That’s great work guys, just a year or so after everyone already relabelled their cartons as oat drinks.

Just hearing now that Bud Cort has died. He was 77 but forever early 20s to me. In no surprise to anyone who knows me I love Harold and Maude. A hugely formative film to my tastes. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

RIP James Van Der Beek, whose greatest role was, of course, himself. Not for him the cheeky cameo: on Don't Trust The B---- In Apartment 23" the man turned self-ridicule into a full-time occupation, and did so magnificently.

Little boys will no longer point at the emperor, who is definitely wearing some fantastic clothes.

RIP Andrew Ranken. Stop taking our Pogues, whoever’s in charge of this shitshow.

Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?

Orange album cover

“We arrived on the island with 17 nannies, and we left with some nannies, and I don’t see how anyone could think anything untoward about that.”

Palantir is throwing the MoD a party to celebrate its untendered £240m contract. It would already be inappropriate for any member of Govt to attend, given what we know about how Palantir has facilitated genocide in Gaza and been complicit in ICE deportations. Now, it would be unacceptable.

Make no mistake: the mandate was not being a tory, and you’ve pretty much ignored it.

Oh for sure man.

This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.

The staffer

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

I can think of another Hess he’d like far more.

A lot more people would take up janitorial work if all corridors had a bullseye painted at one end. #curling

we're all celebrating now but remember we've just released a new substacker and podcaster into the wild

Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition. This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.

Fucky bye

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting: Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

I’d love to be able to enjoy the Muppets as much as everyone else does but whenever I watch them I just feel sick imagining what the man inside the Kermit the Frog costume must look like

Well I don't think that's fine 🤬

What a pity for him that it is 100% in the public interest not to leave him alone until such point as it might hinder his prosecution.

Top tier REM #totp

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

I often think of this dog, from 2013, who did not learn a single lesson.

O brave new world

Leaflet wars just stepped up a gear: Mill reveal Reform UK have broken electoral law manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re...

It would be enough to end another President, but unfortunately for America, everyone there who likes him knows he’s a massive racist.

Reform's extreme by-election candidate for Gorton and Denton wants to tax millions of childless women more for not having kids. This is insane 🤯 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

In-bread department

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Arch villain

Vermin. Oh look, a mouse

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

Pride in place is one of the seven deadly sins in place.

Starmer has spent the last couple of years playing some version of Brewster’s Millions where he has to divest Labour of every vote. It’s unclear what the prize is.

And yes a few more specifics came out. But apparently we (idiots who can use google and sometimes read the FT) knew more than (a) most of the political media of the country, (b) the prime minister.

Everything connected to Mandelson must now be under suspicion? Thiel and Palantir links must be reexamined. McSweeney must be investigated for his involvement with both Mandelson and Thiel.

RIP John Virgo. The destination of the white ball will never seem as exciting again.

Maybe Grok could usefully be deployed to put clothes on Reform councillors.

This might just be him doing the residential part of a Duke of Edinburgh’s award in a misunderstanding about what the award is.

I’ve known people to suffer digital de-aging like this, and it’s very hard on the family.

On an entirely unrelated note, I went to Tesco at the weekend and they introduced me to several bags of shopping.

Sleep well kids