podcast, but when they are not laughing at each other’s banal non jokes they are slagging off DCL, Perri who wasn’t even playing.. their analysis is worse than us fans who are not even paid football journos!

UK gilt yields have hit an 18-year high because bond markets fear Labour might elect a slightly more left-wing leader. When financial markets seek to constrain democratic choice, that is not economic discipline. It is political power, exercised without a ballot. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/g...

If you want to understand how bond markets really work, and why UK economic policy seems designed to protect wealth before people, this video is for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8aa...

Jockeys who give cannabis to animals need to get off their high-horse. #LunchPun

Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data. This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide. We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.

I don’t like Starmer as I don’t think he acts in good faith and has abandoned most of the manifesto but Streeting is an opportunistic, private healthcare company funded gobshite and there would be no discernible change in policy in my opinion.

I know Pip’s had a scare, but she’s getting right on my nerves now. As someone who has an actual serious illness this winds me up! What if I’m dying? What is my arms fall off? What if my children’s heads fall off! Oh woe is me!! #TheArchers

You have got to feel sorry for Ian & Adam, so so talented and yet so unappreciated… Adam was working as a labourer for Bridge Farm until recently whilst Ian’s great idea was to cook pizzas out of the back of a library van not have a Michelin starred restaurant! #TheArchers

Voters say Labour failing on housing as a third struggle to pay rent, mortgage. It's neoliberalism. Low wages make buying home difficult. Lack of social housing - Tories sold it. UK not self-sufficient in building materials. Unchecked profiteering. Must jettison neoliberalism. archive.ph/3oht4

If there's one person Labour needs less than Starmer it's Streeting.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

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Drunk in charge of the machinery of government? New Green MP Hannah Spencer is a breath of fresh air in the Palace of Westminster, but the smell of alcohol is getting up her nose By Sue Wilson MBE

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

Imagine if the Speed Awareness Team (Lynda) stop Ruarrhi for going 31 mph through the village? Another confession! Or worse Justin who will then try to blackmail Brian! #TheArchers

The count of the people who know what happened but must never tell anyone else rises inexorably. Soon the whole village will know but not mention it to anyone else. #thearchers

So Adam is now involved & if he doesn’t say anything to the police guilty of serious crime. At this rate it really will be Alice & Kate in charge of the farm. Some incredible acting from Adam, his ‘what!?’ was the most underwhelming piece of reading from a text I have heard in 2026! #TheArchers

I’ve just emailed energy secretary @Ed Miliband asking him to send the frackers packing, for good. We need a full fracking ban in England and existing loopholes closed. There’s a short window to act – get involved! @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/ed-mi...

How is this cartoon of Zack Polanski, published in the Sun - complete with forked tongue and other Der Stürmer tropes - not blatantly antisemitic?

Dear Labour supporters. If you want to put me off voting Green rather than Labour, the key is *not* to attack the Greens, but to ask yourself why I, a life-long Labour supporter, who has voted Labour at every GE since 1983 (my first), can't support Labour. Look at yourselves. Look at your party.

Love the way Brian & Lillian happily and regularly accuse George of being a serial blackmailer when they are now heavily entrenched in obstructing & perverting the course of justice and aiding & abetting. Also presumably happy for an innocent person to be tried from Marky’s gang! #TheArchers

Israel kidnapped 211 European Nationals this morning 1,000km from Israel, for committing the great crime of trying to bring food to Gaza where people are dying every day from starvation. You won't see this on the news though, and no major politician will mention it.

I can’t stand Bert- apparently a man with no virtues or anything at all. As he’s a fictional character I hope he dies. #TheArchers

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I know we all like Debbie. She’s friendly and dependable. But the way the whole Aldridge family defer and lay down before her wisdom? Is that because she’s the only one that’s not screwed up her life at some point and doesn’t constantly lie to the rest of the family? #TheArchers

@soundsofthecaribbean.com hi Jerry , this is actually Adam Perrin. I changed my name on twitter a few years ago after getting trolled by racists and various other people! Thanks for the tunes brother, I’m nearing the end of my chemo next month and your music keeps my spirits up!

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.