Someone tell Trump. He did this.

Nobody needs a trillion dollars. That much unelected power is a danger. Feed the world with it.

RIP a giant of British art, David Hockney. A truly sad day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are people all across Belfast helping relocate people, get them food, clothes, meds and more. You will likely never hear about them on the news. But they are many. And *they* are Belfast.

A perfect summer's evening on the Terrace of the House of Lords, lobbying with @writersguildgb.bsky.social and BEAU (Broadcasting, Entertainment and Arts Unions) for creatives' rights.

Wow. Russell T' Davies' Dr Who Xmas episode has been cancelled because the BBC is putting the series out to tender. Have the ravens left the Tower?

So much for the FIFA Peace Prize.

Nigel Farage invited the unions to join the new ‘party of the workers’, Reform UK, and got fact-checked from Westminster to Clacton – 21 scathing takedowns www.thepoke.com/2026/06/10/f...

Buy Chloe's Beatles drawings. Take it from someone who has. They are bloody fab.

Nailed it

Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore it. A true honour to have been asked to direct this tour. Tickets available… and it’s great fun. We opened in Manchester, then Stoke-on-Trent and, tonight, Nottingham…

I can’t think of a more boring way to live your life than being a racist.

Frabjous day. Schitt's Creek can now be found on BBC iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

There's a barbarian loose.

I could happily do one of these every day. A wonderful time was had by all!

Wonderful read. And who knew Dorothy Parker left her estate to Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the NAACP? A true hero. www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Sadly perfect.

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

"Dave, did you order that metaphor I asked you for?" "Sure, sure boss. Far too fuckin' on the nose, just like you said"

Marmite without butter #poetrychallenge

Dear God, BBC News. It’s 2026, not 1826. Women have lives, careers and identities of their own.

I notice Nigel Farage doesn’t have a problem with two tier MPs: those who take their job seriously and those who just take the money.

Glorious.

This is from the perspective of a partner disappointed by her husband never remembering to check the shopping list

Cabin Pressure is honestly one of the best British sitcoms of the 21st Century so far - if you haven't heard any of it yet, treat yerself

"Also, he definitely molested that couch."

"The most trusted and esteemed program in American journalism, the legacy of our loved ones’ hard work and its accompanying sacrifices on the home front, has, in [Scott] Pelley’s words, been murdered," writes Sarah Safer, daughter of Morley Safer, who was a 60 Minutes correspondent for 46 years.

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

On the contrary, we're grateful for Lisa Nandy's help.

The Creative Industries are UK's second biggest industry earning £124+ billion a year all told. You'd think writers and creatives would be treated better across the board. AI, I'm looking at you.

I seem to be the only one without a Royal residence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are deeply split today. Between those who can recognize scumbags like Elon Musk, and those who are easily taken in by wealth as an acceptable substitute for morality. X is a foreign agent acting as an enemy of the UK. youtube.com/shorts/BWWls...

Bang go table manners. Tsk.

Big Soup finally revealing their dastardly hand!

Do the updates include checking for a pulse?

My memoir, A Mind Of My Own is now available in paperback which means it’s cheaper. Hurrah! If you’d like a dedicated copy repost this and I’ll do a random pick of five winners in the next couple of days. If you’ve already bought/read or listened to the audible version thank you! ♥️📚

Musk is Violet Elizabeth Bott. He "thcreams and thcreams" until someone notices him.

"This is grotesque, but what on earth do you do with someone like Elon Musk? "Those making judgments know absolutely sod all because they've misidentified somebody." Why has Musk set the mob on innocent British police officers? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...

“We’ve got to be so careful not to play into narrative of people like Nigel Farage. The Nazis were brilliant at picking up what the Social Democrats said and did, and twisting it", says former Labour Home Secretary, Lord Blunkett. “My great worry is that the Green Party are God’s gift to Reform".

In London this weekend? Into immersive and/or interactive events? The come to Voidspace! Different levels of tickets available. Come for one day, or both. There's a lot of fantastic interactive goodness crammed in here!! Shares welcome voidspacezine.com/voidspace-li...

Oh dear. One for Ripley's Believe It Or Not

Grantham #poetrychallenge

HULK GOOD EMPLOYEE SERVING PUBLIC NOW, WORK FOR SOUTHEASTERN

Windrush claimants with legal support receive awards worth eight times more than those without. @floellabenjamin.bsky.social challenged the government in the Lords to fund more legal support and got an admission that no research has ever been done on why. www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

A little #poem on this week’s news and the dangerous irresponsibility that we see #farage #farright #politics #media

Shepperton Studios' new Maggie Smith sound stage unveiled by her sons, Toby Stephens and Christopher Larkin. So deserved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CP2...

Blair was good at conveying hope. In the grim aftermath of Thatcher and the grey Major government, he spoke to possibility. But it was a hope that tarnished, and he is partly responsible for where we are. He is emphatically the man for 1997, and that’s where he should stay.

The House passed a measure directing President Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran or win approval from Congress to continue the war. The 215-208 vote is a remarkable rebuke of Trump and his handling of the conflict. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...