Still time for Brian to do a hamstring and miss out on the trip.

Truly incredible diplomatic timing from Donald Trump to post what amounts to all but an open "fuck you" to the UK at almost exactly the same time as Keir Starmer confirms a US State Visit from the King is going to happen.

Amazing how often Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth refer to the Strait of Hormuz as if it's been closed for decades and they've started opening it, but might not finish the job. Instead of the reality: it being an unprecedented crisis of their own making.

FT Exclusive: A broker for the US defence secretary attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. ft.trib.al/EIVizV7

Nice to have an extra 90mins of light to enjoy the rain & howling winds

There's having a brass neck and then there’s whatever this is from Boris Johnson

Tickets still available for my Salisbury show on Sat April 25. Please do come. And if you are feeling kind please repost www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk/events/john-...

Truly extraordinary that a country famed for a constitution of checks and balances turned out to be so exposed to a leadership personality cult.

The Farage / Ipswich Town thing is so interesting. Ipswich claimed he’d booked a tour under a different name. Athletic say he was guest of chairman. (The crossover of UK football with Reform on X is sooooo under appreciated as a social force.) www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

In fact slave owners *were* compensated in the UK when slavery was abolished, and in some other places too white supremacists are as ignorant as they are vile

“Donald was feeling sad that Iran was still going on and he was bored and people were saying it was his fault. So we made up another award to cheer him up. Its going to be gold and big.”

Poor old Infantino has been gazumped.

A short piece commemorating the 70th birthday of #LOFC most important footballer... together with some news on the opening of a fantastic new exhibition space under the East Stand!

For shame. This club, that I have supported for my entire life, my father, my grandmother, my son, the children of immigrants. For shame.

supreme accidental comic timing in Commons just now during PMQs: Keir Starmer: “there is only one party leader who has shown he will say anything, no matter how divisive, if he is paid to do so” Speaker (calling the next question): “Nigel Farage”

Someone at Ipswich Town needs a lesson on the meaning of ‘apolitical’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

48 hours to open the Straits, which Trump also says US don’t need to have opened, in a war he has already said US has won, and in a situation where he demands help from countries which he also insists US does not need.

Shame on Republicans. They are complicit in this horror.

imagine someone telling you, 10 years ago, that we would now be in a place where this could even be possible

Least aware religious fanatic I’ve ever seen.

Finding BBC and #r4today analysis of Trump’s insults of Starmer to be bizarre. Why are we even considering what Trump said? It’s meaningless. Genuinely. Not even Trump knows what he means. The story is - Starmer stood firm and acted in the national interest. Trump threw some toys out of his pram.

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jellyfish are the best band you've never heard of * * unless you've heard of them open.spotify.com/playlist/1pA...

Not sure what's most concerning here, the cosy chat between host and interviewee or the ridiculous response.

Complex ‘highly aggressive’ tax structure avoids £600,000 tax for Reform deputy Richard Tice bit.ly/4cNFkrc “Voters should be reassured to have a successful businessman who knows how to make money for shareholders” he responds. He is one of the shareholders.

A government with no effective challenge on policy formulation or implementation would not end well, as we're witnessing elsewhere with belief-based policy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

I'm trying to think of the word that describes a state that doesn't believe in a free press.

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

Wonderful evening luxuriating in the beautiful sounds of Andrew Wasylyk and his talented ensemble. Ta to @babayagashut.bsky.social for making it happen at such a friendly venue. Check out @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social's new @claypipemusic.bsky.social LP at ▶️ andrewwasylyk.bandcamp.com/album/irrepa...

Pleasure to see @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social and his wonderful ensemble at Rich Mix tonight, including songs from his new album. Lovely venue as well.

To summarize, Trump has offered asylum to Iran’s women’s soccer team and death to its men’s.

Who needs Churchill or a bloody beaver on a crisp £5 note?😤 I have been designing some alternatives which I think you’ll agree are infinitely more superior. 👍

"Winston Churchill is a hero. He’s earned his place on our Five Pound Note. He must not be replaced with an Otter." I'm increasingly convinced that this whole campaign is in fact an elaborate joke.

Finger on the geopolitical pulse, as always.

Two of these panellists lost to the Greens after young voters did exactly the opposite of what this panel claims

Well worth listening to Bowen's report that Mic mentions, from 2hr 11m www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Great evening enjoying Cardiacs in Brixton. Hard to believe it's more than forty years since I first had the pleasure of seeing them. #cardiacs

Tells you something (not sure what) about the interaction of technological progress and culture that someone posted a Telegraph mad headline generator here last week, and already it's obsolete because the real Telegraph headlines are even madder.

Fancy being so outraged by a celebration of wildlife.

I look forward to the technical paper setting out the critique of these 'bizarre adjustments'. Perhaps his new friend Nadim can help him with it.

Someone is panicking

Well I never. Great result for #lofc at Stevenage this evening. Well done Os.

Y'all see what he did there, right?

“He is, of course, a serial liar & prone to espousing completely contradictory positions within moments of each other.” It is extraordinary to me that journalists continue to ‘analyse’ Donald Trump without adding this constant caveat. It does readers, listeners & viewers a grave disservice.

Why the heck respected news outlets are still spending their time trying to put a rational interpretation on a speech by a guy who literally doesn't know what he's thinking or saying from minute to minute, goodness only knows.

This is the most blasé admission of a war crime by a US president in history. Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.