SMOCK SMOCK SMOCK SMOCK #CalvinandHobbes #Chaos

The Children in the Travelodge, an extract from Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s new book, via @liverpoolpost.bsky.social [photo of Frank Cottrell-Boyce] www.livpost.co.uk/the-children...

I ♥️ that all four living former Presidents will be attending the #Juneteenth opening of The Obama Presidential Center. It will be wonderful and inspiring to see Clinton, Bush and Biden pay respects & tribute to Obama. #Voices4Victory #Pinks

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

He's doing this because polls show more people in favour of Mahmoodism than against. And from a purely political POV (leaving aside morality and, yknow, thinking) that sounds sensible. But it isn't. It's spineless and moronic. Quick thread >

Reform's dodgy Makerfield candidate. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/05/refo...

If you're opposed to this explain why.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

It'd be Eric Morecambe's 100th birthday today

CALL TO ACTION!!! Please support the decent journalists actually holding Farage to account. Please share far and wide! 👊💥👍

"It feels like watching the film with an old friend for the first time, over a bottle of wine" - The Arts Desk on @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social's A Hard Day's Night (BFI Film Classics) theartsdesk.com/books/samira...

This is brilliant. And horrifying.

It’s so annoying that we have the means to ensure everybody is fed, educated, and has the freedom to do what they like in life but choose not to for the sake of maintaining stratification Who cares about having a career, we could just work on what we want to work on if we had universal income

Feel like Farage failing to declare a £5 million donation from 'Bitcoin billionaire Christopher Harborne' before standing in the 2024 general election should be a bigger story

When will Nigel Farage and his Reform Party liars admit that Brexit they so loudly supported started the boats they now scream they want to stop meme via Conform Ltd

I'm much more likely to celebrate a birthday than mark the anniversary of a death, but 10 years is a milestone and it's incredible we've been without Prince for so long. I put together the below thread on the event of his birthday last year, but I figured we can revisit it, with Prince on our mind 💜

I like the way the Trump cat is the correct shade of orange.

This is wonderful news. The UK has officially signed up to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ scheme from 2027 It means students, apprentices and young people will be able to study and work across Europe 👏

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN was released 74 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great musicals, and one of the most influential movies ever made, the making of story is as epic as you would expect… 1/38

With so much bad news around, it's important to celebrate the really good news. And this is great news for children & families in need. It's also a reminder of why parliamentary government - in which even prime ministers with huge majorities have to respond to their backbenches - is so important.

STAR TREK was released 17 years ago today. A reboot and prequel of the classic series, it cemented J.J. Abrams’ position as one of the foremost blockbuster filmmakers of his generation. The story of how it came to the big screen will take you where no one has gone before… 1/53

A sobering thread. And one of the architects of the catastrophe described thinks he's going to be our next prime minister.

To many people I am now “The Hormuz Guy”. Two tiny people just reminded me I am still “Pizza Daddy”. Take a break from the chaos sometimes. It makes you feel better.

You might forward this story to every Marine you know.

Good point in the Observer today: it would cost peanuts in the grand scheme of things to remove large private donations from political parties - and with it, much of the stench of corruption that hangs over UK politics

I wrote about the ‘glue’ people who hold a friendship, band, or TV show together and what you lose when they’re gone – and why Karen Hauer is that for me and Strictly.

I assume you’ve seen the Andrew O’Hagan piece in the LRB. Each sentence more amazing than the last

Who has the cards now?

First interview for my forthcoming BFI Film Classics book on the Beatles' first film... Always a joy talking to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth...A Word In Your Ear.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkSD...

Finally made it Chester’s @storyhouselive.bsky.social. And it’s fantastic.

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

Farewell to 🎶 Neil Sedaka 🎶 who wrote this absolute jewel of a song half a century ago: The Immigrant share.google/mDqq97uHQmJC...

I call it “Kashing in.”

A number of months ago, many Americans online—myself included—began telling foreign nationals to stop coming to the United States (for now) for their own safety. The events described below are exactly why. Stay away from America, friends. Don't come here.

This piece with Natalie Fleet is - quietly, gently - one of the most moving political interviews you will have heard in recent years.

🔴The Lesson Jim Ratcliffe Could Learn From My Immigrant Father-in-Law The billionaire Manchester United owning tax exile says Britain has been “colonised” by immigrants but he could learn much from the hard working migrants who have made their lives in this country, says @sangitamyska.bsky.social

Well isn’t this every parents worst nightmare… #CalvinandHobbes

Demographics, not dinghies, will decide Britain's future, and nothing Jim Radcliffe or Nigel Farage says can change that. No paywall. open.substack.com/pub/russinch...

Highly recommended for Beatles’ fans everywhere! The stage show was brilliant but has translated wonderfully to an even better film. A treasure trove of Beatles fact. Not to be missed. @marklewisohn.bsky.social doing what he does best ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Evolver 62. Now on Amazon Prime. Ever saw myself 😂

Wrong. Frogface is a corrupt self serving fascist. Starmet is trying bloody hard to do a job of such complexity and difficulty that your head would explode if you even tried to imagine an average day. Then odd mistake will creep in: it's having the courage to accept that and get on with the job.

In honour of Dolly Parton’s 80th birthday tomorrow, I’ve made this: it’s my own interpretation of how Elvis’s version of I Will Always Love You MIGHT have sounded, if it had happened… EVERYBODY re-post this so it reaches Dolly… #dollyparton #elvis #coversongs youtu.be/g6VWu-cpoEc?...

"The (Unforgettable) Meryl Streep" ...none of us had seen the text of her speech before, was that with her speech in defense of foreigners, journalists, the arts & human dignity, Meryl was going to electrify the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton, the entire country & the rest of the world... In 2017

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

Rail fares are to be frozen for the first time in 30 years, the government has announced news.sky.com/story/rail-f...

BREAKING: Prosecution in Old Bailey confirms the payments to Nathan Gill came from ‘Putin’s man in Ukraine’, "It is clear that directions were coming from Viktor Medvedchuk.. .and indeed the source of the money was Viktor Medvedchuk" bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

Today seems an apposite moment to share this from another time and another place. Short🧵