Brexit the biggest disaster for UK not only Actors but musicians, science , travel , Trade etc etc

Fascinating to observe the extent to which journos, pressed for time, copy and synthesise each other's work, often ending up with incoherent positions. For example, right now they're all going "HOW TERRIBLE THIS GOV'T-BY-WHATSAPP", while also kvetching "WHY AREN'T THERE LOADS OF STARMER WHATSAPPS?"

6 times bankrupt Trump !! Convicted felon - insurrectionist! Not to be trusted on any level

Just wait until he tries to build the Roman Colosseum and hold the games with us radical liberals fighting off the Lions.

Biden, Obama, Hunter? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

So it was unacceptable that Labour appointed Mandelson because his relationship with Epstein meant he was gross but the President he’d have been liaising with was Epstein’s best friend and is *so* gross he, himself, refuses to release the files. Have I got that right?

Painting by John Sloan ‘Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair.’ 1912. Oil on canvas. Size 66.3 x 81.7 cm.

It's all very North Korean

Someone should change the music to Springtime For Hitler

MSNOW journalists forced well out of sight of the protests at the NJ ICE centre. Dozens of police officers forcing them further and further back without any explanation. So much for freedom of the press in Trumps America.

Colin Farrell is 50. On his first meeting, whilst newly sober, with Brendan Gleason: ‘He said ‘willya have a drink?’ & opened his hotel fridge ‘I’ve still or sparkling’ In that moment, I fell in love with him as he had gone out & bought them. I thought ‘that’s a fella who’ll look after you’

A lifelong Monroe fan, the Nerve’s film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social has made a BBC radio series to mark the centenary of the actor’s birth. Here, she imagines the future that might have opened up for a media-savvy artist ‘vastly ahead of her time’ www.thenerve.news/p/marilyn-mo...

When Trump finally croaks people are going to dance and sing in the streets, his name will be removed from towers, centres and companies. His hats will be burned. People will channel his “I’m glad he’s dead” tweet (about Mueller). It will be the parade he longed for in life 🤣

New post: "Playing on difficult mode" Using data from an exclusive new mega-poll I look at how a new Labour leader can come up with a governing project that rebuilds the party's voter coalition. And I explain why Blair's strategy wouldn't work. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/p...

Nice feature and images for fellow béton brut admirers. After The Brutalist: Guardian readers name their favourite brutalist buildings. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Is society transgressing in terms of homophobia? @natashadevon.bsky.social is joined to discuss the topic by Laura Mackey, Chief Executive of LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us, and one of their ambassadors, Cameron Wright. www.globalplayer.com/videos/2JsSd...

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My Question For Farage & Tice... youtu.be/cUT6CNm0GTU

I get their emails for some reason and every single one of them is basically "X wants to do Y, here's how to object", infuriating

Absolutely this.

Alan Bennett is 92. He would have been a fantastic English Columbo ‘Ooh, just one more thing…’

🚨 ATTENTION: Reform's Rob Kenyon's OWN FAMILY call him "vile piece of scum". What a mess. How on earth they going to clean up this shit? [Luckily for Rob he's been a plumber for, err, six months]

Trump, "Most people don't know that dumb ends in a B" Do you think his daughter-in-law who is interviewing him, is laughing with him, or at him?

#FourPhotosOneMonth May 1. Mouse Field off Burnmill Hill. 2. Sound advice, The Beerhouse. 3. Mum & baby Bowden Fields. 4. Taylormania, De Montfort Hall.

The abhorrent racism aside, Burnham is right that there is something quite desperate about Reform's recent activity. See also Zia 'white people are the biggest victims of racism' Yusuf's recent posts

You do have to love Andy Burnham on occasions like this. He’s really on top of the use of social media. The use of “lad” is a nice scouse touch.

This is what our council now does to help nature. This is just a piece of grass at the end of a street, not a park or anything. Definitely better to look at than boring grass 🙂

hi hi - I hosted a very fun talk/Q&A session with James Graham a few weeks ago and they've now put the whole thing online, should you wish to watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHfu...

Lovely ep. Great to see the love for Michael Apted’s magnificent 7up documentary series. Disappointed that he didn’t choose Mac and Me, though. youtu.be/ZTvRQRTVdqA?...

Stop collaborator

Zentralinspektor Benesch and His Son Otto; verso: Kneeling Female Nude, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/1180874

'The Ten Bells, Spitalfields' by Marc Gooderham marcgooderham.co.uk

New commission finished!! This portrait was requested by the wonderfully lovely Kate Christey. I don’t know what he’s called, but I’ve named him Alan Twitcharse.

As a neutral I just hope football* wins. *PSG

Israel has lost its way

My latest for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/news/world/g...

It’s Stephen Tobolowsky’s birthday. Here he is trying to convince Steven Seagal to kill his serial killer character in The Glimmer Man after Seagal decided he no longer wanted to want to kill onscreen due to a spiritual awakening:

What number scandal are we up to now with the wide mouthed frog? I am losing count 😂

This wk @zackpolanski.bsky.social shared examples of Right-wing Press trying to dig up dirt on him. So, I thought i'd share my approach of "pre-scooping" the hacks.

Politicians skirt around it. The media skirts around it. But, we have a very sinister far right, racist problem in the UK. Reform and Restore… two cheeks of the same hideous arse… flooding the zone with their hate, their lies and their howling inadequacy. If they’re our future, we’re done for.

Brexit ? Sold by Johnson Mogg n Farage ???

I have no idea how I managed to take a picture of my hand.

Trump couldn't lead a hooker to a cash filled vault!

So Trump is going to fight, or just declare himself to Victor and take the trophy?

WHITE MEN CAN’T, TRUMP (2026)

My mood going into this game: wild, rock solid confidence. Of course we are going to win My mood after a first half in which we went ahead through a good goal and have controlled the game: Terror and despair

It just seems like a miserable existence going around yelling at people and getting angry all the time.