You really can’t overstate the significance of this diagram in understanding the U.K.’s political paroxysm. Also, having understood it, you are now better informed than every U.K. politician and media outlet. Check out the very detailed write up explaining how it was created.

Ordinary People: What a brilliant policy proposal by Jesse Philips, and Keir Starmer blocked it. Techies: this is some terrifying state Orwellian shit. @heatherburnstech.bsky.social: have I mentioned the Prince Andrew angle? 😮

This is the wildest story of a comics/games convention disaster I’ve ever heard and you NEED to read it in full:

This tour proving a difficult one - huge drop in numbers - hoping some dates may pick up - the people who are coming along are all lovely though Big show in London on Saturday www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/com... Norwich on Thursday bookbugsanddragontales.com/product/INCE...

Love this artwork, great riff on the original.

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

Lisa Nandy: “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate.” The Country:

Slightly increase a band: The Cocteau Triplets

oh my god

THis is a great article. "The very factionalism that helped the Labour Together network seize power is now actively destabilising the government they built."

the textbook definition of false anachronism is seeing a helo landing next to B-29 on Tinian in 1945

Some of my Babylon 5 art to enjoy. #scifi #scifiart #fanart #babylon5

god I love reddit sometimes

Turquoise has been revered across cultures for millennia, it doesn’t belong to Reform UK. It belongs to 6,000 years of human history, and tbh it’s furious about the association. A thread 🧵:

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o... Nick Kristoff reminds us that the medical journal The Lancet recently forecast that at present rates the killer Trump regime’s defunding of U.S. aid will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.

Not to victim blame but this balloon does feel like it's asking for trouble

Superb! Superb news! One of my very favourite shows of all time. Quietly influential.

James Butler · Labour’s Failure to appreciate public anger at its betrayals www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We're taking FPTP to bold new exciting places.

but the depressing likelihood is that they'll see "Labour loses X seats, Reform wins X seats" and conclude that they've not gone hard enough on racism, transphobia and anti-disability rhetoric

Wind and solar expansion reduced wholesale electricity prices by an average 24.2% across 19 European countries between 2023 and 2025. Solar alone has saved countries in the bloc over €3 billion since March 2026. Euronews buff.ly/CQJ4ZKN #ShareGoodNewsToo

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...

This deserves to be circulated. A former Red Cross staff member got in touch. She testifies about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's role. For transparency: her name is Brea Thibodeau. The whole thing is a desperate smear.

I want one of these! That smile at the end🤗

perhaps the most curious fact from our long read today on the Mandelson scandal www.ft.com/content/a829...

Wolverine should have been called Hairy Frog

Incredible video made using images taken by the Artemis II crew shows satellites in orbit around Earth. This is at 30x speed x.com/i/status/205...

Last year I was able to assist in identifying 4 (FOUR?!?) members of the Franklin expedition! I'm the amateur genealogist who researched Bridgens, Young, Orren, and Peglar, and was able to find and contact living descendants of their families who agreed to do DNA tests!

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

I agree - let's get rid of that 2% of antisemites from the Greens. Let's not pretend that the Greens aren't the LEAST antisemitic party though, with the Lib Dems coming a very close second. No surprises who the MOST antisemitic are.

Just watching a shitload of puffins, excuse me

Now I’m a broken man on a Florentine pier The last o’ the Papal Privateers

“My Life As Repetitive Epic.” A short essay by me in the new issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social on the strange compulsion to write. Also, Garak. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

That there is a particular species of extant arthropod, of which most other species have been long extinct! The scientific name is Solanum trilobitum, usually known by its common name: the frylobite.

Janelle Monáe for the Met Gala.

This story is absolutely brilliant and absolutely horrifying. Well worth reading.

Four things: 1. This sketch feels like the show, already at a high level, levelling up. 2. The ad is real. And they're not overselling the weirdness. 3. The stranger this show gets, the funnier it becomes. 4. Al gently tapping George on the chest to shortcircuit the corpsing is brilliant.

Not sure how much point there is in remaking a good film, but I think we deserve a better version of Biggles than the one we got in 1986.

My latest books cartoon for the @theguardian.com

In the '60s and '70s, one of the biggest producers of drug paraphernalia and trippy blacklight art was the Houston Blacklight & Poster Company. But its history has been nearly lost. I wrote about its influence and the importance of saving artifacts like these: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Diminish a book: Marooned in Mealtime.

That didn't take long. Seeing headlines pop up with dire warnings about the new Renter's Rights Act. Check the byline aaaaand... Written by the Centre for Policy Studies. A right-wing think tank setup by Margaret bloody Thatcher 🙄

So here is the creepy part. THE YEAST COLLECTED AT XBOX HQ MAKES XBOX LOGO BREAD. I have no idea how this happened. It’s a miracle and so creepy. Ancient aliens and shit. Ok good night. Try some baking. Play some games. I love you, I’ve got your back. 👊💚

That awkward moment when you have to pass someone in a corridor and you both attempt to side step the same way.

This is absolutely stellar folk horror for the kids, actually love this. Can't believe this is an advert. It's wonderful. The fuck were they thinking

So, friends: I promised I'd tell the story. Now I shall. Let a (former) psych nurse tell you the true (gods help us) story of a night in a big-time NYC emergency room: and the arrival of The Man With The Bloomingdales Bag. (1/n)

Mo Ryan chose violence "Though it finished its run 17 years ago" How is that possible? 😫